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And... "Music starts at the foot of a year of high fives, America!! ZING!!!"

Oh man, one more... "better find something god i hate you."

"better find a copy of sharktopus won't be"

Agreed. Tangentially, my boss is a woman, the first female manager of any kind in over a year, and the first female GM we've had in quite a few years (I work in a restaurant). She came in, overhauled a bunch of stuff, made everything much more efficient. Doesn't take shit, doesn't worry about being liked, etc. She

Finally, a colorful dress that doesn't make you fret about sweat stains!

Agreed. My first time, it was legally statutory rape. I was 14. as far as I knew my boyfriend was 22 but as I found out later was probably more like 24 or 25. I was coming from a healthy/supportive family background but was suffering from disorders that I have since mostly learned to deal with. That guy is probably

I work at a restaurant, so... lots of unpleasantness toward women and minorities, hidden beneath the guise of, "oh, we're all just having a good time!" Our staff are generally pretty liberal, lots of tattoos and casual drug use and all that, and are also almost entirely young and white (of course, the back of house

I'm a waitress at a 24 hour diner. Most weekdays, I am the only server on the floor after the last dinner person leaves around midnight, and the morning people don't come in until 5:30 in the morning. This means that if I get an unexpected rush of people at 3 am, the options are to either fill up half of the

On top of everything else (which others have already pointed out), keep in mind that she is 19. Part of his offer is for help finishing high school. I'm assuming that he knows enough of her story to know whether or not she had finished high school by 19, and seeing as how she hasn't... I mean, that could happen to a

As a waitress, I play cleaner-up-of-bodily fluids both to people's untended children and to drunk adults... does this make my job the hardest of all?

Others have pointed out all of the issues with this... all the posturing, assumptions, etc., and the correlation =/= causation... so I will just leave my two cents as a night shift worker (waitress, so the job is high-stress, physical, and yes I am inclined toward smoking and drinking like many of my coworkers).

Hehe... yeah, a lady called from Ft. Worth last night while I was at work, because she was trying to find a place that would deliver coffee to the people giving testimony. I work at a 24-hour diner in town, and while we don't do delivery, we decided to figure out how to calculate a price for 6 or 7 pots of coffee and

Aaaahhh I had the same problem when I quit! I never stopped craving cigarettes. I don't get how everybody develops a revulsion for them after quitting... it would have made it a lot easier to stick with it, instead of going a year smoke-free then breaking down and picking up the habit again like I'd never stopped. My

Ehh.. I like to think that my doctor is taking appropriate hygienic precautions. I don't expect my doctor to scrub thoroughly immediately before a routine checkup if they washed their hands an hour earlier and have only been dealing with paperwork since then. In an ER setting, or for surgery, there's plenty of

I'm not a mother, and I am terrible with babies... but I do have experience being one! And apparently, I was like yours... my mom tells me that for the first several weeks, I would scream non-stop unless I was on her chest, and even then would often cry. I would only sleep lying against her chest/shoulder. The nurses

Mmm yeah no... People don't like "attention whores" whether they're famous or not. It's obnoxious, for reasons that many others have pointed out here. I have a friend who is a lovely person but who needs to be the center of attention - she is in fact gorgeous, intelligent, and hilarious. However, when she gets on a

Uhh... but what if you pretty much DID just get dragged through hell backwards by beserk groundhogs? I wait tables, and after 10 hours of that, I definitely look like shit... but there's no way I'm going to drive all the way home, shower, and change, just so I can look nice for other people when I go out for my

Also, you're a jerk for saying that me and mom would have been just fine if we'd just "made simple changes to our diet". You don't know ANYTHING about my own eating habits, or my mother's, and you don't know ANYTHING about my internal health. You also clearly haven't read any research on gluten intolerance, because if

I hate to agree with this at all, but I do think sometimes that can be the case. I have terrible willpower, I really really miss some foods that I shouldn't have anymore. And I do slip up and cheat sometimes... and then I suffer for it. Makes it easier to stick with the good habits for longer after that.

Go read some Science with a capital S. I never said it's real for everyone who claims it. The other person claimed that only celiac disease, i.e. gluten allergy, is legitimate, and that gluten intolerance or sensitivity is not a real thing. In fact, it is, and many people do have some degree of it. As I responded to