Very true. With her paranoia disorder, it’s possible she may someday have an issue during travel and present a danger to herself or others.

At minimum, she’s a blatant demonstration how looking ‘harmless’ will get you treated differently.

How are you going to make her stay in a facility? She has paranoia about being followed, she hates the homes that she has been put in, and she’s not of any apparent danger to anyone.

I’ve read that she tags along right behind (white, I assume) larger family groups to look like Grandma’s traveling with the family. How she gets away with the boarding pass issue, I have no idea. Maybe she finds discarded ones? I’m assuming TSA doesn’t check the date all that closely.

If you have issues where you may drive through police barriers into approved march routes, you may need to be the one to stay out of the road.

I’ve seen 140 mentioned. Those are the ones who came forward.

When I was a teenager and trying to express that I had depression, my mom told me that I had no reason to be depressed. I think she at least mostly honestly meant it (might have suspected me of some teenage drama), but that’s the problem. There isn’t always a reason.

I love banchan; it’s fabulous. Most of the time you get so many types that even if you don’t like one, you’ll probably like most of the rest. The first time I had Korean food it was carryout, so I basically sniffed and poked at each of the little banchan containers and did a lot of Googling. Here’s a few good starting…

I have a Fitbit with a silicone wrist band, and use it as my alarm. It vibrates on my wrist at the set alarm time. You can even set multiple alarms for different days if your work schedule varies, if you want a work day vs day off alarm time etc.

He’s saying the vindictive assholes are going to make some shit up. They’ll try for “acting suspicious” as a general description, and embellish as needed. I’ve seen (not in DC) “riding down the alley on a bike looking over back fences” reported in neighborhood Facebook groups and the like; that would be easy to claim…

Agreed. Husband and I visited Italy, withhim learning Spanish in high school and me learning French in high school/college. It was tough, my brain kept defaulting to French whenever I tried to speak.

Nice reference!

Well, there are the “bought a farm in the middle of nowhere interesting, with a well and a stream” types, but that’s for the more advanced planning. Sub-/urban “non-professional” preppers are a little more constrained. (Rain catches, that kind of thing.)

You really don’t think they value water? Preppers seriously do. Between best ways to stockpile it and the best filters to clean collected water (Berkey, Sawyer, etc.), plus different things to add to sanitize (chlorine dioxide tabs for starters), water is a huge discussion topic.

I use those big-ass Ikea blue bags that sell for a buck or so, to donate stuff in to Goodwill. (They’re great for Costco trips too.)

I have a different Trader Joe’s bag (the canvas one pictured at the top as the NO bag) hanging on a hook on the back of my kitchen door, which contains a number of shopping bags. The great ones for Costco trips are the big-ass Ikea blue bags; no more giant cardboard boxes that you lug home and have to break down and…

I am replying to you because like then, as now, you continue to cherry-pick a single statement or phrase and seize upon that as irrefutable proof that You Are Right and Everyone Else Is Wrong, rather than look at the explanation that states that actually, those other people were basically right AND far more informed…

I posted it in response to the correct comment.

And there is not a $20 hard-cap encoded in the federal regulations; going into why the generally but not always correct answer is “about $20 (but it totally depends)“ is a topic that takes a lot of time and history to discuss. I could - and many people do! - teach…

You stated a citation was needed. That’s one of the federal regulations on the topic.

Yes, absolutely. This level of compensation makes sense in that instance.

Don’t feel too bad - I remembered the same but am having no luck at finding it.