If I'm not mistaken it's against health regulations to bring in your own food or drink.

"even though I only order special things that are not extra work because I have some idea of what is or I ask if it is"

I'm willing to bet that it isn't your clothes or your supposed meekness that causes the servers to dislike you. It is the fact that you think that because eating out is a special occasion for you, you are entitled to special treatment (seating preferences, ordering off the menu, and who knows what else). You probably…

OK, ill address some of your points: Seating preference- as a host, you seat according to where is available, who you expect, through expereince, to come in during the paticular period, any bookings that have been made and who is looking after the paticular area. If I seat someone at a paticular table and they say…

If someone brings their own food, then gets sick, then tries to sue your restaurant, how do you determine who is responsible for the sickness? Strict rigidity in this type of things is likely purely for liability purposes. If you only serve your own food you at least have some control how it's prepared; outside food…

Yeah, servers DEFINITELY hate you.

The difference is that women get their vaginas and its smell insulted all the time. And lovers refuse to pleasure women orally all the time. You just can NOT refuse to give a guy a blow job in a normal sexual relationship/circumstance (even here they called the woman a "prude") unless HE doesn't want it. Happens ALL…

I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

I believe the term is "emotional incest" and it's just as gross and terrible as it sounds.

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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Your mother sounds like my mother; I cut her out of my life when I was 16 (I lived with my father) and asked her for an apology for the beatings and neglect that she inflicted upon me. Her response was basically a shrug that I could visualize over the phone. I just had to get on with life knowing that there would be…

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

FTFY. Seriously, teenage girls are insane on the internet. I am never letting my kids have access to social media.

OH HELL YEAH. It's all about individualism and "how do I find myself/fix myself?" without enough "how do I help other people?" (Which, incidentally, leads to self-improvement and a purpose in life too.)

Yes, let's also not forget that traveling internationally is usually a 1)first world privilege (both in terms of money and visas) 2)a white person privilege (most poc will not be treated as well as whites in many places around the world).

This came up in a discussion of Young Adult books - The American novel (by extension, the American narrative?) has to do with ditching it, leaving it behind and starting over.

Thank you. It sickens me that what some people are taking away from this tragedy is that they found a lot of the comics to be offensive and that it's unfair to say that people didn't have the right to be offended by them. I'm a feminist but today I'm ashamed by so many of my fellow feminists spouting such idiotic…