Thank you. Was looking for this post. Knowing you did a nice thing for someone is the reward; if it isn’t, you’re doing it wrong.

I had a child with a CHD that needed surgery at 5 days old.

This x100. In fact, I think the new parents in that letter should go out of their way not to thank them. They need better friends.

Agreed, 100%. The biggest shit bag is the shit bag who asks for a thank you. Jesus fucking christ he is the biggest example of a man child I’ve ever seen. I bet when he says thank you he means a hand written thank you note too.

My dad said that back in the Soviet Union, if you kept your wipers on the car, they’d get stolen, so everyone kept them inside the car. If it started to rain, traffic stopped everywhere, everyone got out of their car and put on their wiper blades. That’s how quick of a job it is, you can literally have everyone stop…

Dude. If someone’s kid is in the NICU you are allowed to expect not a fucking thing from them. Their brand new kid is hooked up to a bunch of stuff. It’s terrifying. If they never thank you suck it up and hope like hell you never have to deal with what they were dealing with. You did a good thing. You don’t do good…

It’s fast food if all they do is put the food on a counter and you have to bring it to your seat. Fast-casual is when you sit down in a booth and they bring you the food, but you have to get up to refill your own drinks.

A man with high speed Internet is never drinking alone! I can get into a good old fashioned drunk fight with someone without getting punched in the face or driving home from the bar.

What kind of asshole is like “I bagged your leaves, granted your newborn child is still in intensive care, but where’s my fucking thank you blah blah Larry David joke blah blah etiquette nonsense”. I hope that dad’s baby is fine, and then he immediately gets new friends.

The guy who expects a thank you for landscaping is a real asshole. Shut the fuck up, man. If you want a thank you, maybe do something helpful baby-wise, like adopt the kid and allow the parents to live normal lives.

Having read your parenting book, I’m not surprised at all the Kimmel thing effected you so much.

God save me from little yappy dogs. One of my neighbors has some sort of small-ish dog that likes to end each night during the summer by reading “Goodnight Moon” to every fucking leaf it can see out the window.

Re: bad backs

You made me curious so I looked up Old El Paso taco seasoning. Top ingredients are salt, chilli, and sugar, and you’re right that there are thickeners: corn starch and flour. Slightly concerning to me is that it also has silicon dioxide (basically sand), added to keep it dry. Definitely glad I made the switch.

And they’re so loaded with preservatives to boot. All of the chemicals, zero freshness.

The flakes always taste like someone shredded up the box the flakes came in and added that to the hot milk.

That’s what I was thinking. Stock people everywhere are cursing Dove.

She is amazing and beautiful and good! LOVE HER.

I am a total convenience cook (I buy most veggies frozen, plus I use a lot of canned beans and tomatoes and such), but it took me a little bit to realize I should be making my own taco seasoning. And you’re right, it’s supremely easy and totally worth it because it’s mostly flavor instead of 90% salt.

Yes, taco seasoning is so easy! I hate salad dressing. it’s so easy to make,  it’s endlessly customizable, and it’s 9000% better than anything you can buy in a bottle or packet. But my biggest pet peeve is boxed mashed potatoes. I get that scrubbing and peeling potatoes takes a lot of time, but it’s never not worth…