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kitten seeking answers's avatar

the waffle 🧇 guy sounds like a keeper 😻 … poor dude, working at “food cost” the restaurant was probably violating minimum wage rules

a lot of people lost their jobs at sit down restaurants during the fakedemic😿

Heather B's avatar

Texas allows restaurants to pay really low wages on the theory that workers earn tips, which is a sketchy assumption, especially for the kitchen workers. But most restaurants here have a tip cup at the register for them. Darryl had the whole town talking. Thanks for stopping by. 💕

Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

i loved that story too!!!

Sanity Jane's avatar

Love up! + You cannot hate them enough. Both true.

But 💕 🆙 yeah 🙌🏽

Heather B's avatar

Love the ones who deserve your love! 💕

Joanie Higgs's avatar

Hi Heather, great memes as always. We're having a heat wave too, here in southern British Columbia (which is normal; "climate change" be damned). All the better to appreciate Fall and Winter, as you say.

Heather B's avatar

Thank you! I know most people love Summer but I love Spring, Fall, Winter and tolerate Summer. Supposed to be 105F degrees here today, so will be inside drinking iced sweet tea. 💕

Joanie Higgs's avatar

We've had it very close to a hundred with the humidity factor: bad enough for me!

John Wright's avatar

Bah... summer sucks... give me winter! (well... except up here in South Dakota where winter gets absurdly cold)

Heather B's avatar

It's 3600 ft altitude here so it gets really cold here too. Often in the single digits and sometimes below 0. I actually love it, as long as it's not snowing. Love to look at snow but don't like driving in it at all. 💕

John Wright's avatar

I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania where "cold" was 20 degrees. In Minnesota and South Dakota a week or more straight of never getting above zero and frequently having -10 to -20 degree days (sometimes colder) has finally convinced me that I don't like extreme cold.

I wonder how good Elon's self driving Tesla cars are at handling ice at -20 degrees (I'm bored of driving and ready to give it up now).

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Where do I get psilocybin mushrooms...? And several of these reminded Me of this article I wrote:

The Profit-Driven pHARMa/mediKILL Industry (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-profit-driven-pharmamedikill

Heather B's avatar

You probably would have to get them from a teenager now. But as soon as pHARMa figures out how to genetically modify them, there will be prescriptions. They won't work as well and will have "side" effects but yay, more customers. 💕

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

I was kinda asking in jest… LOL! I have no money, and don’t know any teens, so… Haha! But yeah, when They work out how to mess with the electrome, they will not be the same. Like cannabis. Don’t know what They did to the legal crap, but I just endure My pain rather than use that junk!

John Wright's avatar

Time travel back to the 1960s? Or ask Gwenyth Paltrow.

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

LOL! Well... I have no money so even if I could find Gwenyth, I doubt I could wrangle Me some 'shrooms. Haha!

John Wright's avatar

Well... back in the era of "free love"... wouldn't you also have "free 'shrooms"?

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Sadly… A bit too late for that. Haha!

Infanttyron3's avatar

Yet another "giant" collection, Heather...no faves, but a couple resonate severely...

Celebrating Waffle House Darryl's Exodus from hunger (at the tail end of the clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oru1GlCoVU

Celebrating your state (#2) and my current one (#3) on their "new arrivals"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jwr-M3DENg

Just celebrating some things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqP_i88DuJA&list=RDcqP_i88DuJA&start_radio=1

Heather B's avatar

OMG. the Darryls! You're a walking music/TV/movie encyclopedia, aren't you? The guys on #2 will not be invited back to Nashville. And yeah, the things he does are far more important than the ones he doesn't! 💕

Kemper Williams's avatar

Heather: you experience that earthquake the other day?

Heather B's avatar

Yes it woke me up at 5:20 or so AM! But compared to the ones I lived through in California it was a nothing burger. Nice hearing from you! 💕

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Just when I needed you most🌹

Heather B's avatar

Thank you so much, Ingrid! 💖💕💖 Glad to be of service!

Blaze Nathan's avatar

Love the memes, as always! And thanks for bringing George's classic to the ears of Zoomers! Love you ❤️❤️

Heather B's avatar

Love you too! Thanks for stopping by. 💖💕💖

Pasheen Stonebrooke's avatar

Love it!!! Brilliant...always SUCH a treat!

You just melted us all with this stack! You poured sun-melting chocolate on our cerebral hard drives!!! Scrumptious!!!

Thank you, as always for the rush!

Love you, madly...🍫💋

Heather B's avatar

Love you madly too! Thank you, so glad it resonated. 💖💕💖

SadieJay's avatar

I love it all!! Thank you!

I absolutely loathe summer, but this helped my day.♥

*sounds of firefighting aircraft in the background*

Heather B's avatar

Thanks for stopping by. 💕

Elusive1's avatar

These were a good blend of serious and fun --- in honor of summer 2026. 🌊⛱️

I was out today and went to a chocolate shop. Bought lotsa goodies. Liked all of your chocolate t shirts!

Thank you so much! 💜🤗

Heather B's avatar

Thanks for stopping by! 💕

John Scotto's avatar

Satire?

No, a man did not work at a Mississippi Waffle House for four months without getting hired

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/no-a-man-did-not-work-at-a-mississippi-waffle-house-for-four-months-without-getting-hired/ar-AA247k5M

Heather B's avatar

I guess it could be fake, but it was all over our local news, even the TV news, not just on Facebook. This was in Amarillo, Texas. I read about it on our NextDoor group. I know the restaurant where it happened. Maybe I'll go there and ask.

John Scotto's avatar

Yeah check it out, we exist in a world of illusion now… :(

Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

it was still a fab story either way, and i think many somebodies could pick up on that idea

Heather B's avatar

The restaurant confirmed it. 💕

Amy Harlib's avatar

Enjoyed all the memes, very MEMEorable!

Heather B's avatar

Thank you so much Amy! I was just wondering where you had gone last night, and then you showed up this morning. Nice to see you again!

Craving Ratio's avatar

Why didn't Waffle House just sent in HR to have him fill out an application, a W4, and I-9 and get him back pay. They let go of the best employee they ever had. This could have been such a win for Waffle House. Instead...

Heather B's avatar

I plan to go over to the restaurant and ask them about it. There was a petition to reinstate him. Don't know the outcome. 💕

Craving Ratio's avatar

Do they have a corporate Waffle House X page?

Heather B's avatar

not sure, good idea. I'll pass it along to the petition starter.

Craving Ratio's avatar

I like how people could write a book on the Waffle House guy (myself included) but when it comes to complex subjects like:

Iran's Nuclear Program:

Don't.

Heather B's avatar

well, I would not know how to write about Iran's program at all! But I do know it's not good to leave loaded guns around toddlers or matches either...so there's that.

Carolan's avatar

SO many favorites among these summer sizzles, Heather. Especially love the Irish mermaid and "Here Comes the Sun" at the end < my fave too. I actually went to a steaming outdoor concert recently, a Beatles cover band called "All Together Now" that was awesome. Even in the 95-degree heat, "Here Comes the Sun" got a standing ovation. LOVE your memes, so good, stole a couple. Others worth mentioning... that RockyFeller demon, the obsession with ancestry, and chocolate :-) A gal I know often says "I see absolutely no valid reason to go a day without chocolate." > I can see that, and will even raise it a vino! Cheers!

Heather B's avatar

The Irish Mermaid one made me think of you. I didn't know "Her Comes the Sun" was your fave but it's always been one of mine so had to include it. I agree about the chocolate. I usually start the day with a little dark chocolate and coffee. Thanks for stopping by. 💖💕

Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

actually don't have one fave this time, my friend. But i did howl loud at the govt being debunked in real time by poopoopeepee!

Heather B's avatar

I'm glad you feel well enough to read substack now. Yes yay for Poopoopeepee! 💕

Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

let's just say i keep up with my friends.

But i still have to move., and today BIG green densifiers went up on the fake-tree-tower. They pulled off the branches though...

Heather B's avatar

good luck with your move!

Yolanda Pritam Hari's avatar

Thanks. you'll be among the first to hear when something comes through for me.