Does this count?

I got a call from a girl asking “Is this Matt?”. I told her she had the wrong number. She called again asking for Matt, I told her again, it’s the wrong number. On the third call I said “Hey, what’s up” and went along as if I were Matt. She asked if I was home, I replied “Yeah”. She asked if she could come over, I…

Actually yes, I do have one now that I remember it. I was at home and I usually don’t answer random numbers that call me, but for some reason I picked it up. Anyways, I answer and this chick starts talking about how if I remember her that one time we hooked up at a bar (which has never happened because I don’t go…

This was back in the 90s, before the days of cell phones and perma-numbers. I moved and was assigned a new number, and it quickly became clear that the person who’d had the number before me had been something of a Lothario. For months, I got calls — often multiple a night — from women who were very displeased to hear…

My Verizon caller ID all of a sudden shows real names instead of just mobile numbers so if I don’t know the caller I just answer to the name on the screen. “Hello Bob! how are you?” It has really resulted in some interesting conversations.

Quentin is easily one of the most hateable protagonists I’ve ever read, and his character really put me off the series to the point that I never read the third book. His characterization (and what you pointed out, the way even the narration seems to hate him at times) made a lot more sense when I read an interview…

The Magicians Book One: A cynical fantasy that gets better toward the end. 

Cooking wines have salt added to them and are used exclusively for cooking, not drinking. They’re also not regulated in the same way as alcoholic drinks (e.g. you won’t get carded for buying cooking wine).

Heather was referring to “cooking wines” like this one: http://www.mizkan.com/Brands/Holland-House/Holland-House-Cooking-Wines/Marsala-Cooking-Wine.aspx

Nah, when she’s around she’s always blocking them from view. When she’s at work I can really watch them.

watch the kids participate in the raising of my own children

That’s the same piece of advice stated three ways. To sum up: don’t cook with wine you wouldn’t drink.

Married and non-dating single people pay for coffee and dinner and concerts and shit too, so I wouldn’t really call that a cost of “dating” specifically. That’s just normal stuff people buy. It’s not like you wouldn’t eat food if you weren’t on a date.

I hear people find the ending to that one very polarizing.

it makes the game exciting

I have this crazy new game called “turbotax” that looks like SO MUCH FUN

Thank you sir! Food is my thing and I go where it goes. This time it’s Easter at my parents and I will not berate them as if they were my staff.

It’s ridiculous. I’m not even good looking and I don’t want to advance my mind, learn an instrument or language!

Yeah huh? I work as a lawyer and a lot of the women I work with are model good looking although a lot of that is the extra attractiveness that expensive clothes + expensive hair stylist + expensive make up brands can buy you. People who make good money tend to be well groomed and well dressed, which makes them look…