So the microphone in your new cell phone isn’t working and the people you call can’t hear you very well. You’re going to have to take advantage of that one-year warranty. You are an empowered consumer.
A few tips to make your experience a pleasant one:
You bought it at Wal-Mart? Return it at Wal-Mart. Don’t come [...]
Dinner with Sherry’s parents involved a lot of mumbling and introduced me to novel terms like “beaver puke.” I feel uncomfortable around people who choose not to speak in complete sentences. Sherry’s parents think I’m deaf.
She reminded me that my family has its own peculiar dialect too. But ours has nouns.
Somewhere in the wash of [...]
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Posted 13 January 2007
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I’m enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces.
I know my granddad has always hoped I’d join the armed forces and serve my country just like he did, but I’ve never really felt very passionate about military service. I’ve always considered armed conflict undesirable both as a career and as a foreign policy. I could never justify [...]