Someone doesn't know their caviar...

Ok, here we agree. As a pilot, the checklist and the routine are incredibly important to not missing any potential problems. That’s why despite doing the same routine every flight you always go through the checklist because our minds will fill in the blanks. I still consider myself ultimately responsible whether or…

The article isn’t really about being distracted though, it’s about the ways in which our brains tend to shift to autopilot without us realizing. The distraction are part of what makes the shift less noticeable/more likely, but eliminating distractions won’t fully eradicate the problem (also, I’d argue it’s impossible…

I have more than once got on or almost got on the highway I take to work when running errands on the weekend. When I get to one particular light my brain defaults to “going to work” and takes over. For the past 3 weeks of taking my daughter to her new swim lessons I’ve driven through an other light I need to turn at…

I really do suggest you read the WaPo article. People like Harrison don’t prioritize work over their children. They aren’t negligent parents. They literally fall victim to a brain glitch where they think they’ve dropped the kids at daycare. When you drop your kids at daycare, do you think about them every minute like…

Having your child die a gruesome death from a horrible mistake seems like punishment enough.

No they don’t.

You leave your purse next to the baby not because your purse is more important than your baby and thus you bother to remember it, but because it disrupts your routine and forces your brain out of autopilot mode. Read the WaPo article linked in this piece and come back if you still have questions.

It can happen. I have nothing but sympathy for parents who make this mistake; that’s a lifetime of regret right there.

The whole point is that I actually don’t need to know anything about you to say that, save that you’re a human being with a human brain, wired just as strangely as all the other human brains.

Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.

Only the most hubristic of people think this couldn’t happen to them. I am generally against charging these cases unless you can prove the child was forgotten on purpose. These parents suffer so greatly after. It’s harrowing.

I remember one morning with my youngest I was so damn tired. Just exhausted. He was about 6 months old. Maybe a little older? I was on autopilot and I was just driving to work. I was about a block away from the office and he made a cooing noise - a gurgle or something - after having been super quiet the whole way to…

I actually brought up the D-word over hubby’s lack of affection and then had to explain to him the difference between sex and affection.

Californian here.  Just like earthquakes here.  Unless it’s the big one; nobody cares.

Iowan here - Tornado warnings mean jack shit to us.

Every other day from the month of May - August there’s a tornado warning. Most people won’t even take cover in-doors, they sit outside and watch the storm roll in. It truly is fascinating and I don’t know why we do it, but it’s pretty common place here.

So kudos to…

Why can’t I have all of the perks of American aristocracy without any of the responsibilities? All I want is to be rich, vapid and coddled but you’re all making me sit here and think about what went into my family putting me in this position and gosh darn it, that makes me uncomfortable!

Thankfully I am old, and therefore exempt from thong wearing.

My skirt got sucked into the vortex of my bottom at least 3x during this experiment!

Get used to it, kid, some of us are still sore over 2000. We’d be in a much different world if things went the way they were supposed to two decades ago.