We couldn’t use the papers because so many people were ridiculously picky about exactly which bagel(s) they wanted. If you could just grab the closest one they would have worked but it wasn’t unusual to wind up with your whole hand in there digging around to get the “right” bagel.

I wasn’t comparing wood to anything really, just stating that it doesn’t matter that wood harbors bacteria because once it’s in the wood it’s stuck there so it’s not dangerous.

Not exactly true. Wooden cutting boards harbor lots of bacteria it’s just that the wood holds on to it so well that it doesn’t transfer back onto other foods so it’s perfectly safe.

We used to use gloves (the cheap slippery kind) when I worked at a bagel shop. When it was slow during the week and staff was low you’d have the same person pulling the bagels from the bin and running the register so you would take the order, put a glove on to grab the bagel(s) and then trash it before taking their…

You could be describing my life ;) My husband was always super careful with his previous partners and I knew I came from a line of hyper fertile women so we doubled up until I got an IUD. Then the first two times we tried I got pregnant the first month after the IUDs were removed. IUDs are definitely the way to go…

There was at least one but since she was executed I guess where to house her in prison wasn’t much of an issue.

Neither are cosmetics which they say they have given her access to. So no, it’s not consistent.

When they were littler my kids would frequently sound like they were saying “penis” instead of “peanuts”. It was particularly amusing when they were arguing about said peanuts.

It’s not even clear from the article that she works in a restaurant that has eliminated tipping. She clearly thinks that the model of a service charge split between the front and back of house is going to result in less take home pay for her and she’s almost certainly right since there are a lot more people in working…

Well, did they change her pay or just suddenly force her to split her tip with everyone else?

There was actually a study released recently that showed that “delayed cord clamping” (which is where you wait a few minutes until it stops pulsing before you clamp and cut) has measurable positive effects on the babies immediate blood volume and their store of iron at 6 months.

The placenta wasn’t attached to her, it was attached to the baby. It’s called a lotus birth.

You don’t dry it *and* make a smoothie you dry (encapsulate) it *or* make a smoothie.

That certainly seems to be the way a lot (if not most) people see it. We’ve always used it to indicate something that was planned and facilitated by the parents vs just asking your parents if you could go to a friends house and then heading over. That seems to be completely out of a lot of people’s frame of reference…

I used to work at a school where the PTA did shit like this. Not quite as bad as a rock climbing wall but one year they bought 2 “mobile computing labs” for a school that already had 2 computer labs that were empty at least 50% of the time. Meanwhile my mom was teaching at a school 10 miles away where the PTA was…

I imagine it depends on the school. My son’s teacher never said anything about it and since he’s a special ed kid (autism/sensory processing disorder) we e-mailed back and forth regularly so she certainly had the opportunity.

Very true. Netflix and Amazon prime have all the good kids stuff commercial free so I don’t get pestered about random crap (seriously, when asked what she wanted for her birthday my soon to be 4 year old daughter’s only request was a stuffed panda). It’s a special treat for my kids to watch something on “the big TV”…

OMFG with the damn homework. I’ve read the research and there is no evidence that it will help my kid in any way (beyond reading which is always a good thing). We just ignored it completely in kindergarten and his teacher never said anything so I figured she didn’t care. Now he’s in first grade and if he did…

I guess it depends on your definition of “playdate.” The thing where the (mostly) moms sit around chatting and (I hear) drinking while the kids play is somewhat of a “middle class affectation.” Dropping your kid off at their friend’s house because it’s too far away for them to walk by themselves doesn’t seem like much…

That’s ridiculous. We have multiple cards that we pay off every month (not all of them get used every month and we don’t need them all but canceling them would damage my husband’s credit) and in the 8 years we’ve been married not one has been canceled or even had the credit limit decreased.