I actually get this sometimes as a legal aid lawyer, from my clients. Usually it's ones who were chasing that American dream and fell on hard times. "Well, if you were an engineer, like me, you'd know..."

I wish you, and those bosses, were at every chain.

Great one.

I was sitting at my desk, waiting breathlessly for 11am, when I recalled that I was off Monday and this was already up and waiting for me today.

I sort of miss the sucky days with the empty stadium. Gorgeous park and any seat you want.

Strapless dress, strapless bra, small bosom, groom stepping on dress during first dance. All of these things contributed to many nipply wedding pictures.

I'm seen as the mean boss because our other regional offices are much more casual, but I demand business casual clothing. I wouldn't know if anyone is wearing makeup or not and never really cared either way. But I'm old and I think people going to see their lawyer shouldn't be greeted with a kid in jeans and a hoodie,…

Well, my lawyer wife once got asked if she was the (minor) client at family court, so at least they think you’ve got an adult job. Maybe?

This is quite clever.

Responding again, because it's just that slow around here today:

I think we sent our fondue set to a sibling, who routinely hosts parties for interns/students and it's a fun thing for them to try, being a relic of the dinosaur age.

I liked your comment.

I'd like to send a special curse to Bon Ton and gift cards (at least when I was married a million years ago) that are in-store only and not online. There were any number of things we wanted that we then couldn't order.

This is why we have two sets of wedding dishes and the set we were using, before marriage, in a box in the basement. Well, that and "let's keep both, we can use them for different things." Like collecting dust and getting broken by the dogs.

Strong armed by ethnic MIL who really wants to be WASP.

Do you knock it over and wander away because "it's just water, what am I going to clean it with, water?"

A lot of small business owners are pretty poor at thinking through transaction costs and costs of doing business, except as far as finding a way to push them onto staff and/or whine about them.

As an overly sensitive teen reader, the start of Lord Foul’s Bane put me off Donaldson forever. I’ll forgive many a narrative device, but casual rape isn’t one.

Loved this series, but had forgotten them. Now I’m wondering if I can chase down copies.

I loved the first “Otherland” novel. Then the combined mass of the followups drained me of motivation to slog through that many pages.