My father was a sexist asshole. However, he seemed to enjoy cleaning far more than my mother (or enjoyed a level of cleanliness he didn’t think she met). He vacuumed, washed floors, and washed windows. He also clipped coupons and did the grocery shopping.

I thought the same thing, that it was bullshit. My husband and I got a cleaner early because when we were first married, I was neat and he was a complete pig. We picked up before the cleaners came. No vacuuming, dusting, or washing anything - just putting things where they belonged, including making sure garbage was…

I was totally expected to pitch in when I was 8. I dusted furniture, put clean clothes away, and as I got older did more and more. My mother hated cleaning and anything she could delegate, she did.

How is it misleading?

THANK YOU. I also pointed this out but it is still in the grey.

If my kid was violently assaulted and battered for not turning over a cell phone, I would be filing a lawsuit. I would still have a little chat with her about being stupid and not complying, but the majority of my outrage would be aimed at the school and the cop.

You are an ignorant idiot, and my J.D. and three bar admissions (actually five, but 2 are inactive) confirm that. She was never asked to leave the school, just the classroom. She was being sent to the Principal (or whoever administers disciplinary action in that school), not being thrown out of school. No trespass…

MARTESE JOHNSON DID NOT HAVE A FAKE ID, DAMMIT. If you are going to write about this, at least be accurate.

It’s real. Very real.

Yes, but before long if you buy your weed there legally you will have to learn to pay sales taxes, if I am not mistaken. I think I read that it is tax free for just a short time.

I think a good restaurant tries to serve butter at a spreadable temperature, though sometimes that becomes impossible because of the number of diners. It’s a forgivable offense.

Free-range children =/= 4 or 5 year olds, in any case. The whole idea is that they are kids old enough to take care of themselves for a little bit, or a short walk. So fuck her and her “free range” BS.

My mother got married at 16. She didn’t have to, but I think she shouldn’t have. My father was 8 years older than her and had been in the Navy during WWII. She and her parents had survived the Holocaust in Poland and in Germany, and immigrated to the U.S. afterwards. She was a terribly intelligent woman, though behind…

Oh fucking hell, she sounds like she is 14, not 21. I’m gagging over here. And he’s married, too?

When I was 14-15 I had a huuuge crush on a music teacher. He made a point of telling me that we could be friends, but he was an adult and I was a teenager and those things don’t go together except as friends.

Perfect response to the idiot.

Yes, but a 14 year old girl is still a fucking 14 year old girl, i.e., A CHILD, goddamn it.

I’m almost over what you have. 2 weeks and I am still phleghmmy and coughing - a week ago my doctor gave me the codeine and an inhaler. It’s a nasty bug, feel better.

I come from a family that was constantly critical, biting, and combative. So when I got married, after the “afterglow” started to wear off I found myself responding to issues the way my family would — with sharp, nasty, sarcastic comments and confrontation. Don’t get me wrong - I had some legitimate complaints, but…