But what about Cocoa Krispies? I think the Cocoa Krispies milk would be better than the Cocoa Puffs due to the increased overall surface area of the smaller krispies over the puffs.

In the long run this will make you much happier than complaining about it.

if by therapy you mean smoking a big fatty of some good herb and maybe a stiff drink before dinner next time so that you can let go of your inhibitions and laugh hysterically at their inane conversation and maybe mock them a little bit till they feel stupid enough to quiet down, then yeah that’s a good call... 

I’m married to a physician who loves to regale us with gross medical stories at the dinner table. This delights our children and disgusts me, so it’s a win-win for her.

OK, I’ve reformatted the story so the grades aren’t on a new paragraph. Let’s see if that helps.

When compared to Frosted Flakes, the ceiling gets raised.

Tell the wait staff it’s your birthday so a bunch of people come sing at your table. Then tell the wait staff it’s your anniversary. Then tell the wait staff it’s your husband’s birthday. Lo and behold, it's your husband's anniversary too! 

Both of these are great ideas, but I’m really partial to any solution that involves weaponized shellfish. 

It is known.

Cocoa Pebbles yields much more delicious and superior cereal milk than Cocoa Puffs. It is known.

I prefer the middle-ground approach of walking over, upending their table, and screaming “SHUT UP MOTHERFUCKERS”.

Joining in the conversation is the route I’d take, but you have to be at least a little gregarious and, honestly, I don’t know if it would work as well for a woman, especially a woman joining a blatantly misogynist conversation. There’s also the concern that jerks might get even louder, more obnoxious, and potentially…

I’d order something with a hard shell that’s difficult to crack, like lobster or crab, and then act real uncoordinated as you try to crack one open and ‘accidentally’ fling a crab leg at him.

I’d like to hear the opinion of someone that has actually worked for Uber. Uber promises a lot, but seems the reality isn’t that great. Sure, people are going to “voluntarily” work for Uber. Any job is better than nothing. But most of us would do whatever they could to protect their jobs if they knew a replacement…

“The govt’ made us pay ten years wages for a medallion” is more the case. You try losing that kind of money to some random dude with a smartphone and no skin in the game. 

“What about emergency services! I’d kill someone if I needed to get my wife to the hospital!!!”

Some things to keep in mind:

My phone was dead so I got a cab instead of an Uber from Dulles Airport last week. The cab stunk of air freshener and the stink that it was trying to cover up. The driver looked like he’d been up drinking all night. When it came to payment, he used an old fashioned credit card swiper and could only give me the back cop…

the problem isn’t that uber/lyft came in with a better service (it did but that can be fought with updates to the cab companies software) it’s the fact that the cabs can’t be competitive because they are restricted by laws while uber/lyft are not Examples:
1. only X number of cabs allowed to be registered in the city…

I’m reading through these comments and it’s almost as if none of the people saying, “DUH, competition taxi drivers!!” has any understanding of the fact that taxi cabs are licensed & regulated in a completely different (and way more expensive way) than Uber and other “ride sharing” services.