Oh, I like the surge pricing idea. Tipping is for food delivery doesn’t make a whole lot of sense anyway. The customers only see the delivery person for a few seconds. There’s not a whole lot the person can do to provide great customer service in that time and the single biggest indicator the customer will use to…

I don’t have a problem with people ordering delivery in inclement weather, so I don’t think that the businesses should close down (unless we’re talking dangerous weather), but I do think that people should acknowledge the increased difficulty in making the delivery and tip accordingly.

It’s always so hard for me to understand the distrust for the medical community and then I remember that things like Tuskegee and forced sterilizations actually occurred in my lifetime.

This reminds me of a book I’ve been meaning to read.

Overhead fixtures in the bedroom and living room seems so odd to me. I’ve lived in half a dozen apartments (both older and newly-built) and have never had a light fixture in those rooms. I even have a ceiling fan in my bedroom and it doesn’t have lights on it. I just use lamps. Usually, there’s a wall outlet connected…

I think truthfully every 10 years until 60 and every 5 after that would be more than enough unless you fail one. Then it would be annually for you.

It isn’t an either or situation. The reporter being rude doesn’t mean that JLaw wasn’t. There’s a difference between firmly, but respectfully correcting someone, correcting someone in a teasing-goodnatured way, shaming someone in a butt of the joke way, and responding to rudeness with rudeness. People disagree on how…

End of times? It happened last week. And the whole kerfuffle probably would be just about over with without reminders like these.

Reviled? I think that’s pretty overblown. Anne unfairly caught a lot of flack for a long time, but JLaw has been and is still very popular. She’s fine and this controversy is silly. It would be good for her to just be a bit more careful when she tries to be funny though. She’s often very amusing, but sometimes she…

But you’re cool making other people miserable and uncomfortable?

With this news and the arrest warrant being issued for the affluenza kid, I’ve been smiling for the last 24 hours.

Exactly. I know there are parents who lord money over their kids heads in a manipulative manner, but I know just as many kids that view their parents as little more than wallets and withold their affection unless they were being financially rewarded.

Why would you even think about confronting her for not getting you a Xmas present, when you stopped talking to her for not paying for your school of choice?

I’m an American that grew up in California, but my mom is an immigrant from Korea. Many of my friends are children of immigrants from various cultures. The daughter’s behavior would not fly with most of them.

The letter says that the daughter complains to the sister that she texts her during class, so who knows if she’s telling her mom that.

This is interesting to me, because there’s a cultural component. In many cultures, there’s an expectation of both closeness and responsibility on children to their older family members. The families are generally very involved and tightknight, not just with the nuclear unit, but among extended members and…

I’m in my forties and live several states away from my mom. She knows my work schedule so she doesn’t call me at the office.

Old plumbing is the worst. I have no problem throwing out sanitary products in the trash, I hate places where you’re not supposed to flush toilet paper. And it happens in surprising places. I once went to a fast food place in Hollywood that was like that. They had a huge outside garbage can in the bathroom full of…

I never realized that it’s just the applicator that is flushable.

I haven’t used tampons in years, but aren’t some of the advertised as “flushable”?