Boy, that opening paragraph sure reminded me how awful being a teenager was. Stuff that shattered my world and brought me to my knees at 14 barely even registers now.

This. But if you really don’t want to check, I’ve noticed that passengers with soft sided duffel bags are less likely to be forced to gate check than hard-sided suitcases. I had to fly recently for an event and couldn’t take the chance of them losing my dress so I packed a duffel and it worked.

I always seem to have to choose between 45 minutes (too short) and 3 hours (come on!) I pick the latter because having to rush really stresses me out but come on!

Yes, this. I always take how fast I need to get off the plane into consideration when I pick my seat.

I have zero idea when people start developing various aspects of critical thinking,

I love my stainless steel sauce pan. It, my cast iron skillet, and my enameled Dutch oven are pretty much everything I need in the cookware department.

My experience: plan the shit out of a trip to make it as painless as possible just to have the flight get canceled or something. Any trip where I make it to where I’m going within an hour of when I was supposed to get there, and my stuff gets there, too, is a good trip.

I think it is an interesting thought exercise. For college students, not 10 year olds.

If people are buying food/drinks/etc. RSVP either way and stick to it (unless you really can’t.) It’s how they know how much they need to buy.

The only good news is that by the end of the series they were both garbage and deserved each other. I found it funny all the way through, but gradually liked them all less and less. On my last rewatch I noted the exact moment Monica went from adorably quirky to neurotic AF. (It was when she told Rachel to move out and…

It bugs me that they never talked about that. They seemed to think it boiled down to whether or not he cheated and never addressed “she moved from serving him and his family/friends coffee to doing what she wanted and this bothered him a LOT.”

I made a low carb “country gravy” recipe once that was basically ground pork in cream cheese with some cream and seasonings. It looked like vomit but tasted incredible.

If you bring home your work laptop and/or other equipment, make yourself a reminder to BRING THEM BACK! Twice in the past month I’ve had to turn around and go back home to get my laptop or the microphone I use to record instructional videos.

I have a weird thing with cheese. I’m just as happy eating Cheez Whiz and spray cheese as I am a fine stilton. I’m not a cheese snob; I’m a cheese addict!

Once, when really short on time, I showed up at a pot luck with a can of chili mixed with a jar of Cheez Whiz, heated and served with corn chips. My co-workers went bananas over it.

“Were they on a break?” came up in conversation again recently and we hashed over how completely and utterly enmeshed Rachel was with that group when she worked at Central Perk. Not that she wasn’t still enmeshed afterwards, but when she did she lived with them, she slept with them, and they socialized at her…

Alternatively, wait until you’re 40something, unmarried and childless and all your friends have paired off and had kids. On the rare chance you see them, you no longer have anything to talk about.

I was about 15 when the single Freedom ‘90 was released and I still had a inkling of how personal and important to him it was. After his death I listened to Listen Without Prejudice for the first time in years and these lyrics moved me to tears:

What a well dressed group of youngsters.

9 to 5: Me, too. When I rewatched it for the first time as an adult, I said “Wow, I never realized how this is one of the most feminist movies ever made.”