I have the same rage, for nearly the same reasons. The pandemic stole my family from me in almost exactly the same way as you outline above. 

From someone who grew up in Toms River: Round of applause to whoever your source is, Rebecca. They’re dead-on about the hellscape of mortal coil-offshuffling that is Holiday City. 

Any answer besides Pool Ghost is the wrong answer. 

how long ago was this? I thought Leslie was the same age as him.

I need to know the deets on James Spader, my personal Favorite Person I Do Not Personally Know. 

he was seated per-pen-dick-ular to you. FIFY.

Nope. The gun manafacturers were not any more at fault than the gun safe manufacturers or the manufacturers of the doors to the elementary school or the bullets used in those horrific and abhorrent ways.

Uuuuuuuugghhh. There are LOT of regulations on the process of purchasing a firearm in the state of Connecticut, too. Just as many, I would argue, as the DMV. You sit through safety classes, take tests, have a supervised live fire lesson or several, have a federal and state background check, and in some towns and…

A Mazdaspeed 3. Preferably a 2008.5. (That .5 is important.) Great headroom, very practical, and Mazdas are cheap to fix. Best of all, it has so much torque it feel like it’s clawing through the pavement, it sounds more expensive than it is, the interior is kind enough to impress most women with an eye for detail (red…

True, I wouldn’t call my car “funky.” The electronics in it, maybe, but not the styling. Oh, Germans.

So purty.

You, sir, are driving one of my dream cars.

Where do you live? Up here in CT, yes, GTIs are excruciatingly common (I drive one, no hate here) but down South, GTIs and imports in general are much less common and are considered exotic.

10/10 idea, would buy tomorrow.

I’m on my second MkV and you are also not wrong.

/When I have celebrity dreams they are usually about taking poor Gary Busey to the dentist./

Can we talk about why public bathroom doors always open IN?! WHY can’t it be a zoning protocol that they pull to enter and push to exit, so theoretically only people who have not just shat on their own fingertips will touch the door handles? Like, why isn’t this a thing?

What exactly is hospital grade sanitizer? In the NICU with my son, they used Purell Advanced. This was in the Level III NICU at Yale.

And norovirus! The only thing that prevents the spread of the barfing bug is scrubbing it OFF of your hands (or like, bleach - not Lysol wipes, not any old kitchen cleaning products, good old bleach)!

Side note: that building, those logos, are positively sinister.