Then suddenly everyone would be burning more fuel and blowing money because they have to go grocey shopping multiple times a week. And how would that work for some people who can’t go to the store any day they like? Most families/people often only go grocery shopping once or twice a month.

Without all the details its an iffy situation. I agree with you that if the first appointment was a few days away, why abandon your job to expedite the process by a couple of days? Obviously the lump had been there for a while so I wouldn’t suspect that waiting a couple more days would result in her dying.

My question also. This makes no sense.

“It was a dreary-looking space filled with poison ivy. Six weeks later it was an opened-up field.” Good job, goats.

My daughter’s school has a separate “peanut free” table. One of her friends/classmates has a tree nut allergy, so he sits with his friends and doesn’t share food with them. There hasn’t been a single case of an allergic reaction in at least the 5 years my kid has been attending her school. The notion that schools need…

My kid is allergic to all sorts of stuff, including peanuts. She can’t touch it without reacting. That being said, I would rather put her at a table where you are not allowed to have nuts at all, than have kids not eating lunch. You make sure the peanut eaters wash their hands and faces and we are good to go.

The problem here is not giving lunches to kids without lunches - the problem is taking from the cafeteria and giving kids lunches - NO ONE will get in trouble for BUYING lunches for someone so this article and the comments shouldn’t even APPROACH suggesting that.

Damn. No peanut butter even outside of school? I’m sensitive to how difficult it would be to have a child with a severe allergy, but kids who are picky eaters or low income or whose parents don’t have a ton of time in the morning need some understanding, too.

Yeah, a cheese sandwich isn’t incredibly nutritious, but, like, I just babysat my cousins and let them eat peanut butter on bread for lunch, because they had healthy breakfast, snacks, and dinner. Parents voluntarily feed kids cheese sandwiches all the time. If the situation is actually that the kid forgot lunch money…

In high school there was another student with the same first and last name as me. One of the many bureaucratic fuck-ups was that they mixed up our accounts putting their entire paid-in-full lunch plan on me, and my ‘here’s 20 bucks in case you forget to pack your lunch one day or want a snack’ amount on them. At one…

In The Netherlands, a bun with a slice of cheese is considered a lunch. A breakfast too.

It used to be PB but they can’t do PB anymore. I think at my schools they also get a piece of fruit. It’s not fancy, but it’s something to eat.

Yeah, even public schools ban PB, and a few even say you can’t give your kids peanut butter for breakfast before school. I look around at the store a lot, since money is really tight right now, and found that alternate spreads cost three times as much and you get 1/2 to 2/3 as much spread.

Taco Bell is the restaurant to get least angry at about screwing up your order. Most of their menu uses the same ingredients and is of roughly the same level of delicious, and everything is cheap, so as long as the volume is the same, I wouldn’t even bother complaining about it. I certainly wouldn’t attack a number of…

OK, full disclosure here, I haven’t told the story in about 10 years. One of my friends got married a while back and her husband and all of the groomsmen wore kilts, and as part of their groomsmen gifts, they got boxer shorts with American flags on them, and they all wore them under their kilts. We all saw them before…

Personally, I prefer the classic exchange: “Is anything worn under the kilt?” “No, madam, it’s all in perfect condition.”

When I was living in Texas, I did go out to BBQ places on dates with my boyfriend. However they weren’t ‘nice’ dates (we’d go to Olive Garden for that - hey, we were grad students and that was as nice as we could afford). And this gives me the excuse to tell the story about how our favorite BBQ place had a little…

The first time I introduced my now-husband to some of my friends, we were out drinking, he was wearing a kilt and this question came up. His response was “you’re welcome to find out for yourself,” figuring nobody would push the issue. So one of my friends (who is notorious for having very few boundaries - I’m pretty…

What the fuck is wrong with people these days? The nice thing about smoking dope is that it isn't crack. Why do people find the need to turn their weed into crack? They've missed the point entirely.

How about the fact that they gave away food for free? Back when I was fortunate enough to work in drive-thru perdition forty hours a week, I was not granted the power to barter and for damn sure wouldn’t have been able to say, “sure, I’ll trade you this food for something you’re giving to me.” That’s giving food away…