My grandpa had an issue of kids cutting over his lawn as his house was on a corner near a school - so he did the sensible thing and put in thorny bushes instead of wagging a gun at those kids. Where is this world going.

I hope that I’m not the only one cringing at the harness adjustment and positioning in the lede image. Half off the shoulders and set too low does you no favors. Neither does the Cheerio, but car seats are fussy about the details.

Thought you were talking about a Toyota there. My gosh, their seat belt alarms are obnoxious. I had a rental Sienna that also went insane over a door being left ajar for a short drive.

My Honda gives you a warning or two if your seatbelt isn’t buckled and then takes the attitude of “Fine. Crash and die. See if I…

If you’re looking at a place that involves a HOA that has responsibility over building maintenance find out how responsive they are to repair requests. It also wouldn’t hurt to chat with any neighbors you can find to get a feel for the place - are there loud kids running around all summer? Is parking an issue? Are…

Same. We once had a brief evacuation scare (brush fire near our house) and goodness, your mind goes blank trying to remember anything material that needs to be saved. Fortunately “get the fuzzbutts” sticks front and center.

Not sure if the housing market where you are is as crazy as it is here in San Diego, but I do want to caution you to evaluate if houses are overpriced before you buy and then to wait if they are. Everything here is crazy inflated - I sold my tiny condo in three days this week for a bananas amount of money and no way…

Hell, I’m 32 and my friend’s kids wear me out.

A Fit would be a most excellent teenager car.

Source: I own a ‘10 Fit and at times have the maturity of a teenager.

You just download a video clip that includes the audio of your desires from YouTube, then open it in a sound editor like Audacity (this will discard the video portion of the file). Clip to the section you want, save as a mp3, then save it to the appropriate directory on your phone. Then it’s available to select as a…

Me too - knowing my luck I’d catch the football with my face.

I have a coworker who messages via desktop Skype like he’s using a T9 keyboard. My gosh I want to stab my eyes out trying to read that crap.

I would keep responding “k” to things just to piss them off ;) Moms are busy and they’re lucky you had a moment to check your phone.

Mine (Andorid) will notify on each message, but if you’re tapped into the convo it’ll not make a peep (even if the phone screen is locked). So, if I’m expecting a text and it’s taking forever I’m constantly checking that I’m not in the convo so I won’t miss a notification.

I have customized text message alerts so when someone texts me a paragraph as ten lines it’s either a funny round of a sound clip of Zoidberg woop wooping ten times or really annoying (i.e. that happening at a funeral).

That was my first car right there - even down to the color. I briefly lived off of a twisty road and had many funs until I bought a taller car :/

My Fit is reasonably enjoyable, but you can’t ask much of an $18k car. Where it lacks in the driving experience it makes up by being able to haul massive amounts of your crap at a time (just moved with mine).

As much as I hate the phone, voicemails still do have a place. However, since I changed my vm greeting to basically say “text or email if you want a response” people have started contacting me by other means. This is great when you A) hate phones and B) work in a cube farm and can communicate without having to step…

Religious folk sometimes turn them into christening gowns for their kids, in addition to the other items you listed.

I just stashed my friend’s wedding dress in my storage unit, so yeah, some do languish until a kid gets hitched.

Oh, you’re doing better than me. I can’t get anywhere near them, much less swim over them.

I’m chuckling at that image but also having heart palpitations because pool drains freak me out and I can’t get into a pool without finding all of them, much less hop on in blindfolded. You go brave Army people!