Depends on the restaurant. I work at a really small business- there are usually only one or two servers on at any time. So in my case, you're taking up time that I could be spending on my tables when you call in the order (and some people are totally spastic about call-in orders, lemme tell you) and when you come in.…

As long as it's a real living wage and not the federal minimum, I am all for it.

I was super surprised that Utah (a $2.13 state) had such a high percentage, actually, since everyone in the industry is convinced that Mormons are shitty tippers (sorry guys, but you kind of are). I work at a funky, out-of-the-way spot with a pretty solid regular clientele, so I can usually depend on our tip pool…

Everything Boston said, plus that number seems to include people who don't tip on their credit card but leave cash. I think it's just the aggregate of everyone who left a goose egg on the tip line.

(The actual article seems to claim that credit card tippers leave more because delayed rewards or whatever, but my…

Yes, because the server doesn't set the prices. I'm sorry if you feel like you're overpaying for your food (and it sounds like you might be), but it's not the server's fault. Also, I'm sure it's tough to work in a dinner-theatre setting and takes a high level of professionalism to do it properly. And really, if you're…

"i'll have a low-fat strawberry-banana boba tea with half the caffeine and three-quarters of the normal amount of tapioca. Can we make that low sugar as well? And can you blend it so that it's mostly strawberry with just, like, a hint banana? Thanks. $8.50?? Ugh, fine."

I don't even know what that is (I don't think they sell it in my state), but I didn't need to. Franzia always loses.

Gotcha. I mean, I don't agree with you, but I get that we're more less on the same on the same page other than the case of Jafar. Agree to disagree. :)

Everything they're wearing reminds me of my childhood.

I wish I could think of a good allegory, but I'll keep it short and say that colorblindness isn't the answer here. They took a physical trait that a group of people have been mocked for and assigned a cartoonish and obvious version of to it to a villain who is part of the group. Jafar doesn't happen in a vacuum.…

There's a complex background there that points to Jafar's characterization as specifically racist. I mean, even the assertion that large noses = ugly is a xenophobic holdover that privileged Anglo beauty above all others. I bet you could think of some drop-dead gorgeous models with predominant schnozzes.

I don't know if this helps, but here: I have a dear friend who recently had a baby with a guy she's seriously dating. As I met her while she was pregnant, I assumed she was straight (my bad, but understandable given the information given to me at the time).

As I've posted abovethread, I actually have shied away from expressing bisexuality openly over the last decade, because it leads to invasive personal questions no one would ever dream of asking a straight-identified person (or, probably, a gay-identifying adult who presented all the culturally accepted signifiers…

Ugh, tell me about it. I now shy away from the "bi" label (a label I took on 15, while I was still a virgin and had little-to-no sexual experience with anyone whatsoever) because it automatically leads to a bunch of fucked-up, overly personal questions (mostly from straight cis-dudes)

They mean they found a diversity of extras to do contrived "tribal" dances while wearing headdresses. :-\

YES YES YES Oh my God I was so obsessed with this. It had Brandi AND Whoopi AND Bernadette, which hit all my theater-kid catnip receptors.

I had no idea who Brenda Schad was before reading your comment, but holy shit. She is next-level gorgeous.

Or, alternately (based in part on the final letter): What if caker-maker's boyfriend is a. an asshole, à la letter or b. is a secret ex. Fun fact: when you exclude secret exes from the wedding, it only makes it a bigger deal.

I am frowning so hard right now.

Yikes. I'm sorry that you had it so rough. I'm impressed that you noticed so soon, I've actually had two abortions in my life and each time I was in such heavy denial that it took me about a month to notice.... and fuck whatever meds they gave you. Nope nope nope.