>My car nearly left me stranded at work in between offices.
>Turned the key and just got a 'click'. Tried it again and got
>a slow turnover, but it fired. Drove it right home and logged
>in for work. Waited for the misses to get home to take the
>battery to Autozone.
>
>Man....
>
>How that battery went for $200 is painful. When I worked at
>Autozone it was half that. That said, it's been almost 20
>years since I slung car parts, so I guess I should expect some
>inflation. Still...
>
>
>b/w
>
>School is back. Kids going full time, no hybrid (for now) or
>provision to learn online. As such, the school is back to
>enforcing the uniform policy, which is fine. The school
>changed the upper classmen's uniform shirt color, which,
>again, fine. She's in 8th, it's her last year at the school
>and she would have needed new uni's anyway. The problem is the
>school wants the school name and crest printed on the shirts,
>which they had got away from before Covid started. Not only
>does this make the shirts more expensive, but there's only 2
>stores in the state that have the template for the school
>crest. So, the line is always around the block to get in, and
>once you're in the store it's like the Hunger Games. We did
>the smart thing by going to have her fitted, finding ONE shirt
>and ordering the rest online. But..... the store is now
>backordered, so we only have the one shirt. Since they are the
>only game in town I'm sure a slew of parents have the same
>problem, so the school better not say anything.
>

I saw the extra 'I' in picnic and I felt seen and understood.

That shirt/uniform thing is crazy.

And, at this point, I don't know if I'm down with the whole concept if the damn uniform isn't easy to get.

And really, middle school kids don't exactly have killer wardrobes at most non-uniform schools from what I'm seeing. Sure, there's a small crop of 'big shit' kids at the school who are going all out to be dressed to the nines every day. But that's 10% max.

My daughter is in the 8th grade and I'm seeing most of her school-mates with pajama pants, Crocs, and a bunch of shit where the kids looks like they are about to go hoop. Hella jogging pants (not tights) and hooping shorts. And that's boys and girls. Oh, and hella hoodies. A ridiculous amount of hoodies.

Meanwhile, me and my wife threw away hella hoodies (she still has a bunch). And we tried to mix up the wardrobe options during the summer. But even now, she'll show up downstairs with a black bottom and a black top and I'll be like 'nah, go change clothes unless you're planning to rob the school today'. Or a black bottom and grey shirt 3 days in a row. I'll say 'you ain't Ronald McDonald or a cartoon character. So why do you have on the same shit every day? Mix it up.'.


>Oh, and her shirt is dark green, so she looks like a forest
>ranger. I told her to keep Yogi Bear from those picinic
>baskets at lunch. She dio't find it as funny as I did