We don’t have a car, we live upstairs and our stairs are outside/exposed, and I have balance problems that require me to walk with a cane. We order delivery during snowstorms (grocery delivery and/or restaurant) because I can’t get down the stairs. (We’re moving as soon as we can, but that didn’t help last winter.)…

I think the call back the next day is what made the story for me.

There were many times when one of my friends had to haul her younger siblings along to the mall with us in the mid-80s (I don’t know their exact ages, but one was in elementary school, which stopped at grade 4 (about 9/10 years old), and the other wasn’t in school yet), and we left them sitting at a table in the food…

Because your pay is shit and it’s not like you get to take leftovers home to feed your kids?

It is definitely illegal, but most restaurants that I’ve worked in or known people who work there do NOT make up your tips. (There are a lot of things that are illegal that restaurants do, knowing that their employees often don’t have the resources needed to fight it.)

Except it’s not “for worst.” It’s “for worse.” As in, when there are bad things happening. And just because something isn’t the absolute worst thing that could happen in the world doesn’t mean it isn’t bad.

You don’t want them to. There are a lot of “well, she’d have caught SOMETHING and died anyway,” some “it wasn’t measles; it was a complication of measles, and she could have had a cold” and a lot of “she was vaccinated and it didn’t work, so what is the point except BIG PHARMA!!!eleventy-one!” because they don’t…

I’ve read a few books about the anti-vax movement (Paul Offit is great) and there have been anti-vaxxers as long as there have been vaccines, unfortunately.

What they’ve actually said (that I’ve seen ) is, “I don’t inject my child with car seats.” Because they have no concept of how analogies work.

Yes, my first thought was, “Good, give it to organizations that will actually do some good with the money.”

Me too. Also, to be able to make a shopping list that doesn’t have a section at the bottom for things we want/need-but-not-TODAY, so that I know immediately what stuff I can skip if we run out of money.

Yeah. I had a panic attack at Dairy Queen tonight. Surrounded by half my wife’s family. It was awful. And then it was embarrassing. It was not, however, anything like genocide.

Not only that, but when they married, Bill Cosby wasn’t a celebrity. He hadn’t been cast in I Spy yet, his debut comedy album was only released the year they married (and likely after the wedding, since they married in January)... he may have been an up-and-coming young comedian, but he wasn’t famous. Regardless of…

Cosby’s earlier comedy was not all “jello pudding pop/be-sweatered paterfamilias shtick continuum.” I grew up listening to his comedy albums from pre- “Himself” days. (Which is one reason I didn’t find this surprising. Cosby has never had a lot of respect for women. He had a bit, when he only had two kids (both girls)…

Pinkham clarified somewhere in the comments—what he meant was that in cases where they find the phone/camera, they usually find the guy who put it there.

Well, a halfway intelligent creeper is going to use a burner phone for this.

Yes, they have Cracker Barrel cheese in the US. It’s not related to the restaurants (except that they both took their names from the same place).

EXACTLY. Even I, with three storage boxes full of acrylic yarn, know that. Of course, I also believe that no Minion-related crafts should involve either “sexy” or genital touching, so what do I know?

My stash is about 75% acrylic yarn, because I make a lot of things that have to be machine washable/dryable and/or hypoallergenic. But the thought of claiming that an acrylic thong is “sexy” is just WRONG.

Three words that should never be combined (because we’ll all know you’re lying): “sexy,” “minion,” and “acrylic.”