That's the thing - if you don't know how to eat or drink something properly, don't order it just because it seems fancy. My friend's little brother is a bartender at a high-end restaurant in the Hamptons, and he sees many people who order high end wine or liquor and kill it with cheap-ass mixers. Seriously, if you…

That makes me so angry.

"someone needs to make friends with Bill W."

My husband had a classmate in law school like this who wanted Kobe beef extra well-done. It makes me seethe just thinking about it.

I was at a Starbucks on the UES where the guy insisted they brew his hot green tea. The first time it was too light. The second time it was too dark. Finally, the barista handed him the water and teabag and told him to do it himself like everyone else. His gripe was that when he goes to Starbucks, he pays for the…

God, that is awful. I really hope that your friend can eventually get better. My husband struggled with alcoholism for a while, and we realized that the only way we could keep our mental health intact was to cut off both sets of parents entirely. We tried enforcing boundaries, which were constantly violated. We moved…

For some people, they are not endocrine disruptors, but endocrine regulators. My pituitary spits out ridiculous amounts of prolactin and testosterone, leading to painful complications. Birth control pills allow me to live a normal life.

It drove me nuts that mainstream news organizations were posting the headline "Birth Control Causes Breast Cancer" and talking about the pill as almost unnecessary. I have to take moderate-estrogen birth control pills, because they are the only things that keep my godawful ovarian cysts and endomitriosis in check.…

I agree. I'm always surprised that local law enforcement (from where my husband is from) doesn't take that stuff seriously. A couple of his friends or (friends' sibling's friends) got kicked out at like 13/14 with no place to go. That should be some sort of crime.

Sorry to hear that. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a bitch - my husband's mother is Borderline and my husband recalls getting kicked out of the house at 13/14 for the smallest things, like finishing the last of the orange juice.

I could very well be - although I don't wish my mom on anyone else.

They're essentially shutting their kids up too, I can say by safe standards that I was a good kid - straight As, all AP classes, every extracurricular out there, didn't drink, didn't smoke, etc. - and still my mom wasn't happy with me, to the point she frequently beat the crap out of me or found some way to…

Yeah, I don't fully understand the purpose of it. Sell the tickets, fine, but to give interviews and whatnot? It's kind of gross. Mom doesn't realize that she is publicly advertising that she is a horrible parent. Also, bullying is rough at that age. It's got to be hard to be a teenager and to see your mom telling…

Hopefully it goes down/went down very, very ugly.

I'm assuming she does - or at least I hope she does.

She had twins via donor - a boy and a girl. Girl was pretty, blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked baby and the boy had a facial deformity. Mom abandoned the boy because he didn't fit into her 'picture-perfect' family. No one knows what happened to the boy after she left the hospital - he most likely became a ward of the state.

An editor at my mom's firm did a similar thing. She was a nightmare, a la Devil Wears Prada, and she took the 'perfect' girl twin home while leaving the boy twin who had a facial deformity at the Hospital.

Oh, honey, I am so sorry that you can't read sarcasm.

Yeah I'm pretty sure most offices don't allow open-toed booties, though. Then again, I'm only allowed to wear flats at my office job so I'm biased.

Ugh, I LOATHE the term starter husband. I got married young, and while I am well aware of the probability that we *might* some day divorce, it's not something I'm excited about. Mentioning that I might eventually upgrade (whatever that means) is a good way to earn my judgement.