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Volpone said:
Actually, I realized I'd forgotten how to count change: "$2.50. Out of $10... $3 (hands back 2 quarters), 4, 5 (hands back 2 dollars), and $5 is $10." (hands back a $5). The last time I did that to someone they were like "what the hell was that?"
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I love counting back change to people and the order crowd loves it too.
I hate my new system where the amount leaves the screen and then it promptly displays the proper change to give-and I lose my place. I try not to look at the screen because I hate doing change that way.
 
Skynet software upgrades are as bad as human software upgrades. John Connor has to teach the second Ahnuld Terminator slang and vernacular while the first Ahnuld Terminator knew to say "Fuck you, asshole" when someone was banging on his door.
 
Lost ways.

The Dixie Highway is a fairly important road in Louisville. If you're driving from Wisconsin, you will see roadsigns for the Dixie Highway in Chicago. You may be tempted to take them. Apparently around WWI, the dawn of automobile travel, there was an interest in getting from Canada to Florida and the Dixie Highway was the way to do it. Only it wasn't a monolithic route, the way we think of I-65 or whatever, it was a patchwork of roads that diverged and connected and eventually got you there. Seriously. Look it up. It's near impossible to trace. When I lived in SoCal and was coming back to Wisconsin via the long way, I was tempted to take the Pacific Coast Highway. But then I realized how much faster I could barrel up the I-5. Or Route 66. It would've been out of the way, going from NW Wisconsin to San Diego, but if I had the time and money, it would be tempting. So now I wish I had the time and money to fart around on the road, getting around by these forgotten, almost abandoned ways.

The Dixie Highway is the hardest, because in the last few decades "Dixie" has become a dirty word like "retard." So a lot of places are taking down the old signs. But "Dixie" has nothing to do with slavery. It just meant the South. That the South had slavery was ain inconvenient coincidence.
 
One day I must go back and watch movies (and TV shows) set in places I later lived. Portland, OR was the location for "My Own Private Idaho," IIRC. Gotta watch a bunch of old Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum, PI now that I lived on Oahu for a couple years. There was a Christian Slater film called "Wild At Heart," set in Minneapolis and, unlike "Jingle All the Way," where they just cut up the Twin Cities to have whatever location they wanted to use, you could just about figure out where the characters lived and stuff in "Wild At Heart." I used to eat lunch in the diner that was the exterior shots from that movie. "Purple Rain" is tricky because I think a lot of the action in that takes place where the Target Center now stands. But I've seen people play the First Avenue & 7th Street Entry (the place where Prince played in the movie).
 
I once got a job as a background extra in a Paul Mazursky film because they were filming in the mall near my house in CT.

There's an old mansion in my hometown that got used for exterior/interior shots for the old soap Dark Shadows, and the Stepford Wives movies (original and remake).

I also lived in NYC for 20 years, but that's like half the movies ever made so I can be picky.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I once got a job as a background extra in a Paul Mazursky film because they were filming in the mall near my house in CT.

There's an old mansion in my hometown that got used for exterior/interior shots for the old soap Dark Shadows, and the Stepford Wives movies (original and remake).

I also lived in NYC for 20 years, but that's like half the movies ever made so I can be picky.
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I'm sure I've posted this before, but it seems more relevant right now.

 
Cool A&E Biography on Morgan Freeman the other night. Basically, he got out of the Air Force and decided he was going to be an actor. So he moved to LA. He didn't get any work so he decided he should take some acting classes. Eventually he moved to New York to be a stage actor, studied singing and dance and got a few parts but not enough to live on. So he moved to San Francisco and got work with a notable theater company but he wound up quitting because he refused to play an Indian and wave an American flag in the finale of a play. Then he was Easy Reader on "The Electric Company," along with other parts. He didn't get his first big film role until he was 50--as a pimp in a Christopher Reeve movie no one saw. And even after that it took awhile before he was actually successful.

So yeah. Talented, successful actor but it took him a quarter century of starving and struggling and he wasn't successful until he was past middle age. This reaffirms my life choices. Because I am NOT as talented as Morgan Freeman. I might be smarter but brains only gets you so far. IMO there are other far more valuable skills and sometimes smarts is actually a curse.
 
On a semirelated note, I just realized you eventually get to a point where you either achieve your dream and live the rest of your life in satisfaction or resign yourself that you will never achieve your dream and live the rest of your life as well as you can. :/
 
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