Yeah I didn’t want to assume race, I figured if the letter writer suspected racism they would have included that, but maybe not. That would definitely make me angrier if I was a customer seeing it happen.

“sex toys”

Odds of about 1-2%, but alright, technically possible. I just figured the clerk was dumb or power mad, which is more like 70% chance.

I guess your parent probably gave consent, but as far as I’ve ever heard, nobody is allowed to give a pat down unless they’re an actual cop (not a mall cop and certainly not a cashier!) Or you’re at an airport. Maybe it’s regional, but I’m not letting some stranger touch me and I’ve never seen it happen to someone…

Yeah it feels almost like a scam to get paid in cash and pocket it. I’d definitely report it. Waiting until you’re outside so there’s no camera watching, maybe acting like he dropped something?

At a hospital? Sue, friend! They could’ve killed you with that shit, and they could've gotten your medical records in ten minutes of they try.

I hate dill but I’ll take it with bread n butter pickle juice instead... If it’s a good fresh mayo, I have never been able to eat the plastic jar stuff, just when a restaurant adds stuff and makes it perfectly smooth for me.

I used to add Coca Cola to a stir fried noodle dish in highschool. It was already in my hand, and the sugar was on a high shelf and usually hard as a rock! Mixed it with black bean sauce. Those hard little fried noodles, they’re yellow, vaguely thickish, and often used for little chocolate treats?

Yeah as an adult I get the good stuff. Not so much as a kid. She used to think salt was evil 🙄

Oh crap, it’s gotten that far? It used to only be if there was a confirmed peanut allergy in the school! That year was the worst nutritionally for me, 2000-2001 with a vegetarian mom I had a single processed cheese slice on bread for the entire year because there weren’t alternatives yet like sunbutter, and she…

Gross awful terrible people.

Or transit tickets now in some places. I had to fight for three months when I was 23 to get my licence after a ticket for expired bus fare when I was fifteen. Because apparently it's wrong for a child to get home safely now?

Yeah sweetie. If you read the whole thing you’d see that I said “folding knife”.

Can anyone explain why we tip highly paid skilled workers?

Ok well you probably don’t need to yell at me for a basic question? I’m from Canada, as is my entire family, and I’ve seen my grandparents bank statements from when they were young, ending up with less than a dollar at the end of the month with 3 young kids. There were no people of colour living in their very small…

How far back does that go, in your opinion? I know all my grandparents, and I’ve met 75% of my great grandparents. If none of them used unpaid labor but potentially low paid farm staff (though from what I know of the family history, one of those staff at least was Quebecois and became the husband of the farm owner’s…

So in your opinion, there is no chance that this child was carrying a weapon in order to defend themselves from others attacking them. The only reason is to harm or antagonize others. Nobody would see the huge amount of knife based violence and think in their undeveloped teen mind that the solution is to bring out…

It’s exactly that easy. I make the effort to bring any new cat (harnessed and leashed) outside for the first time in the rain or snow, so that they associate it with unpleasantness. One girl got out a few times, but was so afraid from her previous outdoor experiences that she froze and immediately ran back inside! Or…

She fired me for not being “a team player” and staying late to tidy thing up. I was 15, and going to an extracurricular required by my school in order for me to graduate...

It’s gotten really bad, yes, to the point where my friends and some medical people I am a patient of *don’t even believe* that it didn’t help me at all. It caused a 24 hour long traumatic dissociative state and it’s still being recommended to me every month at least. Even though that was my third time giving it a try…