See that (the thing your dad does with cars) is lovely. My dad sends me flowers every Valentine's Day, he started doing it when I was five and I'm almost thirty now. It's this lovely little tangible thing. He also frequently washes my car for me when I go stay with them.

I did know about NJ, but not Oregon. She grew up in Ohio, about 45 minutes away from where we went to school...and went back home so her mom could refill her prescriptions and her dad could put gas in her car until well into our junior year.

I didn't know about Oregon!

I tried to type something snarky and it just came off as slut shaming so I'll join you in ughing.

Good on you for forcing her to figure it out! Tab A. Slot B. When my friend asked me how to do it I looked at her and said "You're not a virgin, right?" That didn't work on her, but I keep hoping it will one day.

That might be the best story ever. My family has a grand tradition of tricking children into buying and wrapping their own Christmas presents under the guise of "gift for someone else" so I sort of respect your brother's initiative.

I think the thing about millenials, which you touched on, is that the "worst" of them (let's not paint an entire population with a broad brush, please) are often behaving in the way that their parents taught them to behave. Entitlement and learned helplessness are both learned behaviors, we don't walk into the world…

...I just don't get that. Like...there's a nozzle. There's a hole. It stops when it's done.

Yeah, I can understand if you live in NJ not knowing how. But this was Ohio. Not a full-service pump in sight.

I had a friend that started freshman year of college without knowing how to do her own laundry, how to refill a prescription, and how to put gas in her car because her mom and dad had always done it for her. The first few months were...interesting.

No worries, I just recognized the name from trying to engage them, myself. ;)

This person has been trolling several threads today. Dismiss, dismiss, dismiss.

I do! Between lots of allergy shots and frankly just growing out of it, I now have a 22 pound bundle of white fluffy ridiculousness who is currently laying on my legs.

Me too. I jumped ship at the end of season 2 and I'm considering watching this one episode.

Hi...so hopefully you remember me (Blingy!) and that I'm certainly not one of the people who's called you names (because I think you're awesome!).

I was super allergic to dogs as a kid, so of course I was obsessed. My friends that grew up with dogs are often shocked by the depth and breadth of my useless dog knowledge.

Dobies actually come in gray, too!

How terrible is it that we have such low standards?

If you live in the Chicago area...I've got a whole list for you. OB/GYN, allergists, two dentists, two (sex-positive) therapists, a GP, and an optometrist. I'm like a good doctor magnet.