Yeah, I did check my withholding...at the beginning of the year. I didn’t realize it changed later.

Same boat. :/

I’ve had a refund every year since I first started filling taxes at age 16 - and this year I OWED a significant chunk of money. I file single, no investment income, the most complicated thing I have to itemize is a mortgage, and my deduction was even higher than the standard. And yet, after getting a good-sized refund…

Okay, but I claim no responsibility for the condom wrapper.

I suspect that in HtKaF’s case it’s more likely that she just didn’t like Charlotte. I know every piece of media says that all women are secretly in love with their male friends, but, well, if there’s a simpler explanation....

Yes, and the article did mention Mennonites - I was just correcting the misconception that “Mormons” wear stuff like this.

Not wearing sleeveless shirts or short shorts is a far cry from wearing tube dresses that cover your wrists and ankles....

I don’t even look at the sizes on patterns anymore, just the measurements.

Sizing on patterns is always much higher than on store-bought clothing, even today.

“modest” dressing styles of some fundamentalist Christian women, like Mennonites, Mormons, or the Amish.

The problem with “physical education” was that there was never any education.

It should definitely ring somewhere and shouldn’t be able to be disconnected, but sending it directly to 911 (especially in larger cities with a lot of call traffic) isn’t really feasible. I mean, the only elevators that rang straight to us were in the city buildings, and we still got a ton of false alarms on them -…

The real issue is that with shallow cuts you can usually clean any bacterial contamination out of the wound with ordinary measures. With a bite, everything gets driven down to where you can’t really clean it and it’s up to your immune system, and mouths are filthy.

Luckily for me my cat actually likes the taste of the liquid antibiotic they gave me last time and would lick it off my fingers if I dribbled it on there. SO much easier than trying to shove pills down her throat.

I’ve found that if I use only half of the pocket my cat will just eat it instead of daintily nibbling off the treat part - which is good, because she has a pill she has to take daily and she doesn’t take the more forcible pilling well.

If you’re talking the Greenies ones, I find half of one is more than enough (and my cat isn’t that tiny). There are also small jars of basically the same thing, so you can just portion out however much you need.

Pill pockets seem great until you have a cat that has figured out how to eat the treat part and leave the pill behind. Sigh.

When I adopted my cat years ago I attempted to give her a bath, which....went poorly. Being new to cat ownership, I ignored the warning signs until she panicked enough to bite me (on the thumb) so she could escape. Again, new to cat ownership, I just washed the bite and stuck a band-aid on it, thinking nothing of it.

Sometimes the “emergency” button in the elevator rings directly to 911.

I don’t think anything about it, it isn’t my story.