I was having dinner with my wife and her mother. We're all black, but I'm light skinned enough that the server (a black woman) might have been confused. In any case, our entire time there, the server did not speak or make eye contact with my wife or mother in law. When they spoke, the server answered me as if I had…

So black women wanting what they want when they are paying are "picky." And bad tippers according to the people who don't want to serve them but probably swear the service they give them is amazing. Sounds legit.

Hahahaha that's amazing. The real question, though, is... was he wearing pants?

My very first concert, when I was 18, I went to Tool, in Edmonton, Alberta. I ended up talking with this group from Saskatchewan and mentioning it was my first concert. Now, concert beer is EXPENSIVE because, well, stadium beer, but they went and got beer and gave me one too, because hey, it was my first concert on…

I once met a dude from Boston at a music festival who, after sharing a joint with me and my friends and learning we were from Canada, said "Canadian girls are the tits!"

Yes we are, friend. Yes we are.

Nailed it.

"You're one of those customers, aren't you?"

I bet you are right. lol

If people serving food are so brilliant why aren't they splitting atoms or something?

Really? I've practically never had a problem with service at a restaurant, and I eat out a lot. Maybe being courteous to your waitstaff and not making vehement, moronic demands is some kind of special secret to getting polite, friendly, efficient service.

You're one of those customers, aren't you?

"Vindictive and mean spirited?" To factually recall an experience they had where they don't use the names of anyone involved? It's completely harmless.

Did you not read the stories? These customers are not only stupid, many are rude and ignorant. The servers aren't calling themselves above them or super smart, just asking for some common sense and decency from their customers.

"... robbed the place with a machete two weeks later." <—-funniest statement in this entire article.

Ohhh I just talked about this in another comment. I won't cut and paste for you though (even though I am really really tired!) Keep in mind that she was a teenager at the time. One who lived in what I'm guessing is a pretty strict or even repressive household. I'm betting access to transportation probably was a major…

Can I be crazy and ask this question—why are we fixated on the forgiveness aspect of this story? She left her baby in a public place where she would be found because she (a rape victim) did not trust her parents enough with the truth. The baby was adopted by loving people who raised her to be the kind of woman who, by…

I feel like the maternal grandparents weren't seeing anything that they didn't want to see.

My name is not "Gawker." It's Rebecca Rose. (You're not even on Gawker. This is Jezebel.) You can call me Rebecca, "Burt" (my nickname )or Ms. Rose, if you're nasty. I believe those videos play sporadically at different times for different people but I do not know since I am not part of that aspect of our blog that…

I've seen some comments in other dark places of the Interwebs attacking the mom for taking her to a Burger King bathroom. She was a teenager. Living in a house with what seems to be very rigid and strict parents (who she clearly did not trust). Who knows if she had a car or access to transportation? It's not like…

Good Christ! I have 3 kids, all birthed in a hospital setting with the assistance of a midwife, nurse and husband (and drugs for 2 of them). I cannot, for the fucking life of me, imagine giving birth at 16 in my childhood home's bedroom (how do you hide the mess from your mom?!). Then taking that newborn - so soon…

Part of me thinks it's great they reunited, but part of me gets rubbed by the media attention. The birth mom was kind of being smoked out. She deserved some privacy for such a painful part of her life.