Randomness Dos

[MR25]

Halloween parties? Veterans Day?

[count2infinity]

Interesting.

[Dickie Dunn]

Corking those kids in around the holidays.

[dodint]

Weird that 12/25 and 12/24 are least common, but 12/22 is right smack in the middle.

I assume the 12/25 number is people electing to induce early and/or after rather than on the day that might make the most medical sense any other time of the year.

[MR25]

Also probably explains why the 13th is lower than the 12th or 14th.

[RonnieFranchise]

I was born on a day in Memorial Day week, which in my case was a Tuesday but the Mondays being lower makes all those days relatively lower. The same does not seem to be true so much for Labor Day.

[Pavel Bure]

Interesting.

I was conceived around New Years given when I was born.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

mikey was born out of a Chinese lab leak

[scb147]

No kids were born on 02/29 between 2000 and 2014 in the US?

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Odd number of posts of trying to figure out when someone's dad dumped a load in their mom...

[dodint]

None that matter.

(There was no leap year in 2000 fwiw)

[mikey]

I think that 2/29 just ruins the color scale...

[robbiestoupe]

Interesting how blue the summer months are when nobody in my family has a summer birthday

[NTP66]

My township banned free plastic bags from stores a year or so ago, and other nearby townships followed suit. All good, I approve. Most stores charge anywhere between $.10-.25 per bag if you do want one. Went to the soccer shop yesterday to get new cleats for my kid, and the guy asked me if I wanted a bag for the box at $2. My man, nobody is giving you $2 for a single bag.

[meow]

I like that idea. like that comedian's gun control attempt. make bullets like $1,000 each.

[NTP66]

That was Chris Rock’s bit, and one of my favorites.

[count2infinity]

Most stores here have plastic bags still, but the wegmans got rid of them and started charging for paper bags. Wasn’t a law, they just did it. The boomer meltdowns I saw in the first couple of months were something else.

[NTP66]

Source of the post wegmans got rid of them and started charging for paper bags

That's actually what my local Giant did - got rid of plastic bags, and charge for paper bags. I only do self-checkout, and I can't even remember the last time I saw somebody in that area that didn't have their own reusable bags.

[RonnieFranchise]

I am a member of a FB page advocating bringing Wegmans to Pittsburgh and have seen people say you know what- if you're not going to have plastic bags, don't come to Pittsburgh, woke grocery store.

The hills those people die on are completely insane. Although I get to Wegman's seldom enough that I forget my reusable bags and have to buy the paper ones, not that they are expensive.

Their home state and other large markets they're in outlawed plastic bags. Makes business sense for them to <sorry in advance> bag them.

[NTP66]

I don't shop there because it's a bit out of the way, but a neighbor does and she swears by them.

[willeyeam]

Wegmans is so good

[count2infinity]

I have one reusable bag in my car at all times for unplanned visits, but it’s really not hard to remember to take reusable bags each week when I got for the big shop.

Anyone that makes a huge deal out of it is a loser. Can’t imagine living a life where you feel so inconvenienced by something so small.

[NTP66]

We keep all of our reusable bags in our trunks at all times. Kinda defeats the purpose if you don't.

[meow]

several times I've ran to publix needing a few things out of our normal routine and didn't have a reuseable tote with me. I always just buy one for $1.50 or whatever.

[nocera]

Yeah the plastic bag ban hasn’t been a big deal at all. I’ve forgotten my bags a few times and usually just buy paper bags for 10 cents or whatever. The people that make a big deal about it either don’t live in the city and don’t actually have to deal with it or hate anything that they consider “woke.”