I thought my mom said 7-Eleven, but you’re right, they’d need to get some special license for that. Pretty sure it wasn’t a full on state store with booze though. I’ll see if she can remember in more detail.

I grew up in a dry town - nay, a dry *borough*, as I hail from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and we do things differently there. People drank (and how!), but they had to go to the state store in the next town to get their hard licks (or beer). A few years ago my mom told me that 7-Eleven had bought property that…

they look like a pile of ants.

They sound like “bubbly”, “trendy” sorority girls with marketing degrees.

Nah, they’ll keep the genders/ages of the characters as is, but the actress in the role of the 53-year old will be the 5 years younger than the actor portraying a 23-year-old.

Found the original notice about it:

There was a story in Seattle a few years ago of a couple that charged admission to their reception - a circus-themed “burner” reception. I remember they had a VIP section (maybe the tickets were just for that?). A reporter went to the event and refused to rain on someone’s happy day, but the public reaction was ....…

I just don’t see the friend’s answer as slut-shaming. I think I would have said “probably, but so what?”.

I agree with you, but I also think that kids can be sensitive to broad messages. The pictures clearly show boys in those outfits. Gendering starts early! I suppose the answer could be to buy the costume and unwrap it before presenting it to the child, but I’m guessing parents want to bring the kids to the store to…

I was almost always a cat. Not a “sexy cat” or a “cat with a skirt”, but a girl wearing all black with some lame cat ears I made from cardboard. Boring, but I hated girly outfits and would have rather stayed home than wear a princess outfit.

My family has a long history of boring and extremely common names. I don’t even answer to my name if it’s called in a crowd, because I know it’s for someone else.

It sounds like there was no real problem for the kid until the teacher told him there was one (LW says son was handling the teasing fine) - so yeah, the teacher was out of line.

It makes me sad that this is considered a desirable look, and that the alternative to using tanning beds (which just seems tacky) is to pay someone to spray a chemical on your body to look like you spent time on a tanning bed. I just seriously can’t understand how either practice became a popular thing.

In 10th grade I was in luuuuuuuurve with a boy, who actually started paying some attention to me. I couldn’t believe it! I thought this dude was IT. After a few weeks of near-romance, while we were ‘studying’ by the theater department, he casually remarked “You know, the only thing wrong with us is that you’re so…

That friend sounds shitty all the way around and you’re well rid of her. She should have been uninvited even without him knowing anything about it!

Based on the article, I’m not sure she even called Uber. It sounds like the guy just pulled up and said he worked for Uber and offered a ride - that’s definitely what happened in the 2nd example. Which is exactly the same thing as ANY stranger pulling up and offering a ride.

Overall, bride seems very immature. She admits that she let her anger at fiancé pile up without telling him, which led to a temporary breakup. She seems to be letting her irritation at the cousin fester as well, and by letting fiancé in on a conversation that happened while they were broken up (which isn’t fair to…

lol I also live in Seattle - see my earlier post about this

Some of my closest friends are people I met while we were working together - in the ‘90s. I haven’t made a real friend in the workplace in over 15 years. I think part of that is getting older, but it can’t just be that. (waiting for someone to say it’s because I’m a dud - maybe! lol)

Agreed - but it’s a pretty low bar. Perry singing live is just as painful, she just has more power behind her off-key-ness, where Taylor’s voice is kinda wispy.