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[desh]

Every week or two, I go to this one place to buy a dozen bagels. They're not that near here, but they're the best bagels around, so I go anyway. A week ago, I went in at a different time than I usually do, and was helped by an employee I'd never seen before. After I left, I discovered that I only had 11 bagels instead of the usual 13. I was already having a pretty bad day, and that made it worse. I was annoyed at that and the rest of the world for the remainder of the day.

Today I went in, another strange time, another unfamiliar employee. (They have high turnover anyway.) I ordered my dozen, and while she was filling it, I mentioned, as politely and offhandedly as I could, to just make sure there were 13, because I only got 11 last time. I didn't want her to think I was blaming her; I just felt I had to mention it to someone there, so they knew. She said she'd be careful.

I got home and opened the bag to find 15 bagels.

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[burr86.livejournal.com]

aw!

[bubba.livejournal.com]

dork :p

(aw! :)

[desh]

I don't respond to anonymous comments that aren't signed. Tell me who you are, and we'll talk.

Bwah!

[bumonyou.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious. I hope you went back and gave her a hug (and told her that your faith in humanity had been reaffirmed)

Loxly and Bagel

[sucellus.livejournal.com]

Ok, this has nothing to do with your post, but Dan suggested I ask you. Sam and I are looking for a synagogue. I grew up orthodox and thus want a more traditional service. Sam wants mixed seating. And we NEED a Rabbi bad. Sam has never really had one, and mine has retired. And seeing as we are tieing the knot in approximately a year and a half we need to find a synagogue with a Rabbi and get to know him and start doing all that wedding stuff. Any ideas?

Re: Loxly and Bagel

[desh]

I didn't know you were engaged! Congrats!

Yeah, I mean, you know I like BZBI. It has snippets of more traditionality than lots of other Conservative synagogues around (though there are less-traditional things they do that I don't like so much, but it's not that bad), and the rabbi is wonderful. And there are like 3 or 4 other rabbis in the congregation there, if R. Stone doesn't do it for you. 18th and Spruce. Also, I really liked Lenny Gordon at GJC, but I haven't seen him much since I was younger. And GJC has 3 Saturday morning minyanim, all of which are mixed seating, and one of which (Masorti) is very much on the traditional end of things. Lincoln Drive, Emlen Street, and Ellet Street, in Mt. Airy (Philadelphia). Finally, one of my favorite places to pray in the area is the traditional-style Havurah minyan at Beth Hillel Beth El in Wynnewood (Lancaster and Remington), but I don't know Rabbi Cooper that well.

I bet Dan, or at least his dad, could be at least as helpful as I am with this.

E-mail me if you want to talk more about this. My address is in my LJ profile.

[benjifus.livejournal.com]

the TBH-BE havurah won't start up again for the fall for another weekend or two; i'm not sure about the dates but i'm closely related to someone who may or may not be the summer Torah Reading coordinator...
I like Rabbi Cooper a lot. He's really grown into his role as Senior Conservative Rabbi of the Western Suburbs, and while he can be a bit "stand-up sit-down"y at times, both in and out of services, he is really good at white he does in counseling and rabbi-congregant relations. the havurah is more traditional than the main synogogue service, but makes some liturgical changes in favor of egalitarianism. and it feels like every 4th person there is a rabbi, too...