That's a terrible story - sympathies to your friend.

HELLO, KITTY!

If a vegetarian is obligated to go there (family Mother's Day celebration?), I have never been to a steakhouse that didn't serve a baked potato, and often a vegetable side or two (yay! Asparagus!). Nibble, socialize, get a pizza on the way home. Easy!

I remember being delighted when I first moved to Seattle, and saw (well behaved!) toddlers happily eating roe.

Hard return! From the days of typewriters.

I have a friend who's a veterinarian, and she will NOT eat sushi. I'm a vegetarian, so I just get the yummy vegetable rolls. Neither of us would ask them to cook the fish, or put some fried tofu in there, or something. It's about knowing what you want, and choosing where to go.

Your post reminded me that my sisters and I all learned to enjoy reading very early, from my mother's example. I'm so thankful for that.

BONUS!!!!

How do we get this into common usage?

We need a new concept for talking about people like this. They're mostly not mentally ill (and calling them that is an insult to mentally ill people), but they're not just regular assholes. Aggressively Gullible Assholes, maybe?

Reminds me of my friend from back in the day, Michael Satan. Not to be confused with Nice Michael, or Curly Michael.

What is that FROM?

The conspiracy theory is that everyone, the parents and kids and everyone else, were ACTORS who faked the entire thing for Evil Obama Reasons. They all got paid, went home, and lived happily ever.

Why ever did you break up with this gem? ;-)

Wow. Having his coffin above-ground like that will be super convenient for him, come the zombie apocalypse.

Eh, smoking while pregnant, not the best way to put the kids first...

Look at practically every Disney animated movie! Not a lot of live moms...

What! You mean the story on the same website about the Pope and the Queen of England sacrificing babies on an altar might not be true, either?!!

AMEN. First sign of asshole syndrome.

Not to mention, the idea that allllll these people are gonna keep this secret, forever. Nobody tells their cousin "you won't believe what I did last week!" Nobody gets drunk and rambles about it on Facebook. Nobody feels guilty and tells their mother about it. Yeah, RIGHT.