Yup. It makes sense until the tipping aspect.

You’re right, and as someone else pointed out, there were other factors that I missed. When my wife and I go out with our kid, we go off hours, we go to quiet locations (not Cheesecake Factory), we bring sufficient bribes/distractions, we are aware we may have to leave any any time (and it has happened where one of us…

That’s rough. I gained a few lbs during my first semester at Uni and when I came home for Christmas the first thing my mother said when I walked in the door was “you look terrible”. For real. In front of my bestie, no less. Mine will also deny that this occurred so it’s a good thing I have a witness.

I’d be pretty happy if I could get anyone to top off my tank without me knowing. How do I impose this vision of utopia on my loved ones?

It was really a liability issue, combined with the age of the child. If something had fallen on him, if he’d fallen and hit his head, if he’d been kidnapped? We live in way too litigious of a society for my manager not to be super concerned about the possible ramifications of a small child alone in the store. Plus…

I know this isn’t the point of this piece, but I feel like a feminist utopia would provide proper sex ed and birth control to prevent teen pregnancies altogether...

Ha! By which I mean, sorry. Not food related, but that reminds me of being in the Air Force and manning an airplane during a static display at an airshow/open house. Sensing the kids’ excitement, and knowing there wasn’t much damage they could do, I allowed kids to sit in the seats, push buttons, pull levers, make…

Yep. Heaven forbid. I got second in my class and spent a bunch of time explaining that part of the problem was that I took a lot of classes in the arts which simply didn’t give perfect marks (unlike math and physics etc.). It was true in my high school, certainly, but as an adult I wonder why I had to justify it in…

Because a book store isn’t a babysitter and you can’t just leave your kids. Well behaved or not, parents can’t just dump their kids elsewhere to go get their nails done/eat food/shop/whatever. Don’t want to have to deal with your kids? Get a babysitter before you go out.

UGH. Because a size 6 is “disturbing”, right?

“PEOPLE” !!! I bet those people were her delusions about how many people were gossiping about her family.

Moms are the worst. Mine used to tell me that I looked “fat for my weight”. She encouraged me to wear really baggy clothing and I didn’t realize that I could fit into “standard sizes” until I was 20. WHY, MOM. WHY.

Or “toy section” means “daycare.” Whayya mean, I gotta pay for the six Transformers toys my horrid, feral offspring opened and broke? Why weren’t you WATCHING HIM??/

This exactly! I don’t understand how they missed the mark *this* badly.

Wow. Really? So once a parent has children, they aren’t allowed to change careers (or even jobs) at all? I can’t tell if you’re trolling, or you legitimately think that her husband is bad for wanting to become a teacher.

I worked in a library when I was in High School. There was nothing worse than the people who thought “library” meant “free babysitting”.

So you’ve never interviewed and taken a job based on what you’ve been told of the company culture, only to find out they sugar coated things and made it seem better than it is?

Free range kids is a thing, but unfortunately so is dumping your 4 year old at the bookstore so you can get your nails done and using "free range kids" as an excuse.

I don’t understand people needing chilled to almost frozen butter. I get WHY it’s often served that way, but I’ve seen some people get upset when the butter isn’t at a temperature that will mean their roll or bread will be destroyed by the time they are ready to eat it.

We were playing hide and seek and things just really got out of hand.