I never know what to do in these situations, so I always flash my highbeams as an invite for someone else to make the first move..

.. and, obviously, that automatically means it’s been underreported.

Quite apropos, as the Long Island Rail Road as a whole is comparable to a river of pisswater.

Hotel pricing is waaaayyy more predictable than airfare pricing, though. Not to say that the patterns are always apparent, but it’s more pattern-based than in the airline industry.

He also has less charisma than a limp spaghetti strand.

It could be Penn in NYC? There’s an ABP on the LIRR concourse that I’m sure sees its fair share of crazy.

“Oh, they’re a vegetarian, so they won’t eat anything that looks like meat.”

I always dreaded working Sunday mornings, because it was an influx of the elderly, after-church crowd, and there were bound to be issues. We were required to write the time of brewing on the coffee dispensers, and one gentlemen would come in and raise hell if we hadn’t brewed a fresh batch “in anticipation of my [his]…

OH MY GOD THE CARAMEL WOMAN.

It took me a good ten minutes to regain my composure after the Santa story.

The post-college lacrosse scene is all but dead, and there certainly isn’t a whole lot of money in it. Where there is money, though, is in the college scene. I somewhat agree with terriblehuman in the sense that since lax is more fragmented/regional, it’s easier overall to get a scholarship. That said, lacrosse…

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.

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…