that would be quite a cool vanity registration plate won't it? and i could say i'm "in a FIT" !!! ... *giggles*
i hope to get to test-drive this spiffy-looking car tomorrow... not that i can really afford it but ... am curious after all the raves about it... hmmm i do like a hatchback... and small-ish car... with great functionality and mileage efficiency... and something i could do my parallel parking without too much misery! ...yeah i am hopeless! but it's getting better, really... =)
gosh, i am so green about car-buying/leasing... but will check out some options at a dealership or two tomorrow... eeks. oh well... at least i get to zippy-zip in the hourcar Prius for a bitty and hopefully there will be time to stop by at a TARGET! for some grocery etc. and United Noodles for some treat =)
and if the car-buying jazz fades out eventually (which isn't unlikely)... there's still the bus and bicycle and the hard-core yours truly who's tough enough to brave another wretchedly evil mid-western winter... sigh.
back to editing !!! arrrrgh.
today's poem from the Writer's Almanac is one i like:
I carry your heart with me(i carry it in
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(I carry it in my heart)
by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems: 1904-1962.
© Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1994.
i really don't. i've never really tipped anyone for offering their charged service before visiting and living in the US of A, with the exception of visiting a developing country. i don't like tipping when you're already charged for a service. but it's the norm here and i keep doing it wrong... or so it seems to me. you pay on top of your bill (which includes taxes) another 15% or more for the services at a restaurant here, and possibly also for a cab-driver. it was made to my awareness the other day that you tip 25% at a hair-dressers... and i was and still am APPALLED! no way am i inclined to pay another 25% for haircuts in the US of A when i don't get the nice services that a typical hair salon in Edinburgh would offer e.g. a spot of tea and chocolatey biscuits with a hair-wash and cut, and i don't even have to tip! over here, you get a dry cut for a lot less without any additional service (unless you request and pay for them) at places like cost-cutters. for a more up-scaled hair-pampering, the Aveda salon charges ~2.5-3x the price of a cost-cutters hair-cut and offers more pampering... but i am obliged to add a tip on top of the somewhat exorbitant price. do the people in service here really earn so little such that tipping is required? in europe, it seems derogatory to tip. a service IS service... and you tip on the rare occasion, e.g. in a very fancy resto. that you've thoroughly enjoyed yourself. in singapore, service charges are included so you don't pay extra; assuming that the people offering you their service benefits from it. hmm.
can someone make me feel better about the tipping 'culture' in the US of A? or share your views on tipping?!
... i wish too that they would include the taxes in their prices at stores and supermarkets here and break it down on the receipt... like most other places in the world! i wish too that the electrical plugs in all countries were the same... or that we drove on the SAME side of the road, or that we understood each other despite linguistic and cultural barriers... or that we agree on not having to tip... =)