I’m going to stalk you for updates.

Aww, thank you! I’m good now though, Taco Bell heard my cries of anguish over the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito (or they just came to their senses and realized they still have all the ingredients they need so it was pointless to take it off the menu) and brought back my mildly spicy fake-cheese ambrosia.

My biggest fear for my daughters, at the moment, and aside from the scourge of gun violence, is them/all of US women losing reproductive rights, but there’s a giant pile of things to worry about, and body image stuff definitely makes the list. That struggle is lifelong. The world is so fucked. I’m sorry that (and the…

SO MANY LEGS. And the way they glide/writhe along the floor/ground/carpet... I can’t deal.

Good for you. I am envious. I cannot control my panic reaction around wasps/bees, my startle reflex around flies that buzz loudly (not scared of them, I just jump and/or gasp), or my fear of spiders and centipedes. So even if I did something like this with my kids, I think it would sadly be overruled by seeing me IRL…

He also told me I was “too young to be so fat” immediately after he “finished.” I was 19 and a size 8

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I am afraid of most spiders. They’re so alien and freaky. If I saw a black widow spider outside my house, I would ask my husband to spray it with Raid, only partly because I’m afraid our kids would find it. Wolf spiders I know are totally harmless—I know this, intellectually! I know it.... but when we came home one…

Oh! Too funny... not really funny, but you know what I mean. Funny coincidence.

My grandmother was in a “good” nursing home and the place still made my skin crawl. Odor-free is probably too much to ask. The place smelled of whatever cleanser they were using to sterilize everything, and I think that’s maybe the best that can be hoped for versus urine or feces. They have an atrium in the center of…

Awww, thanks! Yeah, we didn’t get there hours ahead either. We figured going at like 1:30 pm would be fine, but we didn’t realize it was only going to be 10-20 sauces per franchise, and it turned out our local McD’s never had the sauce at all, only the posters. I am grateful we didn’t need to drive far, at least,…

It’s not too late for you my friend! Run with me!

As someone who loves the show and has become curious to try the sauce, I am pleased by this news. Things that make me happy feel like they’re in short supply these days while everything in the world sucks. I understand the actual taste of the sauce will probably be a letdown, but I don’t care. The build-up to…

oh my fucking god

That sounds hilarious. I mean, sad and forehead-slappingly pathetic, but hilarious. (I say this as a woman into comics.) And yes, amazing marketing. I would have laughed too and hard. Thank you for relating this story.

Google instructs garlic salt as well.

It’s one of those stupid things that matter! Alas, despite my very polite and diffident plea, the Taco Bell near me would not make me one. Luckily the break didn’t last too long. I did some googling in my time of grief and I’ll never forget reading... a Yahoo comment maybe? From some rando and her boyfriend who also…

It is a sad truth that your watch will probably not end until your death, so all optimism aside, the taking-the-Black metaphor feels pretty right.

Ahh thank you for the info! I’ll have to try to make the real thing sometime.

Aww! I feel your pain. Taco Bell eliminated my fav menu item, the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito, for like a year and I was crushed. I love that thing—cheesy, spicy, perfect junk-comfort-fast food. And I was like WHY YOU MONSTERS because they already had all the ingredients for it still? Rice, refried beans, burrito…