It’s a story of divine revenge. Like with the pizza man.

Nah, your way is actually smarter in the end, because if you put plates under an actual flame, you risk cracking them. Though I completely understand the fear of displeasing this nightmare customer that led to him risking cracking the crockery.

No, he had the bowl heated to keep the food hot all the way through the meal, because she’d specifically threatened to send the food back for anything less and he didn’t have any more time to deal with her nonsense. And then he made a point of warning her. If millions of Chili’s customers can keep their hands off…

I KNEW it was gonna be that one. That was an easy story to deliberately misread, if you’re inclined to do such a thing. He asked for the cook to heat the bowl BECAUSE she specified that she wanted it hot. Not because he was trying to burn her.

That’s unfortunately unsurprising to hear, but I mean…oh well. Unless I’m misreading, this doesn’t at all sound like a parent group that’s taken the step of requesting official recognition by the school. It sounds like a “parent group” in the sense of being simply a grouping of parents, meeting together at someone’s…

This crazy lady didn’t even want the parents to meet with each other.

I’ve only experienced the rosary service as a separate event, like the night before the funeral. It takes so long that doing that PLUS the whole funeral mass in one day sounds pretty harrowing.

Pronouns are part of language, and language is a social construct, not a genetic one. Our genes don’t have tiny little pronouns stamped on them.

I second the boric acid recommendation. It may also get better once the weather gets cooler…we had problems with giant waterbugs for several years until the restaurant downstairs closed, but it was really only intolerable in the summers—we hardly saw any in cold weather. So even if you can’t get out of the 18-month…

This whole thing was actually a B plot on a Season 2 episode of “Masters of Sex.” Masters’ racist wife accuses her mother’s helper (a young black woman) of giving their baby lice, the mother’s helper explains that is really almost impossible, the wife doesn’t believe her, Masters confirms that that young woman is…

got a bit of a Tony Kushner thing going on there.

Aw. The Earl looks like a nice sort of rosy-cheeked dad, though. Sad he’s dead now.

That was my favorite part of this whole post.

Well now, be fair. He’s willing to pay for possibly as many as two drinks!

I’m pretty much being completely manipulated, I think, by him doing the thing where he cleans so ineptly that I have to redo everything he does (so it’s just easier for me to do it all to begin with). He does cook very well and very cheerfully, though. And is very diligent about pet care.

In what way is “Wine Train” confusing?

They have a nanny for 18 hours a week vs. putting the kid in daycare 18 hours a week. It’s childcare for while they’re working. As opposed to just leaving the kid in a box with some water and kibble.

Why are commenters acting like these people are being constantly coddled by staff? They have a part-time nanny who comes (it sounds like) when they are working, so that they can do their jobs. And someone who cleans every other week. Not a “maid” who is there any time the dad wants to run off to the movies.

That whole “help” thing is just as annoying as hearing men talking about “babysitting” their kids. My husband just told me that he plans to have a friend over this week for a work project (he works from home), and quickly assured me that “I’ll help you clean up ahead of time.”

Story, story!!