I would check with an attorney. I’m in NJ and we opted for the adoption even though I am on my son’s birth certificate. We did it as a “belt and suspenders” type thing. Probably good that we did since his mom and I ended up splitting up (note that in NJ the adoption did not matter, what mattered is that we were both…

Right. In which case a phone number STILL doesn’t help. I would get it if they discreetly tried to place the sign in/near payphone areas, but payphones don’t exist, so...are they hoping someone will tap on the stall and ask to borrow the neighbor’s cell phone like a square of toilet paper?

I think if it gets worry-betes then you just need to get it on a regimen of worry-insulin.

Ooh thanks! All queued up to listen on my way home!

So it’s kind of like the phone numbers in the Las Vegas airport that tell you to call them if you’re a victim of human trafficking? Even though chances are, if you’re trying to escape trafficking in an airport, you’re either not alone or you don’t have a goddamn phone handy. 

Just ordered one for my kid. I love this! He tends to overthink a lot of things (especially when he learns about science-he once spent a week fretting that scientists were wrong and the sun might go out sooner than they thought). This is such a cool idea!

Exactly! We were lucky it was simple and we could afford it, but it still sucked...and there’s many families for whom the cost of IVF is enough of a burden.

Yup. I’m on my kids birth certificate and I still had to go to court to adopt him. Thank god we’re in a state where that was procedural-the biggest issue was that it cost money, but it was a streamlined and foregone conclusion...plus we had a super nice judge who went out of her way to acknowledge and celebrate two…

Maybe we need a rescue charity to adopt abandoned nuns. My gay jewish ass would totally do it.

Good timing on this. I just started using a rowing machine at home after enjoying my gym’s Concept D. I did not buy a nice Concept D, I bought a cheap “Sunny health and fitness” brand one from Amazon. My logic is this: I’m going to be able to work on rowing form and cardio endurance, I get to learn if I am going to…

And when Frontier cancels your flight and rebooks you for a different day, do you then have to pay for the extra seat since it’s outside the freebie window?

Maybe I watch too much TV. Maybe I’m reading waaaay too much into this. But I grew up in central NJ, and I know from my hometown that there are some very racist assholes, especially towards people of Indian descent.

Dumb question: don’t all treadmills do intervals like that? So basically the difference is that you’re all suffering together?

The Hunger Games is basically about a dystopian future where poor people from different districts are tossed in an arena to fight to the death for the entertainment of the rich.

You literally just described the start of The Hunger Games. 

Does anyone else remember the short-lived tap to pay service from Verizon called ISIS?

If you shop at Wegmans, the app does this for you. Put together your list and it automatically groups things by aisles in the order they’re in at your preferred store. It’s the single greatest thing about the app. 

 Oh no Magic School Bus would definitely have the potential for far weirder nightmares. You win!

As a less-than-feminine woman, I’ve gotten “sir” a number of times. 95% of the time I just let it slide, because it’s usually a server or someone in a hurry, and they made a snap judgement based on a flannel shirt, or a ball cap, and they weren’t looking closely. Shit happens.

Handing the kid a device and going back to sleep is my go-to. It’s gotten to the point where my son just wakes me up, asks for my phone so he can play a game, hops in next to me, and I go back to sleep while having terribly weird Sonic the hedgehog dreams because that’s all he plays and he insists he needs the sound…