At the toddler phase, big public bathroom sensory overload went way beyond the automatic toilet. The automatic hand dryers that sounded like a jet taking off constantly frightened my eldest (in particular), not to mention the general loudness of echo-y tiled bathrooms. We chose family bathrooms whenever possible.

He’s not some felon who had a phone snuck in as contraband; it sounds like he was just recently booked at the time and the prison staff failed to confiscate the phone when they processed him. Of course 12 years would still be excessive even if he was a felon, but since he’s not, it should be a slam-dunk to have this…

He thought he was in a civilized country. But he’s black in Amerika, so yeah, that was dumb.

It’s nice that you seem to be trying to act in people’s best interest, but you really need to educate yourself as someone that oversees rooms that people may pump in:

Hospital grade pumps are closed systems. You bring your own parts. There is no sharing of fluids.

Classic “Meh I’m a better parent than everyone else and feel the constant need to talk about it” internet post. Bravo sir.

Yup. Although, I have also had the experience of shitty jobs where the interviewer keenly stresses “flexibility” and “family friendliness” over their lack of health benefits and upward opportunities.

All talk of decision making and investment opportuinity aside, you either agree that labour deserves to be paid or you do not. Its that simple, really.

Sure do love all the perfect parents in this comment section who have never, ever fucked up, not even once. Not even when they are tired, or stressed, or sick, or overworked or running on fumes.

he wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has…

To Everyone who thinks this can never happen to them:

If you feel a sense of unencumbered freedom when you get out of the car, you probably forgot your baby.

A lot of people are shitty parents though. Doing this trick can save the lives of kids with shitty parents.

Yes, but in this case you have a passport, my document that says I can engage in international travel for period of time, it has an expiration date on it. One of the principals of law (and common sense, which there seems to be very little of left in the world these days) is that words with plain ordinary meaning…

Yeah, I’m not even a huge fan of the trilogy but I remember he ultimately just reboot the Matrix, which leads more with him and Smith working as The One to just continue the same cycle.