03.17.08
Shipping tax?
I am an avid online shopper. There aren’t enough hours in the day, and if I can save time by shopping online, I will. I couldn’t get Christmas shopping completed if it weren’t for online shopping. However, after just placing an order online today to Ann Taylor and seeing almost 15% of the order go to:
Sales Tax
Shipping and
Shipping TAX
I think I might have to seriously reconsider shopping online.
What the heck is shipping tax?? Good grief. How many other ways can they find to squeeze blood out of a turnip??
Kills me the claim by the democrats back in 2003 when we attacked Iraq that the only reason we were doing it was for the oil!! Now I’m WISHING we could benefit from that oil. This is crazy. And gas at $3.50 a gallon?? Don’t even get me started on how the gas companies are quick to raise prices 20 or 40 cents a gallon in one day because they are afraid of some sneeze by a sheik in the desert. Yet when the sneeze turns out to be from a simple whiff of pepper and not some fatal disease, they don’t so quickly bring those prices back down! It’s a royal rip off. If there ever were an industry in the US to be federally regulated this is it. It isn’t as if we could get by without oil…our health, safety and livelihood depend on it!
03.11.08
I love snow days!
I have to admit, I loved snow days when I was a kid, but they are even more amazing as an adult…working for a school district! It would be hard to go back to the “real world” for a job, because I thoroughly enjoy snow days, spring breaks, 2 weeks christmas vacation, president’s day, MLK Day, and 6 weeks off in the summer!!
But back to snow days. I do love them, but I think I now no longer like the early dismissal for inclement weather. I understand that weather people can be wrong. Typically, though, when EVERY weather stations is predicting 3 to 12 inches, then it’s definitely going to happen. I don’t understand in those situations why you would make kids go to school, when you know that unexperienced drivers (teens) will end up having to drive home in the snow.
This ‘blizzard’ hit exactly as the predicted and then some. We ended up with about 2 feet or more of snow. That is a TON for around here. 3-5 inches paralyzes this city. SO, we decided to dismiss at 11:30. Couldn’t dismiss earlier (though we wanted to) because the buses were already committed elsewhere!
SO, I didn’t get to start heading home until noon. By that time the roads were a MESS and there is no way home that doesn’t include a hill. Sure enough, my car, which I dearly love (but is miserable in snow), got stuck. I was able to pull into a side street and the lady that lived at the house where I parked drove me home because she has AWD. How nice is that?? Sometimes calamity can bring out the nicest side of people. When we went the next evening to pick up my car, they had even shovelled around it!! That’s above and beyond the call of duty.
Anyway, next time I think I’ll try to slip out earlier, or leave my car at school and catch a ride home with someone with 4wd or AWD!
