In the weeds: In the weeds, also known as ‘buried’ or ‘slammed’, is when servers are overwhelmed and struggling to serve their guests on time. These situations often occur when restaurants are full or understaffed, which puts extra pressure on existing staff. Weed wacker: The person who...
Just a word for users of Android phones like Samsung, Google, and Sony. You can definitely achieve this same functionality with your phone. You would use the Google Assistant instead of Siri, and you would get Bluetooth ear pods compatible with your phone, such as Google Pixel Buds Pro, Sa...
I was out there for a year, living in a canyon above Sunset, and missed my kid so badly that when I passed the playground of the elementary school in Toluca Lake I had to pull over, smoke a cigarette, and cry. All day long, a dozen of us sat around a big table in a dark ...
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The woman grabbed a flyswatter and slammed it down with savage force. "Shut up that gab. I can't hear a thing this boy says." Joel felt a little surge of pride, tinged with fright, at being the center of such a commotion. The woman fixed her zany eyes on a point somewhere above ...
I also add that if hubby is not home when I arrive, the dog’s behavior varies. If he was sleeping, he just waits for me at the bedroom door with hardly a peep (yeah, he sleeps on the bed when nobody is home.) Yesterday he did come to the door barking when I came home (and...
At the sight, I slammed the door, lest they should be encouraged to return. But when I peeped from the window some minutes afterward, I perceived that they were gone. All day I bent over the Egyptian papyrus upon which I was engaged; but neither the subtle reasonings of the ancient ...
The rush of water swept past the twin dragon’s fire and slammed into the spirit’s flank, creating a second burst of steam and sending it rolling across the beach for a split second before the Linnorm vanished and Verina pitched face first into the sand. “Zalt,” Cassian hissed, ...
He grabbed his personals bag from behind the seat and slammed the door a little too loudly. He had skipped kicking the tires before walking to the motel’s check-in counter despite knowing he should. He knew he’d regret not doing it and he hadn’t done it and now he regretted it. ...
We worked evenings, so he picked up the keys for our rental late in the day. It was dark when he crossed the street. No one was on the porch, and all the windows were black. He had just stepped across the sidewalk when the plywood sheets slammed against the chain-link fencing just ...