I blame the people in this story for not training their dogs, but when you lose 3 days of sleep, the symptom must be taken care of no matter the cause.

We had neighbors with very barky little yappy dogs. They would leave for three or four days at a time, usually long holiday weekends. The dogs were left behind. They…

Neighbours dog used to do his business on my lawn.

This seems about right...

Thing: Personal Electric Transportation

Could you review or poll to see what the best pillow is? As soon as I find a pillow I love it goes lumpy, or flat, or just plain awful. Cotton fill or down? Real or synthetic? Gussets or no gussets? Fill or memory foam? Basic or weird curved things I don’t understand?

I think using a hypoallergenic laundry detergent is probably the better route. Who actually pays attention to their washer cycle to where they would be able to regularly interrupt the cycle during its final rinse in order to add the requisite amounts of vinegar or baking soda?

List of DC Residents’ Worst Fears:

Teacher here. Yes. Students should opt out. In fact, I think that everyone should opt out, in as large a number as can be realized, as a form of passive protest against recklessly-integrated, poorly-designed, over-concealed “measures” of teacher efficacy and student learning.

I've resigned myself to this:

Yes, libraries often have great sales. If any bookstores are going out of business, they also have books at extremely low prices.