Absolutely no place around here can deliver a burger at 8am. Doordash lists them all as closed. I know at least the fast-food places are open. Us night-shift people really miss out.
ETA: Found one place, but apparently can only order breakfast stuff before 10:30. I like breakfast stuff, but that’s not what I wanted and I’ll have to order two things to get a full meal.
What about the prepared-food section of a grocery store? You might have to look at Whole Foods for that, because I know they have local delivery options. Weird, I know…it’s not a fast food restaurant, but it would still be a hamburger.
Or, what about something like Task Rabbit, to get someone to go to a fast food place for you? At least one of them must still serve burgers at breakfast time. (White Castle?)
A&W is my go to breakfast stop. They definitely can do burgers, just takes them ~13min.
Sure you can, but you need to heat it up yourself
Not the same as having a hot greasy fast food burger delivered to your doorstep.
Definitely location dependent.
EtA: I know, first world problems. But that’s why we have the Grinds My Gears thread.
honestly guys I don’t think I can stand another dumb white STEM bro.i really don’t.
could always make this:
So my youngest brother and SIL are expecting a second baby. Their eldest will be 18 months old when the baby is born
SIL’s mother is holding a shower, oops, “luncheon” to celebrate the second baby. There is a “small gift registry” if we “want to” give a gift.
Now maybe it’s different where you live, but around here second babies don’t get showers unless there’s a lot of time between the first and the second. And the actual shower for the first one was also a “luncheon”, so they’re not fooling anyone.
Even then this would be only slightly cringe-worthy except my brother has completely cut off my parents from his family and especially my nephew because… because actually we don’t know why. He’s just really really angry, and reads insults into the most innocent of statements.
Last time I visited (New Year’s Day) he showed off how great the house was, how much better their diet was (they’re the only vegetarians in the family), how much better his home network was… If I said anything nice about anyone else’s stuff, including my own stuff, he’d pick an argument about how his was better. As in:
Me: oh yeah, we have something like that in my neighbourhood! Those are great!
Him: No, this is different. This is better.
I have been trying and trying to keep the peace, and I’m at the point where I’ve kind of had it. I’m tired of all the diplomacy being on our side. I’m tired of hearing how anti-social we are and then have SIL’s friends avoid talking to me (which they have done every event we’ve all been at since I first met them). I’m tired of hearing how it’s too far with the eldest being a toddler for them to visit us (1 hour drive) so we have to visit them… only to visit and be shown photos of when they took the toddler to Mexico.
And in the last year I’ve realised a lot of my own discord towards various family members was being stoked by my brother. He’s no longer showing up, and we’re all getting along much better.
Which makes me wonder why we’re making ourselves go through being unappreciated and disrespected like this.
I think you know what you want to do. You want to respond: “We regret that we are unable to attend.”
So do it. And talk with your other family members about it. Present a united front (which would probably help everyone keep their resolve and not back down). You don’t even have to give a reason, you know? Just “very sorry, we can’t be there”. Full stop.
And for the record: there are plenty of technophiles, vegetarians, owners of nice homes, etc. who are not like this. Those are all just the means for them to lord it over others, not the cause.
Except my mum wants to go, in the hopes of reconnecting, and if I don’t go she’s on her own – my other SIL and aunt both already bowed out (not that I blame them).
Totally agree with your second paragraph.
Ooof, that sucks. Baby showers kinda suck to begin with, and baby showers that are more transparently gift-grabby than average suck even harder.
When I want or need to go inside, but someone’s got a pair of dogs by the door.
Kinja is such a pain in the ass. I was going to star some stuff on io9, and it wouldn’t let me. It’s making me log in to my burner again, but as usual, it isn’t recognizing me. Yet if I go to the Kinja site, it “sees” me as my account. If I go directly from Kinja to io9, io9 still doesn’t “see” me.
Does anyone think a careful pruning of cookies would help?
Followup: I found myself logged out on my Kindle too, but it accepted my password without a hitch, for whatever reason. Multiple logins on the phone have failed, heaven only knows why. 
ing Kinja.
Final edit: the update of my Samsung browser had a “stop websites from tracking me” setting, which broke Kinja. I wish it had an whitelist instead of on/off, but at least I figured it out.
Was your mother even invited, if your brother is distancing himself from her? That might make for an unwelcome surprise on everyone’s part, if she shows up and your brother isn’t expecting her.
My advice would be to tell your SIL’s mother that your mother wants to attend, but, because of some recent awkwardness, she’d want an express invitation from your brother so that it’s clear that she’s welcome.
As for the gift, maybe just get something inexpensive off the registry, for the sake of politeness?
She was, which is the first time in over a year she has been invited to anything. I think it’s because the MIL is hosting, and because it’s a “just for the ladies” event (and for the record, baby showers on our side have the family have been mixed for nearly 40 years).
I held my nose and did a suburban mall blitz last Friday. I got a nursing pillow from the registry, and a new computer monitor for myself (because there was a sale on and my old monitor was 1024x768).
Now I just need to get through the event.
Try not to get triggered, and good luck.
My situation is grinding my gears. I drive 46 - 50 miles round trip at least five days a week. My food stamps were cut in half with no reason given (and I’m not supposed to report any income changes unless it increases - YES, it says that on the form; fuck them, going to report that I lost 28 hours last month because four seven-hour shifts were cancelled by the company because no one wants to work on Sunday (that’s not the excuse the office is using, however; and it may well have to do with not having enough work as well. But when a mgr. says they won’t work on Sunday because “it’s the Lord’s day”…fucking really?)
So, I can go nowhere besides work, and I can barely do that now that gas prices are going towards 3 bucks a gallon again. If it weren’t for my son - to hell with everyone else, they can actually take care of themselves, he can’t or won’t (adult ADHD & Aspy & depression he has, so who knows which it really is?) - I’d fucking kill myself. BUT…I couldn’t leave him with a mess of debt and a house that needs work.
I’m just tired of feeling ashamed and fighting feeling ashamed for not making more money, for making bad choices, for just being plain DIFFERENT in my thinking…faaaaaaaaaaaaack, it sucks. But you all know that already, lol.
I’m so sorry. We’ve struggled with money, too, as my husband redoes his professional certs and nothing about it is fair.
Capitalism doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how much I try to save money, it’s impossible. I’ve had to miss work due to illness (other people come in sick because no one can afford to miss work; but sorry, my health is more important than money, though sometimes it’s hard to convince myself of that fact.
I have a total of $2.02 in my bank accounts. I don’t get paid till Friday. I don’t understand how other people do it. I made $10 so far in my yard sale, and I’m trying figure out how to divvy it up to buy cat food, some food for us, and fuel for my car so I can get to work tonight. It KILLS me to see my friends who are financially better-off posting about all the fun places and things they go to see.
I’m sorry hun… that sucks.
Many started on 3rd base, inherited money, or managed to get into an industry with an upward trajectory. It’s a system designed to take the value that you provide through your labor and send it upwards to those who already have more than enough.
Have you mentioned that to them?
I’m really sorry to hear that. Are there any other community services who could help? Or religious organizations? As I suggested to MarjaE perhaps a Jewish Community Center (if there is one in the area) could help. They tend to be non-denominational.
I suppose with a democratic socialist system, capitalism could work. And a higher minimum wage. And regulation with an iron fist. And a lot of other changes.