Because repetition of key, emotive details is a hallmark of urban legends?

"Entrapment" is the mark of an asshole boss. Particularly the way the story is related, it makes it sound like something he has set up with his friend (or that his friend is doing on his behalf) specifically to try to tempt new staff, who are likely to be the lowest-paid and most financially hard up.

This. The only jury I've ever served on ended up hung. It was an infuriating tug of war between "we know the guy did it" (at least in our case, just drunk driving, and nobody died) and "the prosecution could not prove it" due to a series of missteps that were never explained to us.

I wanted to know the cider rules too. If so, Woodchuck goes on the list.

This was seriously my first thought. AW SHUCKS I'M JUST A POLITICIAN, I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN' ABOUT YOUR FANCY 'FASHION', WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT?

I miscalculated in my head once, and wound up leaving a 40% tip. I realized it on my way out of the restaurant, and kind of shrugged to myself and thought, well, it will be a nice surprise for her.

The really sad part is that because of bedbugs and so on, a lot of places now will no longer accept stuffed animal donations. (Even if the stuffed animal is just one that has been sitting in your mother's house and is a little dusty, and was never played with by a child.)

You're right, I should have been more specific in reference to this particular case. In a situation where the person was going to find it within a few minutes, and was located next to a place they could clean it off immediately, it wasn't going to cause permanent damage. (Not that I think the throwers were thinking…

Yeah, wacky. I've never even heard people talk about it.

(Also, "Venmo"? I've never even HEARD of Venmo…)

My landlord has definitely not joined the 21st century. I'd be interested to know whether that's still a norm, or not.

People who have to pay rent?

As someone who has had her car randomly egged — I kind of object to it being called "property damage". Come on. The car is damaged neither by the eggs, nor the act of having to clean them off. It causes a nuisance and a chore, and that's it.

See, that's what I thought — didn't we know her from at least one thing? Then I remembered this was Jezebel and not io9, where the various Snow White adaptations received a lot more attention.

Listen, I like skunks (descented if possible), I've taken care of one in a wildlife-care place, they are super sweet. But let's face it: they are not endangered, and New England does not have a skunk shortage. Our thousands of acres of forest don't actually require imports of urban skunks. Releasing an urban skunk…

(Pom Poko is about tanuki, which, despite being known in English as "raccoon dogs", are not related to raccoons at all.)

There is a Qdoba near my office, and before they switched to the guacamole being free, I had developed a well-rehearsed patter when ordering that included "no sauce except for guacamole, which I know is extra, as much as you can give me!" (I would have paid 2x for double-extra, if they'd been willing to do it; they…

Yeah, seriously. I've been to Kanab. There's a grocery store. Just... put together something meal-like from there.

Heck, I stopped in at a Dunkin Donuts on Long Island, fully intending to get a croissant with egg, cheese and bacon — and fortunately noticed and parsed all of the "WE ARE KOSHER" signs before actually trying to order it.

Yes! I'm in an apt that was a duplex house built in like the 1890s. So I have a walk-in closet, except I'm not sure that's what it actually was. Walk-in pantry? It's off what must have been the dining room, and it has a built-in 3-drawer dresser. It's underneath the back stairway up to the second floor (which is…