They love the attention - their customers are thrilled we all think they are snooty asses wasting money on vanity.

No, he will never get that. For him, discipline = beating = sating his personal anger at being a failure by attacking someone defenseless.

I feel like this largely captures the essence of what professional football is all about.

They’d probably just take your wallet if they thought you weren’t looking.

I just spit seltzer everywhere, dammit.

It’s hard to change that fear - that you can’t eat toothbrush heads or whatever if you lose your job or some black swan event happens. I know how unlikely those things are but I still tend to feel uneasy tying up money like that (although I’ve learned to power through). My wife did not grow up with this scarcity…

Perhaps because when you come from a very poor background you are afraid to tie up that extra 10, 20 dollars or whatever by using it to buy toilet paper you are going to use 6 months from now, when you might need the money tomorrow if something happens. You have no backup plan, then it is critical to stay liquid. Once…

It’s like this in TN now, for liquor. We do have beer (and as of 7/1, wine) in grocery stores with beer on Sunday as well, though.

Man, I don’t miss that place at all.

This is timely as my last day with my current employer is tomorrow. As far as I know the only exit interview I am expected to perform is an online survey garbage thing, so that is good at least.

Worth considering - if they listened to any of the feedback from the people who left before, then you might be staying in the first place. My point is that in the majority of the firms I have worked for, the exit interview is a formality, they already know the reasons people leave and they either can’t fix it or don’t…

How did you make this happen - is there like a cell phone you call or something? Asking for a friend.

That is directly out of the original PnP game. I’m old enough to have played it back in the day and I immediately remembered that image. I believe that came from the first release that was a boxed set of glorified pamphlets, hence the B&W, before they reworked it into a paperback sourcebook.

Well mom was better before dad died, so I wouldn’t want to complain too loudly about my childhood - they filled me with neuroses, perhaps, but we lived a relatively normal suburban life, albeit without a lot of money and with a lot of emotional drama. It wasn’t until I was grown (and my brother had deteriorated into a…

My mom (dad dies when I was 17) - needy, codependent with my drug abusing younger brother. If I would give it, would require constant attention. Makes sure you know how bad she has it, especially if you are having any success. Enables my brother through her inability to stop supporting him, and then wonders why he…

+1 for working Inception into it.

I’m so sorry - it’s really hard to be stuck in between two unsupportive families as a couple. Ask me how I know, lol.

Well, it’s completely up to you to determine how much emotional energy you have for dealing with that, and when they exhaust it, to keep them at arm’s length. There isn’t a right way, in my opinion. But too many people talk like it’s a binary - either keep the faith and hope they change, or tell them to get lost and…

+1 for ruining my keyboard with spit-take Coke Zero.

Isn’t that how hipster irony works?