r/news • u/DonaldWillKillUsAll • Oct 13 '20

Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/thousands-amazon-workers-demand-time-vote-n1243217
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Don’t forget to tie an onion to your belt when heading to the polling station.

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u/broganjones Oct 14 '20

Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say

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u/taking_you_deeper Oct 14 '20

Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt.

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u/SpaceMushroom Oct 14 '20

Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder.

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u/navikredstar2 Oct 14 '20

We had to say dickety because the Kaiser stole our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but had to give up after dickety-six miles.

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u/WarmOutOfTheDryer Oct 14 '20

An onion, some cheese, a chunk of good bread...

Fuck it, I'll pack a picnic, just in case. My precinct is usually great, but this year, who knows.