I felt like the original comment wasn’t a fat joke, just a “okay, a strategist for Christie obviously doesn’t have enough to do, so he’ll go out for snacks/coffee/whatever” joke. Then the later comments started coming in, and those did feel like fat jokes.

Disturbingly, they sometimes have a lot in common.

That is probably exactly what she meant by it.

When I was in kindergarten and first grade, my school still had nuclear bomb drills. We were supposed to hide under our desks. If a desk can stop a Soviet nuke being dropped on our heads (we were maybe half a mile from an Air Force base, so they assumed we’d be within the initial blast radius), it can stop anything.…

Hell, I lived in a town of about 8K people in rural Minnesota, and there were two restaurants run by actual Mexican families, having both Tex-Mex and a few more typically Mexican dishes on the menu (one of them did a really nice cabrito al pastor, for example, though they didn’t have it all the time).

At most, three. I’m not a waitress any more, but my cousins (he lived with their parents for a while when he was in college) work at a fast-food place, so you could count them. :)

Given that the fast-food employees don’t actually WANT to upsell, usually, and can get in trouble if they DON’T upsell, why be a smart-ass to them? Does it just make you feel good to be unkind to someone who is doing their job the way they are required to?

I once watched a customer rip this middle-aged gentleman a new one because he called me “sweetheart” when I dropped off his check. (He also demanded a hug.)

...of course, in this particular case, said middle-aged gentleman was my dad, visiting me at my job, so I didn’t mind. (Dad never does either thing to waitresses…

That’s why it made me sad way back when my local library upgraded to having electronic checkout, as opposed to pulling the card from the pocket and stamping it with your card number. I knew my library card number, so I knew whether or not I’d checked the book out before.

Also, money. Even without the potential of the Religious Right Gravy Train, $80K/year goes a long way in places like Rowan County, Kentucky.

That being said, there are plenty of other crowd sourcing websites that would probably support her.

Hyper-librarian? I live with one of those, but she’s not especially cynical. She just really likes books.

A former student of mine just lost her little girl to cancer. If prayer was what it took to save her, that child would have been healthy years ago—so many prayer requests, prayer circles, etc. were organized on her behalf. (The child also got what appeared to be good and appropriate medical treatment. It just wasn’t…

Yes. I mean, you can ALSO pray for them, but the first thing you do is tend to their immediate needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care, emotional support (such as visiting prisoners).

My ex-mother-in-law was an alcoholic loon, so this did not really surprise anyone. (Plus, she probably welcomed the chance to spend September in her camper, as she hated having to close it for the season because it meant she had to go back to living in the same place as her husband.) Pulling the kid out of school was…

Agreed. How was “It. Is. A. Parasol. It. Completes. My. Ensemble.” NOT a winner?

Yep. My then-mother-in-law went and reopened her camper and lived in it for about a month (with her youngest kid, who should have been in school) because she was sure they were coming for the Mall of America next, and she lived less than a mile from there.

In many places (I’m not an expert, so I don’t know if it’s true everywhere), the elected official — unless they’re dead, of course (maybe declared legally incompetent, but I don’t know) has to voluntarily resign.

I can understand why this would make you feel weird! But if the articles I have read are correct, the only time the defendant presented/identified as male were in the context of this relationship, which seems to me less like a case of a trans man choosing not to disclose, and more like a case of a woman trying to…

Yeah, we have a lot of those here, and one of the ways you tell them apart from real massage places is that they generally DON’T offer any of the usual spa/salon services (or other health services; there’s a legit massage place in my part of town that also offers acupuncture, and one I go by on the bus a lot that has…