The Suburban Times
A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
What does a peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwich – the Fluffernutter – inMassachusetts, have in common with shopping carts in Lakewood?
Both – sandwiches and shopping carts – are apparently serious legislative directives by their respective governments for further study likely leading to official enactments.
If walking into a lamppost is labeled an insurable injury, what do you call a misappropriation of funds?
Feeling run down?
Speeding is bad, except when it’s not.
And not a dime more than $15,000 will be spent addressing it in Tillicum.
If that.
National Honesty Day, April 30, is a day to tell the truth about dogs.
And cats, their counterparts from hell.
If there’s one thing that dogs do not do its lie. Lie around but not lie.
They say it’s what you eat.
It’s not.
It’s what eats you.
Sunday morning around 10:00 am, I stopped in at Starbucks for a cup of beverage, some fun talk with friends and to do some writing on my laptop.
I suffered a long wait. While standing in line, 4 customers became frustrated and left the store without making their intended purchase.
Howard Schultz, had a dream. He took an idea found in Europe, the sidewalk coffee shop, and imported it to America and then spread his wonderful idea around the world eventually returning full circle establishing Starbucks stores in Europe where his idea was born.
Do we still call it Sunday if the sun’s not shining?
“Blur” is not only the name for the alternative rock band that featured their song “Sunday, Sunday,” but blur, blurry, and like-focus-fogging, life-doesn’t-make-sense terms will just as surely as the sun rises descend on and describe us someday – whether a Sunday or perhaps a Monday.
Who you gonna pick for your team?
“Draft Day,” stars Kevin Costner playing Sonny Weaver, the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, whose dilemma – with regards the team’s first choice – is “does he pick the player everyone expects him to, or does he go with his gut and pick the player he thinks is truly right for the team?”