I hate jump scares, but bought Until Dawn on sale, not knowing they were included... now at least I know to not bother playing.

Probably would have been illegal in Tennessee; among other restrictions women have to have “counseling” first and then a 48-hour waiting period.

I’d read that they have to rule on each and every charge, so the sheer number of charges took time, beyond any deliberation on whether or not each was supported by the evidence.

Not everyone has that option, whether due to physical disability or lack of public transportation to a job. I am fortunate enough that I do live in an area with great public transit, but choosing to only have one car in my family - and I am grateful that this is a choice I have - limits where I can work, without…

Except when that nonfunctional car leads to job loss and possibly eviction, you mean.

As I noted in another comment, if she’s going to be unreasonable about it, at least she took out her ire on the correct target, the straw-restricting manager.

I have to give Straw Lady credit for taking out her extreme anger on the right candidate, at least.

Ugh, the freezer wrecks it too. Put it in an air-tight opaque container.

Yeah, that’s another matter entirely. Had the same issue with West Side Story at my then-super-duper-white high school; my sister was a Shark girl but is normally the “pick the lightest shade of makeup and hope that’s not too dark” type of skin tone.

Yeah, my dad was a menopause-age baby (has 3 older siblings). His mom lived to age 75, so he was relatively young when she went. But my dad died in his early 50s, and his dad was alive and rather active and lively at the time, age 97. (He lived about 5 more years after that.)

Christ. He has two bruises/scrapes on his cheeks, and she looks like he stomped and punched her everywhere he could reach. Her damned feet are bruised, like he stomped them.

They also make break-away lanyards for health care workers, so that if a combative patient (dementia, pissed off, etc.) grabs hold, you’re not going to get strangled or dragged with it.

Someone wrote to Dan Savage with the suggestion to the effect of ER staff include “flared base” suggestions in their discharge instructions for problem patients like that.

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…