Also, information: The little “tip jar” at Panera is actually a donation box to Project Bread or some food-related charity. People would always stuff money in there with a coy look on their face like they were doing us a solid, when in reality we wouldn’t see a penny.

This. Most people are assholes not because of their ignorance, but because of their attitude. I’ve never been a mechanic, but I feel like this applies to pretty much any job one does: if you don’t understand something, I’m more than happy to explain it to you. But if you don’t understand something and then yell at me…

As a self-professed Person Who is Not Good at Basic Math, it takes me perhaps fifteen seconds to open the calculator app and calculate a tip. Ignorance is not an excuse.

This. I'm very reluctantly rooting for the Patriots, if for no other reason than my extraordinary disdain for the Seahawks and Pete Carroll.

And a single mistake made by Port Authority has morphed into a multi-faceted ass ache of a problem that cost it many millions of dollars.

For the sake of all that's good and holy, do NOT yell at the customer service agents. Their want to help you goes out the window the moment you start shouting epithets at them. No matter how frustrated you are, remain calm.

But as we've seen, schools generally suck at following their own procedures, and the judicial process is ineffective at best. So while the idea is a well-intended one, the execution of that idea is terrible, which results in progress for no one.

My thoughts exactly. I think the school should provide support services (like counseling, if necessary), but they should stay out of the investigative part of the incident altogether.

I feel like this is similar to getting cut in line by a rude human at the grocery store. You wish you could say something like Were you raised in a barn?!? and then give them a good thwack on the head because they are obviously ill-mannered, but then you realize that there are, more than likely, better uses of your…

This post wins for overzealous headline of the day. Some of these examples are hardly gentrification, and my jaw did not even drop, or even perform a controlled fall.

Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant. It's the NYC TLC policy.

As much as it pains me to see you mix up Spain and Portugal (or simply assume the two are interchangeable), your point is still halfway valid; yes, Portugal is broke as well.

Did you even read my initial post? Apparently not, as I said the following:

.. and I agree completely with your statement. Perhaps I came off the wrong way in my post. Allow me to be clear about my situation: In my parent's education/retirement funds, they had x amount allotted for my education, x amount for my brother, and x amount that was not to be touched (for their retirement).

I admire the author and his family for their work, but I take exception to the following line:

Not to justify, but I heard that the child was discovered after authorities finally gained access to the car (presumably after shooting her). In the heat of the moment, they may not have realized that her daughter was present.

For some people it's not that easy.

Once again, the NYPD, true champions of justice. I'll sleep better tonight knowing that I no longer have to worry about being run over by a speeding BMW.

No, but it seems like there are more dangerous criminals and murderers that the NYPD could be focusing on.

It's actually quite enjoyable to watch when some fucking moron pulls his extra-long cigarette boat into Ego Alley and has to execute a 52-point turn to get the damn thing turned around.