Things that irk you......

So did I!

 

... so if it didn't work out, you'd be free for the weekend??

 

Getting married on a Wednesday seems like a good plan if you don't want anyone to attend.
Or if you need a built in excuse for why no one attended.

 

Need some olive juice to make it dirty. That's three by my count.

Stirred, not shaken.

 

Doesn't it depend on the martini?
A traditional martini - you have to stir or else you bruise the gin.
But in the past 15-20 years, when someone orders a martini isn't assumed to be vodka.
Hasn't vodka become the default martini?

 

Blasphemy!

If vodka is the default, the terrorists have won. They'll have to pull the bottle of Sapphire from my cold dead hands before I use vodka in a martini.

Blasphemy, I say. Blasphemy!

 

Referencing the car GPS gripe several pages back...

My first summer job was delivering prescriptions for a pharmacy. In a time long before GPS, we used this never to be surpassed tool, a Thomas Guide. Using indexes, grid lines, page numbers and spiral access, it was the abacus of maps. No swiping, inputting, resizing or street view icon placing needed. Because the visual images were always consistently the same size and scale the brain quickly got accustomed: it was easy and quick to use.

(Old man yells at digital)

 

Same shit is happening when you order a Tom Collins. Is a decent gin really that much more expensive than bottom shelf vodka? It's not in the liquor store.

 

Gin snobs.

 

Tom Collins with vodka? Really?

 

During my high school coverage days in the '70s, the Thomas Guide was as important as the typewriter. I still have one (Thomas Guide, not typewriter) and I think I know where it is, but it's probably covered in dust.

 

And knowing how to read a Thomas Guide was once an actual, oft-listed desired skill mentioned in job ads!