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when C and i started pooling our finances i had to explain the thing about grocery shopping together.
(women who have been in a checkout line with a man know where this is going.)
i do all of the interaction with the cashier. i produce the money. the cashier hands C the change and receipt. C didn't even realize that it was happening. he didn't believe me. of course, the next time we went, the usual chain of events happened, and then he was offended - for me, for himself for not noticing, for the woman behind the counter who did it a hundred times a day.
remember the HPV vaccine, and how subsidizing it was condoning premarital sex for little girls? now it's proof against male throat cancer. i expect that the government will be paying for them to get vaccinated in short order, the same way that insurance pays for Viagra more often than birth control. the same way that C gets the change and receipt.
i should note that the grocery example is the exception rather than the rule in Seattle. but i live in the urban archipelago and i know it.
(women who have been in a checkout line with a man know where this is going.)
i do all of the interaction with the cashier. i produce the money. the cashier hands C the change and receipt. C didn't even realize that it was happening. he didn't believe me. of course, the next time we went, the usual chain of events happened, and then he was offended - for me, for himself for not noticing, for the woman behind the counter who did it a hundred times a day.
remember the HPV vaccine, and how subsidizing it was condoning premarital sex for little girls? now it's proof against male throat cancer. i expect that the government will be paying for them to get vaccinated in short order, the same way that insurance pays for Viagra more often than birth control. the same way that C gets the change and receipt.
i should note that the grocery example is the exception rather than the rule in Seattle. but i live in the urban archipelago and i know it.
