Very true. I was a baby in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, and I was never once placed in a special car seat. For the first several years of my life, I never even wore a seat belt. It became mandatory sometime in the early or mid-80s where I live, and children and adults alike started using them.

Truth, truth, truth.

The packing is the best— Hockity pockity wockity wack, odds and ends and bric-a-brac... !!!

It’s also partly (for me) because animals are innocent. Pretty much every human you’ve ever met has done something rotten at some time or another. Animals aren’t capable of malice. They literally CAN’T deserve anything bad that happens to them.

Shoe obsessions crack me up! I think I own three pairs total— sneakers (Chuck Taylors), black boots (Doc Martens), and a pair of flip-flops. Oh yeah, and my dog-walkin shoes with a hole in the toe. Your collection is impressive. :)

Ugh, why get me all excited for something I can’t possibly qualify for?! I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who meet the criteria-- but not a single person I know would be among them.

It’s been constant lately among multiple writers. My guess is overreliance on spell checkers, which can’t help you much if you use the wrong word but spell it correctly. You have to, ya know, KNOW some things yourself.

Automatic spell-checkers aren’t enough. “Populous” is a real word, so it got through— just as “loose” is a real word, even though it does not mean “lose.”

It’s “general populace.” “Populous” is an entirely different word- and an adjective.

I may have too-- I was not expecting what happened when he tried to right the pig. XD

Heyyy! No one ever gets it in real life when I say “Not I, said the cat!” Did they never hear that story when they were little? :D

CME! :)

I have been waiting for this since I first heard of the musical and knew that I’d never be able to afford to go see it.

I have the same problem every time I read an article like this.... You describe really, really bad as “running around the block leaves me doubled up in stitches, wondering if I’m about to die.” Well, if that’s really, really bad, there must not even be words for my situation. I only WISH I could run all the way around…

Your headline.....  It’s SPENDS. No apostrophe. (Come on, man.)

Hey, Cotton Hill killed fitty men. He also learned how to get around quite admirably after having his feet sewn onto his knees.

It’s almost like you’ve seen the future!

I’m surprised to read that others get their Amazon deliveries from Amazon carriers...  I live in a small, rural town, and nearly everything I order from Amazon is delivered by the USPS. On the rare occasion that I order something larger and heavier (like my portable air conditioner or my twin-tub washing machine),…

I AM from the Midwest, and I’ve never heard of them either. If some dude informed me that he was GD, I’d only think “you’re goddamn WHAT? Finish the sentence.”