Scrolled through for ten minutes just to find one other person saying this.

As if kids aren’t already distrustful enough of adults.

This is negging. “You’re flawed. But we like you anyway... Flawed.”

Caught in a landslide. No escape from a manatee.

The byline in the photo says McLaughlin

GOP

Grandmaster Flash.

In a percentage of people (e.g. myself) Benadryl causes paradoxical hyperactivity.

Yes and TFW when my first good job led to dental insurance and my first visit to the dental hygenist resulted in a scolding for not having had my teeth cleaned since... Ever.

When I reconciled the summer memory of getting a free sandwich from the back of a truck that came to the playground at the same time every afternoon, with the memory of my parents abruptly changing the subject when I spoke fondly of those lunches to their guests. That’s when I knew.  

I believe they’re referring to a separate tap that dispenses tea-worthy hot water, usually connected to a tiny water-heater under the counter. (Also a huge waste of energy, but that wasn’t the question.)

Maybe I’m just an overly literal thinker, but I agree with Chait that some people are influenced by their first impression and that first impression naturally results from the name of the event. Talking about language, to me there’s a difference between “The Women’s March” and “The March for Women”; the first one…

“Can’t go - I have to work at one of the three other jobs that I need to survive on the crap salary you pay me here.”

Amen!

Ritalin slows ME down, but I promise you can’t afford the video

Admin-on-teacher, as well as teacher-on-teacher bullying is a serious problem in many schools, especially those where all manner of resources (especially space and *time*) are pitifully scarce. It’s law of the jungle and you do what you need to do in order to survive.

My mother was a 20-yr-old Catholic college girl who gave infant-me to the nuns — and thus, effectively, to an infant version of a witness-protection-program — at a home for unwed mothers run by the Florence Crittendon League. They baptized me, along with all of my newborn peers, right at birth, before handing us off…

The main question is, where can I get a “5K” oval sticker for the back of my car?

It’s a dangerous fallacy that children can’t be poisoned by lead in a well-maintained home that doesn’t have peeling paint.