Entirely fair point that needed to be made. There are people upthread arguing that pregnant women can’t bend over so we should cut her some slack, and I think a lot of the comments you’re seeing are in response to that. Also the article insinuates it was her who didn’t pick up the poop, but doesn’t really provide any…

You are a good person and I would like to replace at least half the world’s dog owners with your clones.

You know, when I first saw it, I thought “that just looks ridiculous!” But now that I’ve been looking at it a while, I have to admit, I’ve got a real hankering for a Ring Pop.

I dunno, I do a lot of driving on foggy mornings in an area with a lot of runners, and I can’t ever remember spotting someone by their brightly-colored shoes. Also, men’s shoes are rarely brightly colored, so what gives? Are men just inherently more visible?

Bwahaha. As a teenager I once ordered a strawberry virgin margarita at El Torito. The waitress asked to see my ID. I repeated my order, slowly. Straw-berr-y VIR-GIN mar-ga-ri-ta. She looked exasperated and said yeah, she was going to need to see some ID for that. I told her I was gonna need to see a manager. I wasn’t…

Holy shit. I have no words.

Did it return just because he now knew it was an antidepressant and not a painkiller, or did he stop taking it and then it returned?

These comments appear every week. The author has repeatedly explained his position (those stories aren't that interesting; customers have Yelp and dozens of other websites to share them and this is one place that's ours), and he even ran a column about batshit servers once just to shut them up, but they keep coming.

I bet you anything she left these for the waiter in lieu of an actual tip.

Ugh, just stop, OK? It is seriously not that big a deal for one person with allergies/intolerances/whatever to bring in their own food so they can be with the rest of their family, all of whom are paying customers and decent tippers. I'd much rather wait on a group like that than...well, most of the people I had to…

I hear this kind of thing so often. I really don't get it. I mean, I get it in the sense that I know people are petty and awful, but on a personal level, I really don't get it. I'm making less as an attorney than I used to make as a bartender, because I chose to do government work helping underserved populations. I…

By “petite” does he mean short or skinny?

Is a bridal show the same thing as a bridal expo? A friend (no, really!) is getting married and wants me to go with her to one of those.

Yeah, the one mention of sex is about adultery. Like, you get one chance to pronounce the sexual mores for your people and THAT’S what you pick? I’ll stick with Dan Savage’s Big Four taboos myself.

Ugh, I just can't with that aesthetic. I think I may have some kind of reverse body dysmorphia, because bright nail polish, heavy eye makeup, and other really fake looks freak me out. Not on other people; I often think other people with those things look really good. But anytime I get my nails painted, they keep…

Which either means I have a perfect nose or I need to go thank my ENT for having some ethical standards

There’s a commandment for obeying your parents, but none for caring for your children.

I just checked to see whether lawyersinlove.com was taken (my boyfriend bought me a used copy of that record, kind of as a joke, when we were both in law school, and I hung it on my wall because I actually really like the artwork) and found out it's a dating site. Eeesh.

Absolutely; we comped stuff for regulars all the time. It sucks having to give freebies to assholes just so they don't complain to corporate, but it feels a little better when you can also hook up the people who tip well and treat you like a human being and never expect special treatment.

I'm beginning to realize how lucky I was that my regulars were all pretty awesome. Some of them were raging alcoholics, which presented some challenges, but they were nice people. Not an ounce of entitlement among them all.