I’m 5'10" and 135 lbs, give or take, and I’ve been told repeatedly to lose weight

They would save themselves a lot of hassle if they would admit they can’t do that anymore. Yeah, we’d piss and bitch and moan but we’d also keep buying the stuff. Because they ran the brick and mortars out of business and now those of us who don’t live in major metropolitan areas have Walmart and the internetz and…

I once drank too much coffee and sent Gap an e-mail telling them no wonder brick and mortars are suffering when I checked their store for the pants I like, in my size, every single time I went to that mall and they NEVER, EVER had my size in stock, forcing me to buy online.

I was wondering WTF was going on when I saw a kid in a sedan drop off an Amazon package at my neighbor’s on Sunday. I didn’t think that had hit my area yet. 

USPS once took so long to deliver a shipment from NJ to Brooklyn that I literally could have walked to Jersey to pick it up, walked home, and gotten it there faster. And I do mean literally - I got on Google Maps and worked it out. And outer Jersey - not Newark or Hoboken.

In my neighborhood, we frequently have to walk misdelivered mail to our neighbors. I had to sign up for Informed Delivery (mentioned in the article) just to make sure important stuff wasn’t being delivered to the neighbors who refuse to do the carrier’s job for them.

I managed to get them to do that shortly after they introduced Prime. USPS was never getting it there in two days, so Amazon agreed to try UPS/FedEx first and only use USPS as the last option. That worked well for 7 years. Then they erased that, refused to do it when I asked them to put it back the way it was, and…

I’ve accepted that Amazon can no longer provide 2 day delivery and think they would do well to just admit it. So long as it comes within two days of when USPS says it was delivered, I let it go and watch the shit out of Amazon Prime so I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth.

I always give myself a buffer zone of time because I’d far rather sit and read at the gate than run and stress about whether I’m going to make the flight.

I’m 5'4" and find it miserable. I feel so sorry for big people. It’s the only situation where being short and stubby-legged works to my (mild) advantage.

Last time I test drove a car with no intention of buying it...I bought it.

YMMV (obviously) but taking my needlework with me does wonders for my travel anxiety.

I once asked a senior colleague in charge of hiring someone to please notify the unsuccessful candidates. I’m pretty sure he didn’t. And yeah...what you said. ;)

It was over a decade ago, but to this day I fear I didn’t get a job because I blew my nose in my napkin after lunch. (I don’t know what I was thinking.) I have no idea why I really didn’t get the job, but it will haunt me the rest of my days. Not that I blame them for it.

I sent a “Just so you know, I’m still here and waiting on an answer” e-mail once. They called with an offer, LOL.

I know lots of people like that, but I hated it the three times* it happened to me. When you see the caller ID, you think you’re getting a job offer. Then your hopes are dashed AND you have to find the grace to be gracious for the ten seconds it takes to get them off the phone.

I was ghosted on multiple times during two job searches in the last decade. Particularly frustrating when getting a job in my field generally requires preparing a presentation, interstate travel, and, while employed elsewhere, using vacation time. It’s a shitty way to treat people and should never happen. It takes…

Good. Fuck this piece of shit.

LOL, the horrific east coast heat wave in 2010ish was when I started drinking heavily. Not to cool down, but to distract myself from how FUCKING MISERABLE that summer was. I rarely drank before that, but became a pretty good binge drinker afterwards and it’s only in recent years that my body has forced me to cut back. 

Two days ago I was on a 4 hour flight next to a guy who took his shoes off and watched video with no headphones.