Strange things you're not used to

[♥Sora_9_Dam3a♥ 0]

Yeah, but in some countries (like Canada fer instance) cigarettes are not sold in drug stores. Haven't been for quite a few years.

Wow. So where do you buy them then?

I know my wife has said that taxes on cigarettes in Canada are obscenely high, so coupled with limited venues to smoke in, smoking in general has gone way down. My wife and I don't smoke, so neither of us take much notice of these things (which would probably explain why I didn't realize London Drugs didn't sell cigarettes). I just know cigarettes can be bought in places like Walgreen's and CVS because I see them there all the time.

it's just ironic that you would find something like cigarettes in a store where people go to buy something to restore their health...lol...i never realized that cigarettes were sold in pharmacies--but now that i think of it...it is pretty strange..haha...

[melusine 5]

The grocery store by my house not only plays the thunder sounds but it also plays "Singing in the Rain" before the spriklers go off.

Diana

HAHAHA !!! Excellent !!!!

never seen/heard that either !!

[Ontarkie 14,220]

i like this thraed and i'm bored so...BUMP

[Jeraly 4]

Good call - I didn't even get to read about the singing shops!!

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

The thing that I will never get used to is that "Iced tea' is actually tea, cold, and not the sweet sugary thing that we call it up here in Canada.

you must live in the south

up north, they generally serve the really sweet, fake stuff (ie: nestea, snapple, arizona), which is what i think you are referring to (it tastes nothing like real tea), but down south it is straight up brewed tea with sugar....mmm delish

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

Not really on the ice tea topic but not too off topic.. do they know what sparkiling/fizzy/bubbly water is where you are? Here.. nada.... they get me tap water every time I order it.

here, that's seltzer or club soda...weird, i know

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

I really don't understand the concept of 'sick days' as paid time off. As far as my experience goes you just get paid for time off sick, until it gets really long... like 3 months, and then it's half pay for the next 3 months. Weird that it gets treated like holidays.

yes, its an incredibley stupid system...they act as if one can choose how many days they are sick per year...at my current job, i get a pathetic 5 sick days per year...5!!!!!!!!!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I get 5 sick days too - i guess I better not get sick.

OTOH, when I lived in the UK, I used to get so pissed off the number of times a certain individual would get signed off 2 weeks for "stress" only to be found drinking merrily away in the local pub

[Reba 2]

yes, its an incredibley stupid system...they act as if one can choose how many days they are sick per year...at my current job, i get a pathetic 5 sick days per year...5!!!!!!!!!

Now that I've been at my job for a full year, I get 80 hours "paid time off" per year. That's to be used for vacation time as well as sick time and personal time, and doctor appointments and and and...Hopefully I won't get sick, but I've already had to use up 2.25 hours for a doctor appointment, which is likely where half my PTO will go to

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

yes, its an incredibley stupid system...they act as if one can choose how many days they are sick per year...at my current job, i get a pathetic 5 sick days per year...5!!!!!!!!!

Now that I've been at my job for a full year, I get 80 hours "paid time off" per year. That's to be used for vacation time as well as sick time and personal time, and doctor appointments and and and...Hopefully I won't get sick, but I've already had to use up 2.25 hours for a doctor appointment, which is likely where half my PTO will go to

oh my god that is terrible...at least if i take a half day or need to take a couple of hours for a doctor's appt, my job doesnt deduct that from anything...total i get 10 vacation, 5 sick, and 2 personal days, in addtion to what i just described (which i tend to try and milk as much as possible B) )

thats still clearly not enough

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

10 holiday days??? per year??? ugghhh that's good????

maybe i'll stay in england

[melusine 5]

lol welcome in north america (canada is the same when u start a job u get 2 weeks vacations a year)

[StillThePrettiest 3]

wow, teaching is looking more attractive than it has in years...

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

wow, teaching is looking more attractive than it has in years...

hence one of the many reasons i am going back to school to be a professor B)

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

10 holiday days??? per year??? ugghhh that's good????

maybe i'll stay in england

that's typical. My first job in the US I had 15 days and we all thought that was amazing.

It is the one single thing that has made settling back into life in the USA the hardest! I had 27 days in the UK, now reduced to 10.