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Sep 12, 2018, 7:47 pm
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Is it wrong to go to bed before 10 PM?
Sep 12, 2018, 7:50 pm
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Sep 12, 2018, 8:05 pm
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Mr. Kipper is out of town, so the dogs are sharing the bed tonight. I believe they are trying to see just how much space they can occupy before I move to the sofa.
Sep 12, 2018, 10:11 pm
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My take on Delta is that they have their share of problems and issues like any other airline, but they actually try hard and do give a good amount of power to their front line people to fix those compared to their peers. There are some dud employees like you get in any big company, but as a whole there's a culture that encourages them to find a way the rules let them say 'yes' and get you a solution, status or not, rather than the default 'No' I've typically gotten from American during service recovery attempts.
Sep 13, 2018, 5:15 am
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Morning! Happy Thorsday!!!
Sep 13, 2018, 6:19 am
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Sep 13, 2018, 7:59 am
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Sep 13, 2018, 11:34 am
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Sep 13, 2018, 12:20 pm
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Sep 13, 2018, 2:43 pm
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hence “no surprise” 
what about your response to a notional beer call on Sun 30 Sep? it’s looking like that could be the autumnal ITH-DC road trip
what about your response to a notional beer call on Sun 30 Sep? it’s looking like that could be the autumnal ITH-DC road trip
Sep 13, 2018, 6:19 pm
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Sep 13, 2018, 6:51 pm
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what are those “magic words” of which you speak? do you mean “your response”? or do you mean “road trip”? or do you perhaps mean “beer call”?
Sep 13, 2018, 8:56 pm
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I'm betting that the answer is beer call.
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Who. Dey.
Sep 13, 2018, 11:14 pm
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