Good point. Plus he's got major daddy issues to boot.

Well... he did think you were dead, after all.

And another poster mentioned this link, about how she accepted his proposal after dating only 5 months. Gosh, no one could have foreseen this outcome...

Per catlevine’s link find, this guy was (probably) French - and she references her own “occasional language barrier” issues in talking with him, so it’s extra-super-petty for her to snark about the new gal’s “broken English.”

The thing is, being engaged has no legal status. If he’d been sent to the ER the day prior, she could have just lied about being his fiancee and had the same result. I have a sister-in-law who is very intentionally not married to her long-term partner, but when he went to the ER for liver failure, she was calling…

Cab? Uber? Walking home?

I said it last year, I’ll say it again - I can usually think up alternative explanations for the “haunting” stories. But I know that humans can truly be monsters. The real ones terrify me more.

On a similar note, last week’s episode of This American Life had as their first story an awesome case of an old-time family…

Ugh, my bad - my sarcasm detector is broken today.

Van Halen. Because they could then suspect things like their requirements for various safety precautions, electrical capacity, etc, might've been ignored as well, and that meant it's time to do a full inspection.

And now I need a new calendar app. If only Google Calendar on iOS would use the icon badge as a “day of the month” indicator like Sunrise and others do.

I liked last month’s Petit Vour better, I think. The huge-sized, gentle cleanser from Blissoma was great, vs the tiny one - filled with skin-irritating ingredients like citrus and mint, ugh - from Ursa Major. Just because I’m against animal cruelty doesn’t mean I want a cornucopia of random “natural” ingredients for…

Probably sort of a “everyone else does it when they visit, so go ahead if you like” attitude.

Because taxes not only vary by state, but also by county and sometimes city. Chain department stores would go berserk trying to deal with stuff like customized (pre-printed, store branded) clothing tags with different prices for, say, the city of Chicago versus a different store in the same county as Chicago but not…

The problem is that she was taking their standard items and selling them, claiming they were totally her own mixes, while other companies acknowledged they resold some other products.

Worse yet, adults can get it without the whooping. They just think it’s a bad cold - and then transmit it to someone vulnerable.

Sometimes, and some fruit. Generally apples, occasionally oranges. Sometimes you get the deal on the 3-lb bag of apples and discover they’re mealy and bruised and that’s why they were on sale, or the bag of oranges had a couple moldy ones in the middle and now you’re wondering if it’s safe to keep the others (or maybe…

Oo, yeah, tips. Tons of salons claim “can’t tip on a card” - which really means “we don’t want to pay transaction fees and taxes on something that the employee gets.”

Our state’s DMV takes Mastercard, AmEx, or Discover - or cash, check, or traveler’s check. Not Visa. 3 guesses as to what my debit and credit cards are branded as. :(

Turn him to face away if you’re embarrassed!

Because that’s man’s law, not God’s, or some BS like that.