I'm a huge fan of bankruptcy. Weird thing to say I guess. I filed for bankruptcy when I was young, after getting in trouble with credit cards. I learned my lesson, was still punished by it at the time, got my fresh start, and now it's 10 years later, my credit score is awesome and I have a huge amount in savings. I'm…

Passports and green cards are weird. People tend to not know what green cards are and be confused by them. Passports shouldn't be confusing, but... I was friends with a Japanese exchange student in college who got denied when she tried to buy beer with her Japanese passport. Which looks much like an American passport…

I've done it on accident a few times but I'm always really embarrassed. In my line of work I sometimes see people who rushed out of the house with a very sick animal and forgot to grab a wallet or even shoes... But sometimes they just don't want to pay!

That all does make sense. I used to be a permanent resident in the US, and I never carried my resident alien card anywhere, and did not have a driver's license for a while. I just had a student ID. It all got annoying enough that I got a "state ID" thing that the department of motor vehicles will issue to people who…

This sort of thing is how children fall into hyena pits at zoos.

I also carry my library card in my wallet. And my Starbucks card. And my REI member card. And my frequent customer cards for sandwich places. And pretty much everything other than my social security card. Do people have a pile of these cards in drawers somewhere? It seems like a lot of people fail at adulting.

The employees seem really lackadaisical. There's signs everywhere saying "no children under age whatever in climbing areas" and people bring their children over there all the time and the employees don't say anything. Partially it's because large parts of the climbing areas can't be seen from the front desk or the gym…

Aw. I hope she ended up enjoying the rest of her trip!

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These stories confuse me because don't you have your license in your wallet? And don't you carry your wallet everywhere? Wouldn't she need her wallet for this conference thing? Do they keep their license on a nightstand and make a decision about whether to bring it every time they leave the house?

My favorite are the people who bring their baby to a rock climbing gym and let it crawl on the floor near the climbing walls. Dude, I take no responsibility if I fall on your baby.

A veterinary clinic I occasionally picked up shifts at had a one star review because the lady peed in their parking lot and they saw her on the security cameras and told her not to do that. I want to make a Yelp account and leave reviews that say "they let me pee in their parking lot! Five stars!"

My free-association to the word "urban" is "Urban Outfitters" so the word actually makes me think of white hipsters! And I call where I live "semi-urban" a lot, because there's a lot of buildings super close together and it's very walkable, but it's not as hustle-bustle as a city and you can park a car without massive…

Ugh! Yes! Get a new one!

My doctor considered a SLAP tear but said my physical exam wasn't consistent with it. I keep thinking about going back for another opinion, but I'm just really tired of being in and out of doctors for orthopedic issues. And I really don't want to stop climbing right now. I'll probably eventually have to have surgery…

Sorry, your last sentence came off a bit harsh is all. I'm in a medical field myself (animals though) and I think a lot about the value of screening low risk groups for disease. At a certain point you get more false positives than real results and the pendulum of opinion keeps swinging on this. So I think a lot about…

I do but it's rare. There was even talk of replacing the pap with an HPV test, which I think is stupid for the reason you say. But I'm not willing to go through that shit every year if I'm low risk, and I get that it's not zero, I'm not that stupid even if you think I'm a moron for not getting Pap smears regularly.

It's ok, I probably need to be scared. My phobia of the gynecologist is truly intense. Dentist? No problem. Gyno? GET IT AWAY.

Oh, for sure. It's kind of a human nature fallacy though to say "well this version didn't work, I'll try a different one!" even though the category doesn't actually have bearing on the quality of the thing.

My primary called them that! I get robocalls about it! I keep going in to my primary because of constant orthopedic issues and I get bugged at least twice each visit by both the nurse and the doctor. I don't take HBC because it potentially interferes with my anti-depressant, so don't need them for that. I've also…