There must be people who use cash not cards, a few anyway. For the majority of us paying off a credit card monthly and taking advantage of its cash back or flight miles makes more sense than walking around with cash in your pocket. When is the last time you went inside a service (and I use the term loosely) station to pay for your $65 tank full of gas?
Today is National Pig in a Blanket Day.
You may have lots of land and a real pig in your yard. If so, grab a nice twill or wool blanket, take it outside and use it to cover your pig. Or head out to the nearest farm with a blanket donation. I'm sure the farmer and the pigs will thank you for it.
Oh, never mind. I'm so sorry, the day isn't for a real pig but a sausage wrapped in a pancake. They're snubbing the little wieners wrapped in dough.
And while I'm on the subject of pigs in a blanket, here's news from Massachusetts.
A Massachusetts mother gave birth to one of the biggest babies that Massachusetts General Hospital has ever seen earlier this week. Clarissa Rucksack weighed in at 14.5 pounds.
"I heard the weight and I was like, 'Oh my God.' It validated me because I was in a lot of pain when I was pregnant, so to hear the size, it made sense," said mother Caroline. "Did it hurt? Are you kidding me? It was like trying to push a bowling ball through a garden hose."
"When she came out at 14 and a half pounds, I couldn't believe it. I took a picture of the scale just to document it because I couldn't believe how big she was. And long too -- 22 inches is long. That's what we like long and big. That's what I am," said father Bruce. "I've been teased a lot, especially in the locker room but I'm a good sport. No problem with me long as they don't say anything bad about my little girl.”.....Hey Bruce, I doubt she'll have a locker room issue.
Who knew, Mountain Dew as an educational tool?
A Florida elementary school has decided to stop letting students “Do the Dew” prior to taking standardized tests.
Administrators at Kirkland Elementary have decided to cease their long-standing practice of serving Mountain Dew prior to administering the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
The school had been giving students about three tablespoons of soda before the FCAT.
Officials halted the practice after receiving complaints from a grandmother who was shocked at what her granddaughter said about her assessment test.
"She said every morning, they had Mountain Dew. To me, it's a poor precedent we're setting for young children that they should be sugared up before a test," the grandmother said. "Now if you'll excuse me I need to go get my Venti Caramel Macchiato."
Kirkland has been serving Mountain Dew for the last 10 years because Principal Kathryn Groats reportedly read about its positive health impacts in an education journal.
"She felt that it was a professional practice and implemented it," the school district spokesperson Frieda Irwin said. "Since then, there's been new information (about what's best for students).
"We've advised Kirkland Elementary to only provide water or Sugar Free Red Bull as a beverage."
A Tennessee woman was arrested on Sunday after Easter services when she allegedly tried to hit her husband with a car following an argument they had about her driving skills.
Sarai Longenberry's husband told police that she was “driving erratically with him in the car” while they were on the way to the First Baptist Church of St. Bethlehem.
After Easter services, he refused to get in the car and Longenberry allegedly “turned the vehicle in his direction and accelerated toward him."
The vehicle hit a curb and Longenberry's husband jumped into some bushes to avoid being hit.
When questioned at the scene she said, "I've been driving since I was a kid and I'm tired of him telling me how to do it. Easter seemed like as good a time as any to run him over with the car. I wanted to squash him like a soft boiled egg."
She was charged with aggravated assault and booked into the county jail on $1,000 bond.
When Ducks Attack!
An Oregon woman is suing after she says she suffered a broken wrist following an attack by a pet duck outside of her mother’s motor home.
Cynthia Wardell was visiting her mother when a domestic duck attacked her.
She is suing the duck’s owner, Lolita Flower, for $275,000 after she broke her right wrist, hurt her elbow and shoulder, and suffered a rotator cuff injury.
According to the suit, Flower failed to “warn or otherwise inform neighbors of her duck's dangerous propensity in attacking individuals" and did not "maintain proper control of her domestic animal."
Flower said, "I've tried everything I can think of to calm him down. I've talked until I'm blue in the face. I tried to scare him with a dish of plum sauce. Nothing worked; he is just a bad duck."
The $275,000 is compensation for medical bills and pain and suffering.
"The duck flapped its wings at her and knocked her back and she fell down on an outstretched hand and fractured her wrist in two spots." Wardell's attorney, Gregory Dollar said.
"We had neighbors that indicated this duck was a crazy duck that attacked kids at the school bus stop and other people before."
Dollar is hoping to settle the lawsuit out of court within the next 60 days. But he says they'll take less to settle sooner. "I think $150,000 is a figure I, or my client could live with if we can settle this within the next ten days. I have a convention to attend in 'Vegas and could use the extra dough."
So you had a bad day?
Police in Rhode Island arrested a suspect who was passing a potato off as a gun during two unsuccessful robbery attempts on Monday.
The man first went to a convenience store with the potato but was chased off with a baseball bat after he shouted “give me the money” to the cashier.
The suspect, potato still in hand, then went to a nearby dry cleaner and told a female clerk, “I need the money.”
Anna Young gave the man the only thing that was in the register, a counterfeit $20 bill. Although he wasn't pleased with the amount, the man fled with cash and the potato.
He was later picked up at a supermarket when he used the counterfeit $20 to purchase butter, chives and sour cream.
Administrators at Kirkland Elementary have decided to cease their long-standing practice of serving Mountain Dew prior to administering the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
The school had been giving students about three tablespoons of soda before the FCAT.
Officials halted the practice after receiving complaints from a grandmother who was shocked at what her granddaughter said about her assessment test.
"She said every morning, they had Mountain Dew. To me, it's a poor precedent we're setting for young children that they should be sugared up before a test," the grandmother said. "Now if you'll excuse me I need to go get my Venti Caramel Macchiato."
Kirkland has been serving Mountain Dew for the last 10 years because Principal Kathryn Groats reportedly read about its positive health impacts in an education journal.
"She felt that it was a professional practice and implemented it," the school district spokesperson Frieda Irwin said. "Since then, there's been new information (about what's best for students).
"We've advised Kirkland Elementary to only provide water or Sugar Free Red Bull as a beverage."
A Tennessee woman was arrested on Sunday after Easter services when she allegedly tried to hit her husband with a car following an argument they had about her driving skills.
Sarai Longenberry's husband told police that she was “driving erratically with him in the car” while they were on the way to the First Baptist Church of St. Bethlehem.
After Easter services, he refused to get in the car and Longenberry allegedly “turned the vehicle in his direction and accelerated toward him."
The vehicle hit a curb and Longenberry's husband jumped into some bushes to avoid being hit.
When questioned at the scene she said, "I've been driving since I was a kid and I'm tired of him telling me how to do it. Easter seemed like as good a time as any to run him over with the car. I wanted to squash him like a soft boiled egg."
She was charged with aggravated assault and booked into the county jail on $1,000 bond.
When Ducks Attack!
An Oregon woman is suing after she says she suffered a broken wrist following an attack by a pet duck outside of her mother’s motor home.
Cynthia Wardell was visiting her mother when a domestic duck attacked her.
She is suing the duck’s owner, Lolita Flower, for $275,000 after she broke her right wrist, hurt her elbow and shoulder, and suffered a rotator cuff injury.
According to the suit, Flower failed to “warn or otherwise inform neighbors of her duck's dangerous propensity in attacking individuals" and did not "maintain proper control of her domestic animal."
Flower said, "I've tried everything I can think of to calm him down. I've talked until I'm blue in the face. I tried to scare him with a dish of plum sauce. Nothing worked; he is just a bad duck."
The $275,000 is compensation for medical bills and pain and suffering.
"The duck flapped its wings at her and knocked her back and she fell down on an outstretched hand and fractured her wrist in two spots." Wardell's attorney, Gregory Dollar said.
"We had neighbors that indicated this duck was a crazy duck that attacked kids at the school bus stop and other people before."
Dollar is hoping to settle the lawsuit out of court within the next 60 days. But he says they'll take less to settle sooner. "I think $150,000 is a figure I, or my client could live with if we can settle this within the next ten days. I have a convention to attend in 'Vegas and could use the extra dough."
So you had a bad day?
Police in Rhode Island arrested a suspect who was passing a potato off as a gun during two unsuccessful robbery attempts on Monday.
The man first went to a convenience store with the potato but was chased off with a baseball bat after he shouted “give me the money” to the cashier.
The suspect, potato still in hand, then went to a nearby dry cleaner and told a female clerk, “I need the money.”
Anna Young gave the man the only thing that was in the register, a counterfeit $20 bill. Although he wasn't pleased with the amount, the man fled with cash and the potato.
He was later picked up at a supermarket when he used the counterfeit $20 to purchase butter, chives and sour cream.
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