I'm with you on this. I don't want to be equally friendly with everyone. In Germany, I expect most people talking to me to use Sie (formal tense) until they ask if it is okay to use du. It's almost always fine to use du, but the act of asking if it is okay to be informal is important to me. These are good boundaries…

Was it a German customer? You can order food sharp (scharf) in Germany and it means spicy. I wouldn't expect eggs to come spicy, but that's the only thing I could think of. Unless... egg shell bits?

My grandma used to do a similar but awesome instead of douchey thing. She would hold a 20 and get random workers to help her (who absolutely were not obligated to) and then give them the 20. For example - I remember being in an airport with her and she was old and couldn't walk very fast, so she tipped some airport…

Haha, that sounds about right. All I want from Diana at this point is closure on how Brianna and co ended up where they are. It could be told in less than 100 pages. But she'll probably end up writing like 4000 more pages. Maybe they'll go to Thailand next. They had a king get overthrown around that time. All the…

Have you read the John Grey books? I've started on those now, and they're really god-awful. I'll probably finish all of them though, because they're short and I've only ever stopped reading a book halfway through once.

I did that once. Only my parents never noticed. They also didn't notice when I had green hair. The green hair was by far the better choice.

You know, Sprachschulen teach other languages than German. Classes are taught exclusively in the language you are trying to learn - maybe it would be possible to work out some sort of trade thing?

You should try Duolingo. It's kind of like Rosetta Stone, but free and online.

German speaking Jezzies - rejoice in the joy that is Cro. The video is still great whether you understand it or not.

Thanks for such a detailed response!

My hope is to eventually move to Germany (also from the midwest), but assuming that dream comes true in the next few years (or ever) I worry about how I would take my cat with me. I've had him since I was 8, he's now 15 and still super healthy so there's no chance I could leave that little baby. You've done this? Can…

I think the problem is that everyone has a different definition of what a 'fight' is in a relationship. I don't yell, and if someone yells at me I immediately shut down and start to cry (because childhood was awful, but anyway). However my SO and I do disagree and upset each other sometimes, and I think of it as a…

It isn't just a restaurant though, chipotle refers to dried jalepenos. Which I am guessing aren't very popular over there, but they have definitely been around for ages longer than the chain.

My cat never licks anything, but he does jump into the bed, rub against you, and start purring loudly. He does it often enough that now we just shove him off the bed and pretend he wasn't there.

There was one time, ONE, that I enjoyed noise from a car that was obviously directed at me. I was wearing a short skirt and my long winter jacket. Someone started playing CAKE's Short Skirt, Long Jacket. They did not yell at me or attempt to talk to me.

Maybe from the guy I've been with for 4 1/2 years. Anyone else is a major no go.

Nothing wrong with enjoying looking at dicks. I'd warrant many of us do. What we don't like is unsolicited dick pics. If you want 'em, solicit away.

I'm a server/bartender in catering. We get paid with tips, but tips that are built in to what the host pays for the event. Of the gratuity, the servers at the event only make 60%. Where does the rest of the gratuity go? No idea. Not to us. We also cap out at $10/hr in tips (plus the shitty base rate). We are literally…

My dollar bill wads from bartending make me feel great... until I have to buy something and I realize my bulging wallet was really like $30.

I had butt length hair as a child. It hurt like a bitch to brush it. So I never did. And then one day I discovered conditioner. Suddenly I could brush my hair without pain! I still hold it against my mother she literally never once told me what conditioner was. Other children were... less than kind.