PS - I looooooove Fresca. Black Cherry Fresca is even better than the OG Fresca (in my opinion), and the peach variety is surprisingly popular at my office. But now that I’m back in Michigan it’s all a moot point because I have Squirt!

I lived in Charlotte NC, where the answer to “what would you like to drink” is ALWAYS “Coke,” followed by the clarifying question “what kind of Coke?” It was bizarre to ask for a Coke when what you actually wanted was Sprite. Also, you’d think this experience would be more common in Atlanta (home of Coca-Cola) than in…

Well, it’s free or cheap before tip. And my local grocery store adds a surcharge to most individual items being ordered as part of a delivery order (not sure if they upcharge for pickup orders too) on top of the delivery fee, so the groceries themselves are more expensive than if you buy in-store. Seniors on a fixed…

Well, hopefully his lil Nazi salute this week has permanently lost him a whole new swath of potential buyers - in Canada and everywhere else.

I was teased MERCILESSLY after my family moved South when I was a kid, primarily around the word “pop,” so now that I’m back in the Midwest I use it with abandon.

For a couple hours it’s fine. Overnight, not a good idea.

Came to the comments to make sure someone has mentioned this. I’m from the midwest so we consider the great outdoors to be our second garage (or third, if you’re fancy and have a garage fridge) during the winter months. Carbonated beverages are one of the exceptions to this otherwise cheap and easy hack, and I learned…

TSA employees (and government employees at large) usually aren’t hired for their tech savvy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, I live in Michigan, so I know a thing or two about Midwestern drinking habits. Especially important is knowing not to go up against a Wisconsinite in a drinking contest ;)

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night”

The only demographic that has pulled on my heartstrings even a little bit in this congestion-pricing debacle are music teachers who carry around a million instruments in their cars and are making teacher salaries. Well, and people with physical disabilities, because I know the shuttle service for disabled people is…

And federal charges for a couple people at the top, excluding Chris Christie for reasons that remain inscrutable.

An average Midwest town*

You and I are in the same boat. I finished placing orders on Tuesday night. A UPS guy delivered my Amazon package today (even though I’m not in one of the states where the strikes are happening).

Birds aren’t real. And/or they work for the bourgeoisie.

In some areas, yes. But I lived in NYC during the George Floyd protests (and the kettling of the Brooklyn Bridge) and could easily see this being deployed as crowd control by an overzealous PD. Carrying blades longer than four inches long is illegal in NYC so folks will need to come prepared with smaller equipment to…

This song (the whole album really) is phenomenal for belting while in the privacy of my personal karaoke box, aka my car. Earlier this year I was driving around with the windows open and didn’t realize that the person next to me at the light also had their windows open. I don’t know if their compliment was sincere or…

Yeah, I predict these rules being cut as part of the first or second tranche of “in order to enact one new regulation, two must be rolled back” BS.

From the anecdotes I’ve been hearing for years, it seems the real problem (besides the EV turmoil, which is to be expected as the industry largely transitions away from ICE) is that Wall Street sees a new financial milestone reached and decides that the milestone is the baseline moving forward. RV companies sold…

Especially after the events of last week! Stop spending money on private security and spend it on therapy to learn some goddamn empathy.