Yep. Working at Barnes and Noble years ago parents frequently used the children’s section as the in-store babysitting arena. They’d plop little Braydon or Kaitlyn in front of the Thomas the Tank Engine playset and just walk away. We had no problem stepping in and tracking parents down if necessary.

When I was in retail, I would wait for the parent to step in. Because I worked in a small indie bookstore, an unruly child could shift the tone of the store and kill a lot of sales. However, if the parent failed to step in I would ask them to. You wouldn’t believe the number of times a parent would basically tell me,…

*don’t say it*

I assure you the complaints have been noted and communicated to the appropriate people.

The other night I watched a wasp work on a piece of salmon on my 3 yo daughter’s plate for a few minutes. It flew away with a literal chunk of it, it was so big I could see the pink under its body when it was like 10 ft away.

My in-laws are obsessed with eating outdoors, but they absolutely refuse to deal with their yellow jacket infestation. Their dining table on the deck is right in between the path these things take from the outside world to their home in the siding of the house.

Whatever you do, don’t eat meaty things with your hands. Don’t let your kids eat salami or cold cuts or whatever outside with their hands. When the wasps come, they will smell it. Then they will decide that your hands smell like a delicious feast. And they will follow you around. And you will wave them off, and they…

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As you plan you exit strategy, start a note file to document anything personal on you system. I left a company last year, and had about a 20-item list to clean out including removing personal chrome profiles and uninstalling personal software utilities (they didn’t have great IT security policies). Best thing on my…

We’ve got a lemon tree that had plenty of lemons on it a couple months ago. I let me kids go wild with making lemonade when we started sheltering in place in March, and these little shitbirds not only made a giant, sticky mess, but managed to go through like a half pound of sugar in an afternoon before I went to check…

The You Need a Budget is an excellent app for 0 based budgeting.  It has literally changed my life in 6 months. 

That’s not the way it works though. The masks we’re wearing in public are to prevent you spreading anything to others. It does very little to protect you.

Came here for this. Left at a speed greater than 55 mph.

There has been a bit of a silver lining to being home. 11 months ago we adopted a formerly feral 2 year old cat. Since then we’ve been slowly domesticating her. About a month before everything shut down we had a bit of a breakthrough where she suddenly decided that she liked petting. Having two people home all day the…

It doesn’t make sense because the “it’s only to protect others from you” is a complete fucking lie that’s been disproven in actual studies of what happened during the SARS epidemic. N95 masks absolutely reduce your chance of infection (70% was the number I saw), probably far more so than all this bullshit dancing…

Wash or clean your hands BEFORE and after you remove your mask. Think about it, if your hands are contaminated, do you want them touching anywhere near your face? No.

A respiratory illness can be passed through smear, but last I read they weren’t sure about this one

I have been working on average 14 hours per day since March 5 because of this. We shifted to remote work on March 11, which means spending just as much time, but getting less done. My kids have been out of school since the 13th, and on the 15th our bedrooms flooded from a leak after heavy rain, so we’ve all had to…

This is a 1%-er solution to food waste but we just redid our kitchen and Sub-Zero’s claims are true. I bought lettuce and 2 weeks later it looked like I had bought it the day before. Everything is lasting much longer than it did in the 15 year old GE Monogram we replaced. If you can afford it, you will save money in…

Here is one of the ones who likely could not – he’s the colleague of Peter Alexander (and Joy Reid, and the rest of the NBC team), who lost his battle with the virus and about whom Peter was asking today when COVID-45 decided to behave like he’d lost his mind