As someone who worked in a produce department, let me tell you, YES.
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Okay, report from my wife is that the power is back on 3 hours later. Fridge temp got up to 48. Not ideal for it to have been in the 40s for 3+ hours, but not so egregious I’m ready to throw away everything. Maybe I’ll just make sure to reheat things like the leftover pizza (which I usually eat cold)…
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I knocked over the music stand where I hang some of my clothes and I caught it before it reached the floor, but two pairs of pants ended up in the litter box 
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A $5.99 can of coffee is now $17.33.
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Related complaint: at the grocery store Starbucks ground coffee was on a big sale so I’m drinking that because it was the cheapest option and I don’t really like Starbucks much.
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I’m sick of the ordeal of feeding myself
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The camelbak that I use for long runs sprung a leak (luckily discovered before setting out this morning). I have two others so not a big deal except they’re both at home and I’m traveling for the next three weeks so now need to try to buy a replacement
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Can it be duct taped??
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You probably don’t like it because they burn their beans. Shit is foul. (And I drink Wal-mart brand coffee, or did before I quit coffee in honor of ulcers).
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I would definitely not trust duct tape to hold!
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Oh good point, it’s water! Even my cracked litter box wouldn’t hold with duct tape because the dust was coming through and rendering the tape useless…
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Tiny victory though is that I belatedly remembered my water needs for 2.5 hours running in a temperate drizzle are much less than 2.5 hours running in the desert so today’s run worked out fine 
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I have a giant purple salvia bush in front of my house and it looks like someone, like, fell into it? A whole chunk was bent double, anlmost severed, and lying on the sidewalk.
Now there’s an ugly hole in the bush, front and center.
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Just found out that a man I have been calling John for OVER A YEAR is in fact named Kyle! Who else have I been calling the wrong names and no one told me
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A while back we had some roommates. One of them I called Mike for over a year but it turns out his name was Matt.
We lived together. His room was next to mine.
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I have a Bank Name and a Name I’ve actually used for the last 55 years or so. So, if people see my Bank Name on a list and use it, I often don’t offer my other name because it’s probably just that once and I don’t need to get into that whole story. (The story of my Bank Name is complicated enough!)
But sometimes it turns out that it’s going to be a recurring thing and I don’t recognize that they are talking to me when actually they are, and it seems weird to say, “Well, actually that name you’ve used for 6 months isn’t the one I mostly answer to…”
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It makes John/Kyle (Jyle?) look just as weird and foolish for not correcting you about his name. I kind of get it; once you let it get past one or two instances, it’s harder and harder to correct. But still.
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Husband had a professor/clinician who called him by the wrong name for 2.5 years. This was made worse because I often travelled with said professor to/from conferences and would talk about Husband a lot.
Someone else finally told him the week before graduation and Professor SHOUTED it down the hall next time he saw Husband.
We ran into him at a conference last year and he was back to wrong name. (Despite Giant Name Tag)
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Because of moving across the country things, I was at our house for the closing and a few days after. By the end my brain was mush. I met the guy across the street whose name is John. I promptly wrote Jim in the little note I was keeping with all the neighbors and their contact info. We move in three months later and when I see him I say “hello Jim” and he’s like “it’s John” and I’m like “oh shoot sorry”. For the next two months I alternate between calling him John and Jim and he corrects me each time. I finally write down John on the little map of neighbors I have hanging on the fridge. And have been doing ok with calling him the right name, but every time I have to be like “John? no Jim? No John!” in my head. But now sometimes I get super wound up about it and worry that I wrote the wrong name on the map and have to look up his name on the county property tax website to assure myself his name is actually John. 
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It is probably our karma because wife has a name with two spellings (eg Anne vs Ann*) and she never wants to correct people who get it wrong. When people have just heard her name, they get it wrong most of the time! Stresses me out but not my name.
*it is a very common English name, so if anyone was worried that a racism was being done, it’s not the case
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