I’m sorry.

I think the word we’re looking for is “douche-nozzle”

A hundred years ago, I’d just moved in with my boyfriend after graduating college and didn’t yet have a career type job. Well, I had no job, but was stressed out looking, and judgement and “advice” from my family didn’t help. So, I went to my boyfriend’s house for Thanksgiving. His parents were very good, hard working…

I’m sorry. But, I loved the story. What a good way to see that you’ve picked the right one.

Lorena Bobbitt helped get the marital exemption removed from NC rape laws. True Story: The morning this story hit the newspapers across the country (and it was front page, above the fold of EVERY newspaper in the country), the NC legislature was due to vote on removing the marital exemption from our rape laws. (Back…

This is one of the really effed up things about the service industry . . . and how many of these stories have we read where the manager stiffed the server? Since the service industry is allowed to pay seriously inadequate wages on the logic that the wage is made up with tips, then you would think managers would be…

When I travel, I use cash because I want servers to pocket what they feel is appropriate and report to their bosses what they feel is appropriate. My bank loves giving out hundred dollar bills. I usually have to specifically ask for smaller bills. When I’m paying with a hundred, I make sure the tab is well over $50…

To the LW with the horrid in-laws . . . bring some work with you and say you’re on deadline? OR, now is the time to get that great American novel underway . . . a short piece about the mores of middle America and how people cope progress?

So, a man who is educated and makes much more money than the average person would deflect someone with a gun towards a person who is likely to be very young and/or have a young family to support and makes minimum wage? Nice.

Goodness. I’ve just realized ONE MORE WAY I’ve been warped by my family. My grandfather was addicted to pepsi . . . and I grew up in a home in which all sodas were called “pepsi” . . . I rarely drink sodas, but in my mind, they are all pepsis.

A hundred years ago, I took an intern to a training in the BIG CITY (and where I went to college). At lunch time, we zipped over to a fancy food shop that had a wonderful prepared foods section. She ordered a BBQ plate. The counter dude asked if she wanted “eastern or western sauce?” She couldn’t wrap her head around…

I have a co worker who has this skirt she LOVES but it’s missing a button. . . but she wears it anyway. One day, she was showing an intern something, stood up at her desk and the skirt went to the floor. She didn’t notice until the intern pointed it out, as gently as she could. I offered to resew the button . . . she…

On a slow night, kitchen staff still gets paid . . . not so with tipped employees. A hundred years ago when I was a server, the shit boss tried to claim that AT THE END OF THE YEAR, if my average wage/tips wasn’t minimum wage, she had to pay me the difference. She thought I was some stupid kid who didn’t understand…

ACK. So, other than what’s been printed, we don’t really know what this woman is about . . . criminal? Horrible human? Crazy? All of the above? Clearly, her behavior is outside the realm of what pretty much every other human on the planet would ever consider. A couple of things that come to my mind: a) her bf says she…

Confession. I ditched a cousin’s wedding. I attended the ceremony, hung around long enough to have nibbles and a beer and hug and kiss the bride, but then ditched before dinner (buffet). I was raised by our grandmother, and the week before, she’d been put in a care facility and visiting her just before the wedding…

Convo in my house several years ago:

When it starts as having your bra snapped in 6th grade gym class, or boys creating rating scales for girls’ bodies, or teachers/principals telling girls that visible collar bone makes them a sexualized distraction to the boys, or kids being teased for being virgins . . . the list goes on. Girls, unfortunately, are…

Yes . . . reimbursement rates do factor patient satisfaction as well as if the patient returns to the ER/medical facility within a specific time period. It’s weird and screwed up. Someone commented that there seems to be variation from facility to facility and I think there is some truth in that. My local hospital . .…

I generally feel that way about doctors. I was quite ill for several months last year (5 ER visits, 3 surgeries, 4 hospitalizations, 2 hospital transfers via ambulance, every narcotic you can name, etc) and with only one exception for a nurses aid in the middle of the night, the nurses were compassionate, helpful,…

Oh wow. Only now, reading your comment, does it occur to me that I have a friend who has opened a food place on the other coast from me but I’ll visit probably next year . . . and I can be a total dick about how I know the owner. (Some of the decor in the place, I contributed . . . so maybe I can even be dickish about…