I agree. You teach them the basics first, and then set the expectation for their behavior BEFORE you take them out in public. Learning is still part of the experience. My step-children were asked a simple question when they acted up. Do you need to go to the bathroom, or would you like to go to the restroom? Bathroom…

My aunt and step-son have bought into this. Both believe that the government, or maybe rich people are doing this for mind control. When I asked if they see government officials and rich people driving around with face masks on they looked confused. If rich people and the government want to control people, why would…

I had one of those. I had a coworker that I met when when I was in college. Years later we kept in touch, even though she was married. Just friends. I had a girlfriend who would frown at the mention of her name. Somehow she felt jealous of someone who lived hundreds of miles away that I spoke to on the phone once ever…

I lived through an 8 month battle with them in a 3 flat in Chicago. My landlord said it was our problem, not his. We eventually got rid of them with diatomaceous earth, and then moved out. As it happened, the landlord refused to return my deposit, so I took him to court. He not only had to return the deposit, but the…

I hate it when those industrial paper shredders overheat and catch on fire.

I’m not sad to see them go. It should have happened years ago.

Children aren’t born with manners, so someone has to teach them. Part of learning is the social experience. Just clean up after them. Now if you’re one of those parents that just ignore their children while they scream, throw food, and disrupt everyone else, then I wish you mild case of salmonella and all the joy that…

It’s a moob

BRAHP - People don’t come without a history, or baggage. If you have a relationship with them, you don’t really get to dictate what part of their past they choose to hold on to. She had a life before him, and with that sort of jealousy, she will probably have one after him.

See, it doesn’t matter what you call it, it just sounds wrong.

It would be great if Hollywood would stop “rebooting” and do something original

I’ll take a corn muffin over a “low fat” blueberry muffin any day. The idea of a corn bread/muffin donut is inherently wrong.

One of the joys of traveling is trying different preparations of coffee. Sometimes you find wonderful things by mistake. In Italy a friend of mine order two cups of coffee but mispronounced something. They looked at him like he was stupid, and we ended up with espresso with pastry cream on top of it. It was amazing.…

I deal with this by focusing on the art, and not the artist. Do I like the art, does it touch me in some way, do I connect or relate to it? Do I do the same with the artist ? No. I don’t do this with the artist because I feel music is universal. Certain cultures helped shape some music genres more than others, but I…

I’ve been an IT consultant on and off for the past 20 years. Most of the time, my phylosphy is that the company I’m working for is renting my time. If we’ve agreed on 40 hours a week, that’s what they get. Sometimes things blow up and I’ll stay and fix them, either for additional compensation, or paid days off. This…

Flying does it for me. Flights or three hours or more leave me messed up for days. Drink lots of water, try to keep the same sleep schedule and the same diet if you can.

Sometimes it’s a blessing in disguise. A friend of mine was being worked to death, miserable, and fairly unpleasant to be around because of it. Then one day they fired him. He came over for dinner and then crashed on the couch for the night. He woke up in a panic the next morning. He realized that there were 3 million…

That was the least pornographic thing I’ve seen at on work computers. I manage a corporate email system and people have no clue that they don’t own the computer, or the software, and they don’t pay for the bandwidth. Nothing they do is private at work and when they share things, nothing about them is private. One guy…

Just don’t. I’ve been tasked with examining someone’s computer to see what they’ve been looking at. It sucks to see your coworkers get escorted out the door by security. I’ve barely got enough time to do my job. I don’t want to do their on top of it. Browse your porn at home.

Candy Girls, featuring Sweet Pussy Pauline, 1996 in their song BBD - “Shit Fella’s. If it ain’t grew by now, it ain’t gonna”