Counterpoint: in which other sport will a double overtime championship game not come down to a 0–0 tie to be decided by penalties?

Counterpoint: in which other sport is the synchronized movement of every member of the team critical to offensive and defensive success on every single play?

I'll never understand why the song is called Dueling Banjos when it's a duel between a guitar and a banjo. #AT40

10) Let me drop off the order with a photo. Unless it's a sign-for-booze/rx order, I don't want to knock on your door any more than you want to answer it.

I'd love to hear the other side. Shoppers, feel free to comment. ✊🏻8/8

8a) And big orders early in the morning go faster as I'm not forced to navigate around all the lookee-loo shoppers, plus it's easier and faster to get deli / butcher / bakery help.

9) Things I hate to see on an order: fresh flowers, birthday cards/balloons, toys/presents. Difficult to replace. 👇🏻7/8

7a) Also, even with the freezer bags, sometimes we are delivering two or three orders and yours might be the third.

8) Place your big orders after the store's closed. They'll be stocking overnight and I'm seeking $30+ orders to start the morning. More likely they'll have your stuff. 👇🏻6/8

6) Don't order just one thing. If it isn't there, I have to call tech support to get the order canceled before I can move on to my next job, so I just don't take single item orders.

7) Don't order ice cream. While I transport frozen stuff in cold bags, not all drivers do. 👇🏻5/8

5) Tip! I don't take an order unless I make at least 50 cents an item and a dollar a mile. We top drivers see orders before everyone else. We reject them and let the newbies take them if they're not lucrative enough. Especially on the few-item orders we don't get paid much for. 👇🏻4/8

4a) Especially if you're in one of those God-forsaken multi-family-unit dwelling hives. Which building from which driveway up which set of stairs to the left or to the right of the building, where do I park, Etc

4b) Or those ridiculous rural mountain lots where numbers seem to have no order. 👇🏻3/8

2) Replacement notes. Like, "any brand okay" for a can of corn, or "no generics" or "same price or less".

3) Don't put replacement notes in the delivery notes that only appear after I've checked out. Put them on the items themselves.

4) Do provide delivery notes. House color, etc. 👇🏻2/8

🧵 Okay, as a Platinum Cart, Five-star rated, over 5,000 order Instacart delivery shopper, here are my top 10 tips for you shoppers if you would like to have the best grocery delivery experience.

1) Suggest replacements. Store inventory isn't always correct online, especially for outlet stores. 👇🏻1/8

* even if there was some issue in which the Republican Governor broke with the legislature and vetoed their bill, they could override his veto.

Well Done America! This was Boise, Idaho, today.

"Idaho has a Republican trifecta, with a Republican governor and Republican control of both chambers in the state legislature, and a Republican triplex—Republicans as governor, attorney general, and secretary of state."

* a supermajority trifecta. 👇🏻

joycevance.substack.com/p/well-done-...

Even though I'm a platinum-rated over 5,000 order five-star male
Instacart shopper, this made me laugh out loud. (Suggested replacements and replacement notes are my best friend, by the way.)

Remember #AT40, if its broad mouth is closed and you can't see any teeth, it's actually Alligator Rock.

I don't know, I think it's going to be quite appropriate when all those bills come out and everyone takes Sharpies and blacks out his name, like a tribute to all the redactions in the Epstein files. Bills spent over the next few decades with a big black mark on them to remind us all of the treachery

Ah, yes. It's the civilian strain of Conservative Empathy: It Happened To Me!

John McCain against Torture
Nancy Reagan for Stem Cell Research for Alzheimers
Jeb! Bush for Immigration Reform
Dick Cheney for Gay Marriage
James Brady for Gun Control

Dang, such an opportunity for the lower headline: Horton hears a "W".

Phenomenal!

Duh duh, da nah nuh...

My bridge!

Nobody gets put on a list for whipping out a Bryan Adams song at karaoke.

Oh, now a... bevy? coven? murmuration? wait, I know... a princess of 5-year-old girls opening birthday presents is a level of cute my cynical old self needed.

From #NoKings to my granddaughter's birthday party, a room full of five-year-old girls in pink. "What music do you wanna listen to?" mom asks. "K-Pop Demon Hunters!" I exclaim. "K-POP DEMON HUNTERS! K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!" chant the girls. I know how to start a party.

Well, why not? Will be interesting to see a team down 4 with :08 to go in the game and a TO, 3rd down ball on opponent's 40, do a kneel-down for a 3-yard loss to set up the game-tying 4-pt FG.

Okay, for real, you get a chance to send two messages back in time forty years. One is that Donald Trump is a two-term president. The other is that pro women's soccer is televised and fills NFL stadiums. Which message is the receiver forty years in the past least likely to believe?

My "Acceptable Kings" poster, a Brady-Bunch-style nine collage with captioned photos of Martin Luther, Stephen, Carole, Larry, Trump (crossed out in red), Elvis (captioned as "The"), B.B., Albert, and Freddie.

My "Acceptable Kings" poster (the title turns out black on white, but is invisible in dark mode here), a Brady-Bunch-style nine collage with captioned photos of Martin Luther, Stephen, Carole, Larry, Trump (crossed out in red), Elvis (captioned as "The"), B.B., Albert, and Freddie. #NoKings

My ladylove at the local 76 station in Wolf Creek, blue sky and green mountains behind her, with her "Iran Up Your Gas Prices" sign pointing at the huge sign with $5.99 diesel.

Last stop before home! Funny how we didn't have rednecks "rolling coal" through the protest this time. #NoKings

I've got the complexion of protection and a 6 ft 230 lb frame. You ain't doing that shit around my lady love, especially after she just lost a great-granddaughter to a miscarriage. ✊🏻

The anti-abortion guy with the extra large mangled fetus poster and "Homo Sex is Sin" shirt posted up nearby. Fellow tells me I can borrow his megaphone. I proceed to yell "THIS GUY'S A PEDOPHILE! HE LOVES SHOWING OFF DEAD NAKED BABIES! SECRETLY GAY!" for 5 minutes right in his face til he left. 👇🏻

Boy with her sign that says Iran up gas prices and a picture of trump pointing up

Lori with her sign featuring photos of her dad, a Vietnam veteran, at the DC memorial wall

Me and my sign of acceptable Kings

Me and my science featuring my basic training photo And the tagline against all enemies

Ladylove and I at #NoKings in Grants Pass, Oregon.