Re: sports players and their catwalk off the bus. Yes, it is paced as you said for publicity and such. But also a lot of times they’re paced for security and that can take a LONG time (which is probably why they’re listening to music to stay entertained).

When I first met my husband he’d go on and on about how his grandmother made these special oyster crackers that were soooooo gooooood that nobody could replicate, blah blah blah. He honestly thought that she made them from scratch or something and they had this salty flavor that was so much better than the ones you…

my friend moved from America to Thailand and he said after the first couple of years he is totally over American tourists. The problem is that he stands out (very tall, blonde, def. looks American) so everywhere he goes people rush up to him to say hello and try and be friends. It’s like they all assume that since…

You can just save that $1,500/month in to your 401k and hire a professional nurse in your old age instead of relying on your apathetic children who care for you out of guilt.

My friend’s dad remarried a much younger woman and so my friend was 30-something (32? 33?) when his next batch of siblings was born. His new stepmom was in her late 30's but his dad was near 60. So now his dad is nearly 70 and has young kids at home. It’s insane. The only ‘bonus’ in this particular situation is that…

I’m wondering, too, if there is a cultural thing to this? I live in a very diverse community and yet when there is a car idling directly in front of the grocery store entrance (sometimes with nobody in the car), I can always guess which ethnic group that person will belong to. I know that makes me sound racist, but…

That’s the big trick of nature: the people who want to have kids so badly are rarely the ones who “think ahead” about stuff like that. My younger sister and her friends are all super into having babies right now - not because they want to raise good citizens or share their superior intellect and pass on their…

I was thinking the same. We hit our family deductible early last year (I had surgery) so all of our medical stuff was free with the exception of the ER. My husband cut his foot and they ended up giving him glue stitches and 2 Advil. Total cost $800.

At least every two months I buy a new pack of bobby pins because the previous batch of 100 has entirely disappeared. I mean, I know I’m not super careful about putting them away (they’re practically disposable) but still. How do I lose 100 in 60 days and I don’t even use them that often!

You CAN do this, for around $40-$60! My friends hooked one up when they had kids in cloth diapers - you could blast the icky stuff off in to the toilet and then launder the cloth pretty easily. Afterward they kept it on to use for potty training (wiping toddler butts can be super gross) and eventually everyone came to…

I’ve never had my bread scooped (is that a thing that people say?) BUT I have bought their bread to take home. They sell the day-old loaves for a buck or something and they’re THREE FEET LONG. We didn’t have JJs in our state until recently, so I’ve flown across country with those yard-long bread loaves in my carry-on…

I feel like the people who are commenting in such shock and horror are the exception, not the rule. If anything, they’re allowed to think it’s ‘weird’ that you feed your dog people food (because then the dog might beg or bother guests during dinner, it was a $50 steak, they wanted to take home those leftovers, etc.)…

It may totally depend on where the OP is from, but I live in a pretty big immigrant community and I think there is a lot of exploitation of workers who don’t know any better. They may not be aware of minimum wage laws or maybe they’re working under the table, so they truly are working for tips-only. It happens all the…

Maybe it’s because I’m not a wine person, but DAMN do “wine people” love to fetishize the shit out of wine! It’s perfectly acceptable to drink daily, talk about openly, wear clothes that say “I LOVE BEING DRUNK ON WINE”, have wine decor at your desk, in your car, on your clothes, in your home, on your checks, etc. and…

My friend’s family loves to tell the story of the family trip to Disneyland to celebrate my friend’s 10th birthday. He was acting like a brat and his parents said “if you don’t behave, we’re not going” which he took as an empty threat since he has 6 brothers and sisters — surely, they weren’t going to upset everyone…

We figured them out because my dad single-handedly kept the Nintendo Power Magazine Help Desk in business! You could call and talk to gaming experts who would give you guidance on how to get through certain parts and tell you the secrets and hidden glitches. The magazine had guides, too, but they didn’t give away…

My Kidlet’s elementary school limits the holiday productions to the kindergarten class only - and only kindergarten friends/family are allowed to attend. Back in my day, it was a dragged-out affair with each grade singing a different song and then taking 10 minutes to clear the stage and get the next group up there,…

Young kids are the best because they’re so easy to dupe. When our Kidlet was younger, we’d go for long walks every evening under the guise of “family togetherness” but really was “wear out the last reserves of energy”. The whole time we were walking, we’d say “oh, I bet you can’t run to that tree and then back to us…

Yep, that’s how all of these food companies have gotten around the fact that their products aren’t all that good for you. Once the FDA required nutrition labels, they had to come up with a different marketing strategy... they didn’t want to say “this bag of chips has 50,000 calories and 800 grams of fat” because it…