I'm so old I Remember when:

[Bawkbok]

The scary part is the millions of hours and dollars that someone spent to figure out what Moms have ben telling us for centuries, "Retrace your steps!"
And yes to the second part, too. Just last night I found the can of "Keep Refrigerated" cinnamon rolls I bought months ago and "lost." They were in the FREEZER! Hey, at least I kept them cold!

I accidentally froze a can of Pillsbury bisquits - they of course had to be discarded as they wouldn't rise. When I called the company requesting a coupon or refund their first question was "did you freeze them"?

 

[notabitail]

I accidentally froze a can of Pillsbury bisquits - they of course had to be discarded as they wouldn't rise. When I called the company requesting a coupon or refund their first question was "did you freeze them"?

What did they say?

 

[Bawkbok]

What did they say?

They said "it states right on the can - do not freeze". I said I never saw that because the font is size 1 and it was on the crimp of the can. They never sent a coupon (this was back in the days of cutting coupons from the newspaper). I don't buy those anymore and they lost a customer all over a 50 cent coupon, could have been settled so easily. It was about the principle of the matter at that point in my life.

 

[jxp]

Maybe that's why I've always been clumsy. The communication between brain and body is too slow. Except in an emergency, when the chain of command gets bypassed with a vengeance. And my brain is calculating angles and impacts and the possibility of instant death while I'm double-clutching and stomping the gas.

And I was aware of every moment, all the thoughts and calculations that went into the decision. It was weird. And it happened very slowly, or seemed to.

Sounds like you're guardian angel was busy that day trying to keep up.

 

[notabitail]

 

[jxp]

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Ain't that the truth. The phone can be silent all day until you're loading groceries on the conveyor belt or in the middle of painting a wall or running the miter saw or about to the best part of a movie or just gotten in the shower or planting seeds or scrubbing the cook pot or scooping the litter box or frying chicken. All day no ringy dingy until...

 

[RoyalChick]

Ain't that the truth. The phone can be silent all day until you're loading groceries on the conveyor belt or in the middle of painting a wall or running the miter saw or about to the best part of a movie or just gotten in the shower or planting seeds or scrubbing the cook pot or scooping the litter box or frying chicken. All day no ringy dingy until...

Mine is set so it doesn’t ring

 

[Rick589]

Mine is set so it doesn’t ring

Of course leaving the phone somewhere you’re not is also an option.

 

[Rick589]

That cell phone can’t do anything about it if you treated it as an old landline rotary dialer from years past.

 

[MROO]

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Well ... they weren't wrong!