An interior cabin, weird awkward formal dining, practically the youngest person on the boat by 50 years (I was a teenager) and basically no activities that I enjoyed. The included pre-cruise hotel in Tampa was half a step up from hot-sheet status and probably reverted back to it the following week. Montezuma’s…

Stop and Shop has a similar system that utilizes a handheld scanner gun. (There may also be an app, IDK.) Scan your loyalty card to activate, scan and bag as you go, then it tots up the purchase, including any digital coupons, and either generates a barcode that you scan at the checkout machine or tells you to find a…

We take away professional licenses not because someone might do something harmful, but because they have done something harmful. Imagine if we took away driver licenses because people are intense texters or social media users — they might text while driving, so we should prevent them from driving! Pretty soon we’d…

This is why secure psychiatric facilities exist, to hold convicts with severe mental illness. Apparently the state of California maintains one not far from where this accident happened.

Any inpatient psychiatric hospital can treat an acute psychotic episode related to bipolar disorder. There are at least two freestanding psych hospitals in Los Angeles, and pretty much every hospital with an emergency department is going to have a psych ward with at least a few beds. Large general hospitals may even…

Wow.

I bet they’ve migrated to the rear storage areas of nicer SUVs. It’s not the homeless who will take a basket, it’s people who “forget” or just don’t like reusable bags and who are too cheap to spend $0.10 on a paper bag, who will use the basket to carry their goods to their car and just not return it.

I had an issue with a bougie vegan “dairy” company’s cream cheese product last year that I reported via their website — the item was moldy at the time of purchase, well before the sell-by date — and they comped me with a coupon for the full value of the item plus another coupon good for the full purchase price of one…

I was going to say, any brand with this sort of endorsement probably should be making a statement. Everyone else can pipe down, though.

And propulsion! Most residential structures do not need to be able to move under their own power.

Went on one once. Did hate it, don’t need to go on another. There are FAR less exploitative ways to spend my travel dollars.

The New York State tourism office does a state-specific foliage map; looks like they will be starting on September 14 this year. The drought in lower New England will mean bad leaf conditions in the most easily-accessible regions, though.

• Cheesesteak: no, but I understand

You can get disco fries in most diners in the Northeast, and I’m sure that bars in many other places do cheese fries. We don’t get real poutine because unless you live in or near Wisconsin or within 20 miles of the Quebec border, cheese curds are hard to come by.

New Yorker checking in to say that the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich is better on a kaiser roll. A really good bagel will have a crunchy crust that makes it very hard to eat sandwich-style.

You get about a quarter pound of what is probably the best lox in the world as part of the sandwich.

If this is what is needed to make the minimum wage a living wage, bring it.

It also helps to know your state liquor laws. In New York, where hard liquor is prohibited in grocery stores, if you want High Noon, you need to go to the liquor store.

The autumnal drink of choice in Vermont is fresh apple cider.

(not mine!)