While I, at 27, began many years ago to experience fear and terror at the sight of groups of teenagers, I also think the world would be a much better place if we all learned to speak in the frank and absurdly honest/earnest way that passionate 15-17 year olds tend to speak.

Never been so happy to return to my bussing days as the last time I did my restaurant a favor and picked up an extra buss shift that they desperately needed filled... two older ladies, one very elderly, came in, asked for a table. Moved three times before they found one they really liked. Always a good start!

This is only tangentially related, but I always find it hilarious that whenever we get a health inspection, we just send the dishwasher on break, because there is literally no feasible way for them to get anything done at all without breaking the health code. So the rest of us hate inspections, but man the dishwashers…

Blech. The restaurant I work in encourages us to allow subouts and get creative with the menu. Which is all great and fine if it's not slammed and your friends are in your section and you get to really go nuts, or if you have some favorite customers and you want to get your nose really brown that night. But also means…

I would just like to step in and say that as a native of Roslindale, JP will always and forever be the cooler, funner neighborhood that I wish I grew up in.

No, and you have poor reading comprehension if that's the conclusion you reached. I was talking about the stigma surrounding how one discusses one's personal financial position, especially in the context of our current economy - not the stigma attached to the actual status itself.

Eh, I think it's easy to feel like this kind of thing is financially impossible, but I think there's a lot of reasons why it actually is feasible for many people. Among those...

I hate the statistic that "80% of self-identified bisexuals are only actually interested in one gender." It ignores the way that people use OKC. (1) There are plenty of people who actually are bisexual but DON'T identify that way on OKC - almost entirely women, who decide to identify as lesbians on OKC - because it is…

My job requires that I do a lot of management type interaction with my coworkers, but I am not actually a manager. For the most part, people don't mind at all because they get how the jobs all work and interact with each other. But when somebody's cranky and snaps that I'm being bossy, I just smile and say, "Yes, yes…

I think the key issue here is that you don't seem open to the idea that you might have actually been wrong - you can stand by what you say for as long as you want, defending it as just being an opinion, but when your defense of your opinion is that you are a representative of a community, then you have to be willing…

You also do it because sometimes people are complete assholes and will let your dog off its collar and leash while you are in a store or something. Sometimes it's because they want to steal the dog. Sometimes they're just assholes. An old roommate walked his dog to the video rental place, tied the leash up outside,…

You seem to be saying that it's just you writing your blog when somebody criticizes your opinion, but then you say that it's Official Gawker Writing... look, I just get the impression that this whole system of random sub-blogs is being handled altogether incompetently by Gawker and/or Jezebel, but if you're getting…

It doesn't make me sad and disappointed, the editors have stuck by articles that the readership have disliked or disagreed with on many occasions over the 7 years I've been reading this blog. No need to be cutesy and snarky. I was simply responding to somebody to point out that acting in that manner is no way to be…

I've worked as host, busser, server, and expediter in a 24-hour popular diner for about 3 years now, and have.... about a million stories I could tell. Because we're well-known locally and somewhat-known nationally (if you were to google for casual restaurants that everybody goes to in my city, we would pop up on…

Thank you for responding. I hope you realize I'm not trying to troll you, I get that it might come off that way because I've responded so many times on this article, but it really is coming out of true frustration and not out of a desire to just be an asshole. I never said you were being impolite or rude, I apologize…

And now, looking over further comments/responses, I realize that I was definitely factually wrong about something here - I had thought I remembered reading posts by Kat in the past that indicated she was younger than me (I am 27) but she responds somewhere here that she had a similar upbringing to somebody who grew up…

Hi! I hope it was clear that my response was to Kat, and not to you - I think you did a great job of describing the same thing, just not with quite the same direct relation to the article that s.s.s. had. I responded to Kat in the context of your thread because you had gotten so similar a message across (i.e.…

I don't see what any of that has to do with this article. The fact that you have had popular opinions in the past is irrelevant to me, even though I am already aware of it. However, what is relevant is that you are writing an article where you say that Leto did not excel at his job, and part of your evidence is that…

OK, you have responded to almost every other person who disagreed with you. Could you please respond to sisssyspaseship below? That person wrote an extremely accurate critique of your article, and has over 70 recommendations. I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I find your writing very frustrating, and I find…

Thank you for writing such an eloquent response. I am a ciswoman and I am not much older than Kat, but I was raised by ex-hippies who worked in public health and therapy, in a city that was very liberal, and have always had LQTBQ issues just be part of the experience of life. It's very, very obvious how time has…