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Oh no. She figured it out.
Jul. 12th, 2017 02:53 amAs you know, I babysit two boys for an hour in the afternoons. Several months ago I lost the four year old's backpack (actually, he might still have been three) and so I bought a new one.
It's a pretty awesome backpack, actually, and he loves it. But I wasn't about to tell his mom "Yo, I bought your preschooler a $40 backpack", so instead I just said I'd budgeted $10 for it, which was the truth. I just went a little out of budget to get it.
Well, she saw it in a store yesterday going for $50, so now the jig is up. LOL. She wants to repay me, and I'm trying to back out of that one. If I'd wanted repayment, I'd've told her how much I really spent!
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It's a pretty awesome backpack, actually, and he loves it. But I wasn't about to tell his mom "Yo, I bought your preschooler a $40 backpack", so instead I just said I'd budgeted $10 for it, which was the truth. I just went a little out of budget to get it.
Well, she saw it in a store yesterday going for $50, so now the jig is up. LOL. She wants to repay me, and I'm trying to back out of that one. If I'd wanted repayment, I'd've told her how much I really spent!
So What Does A Deep-Fried Grasshopper Taste Like? ("Not everyone is a fan of the idea — for the obvious reasons." Wait, what obvious reasons are those!? I thought it was just cultural conditioning not to eat a widespread, easy protein source that millions of people worldwide enjoy.)
The Original Gotham
Ants build sinking Eiffel Towers when trying to escape
First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit ("Object" is stretching a point. It was a photon.)
Science education on a transphobic post (she's casting her pearls before swine there, but good luck)
Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From
At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges
Plate tectonics may have driven the evolution of life on Earth
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The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do
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Pope Francis creates fourth pathway to becoming a saint ("Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.")
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