My ex used to be very picky about her hamburgers, even from McDonalds and the like, so if we were getting take-out, she would order her sandwiches plain and put condiments on them at home. We finally stopped going to the McDs near our house, because even asking for "a plain cheeseburger—just cheese, meat, and the bun"…

(I just realized nearly all my stories now involve MrsPye's work, but my work doesn't involve customer service, and her work is also the only place in my neighborhood where I can go and have a coffee, so I'm there a lot.) ANYWAY.

I did. School cafeteria. This was the same *week* that I found some kind of big metal washer in my salad. I got my mom to start packing my lunch after that.(I was 6 or 7, which is why I say "got my mom to" instead of doing it myself.)

Yup. This weekend I was at our local coffee-and-doughnut place for a coffee before I went out to run errands. Some woman came in, stood right in front of the doughnut case, and asked the woman at the cash, "Do you have any doughnuts?" "Yes ma'am, they're right here in this case." "But do you have the kind I like?"…

One of mine is more human toddler sized. He's part Maine Coon; I think the rest is Volkswagen. When he first came to live with us, he weighed 30 pounds. Every time we've had to take him anywhere, whoever encounters him first calls everyone else over to look at the huge freaking cat. He's smaller now—the vet thinks he…

Have you tried Softpaws or other claw caps? They really cut down the damage they can do with their claws.

I am not a lawyer, and I am even *less* a Canadian lawyer (I live here, but I lived for 40+ years in the US first) but I suspect that would have resulted in her being charged with some lesser offense.

Tell that to Joint Task Force 2. And you can call it anything you want (I'm not actually a Canadian yet, though I live here), but you're going to look stupid. If you're okay with that, then I guess you should go right ahead.

How could she have stopped her car on the interstate? She's in Canada. We don't have those here.

Yeah, I live in Montreal and I've had to try to explain to people many, many times all the things that were stupid about the decision she made. I love animals too, but what she did was dangerous and stupid, and she deserves some serious consequences.

Yeah, there's almost no way she'll get life, but she does need more than a slap on the wrist. (For one thing, she needs to never be allowed to drive again.)

She literally stopped in the left-hand lane of a provincial highway. To save ducks that may not have needed to be saved. She did not use her hazard lights, either.

It was 25 years ago, and while I don't dwell on it, I did use that experience, while I was teaching back in the 90s, to shape my dealings with students. (As in, "think about what you say, because you can do a hell of a lot of damage without trying to.") My date was awesome, though, since he replied that there was no…

Seriously. When MrsPye's oldest nephew was three, stripping naked the second your back was turned was his favorite sport.

I used to work in the US public school system, in Georgia. At the time (this was the 1990s), kids could be turned away from pre-K/K-4 because of not being trained, because pre-K was optional. But once they were kindergarten age, they had to be allowed in because it was a public school. And almost every year, there'd…

I worked in a "nice" daycare and in a more "head start" type daycare (not actually Head Start, but one run by a nonprofit and focusing on children of low-income households), and we did that in both centers. No, we didn't actively teach potty training, but we did check in with the kids who were potty training on a…

I've worked in two daycare centers, both in the "toddler room" (and one of the criteria for moving out of that room, along with age, was being toilet trained) and was the guardian of a toddler-aged child in a third one (all in the US), and all of them helped with potty training. So some of them, at least, do.

My homeroom teacher my last year of high school actually told my prom date, "Why are you going with her? She's not even pretty. You can do better than that!" (He was one of my best friends. We wanted to put on fancy clothes and go to a dance. Neither of us could take anyone we were actually *interested* in, so someone…

Exactly. And I might not leave any kind of review if it was just that one time (especially since turnover is so high at places like that), but if there's a location that seems to perpetually Not Get It, I might. (I probably wouldn't, because I'm not much on online reviews, but I would tell people I know. In fact, I…

When our niece was about 3, we took her and MrsPye's 13-year-old sister (not the mom of the 3-year-old, obvs) out to a Chinese buffet place. The 13-year-old got chicken wings and mashed potatoes, and refused to try anything else. The preschooler, OTOH, wanted to try *everything* as long as it wasn't something she…