Sci-Fi: Is this real life?

We don't have hover crafts yet, but elementary schools have palm scans to go through the school lunch line???? 

Hello, this is the Poway Unified School District Food and Nutrition Department writing to let you know that we will be implementing new technology this year that will increase the privacy and security of your child's lunch account. We will be instituting a new system involving scanning your child's palm. Palm scanning will eliminate the need for entering PIN numbers or showing your school ID cards. This technology has been used successfully at other school districts for years; it has increased the speed and accuracy of serving lines which allows students more time to eat, relax, and socialize. Please be assured that the scanned image of your child's palm print cannot be duplicated or used for any other identification purposes. We will have a scanning station at your child's school during registration for the 2012-13 school year. This new system is voluntary. If you wish to opt out please contact the Food and Nutrition Department at (XXX) XXX-XXXX. Students may continue to pay for lunch with cash. Thank you very much. To listen to the above message, you will need audio software and speakers on your computer. Cash is sooooo a thing of the past.  I feel like I am in a Twilight Zone movie.

All of a Sudden...

My roommate happens to be from the same city up in Northern California that I am.  We didn't know each other growing up, but we know the same places. 

She took some friends to a certain spot in Walnut Creek near a movie theater that was otherwise surrounded by what appeared to be business buildings.  You walk past building after tall building with extensive windows and stone walls and "all of a sudden, ice cream!" 

An unexpected ice cream establishment in a busy business part of town can be quite thrilling!

And so might this:

That's for you LC!

Weapon of Choice

Your weapon of choice?  I found out that mine is poison.

When confronted with dirty fat rats that are eating my tomatoes, instead of traps that snap their necks or humane contraptions that keep them alive, I opted for poison.  Poison which I stuffed into one of the tomatoes that they had eaten.  It looks appetizing and it worked like a charm!

Who am I fooling?  I already knew my weapon of choice was poison.  I even have a ring with a secret compartment in it and everything.