I haven't worked there since 2007, so I don't know. We were a big store, and they came with the maternity rollout in the mid -2000s. We had maybe two that weren't for mannequins, and they probably weren't replaced when they went missing or deteriorated.

I believe the pregnant drinker story - I lived next to a girl (about 19) who chain-smoked on her porch for her entire pregnancy, and I know one woman whose doctor recommended wine coolers instead of blood thinners for a medical condition, because the wine coolers were better for the baby.

My fiance asked a server once if the restaurant had any vegetarian burger substitutes (a lot of places in Orlando offer bean burger patties upon request). Her reply: "Yeah, we have turkey burgers".

According to my friend with Celiac's Disease, it's a Catch-22; because of the fad diet, there are more options available in grocery stores and dining out, but there's also fewer servers that take her seriously.

I don't give a lot of speeches, but before job interviews, dance performances, or fight tournaments, I'll sit in my car and belt out Mariah Carey's "Vanishing" or Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now". The breath control required to sing those properly pretty much forces my heart rate down. Works like a charm.

When I was four, and my mother was pregnant with my sister, I asked her where the baby came from. She handed me a copy of "A Child is Born". I don't remember ever not knowing how babies are made.

When I was an admin assistant for Environmental Engineers, we worked in a downtown office that was built similarly to a doctor's office. We had a homeless man come in once and try to sign in for an appointment; when we explained that the sign in/out sheet was for employees and visitors didn't need to fill it out, he…

The best I've found is a doc who really likes running tests, asks a lot of questions, and doesn't brush off my questions. No one really "gets" it, though, because from what I understand, that scaling thing is simple for a lot of people. Unfortunately, with most docs and dentists, it takes me coming in with an…

They were renewed through season 6 at the end of season 4, and then Cory Monteith OD'd and the story structure completely fell apart (or finished falling apart, depending on who you ask). They're doing a shorter season this year just to wrap it up and fulfill obligations, I suppose.

Shortening the yellow light was a money-grubbing scheme that Roscoe P. Coltrane got all excited about on The Dukes of Hazzard (the show, not those movies I've never seen). He shouldn't be a role model for city governments.

That "scale of 1 to 10" doesn't work for a lot of Autistic patients (including myself). I have 3 settings - I don't feel it, I feel it, or it's so bad I'm incapacitated. That's it. And that middle one isn't always there. Sometimes I can't even tell a doctor what caused the injury, or how long the issue has existed.…

I personally know two Jags season-tickets holders. They've had them for a few years now, and I have no idea why they do it to themselves.

My fiance was a personal trainer at a national gym chain before he had enough clients to work on his own. Regardless of what the gym charged people for training sessions, the trainers only made $6 per session. So you could be paying anywhere from $25 to $40 a session, and anything over that $6 went straight to the…

I grew up terrified of Ouija boards because my mom told me they opened doors to evil spirits. In a similar vein, I wasn't allowed to play D&D, because SATAN. Now, I play D&D, and I think I might buy a Ouija board for my cats to play with, then send my mom the video. I can buy one nowadays with those pretty boys from…

I don't know about these specific sororities, but the one I was in didn't allow us to wear letters for anything. No drinking, no public appearances that weren't directly associated with the sorority, nothing "inappropriate" (which could be arbitrary). There was a whole list of things I've forgotten, too. They're…

I suppose? Honestly, I'd never really heard the term until you posted it. All I know is the crap I heard growing up from people who fancied themselves academic-type theologists, but who were really just unoriginal racists with no comprehension of science (and no desire to know it).

ETA: double-post. Kinja messed up.

I don't know Darren Wilson's religious background, but I know the white, racist Southern Baptists with whom I was raised. Some white people think the mark of Cain refers to skin color. As in, Cain was "cursed" with dark skin after he killed his brother, and therefore his descendants are black people (whose skin color…

I didn't work with a lot of minors in Florida (Old Navy tends to stick to 18+ just to be safe), so I don't know how long those rules have been in place. Or how strictly they're enforced. I do know that when I worked at Target (1998-2000), my supervisors were sticklers about sending the under-18 kids home on time and…

Including Florida and Georgia, both of which have laws limiting the number of hours minors under 18 can work. FLORIDA is better than Texas, here.