Having just visited there, there were several times when I greeted a clerk/server in French, we went on in French for several sentences, then realised we were both English-speaking.

In New York and probably most cities, the landlord problem extends to dickhead property owners not renewing the lease on long standing, vibrant and profitable businesses to get potentially higher rent. This is doubly infuriating when these properties become vacant.

It’ll be a fucking tie.

I know a few French words and try to use them (I visit Montreal a few times a year). A few years ago a Quebecois told me they do not really care if I do not know French or try to use it—they get mad with the Ottawans who never use French. It sounds like your experience is different so I will try to use “une peu plus”…

Did that leaving Madrid, had to buy some complicated day pass to get to the airport, handed it to some backpacker kid looking at a map when I was leaving the station.

Richmond VA has a serious weirdness about dropping chicken bones on the sidewalk. It’s to the point that the mods for the city’s subredddit have started deleting/blocking people posting pictures of them. We also have trashed so many electric scooters that Lime or Bird or...whatever, one of the companies decided that…

I’m gonna need them to bring that zipper merge campaign to central PA when they’re done.

Double for stopping at the top or bottom of stairs.

On the subway, people who 1) lean on poles so you can’t hold on (or, worse yet, just lean on your hand, which was already hanging on to the pole). 2) Walk through the train’s door and then just stop, making it difficult for the people behind to get on the train. 3) Don’t let people off the train before jamming through…

Not as much anymore, because there are only a handful of the cars left, but in Toronto I’d vote for standing on the back steps of a crowded streetcar. The doors can’t close, and EVERYONE is giving you stink eye, the mutters start, and if you can’t figure out that its YOU everyone is looking and muttering at, one…

Looks like fall season has come early to Ohio.

This is solid street cred for upcoming roles. She’ll be the female Danny Trejo.

Part of the allure of American Gladiators (and Rollergames too, I remember that!) was that the shows weren’t advertised at all and we didn’t have full TV on-screen guides (except for the paper versions), so we stuck it out with a lot of shows that wouldn’t get one shot today.

Agree 100% with this. The first “tip” is to avoid, avoid, avoid whenever and however possible. If you’re going to be forced to work closely with or report to said psychopath over a long period of time, seriously consider other employment. You will *never* win when dealing with a psychopath. Never. If you *do* win,…

Who’s more likely to get shitcanned, psycho who has the boss in his/her pocket for years now, or you, the “troublemaker who just got hired”?

Three kids is not a challenge?

I have it on good authority that this doesn’t apply if the error is in the amount of $200.

We only had one kid. saved thousands and thousands of dollars.

My menu for the week is determined by what’s on deal at the store. That doesn’t mean I’m eating Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese with Coke - I look for ingredients, rather that processed foods (i.e. chicken, fish, veg, fruit).

For me, the biggest trick has been shifting my perspective. Perhaps it comes naturally with age (and the sense that you’re running out of track), but the realization that money is ultimately a finite resource — there is a specific amount that you will ever earn in your lifetime, and everything is drawn from that supply…