Dang, good point. I'd have to track the server down later with my tip or something.

I like the efficiency of the fact that if I run for 30 minutes 3 times a week it translates into ability to hike 12 miles on rough terrain. I really can't spend a lot of time on softer cardio. But since I hurt my Achilles tendons and my hips, it's all I can do :/

I'm finding it weird that the EITC is considered "big bad welfare" now. I thought it had bipartisan support because it rewards working people for working? Or that's what NPR said a few months ago.

That reminds me of how my MIL told me I'm "not really a foreigner" even though I was born in Russia. Because I'm white. My husband exploded.

I do cardio so I can enjoy my life. I can hike, go up stairs without getting winded, spend a day walking 10 miles around a city barely noticing I just did that. That is not a thing I'm capable of when I don't do regular cardio and only do weights. Crossfit is the one other thing that gets me there, but my body is just…

Ya know, the way I feel about it is that we all pay taxes, so we should be reaping the benefits when we need them. The anti-assistance people seem to always forget that everyone pays taxes.

I had almost applied for disability once. Came very close. It would have been for mental illness, and I was bracing myself to live on that pathetic amount. Everyone around me was flipping their shit, once you get on you'll never get off, etc. I managed to get a shitty job instead. I was truly worried about living on…

I've been eligible at points in my life and never applied. It felt like cheating or something, like I wasn't actually entitled to it and would be found out and exposed as a horrible person taking money from real poor people... I have no idea. There was so much ramen in my life back then.

The Repubs have this bizarre thing about stamping out every last possible instance of any kind of fraud in the world. If even one person out of a million abuses a program, that's it, we can't have it. There's a certain rate of fraud that will always be there, just like there will always be some amount of crime no…

I would have kicked her out well before then. We actually kicked out a ridiculous customer today (my manager did while I hid and hoped I wouldn't need to step in). Anyway, that's a good point. That's a big problem with working within a large corporation of this nature; corporate is not there every day, doesn't know…

Even better!

A case of the Mondays perhaps?

Which is funny because "treating waitstaff like shit" is a dealbreaker for a lot of women. Certainly was for me when I was dating.

I'd be way interested in an ostrich wearing a baseball cap.

I'm starting to feel like the moral of a lot of these stories is actually not that the customers are insane, but that managers at chain restaurants are horrible soulless individuals.

Same here, I'm always perplexed by the "cash only" thing. I look at my bank account daily and when I swipe cards I see what came out of it and my credit balance increasing. I view the cash as gone once I took it out. I only ever use cash if a credit card is not an option, because I don't track it.

I lost something like 35 pounds once, and people kept asking me how I did it. Everyone's face would just fall when I said "I stopped eating dessert and started running 3 miles every other day. That was actually it." I could just see their faces go from glowing hope to crushed disappointment.

I once asked a woman I hadn't seen in a while if she was about to have her baby yet.... she'd already had the baby and it was 3 months old. She just hadn't lost the baby weight and still looked pregnant. I tried to recover by gushing and asking all about the baby, but I felt like such an asshole.

I do this with commercials with my husband sitting right there.

How to get in shape: Lots of ways, read about it on the internet.