I feel bad now for bad mouthing wait staff for not knowing how to pronounce things. The way this country treats food servers coupled with the abysmal educational system, especially for lower income people, many of whom work in the service industry, should make it no surprise that they don't know these things. And…

Dammit. Just when I think I have the high ground, someone who knows better is going to put me in my place.

Me too! It drives me especially crazy when it is a POLITICIAN, ahem, saying it. If you have the power to unleash a nuclear attack on someone, you should know how to pronounce the Goddamn word!

I'm sorry for your experience, but that's hilarious.

And her date had the cabinet soo-VIG-nun, right?

I get annoyed by the chipolte vs. chipotle thing, mostly because I think people aren't actually reading the word. Look at the letter order, people! It comes from the same place as my annoyance for jewlery instead of jewelry and nucular instead of nuclear.

So stupid. And also that just looks like a pancake with blueberry goo and cream. That hardly makes is a cannoli. In fact that looks more like a clotted cream than what goes in a cannoli.

I was once in North Carolina and ordered something that had the option of adding jalapeños. The waiter, just a teenager, asked me if I wanted juh-lah-puh-noze on my food. I had to make him say the word like 3 times before I finally figured out what he was saying.

For a while I was paranoid about motel rooms because of some Dateline or similar show expose on some pervert who had hidden cameras behind motel room mirrors and vents. He was caught because someone noticed a pinpoint of light coming from the mirror when the room was dark. Since that episode I've checked any weird…

never had it, but now I'll be on the lookout for it.

Oh sorry. I've never seen it. I didn't have HBO when it was on. Plus I might be a little obsessed with Ommegang beer.

I might have a white at home, but I only seem to like the ones that are dry, I think. Not the sweet ones anyway. But since buying wine at a restaurant is so expensive I never want to waste it on a white. I'm like that about dessert too, I rarely waste my time with a non-chocolate dessert.

I do the same thing! In college I majored in geology, so I went through a phase where I tried to only drink wines that had geology-related names.

I thought for sure that the story was going to say they called the cops because of the soiled diaper smell, not the guns.

Is your username a reference to Ommegang? If so, the brewery?? The BEST brewery?

Sounds like a neat app. Probably better than my method, which is to scan the list for the cheapest red. And if I'm drinking something that goes with a white…I order a beer.

Psssst. Not a Jedi, a Sith. Only the bad guys had the red ones.

I used to teach a course (to primarily white students) that dealt with stereotypes of racial minorities. One of the most difficult things for students to understand was that stereotypes even 'positive' ones can do harm. (Think virile black man, smart Asians, and ecological Indian. The students often don't even…

Did anyone think to look for teenagers who look exactly like older versions of the 10-year-olds?

She really should have known better than to go to a salon where the 1 on the sign has clearly been converted to a 7 with some duct tape. Didn't she wonder why all the capes they draped on the clients were just mustard yellow blazers put on backward?