Denominations have a *ton* of problems, but I think they can offer the potentially of more accountability. They also can offer resources. Like our church regional body has lawyers on retainer.

Even if you text and talk all the time, you just aren't going to know all that stuff. You aren't going to know if they bought that sweater you think lots like just their color, because what normal adult talks about everything they buy!

This is the kind of thing that some people think is SO FUN, but the complete opposite for other people. It's only fun if everyone thinks it's fun. Otherwise it's a bit controlling.

Which would be nice but the number of people who won't respect that is high.

Except it's often not an acceptable answer because "that's not really a gift."

To act like some families don’t use gifts in passive-aggressive and manipulative ways ignores the reality of lots of people’s lives.

Yes, that makes is sound like some kind of catastrophic pants failure. Like the kind you have nightmares about. Which would be unfortunate, but not discipline worthy.

Yes! Lots of people at my work love, love working from home. And act like we should ditch the building and never come in again.  They seem to forget that it's really hard for some people. That not everyone has a nice home office.

Yeah, I doubt there was many "parties" but wanting to get it over with was common.

It’s generally not bad for little kids, but some have complications. It’s also really bad for kids with weakened immune systems. My best friend had to go stay with grandparents after I got them in preschool because her sister had a weakened immune system due to chemo. It kills those kids. Luckily, it was fine.

Chicken pox parties were vaguely reasonable in the 70s when there was no vaccine because it was generally so much worse to get them at 3 than 15. And they were contagious before there were spots, so it was more a joke than anything else. If you were around other kids regularly you were probably exposed.

My grandma who quilts moved out of assisted living to stay with my parents. All spare fabric has been made into masks including left overs from making doll clothes and matching cousin Christmas jammies circa 1981.

I like Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Wiener less because of this. I definitely get the point that Wiener often makes about ignoring women’s interests. Like I’ve actually finished her books and Jonathan Frazen for instance sets my teeth in edge. Being blown off as ”chick lit” like it's nothing is annoying. Her books are…

There definitely is a sense of entitlement among servers that seems to blind them to the rest of reality. Like yes, your employer can be shitty, but holy crap is there low wage work that is just as shitty with shitty labor protections that are just as bad or worse. I think it's because lots of people worked in…

Because I have far greater consumer protections and can earn at least one free airline trip a year? And I'm far less vulnerable to theft? You do you, but it makes no sense to me to live a cash only life.

I live in Washington, DC, rarely go to any place that is a chain, and all these places they you say don't take cards all do. I'm sure it varies from place to place. I'm not saying you are lying, but maybe consider that the rest of us aren't either. Some people have a reality that is different than yours. If you want…

I don't know why people can't seem to understand that the costs will almost definitely get passed on to other people not committing fraud. Like I get hating banks, but costs get passed on.

I believed PopTarts only worked in pop-up toasters not toasters ovens, which is what we had and that's why my mom wouldn't buy them. I think actually came to that conclusion myself.

A couple joined our church with a baby that I thought looked remarkably like her mom. Like a literal clone. I later learned she was adopted. It's the only time I've been sure it's not projection.

It really depresses me that no one is willing to wrestle with the fact that no caps drastically make the wealth gap worse.