I made it a rule for myself never to complain about customers to or within earshot of other customers when I worked retail. Even if another customer made a comment about someone being rude or unreasonable or whatever, I'd smile, brush it off with something like "things happen", and change the subject. It's just poor…
When I worked as a cashier customers like that were a mixed bag, because it's fun when you have time to deal with it but when you have shit to do and grandpa is talking your ear off, it sucks. I had many times when I knew the conversation with me was the only one that person would have with another human all day, so…
"They closed the salad bar early that day." I heard that in Garrison Keillor's voice.
I am staggered by how awful people can be. I had a woman scream and curse at me over a 59-cent overcharge when I was a cashier at Lowe's. It was Labor Day weekend and there was a line for each register almost to the back of the store. What she didn't know was that my dad had died in an accident two weeks before, and I…
I worked the drive thru at McDonald's as a teenager. I was the perky, "Have a super day!" girl on staff that I'm sure everyone hated. I'm positive they were staring at my back, silently wishing the swift and inevitable crushing weight of adulthood on my chipper demeanor. Who could blame them?
Drugs are a helluva drug.
Is Bacon Croissant like KGB code?
My grandparents slept in separate bedrooms, and that used to make me sad when I was a kid. Now I sooo get it.
Step 1: do whatever you want. Step 2: repeat every goddamn day.
My cousin, a single woman with not a lot of money but a good heart, got put through the RINGER to become a foster mother and these fuckers are passing kids around?
I was wondering about the risks associated with this, as well. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but if you freeze your embryos/use IVF into your fifties, are you not subject to the high risk of complications as women who conceive without it? I've known women in their mid-30s whose doctors classified them as…
I am sure the latter part of that sentence went something like: "...conception is challenging and requires medical intervention, there are higher risks associated with our pregnancies, we are not as physically capable and we may not live to meet our grandchildren." Having kids when we're older is possible, but this…
I actually run a pro-choice group in a very conservative little enclave of CA and got so frustrated about the round and round of "PLAN B IS ABORTION!!!!" that I made this graphic. To my astonishment, it was shared thousands of times on FB and Tumblr. Apparently, lots of people were equally frustrated.
It's like when the reichwingers compare their struggle to Martin Luther King's, or when the Duck Dynasty bigot gets compared to Rosa Parks, or when Paul Ryan goes arond saying he likes Rage Against the Machine— dudes, no, what the hell do you THINK you are consuming, there? In order to claim any of those things, they…
Ugh.