the biggest discounts that follow from haggling usually occur at independent mom-and-pop shops where the person on the sales floor is usually an owner who doesn’t have to ask for permission to discount. If negotiations fail – a possibility since not all retailers allow for negotiating,

Yes but you would NOT want to take a train ride from DC to Seattle. it’s long and pretty boring.

IDK, I’d prefer that a New Yorker with little or outdated driving experience NOT get behind the wheel of a U-Haul....

I said, ‘Hey, buddy, what’s the problem?’”

Aren’t Sandra and Melissa really good friends in real life? I think that helped a bit.

My father has a platinum card. We’re REALLY far from rich (seriously, not being modest. We live on the periphery of the hood and my folks are both retired with him having a very modest pension). No idea why he has it since he doesn’t travel much and isn’t a luxury type of person. He has been an AMEX customer since the…

We don’t even use them in school any more.

omfg. Yes. Those, and the ‘The first person in the US to own a slave was Black’ and the ‘Africans sold other Africans to slavers’ people irk my nerves.

whoa.

Maybe they have one batter they make the cake out of and another they dip the spoons into?

Yes, if it’s fried, no if it’s broiled or sauteed.

But to be fair there ARE some things you can eat, though. Specifically thinking of the lip scrubs.

Probably not. I see lots of people pulling the husk off corns at the grocery store (though it’s better and easier to grill with them ON). so maybe he never saw one in his house.

I admit to eating the tails on fried shrimp if I am feeling lazy.

I like my steak still mooing but I have to have my burgers medium well, unless I know it was ground from one piece of meat

I had a place show me someone else’s brakes. I don’t really know the first thing about brakes but something just didn’t feel right, and then they tried to hit me for $400 worth of repairs. I had them put them back on, and drove the car to a friend’s place who knew how to replace them (the light had come on but he was…

Tires take up a lot of space in a garage, too. Four seasons are good enough for me, if it’s snowing that bad I stay put.

This is perfect.

I don’t want an ‘adult only’ wedding. I just don’t want *your* kid there.

I’d care more about the 2 bathrooms than the view honestly lol. ESPECIALLY if we are drinking ;)