Oooh, a Euro-trash specimen. Now I really want to puzzle it out. (Don’t worry, not gonna keep asking you who it is!)

This was Hillary Duff wasn’t it? It was!

realllllllly shitty Guy Pearce The Time Machine movie, which sucked.

That’s kind of what happened with me. Watched my grandfather slowly pulled down by his not-alcoholism-because-he-doesn’t-drink-liquor-just-beer for years. Terrified of becoming an alcoholic who would also pressure a family member into sneaking beer into the hospital I was dying in. Celebrated my *22nd* birthday with 2…

The vast majority of the drunk, drugged teens I worked with at a punitive military school in the mid-00s drank and got high to forget about the horrible parents/grandparents they had. Some people are reaping what they sowed and need to look at themselves and not the “horrible” teenagers.

I’m sorry but this is wrong. Every damn time I buy fresh green beans, they are brown and fuzzy before 36 hours. I think they start to go bad 2 hours before I put them in my cart.

Also, how is it Subway’s fault that Leslie stupidly asked for pre-shredded iceberg lettuce (that is terrible) instead of the awesome baby spinach leaves? That is totally on her

Yuck. I hate those things. They look like a dead mouse in the middle of rigor mortis that has been shoved onto a popsicle stick butt-first then had their face removed and replaced by features cut from a glamour magazine by someone who is definitely psychopathic. The psycho is waving them around as stick puppets.

Did you try the ketogenic diet for medical reasons? I ask because a work friend of mine heard about it also allowing one to lose weight quickly and that’s the way they lost their “pasta babies” for a few years. Then one spring they didn’t return to work after Easter break and no one could get in touch with them. We…

I’m guessing you meant you grew up in a time when seatbelts *weren’t* required?

Not “forcible sex”, “non-consensual sex”.

ITA. I have been to that party, where no one is talking to the birthday boy/girl. It’s just awful all around. What I’d like to know about this specific situation is what are the girl’s parents doing ahead of time to help her make friends? I’ve got a kid that doesn’t make friends easily or often because of shyness. We…

No, inviting the class is not a thing everywhere. Very few parents do it where I am and they are seen as being the odd ones, frankly. As a fellow introvert I understand where you are coming from. My kids are introverts too. Even if it WAS the thing to do here (invite everyone, everyone comes) we would not invite…

ITA.

I keep thinking this is Timberlake’s ear and it weirds me out.

On the bread knife front: I was once told the best way to slice those delicious crusty loaves was to turn the bread on its side and slice it like that. For myself, I do find that I no longer squish bread. It solves the too-short-knife problem as well. I use my parents’ silver wedding cake knife as a bread knife. It…

Ah, yes. Great tip. Also, when we were setting up house in the city of our alma mater, I went back to their bookstore and bought one of the really nice dissection kits used by pre-med majors. The scalpel is super useful, as are the small bone scissors. The whole set was under $30.

You could also be super helpful - start saying "Someone left their bag on the train!" and then reach for the bag. Put a real concerned look on your face. I've done this at an airport when some early bird dumped their stuff on an extra seat but then our gate fills up and I need to sit my kids together with me to keep…

I have small kids and when we visit relatives in DC, I make sure to catch the eye of the friendliest looking person near me. That way I can go ahead and say out loud that we don't have a transit system at home and I hope none of my kids are in their way or standing too close. It's really an announcement for everyone…

It shouldn’t, but humans are limited, flawed beings. I haaate conflict, though I won’t hide from it, so I just try to get done as quick as possible. I suffer from depression and social anxiety which causes a lot of irritation and stress for my friends and family. Sometimes also the people I work with. I look at it as…