I just wanted to reply with my own ridiculous request story:

I called her Diet Breakfast lady, (let's also call her Betty) which was mostly sarcastic because I worked at a McDonalds. She was a regular and as soon as she walked through the door we yelled her name to the back because this is what she would request:
- A…

I'm pretty certain that it had nothing to do with egg allergies (I'm just about certain that there was some amount of egg, or egg-based stuff in the turkey burger), and while not impossibly cholesterol related, she'd have to have been either extremely uninformed, or deluded to seriously think that the turkey burger…

I know that feeling. Although I will go to places if my friends/family drag me, but I won't order anything other than an ice water. I just really don't feel like putting my gut through hell just to make things less awkward.

Oh, I went many, many rounds with restaurants sending out "girl rare" steaks, and they always get sent back. One cook even tried to cook it "revenge rare" which was perfect. He came out with the most incredulous look on his face admitting he barely seared it to try to anger me. Every steak I had from that place…

I want to address this "coleslaw guy". I am a server and have had some pretty ridiculous requests. When it comes to a customer who behaves like the coleslaw man does, you simply don't give him what he wants. Being a good tipper does not excuse his abhorrent behavior. Let him think the restaurant and the service is…

For all my "I don't get paid for this" bullshit in my earlier post, you wear a lot of hats for that 2 bucks an hour. Server, sure, but nanny, party girl, therapist, friend, and eye candy go along with it. A lot of the time how well I do in a night depends entirely on how well I can juggle those hats.

I think it's almost a non-issue for medical forms, as their trans status will likely be part of the medical record.

One not secret, secret: tip the front desk agent. Well.

I work at a hotel, and yes, if we have a clean room available, we'll put you in it anytime after 7 am and not charge extra. The 3 pm check-in time is to protect us from not being able to meet guest expectations. We allow late checkout up to 2 pm without charging also, so if we're pretty full, we need until 3 to get…

I think instead of "other" or "both," a simple non-disclosure option would work. Or perhaps an "other" and a non-disclosure option? That way non-binary people can still mark themselves as non-binary if they want to, but I like non-disclosure because literally anyone can opt for that for whatever reason they see fit.

But…

Indeed it is. Unless you're my doctor and you need to know about my biology for health monitoring reasons, you don't need to know my gender.

but as a woman, how will my employer know they can pay me less?

Every time we talk about people not being able to afford things, someone always comes in with a comment that says "just live within your means and everything is fixed."

Oh yeah. I mean, at least potatoes are technically vegetables, even if nutritionally they're more of a starch. But when I was a kid, the only sit-down restaurants in my hometown were the southern ones that tended to serve lots of "meat and three veg" plates, and I used to argue with my mother that okay, maybe at home…

They mean vegetable as in opposed to mineral or animal, clearly.

I don't think he had any medical issues, just maybe a slight OCD that made him only eat two kinds of food. He was a super nice guy, but he just had this one weird quirk.

HOAs are also good for placing restrictions on what hour of the day you can run your noisy-ass lawnmower. So are the police. Ditto the trespassing bits. Wonder what would have happened if you took cell phone video of the guy rifling through your personal stuff without permission.

Ooof...That must be pretty frustrating for you to deal with, but good on you for pre-tipping. On top of that, I always love customers who feel that because they are paying for a meal, they have the right to say whatever they want to you....For example, I work at a little French bistro restaurant in the middle of…

I worked with a guy who ate a hamburger every day for lunch and pizza every night for dinner. I was in the office kitchen cutting up a peach one day and he came in and asked "Is that a peach?" As if I was cutting open some really exotic foodstuff. I told him it was and he said "I should try one some time." I offered…

I laugh now, but I've had loads of trouble explaining the word "vegetable" to EFL students. If you say "like salad", they assume it only means salad greens. And if you name vegetables, well, obviously they don't know the words for any vegetables yet. I actually have to Google a photo and project it on the screen.