Well put it this way:  If his restaurant burns down when it’s packed the world is automatically a much better place.

it shut off central heat to the restaurant after closing and during peak hours;

I’m genuinely curious as to what kind of people would be patrons of his restaurants. I know there’s plenty of new money douchebags out there, but come on.

That's so serious WTF and failure to grok. Especially when I compare Hannah's income and expenses with my son's.  He's 25 and an engineer and his lifestyle is rust free David Tracy,  a shared rental house and several cheap beaters 

Being 20 and suddenly earning $70k in a low-cost environment, they’re doomed to make dumb choices if they haven’t learned the basics of home economics. I only crossed the $70k threshold a few years ago, and I’m 51 and have a college degree and live in a large Midwestern city. I had a long time to figure out how to…

Earning $70k a year is not that far above the average American salary of ~$60k. That figure does not easily make you a member of the New Jag Club (especially 2 of them!) without some serious compromises, or somehow being lucky enough to have absurdly minimal living expenses. She is lucky to be making good money for…

Drive within your budget? That’s not a hard concept. Is budgeting and general life management skills just left up to the book-banning parents these days? Do they not teach home economics (or FCS) in schools anymore?

Considering how focused she is on weekly income, I get the feeling she came from a pretty blue collar background, and her parent’s weren’t really prepared to help her make smarter decisions when she turned 18 and started making more money than she’d ever seen in her life. Although, I could also see them trying hard to…

LBJ was about as much of an insider as it was possible to be. He knew how to get the senate to do what he wanted, knew how to make a compromise, He may have been a crude jackass when he wanted to be but he was still presidential as hell. Although a friend of mine once quipped, “I wonder when they’re going to build a…

It was perfectly legal to have boxcutters on an airplane on 9/11/2001. I flew with several of them in my laptop bag weekly, as the first thing I had to do when I got onsite was open a ton of computer boxes. It was legal to have a knife with a 4-5" blade for that matter. 

I don’t want to go back to that either, but GED-hopefuls giggling at my digitally-rendered naked body is not going to prevent it.

“Ioniq 5 which I prefer the looks of (and got the awd so still a decent 320 hp)“

yup, only need 135 on a pork chop in the US now, get a meat thermometer people!

And that is 100% fine with me. As a retailer you are free to do what you want. I run into it once in a while, but it is definitely not the norm from my daily purchase standpoint. 

The officer served (2) tours overseas. Seeing the lasting affects a tour in Afghanistan has had on a relative, I believe this officer has undiagnosed PTSD which impacted his reaction here.

I rarely get hit with some sort of CC surcharge, so everyone is paying the same amount I am whether they pay cash or use credit. If I go to a store and there is no CC surcharge, I pay with a CC and you pay with cash I get cash back and you don’t, even though we paid the exact same purchase price. Who wins in that…

I agree with you on this, but 15's can make sense depending on the time. We had a 30 year in 2016 or 15 when we bought, then in ‘20 refi’d to a 15 with a lower rate and a touch smaller monthly. Now we only have 9 years left or less.

I think that should be an option, but you should be able to change that radio out. We had DIN. It was great. Radio broke? Want a simpler one? Want one that’s fuck-off complicated? Great! Change it out!

People buying new trucks and SUVs that sticker for 60K+ don’t really care about an extra hundred bucks a month in fuel cost. The one’s who bitch about it just like to bitch because it’s politically convenient for them.