The UK also has a markedly more sane customer-service culture. If someone’s being an idiot, no one’s THAT fussed about bending over backwards to make sure the news of their own idiocy never reaches them. It’s what comes of having reasonable worker protections.

I would eat the hell out of some Chipotle nachos. I love crunch in my “Mexican” food, but Chipotle tacos, at almost the same price as their burritos but only 1/3rd of the food, are not a good value proposition. With nachos, you could load on as much as a burrito. I really think you’ve got something there.

Some people think the bathroom loads back-to-front (the first person in takes the stall furthest from the door, the next person in takes the next-furthest) but these people are wrong and must be punished.

I actually literally have nightmares about this? I’m not a shy peer (I do tend to look for an empty restroom if I need to poo) but I have literally in my sleep had anxiety dreams about being in a warrenlike locker/rest room where there are lots of toilets but none of them is adequately private and some of them are…

You raise some valid points, but on the other hand, being a shy peer/pooper past your first tweendom school locker room experience is immature and dumb. Get over yourself, Cynthia, everyone already knows you lay stinky deuces.

My organization is fairly small, but takes up two floors of a medium-sized office building. The second floor is markedly less crowded, because it’s mostly the higher-ups who have offices, and offices take up more space than cubicles. I regularly go up to use the second-floor bathroom just to lessen the chance that…

Right? To be honest, I feel a little weird about how much I like working. I mean, I like hanging out, too, but really by Monday I’ve done about all I want to do at one stretch and I’m ready to be productive again.

You are not only doing Friday right, you are doing Friday the most right.

For me 1. is All Manmade Things Underwater. I don’t know why. I once went to a wedding on Block Island, and doing research about it later found out that there’s a sunken 1890’s ship at the base of some cliffs there that’s mast is like 5 feet under the surface. The thought of swimming there and hitting a ship with my…

This is the side of donation that most people aren’t aware of - and it’s not this way everywhere. In the UK, you have to donate TO a medical school or research organization, and what you donate has to be USED by that organization - there’s no dealing in money for transport or the spectre of “paying for body parts” or…

I’ve lived in the DC area my whole life, and while I think people here are fine, it’s not like I’ve never vacationed in Minnesota and seen what actual nice looks like. I’m slightly annoyed that this chick is trying to vilify New Yorkers, but I’m downright offended that she’s trying to put Virginians on any kind of…

Did you ever happen to get him on tape saying something even remotely gross? Because if you did, my friend, your train has just come in.

Right? I would feel suspicious about anyone for whom a) shoes are an element of their life philosophy, or b) requires notes from throw pillows to remember how to act.

I am team All of Them unless they really start brawling, in which case I will chew Louis Tomlinson’s nose off with my teeth in defense of Zayn.

Yes. If only people concerned about dead black teenagers had shut down American towns and cities in protest, brought police brutality to the fore of international attention, kickstarted demands for accountability that led to 25% of police departments using body cameras, with 80% considering the technology, and led to…

My name has one of these in it, and this is how I write it, although I was taught a much uglier version in school.

My best friend from high school developed his own dagger-grip in preschool, and simply never moved on. His handwriting, print or otherwise, looks like a 5 year old’s. I’m embarrassed enough by my own eccentric but controlled scrawl - the reality is there ARE still real-life situations where you have to write things by…

When I was teaching in Czech Republic, the kids never did print writing - straight to cursive as well. And they spend a LOT of time on it. Almost every Czech I met had nearly the same, perfect handwriting. It’s so good that they often don’t cross their lowercase t’s, because there’s no chance that you’ll slip and…

I’ve made a conscious decision to change the way I write some letters - I stole Dale Carnegie’s lowercase ‘r’ in 8th grade, and my first name starts with an E, which can be written a bunch of different ways, and I’m still trying to settle on one I actually like - but the thought of trying to change the whole thing…

They do tend to skew a little informal? I went to one of those private schools that irritatingly had a dress code but never made the leap to school uniforms, so I was able to buy my own clothes but they had to fit a certain standard.