The HBO show Westworld is largely focused on a single question: what does it mean for people to kill and abuse robots that look, act, and possibly even feel like humans?

Ugh. I had a coworker get proposed to on a busy night. Her idiot boyfriend apparently thought it was a good idea to invite his family and her family and propose to her while she was working in front of her customers. It was mortifying - she said yes just to get it out of the way so she could work.

In my years serving I witnessed several breakups. Every one was awkward for me, the rest of the staff, and the dumpee. Here’s the thing you need to understand if you want to do something like this in a restaurant - your server is paying attention to you even when you don’t know it. We know what’s going on. Please,…

I meant I hope parents didn’t explain what the post-credits scene meant. Let them work it out for themselves.

How would he know any of that?

They finally figured out how to do Thor well, with Ragnarok being wildly successful and him playing a huge, crowd-pleasing role in Infinity War. They’d be nuts to kill him off now of all times (unless Hemsworth wants out of the role, but again, it’s finally gotten good so he’d be nuts to want out).

Because he’s a psycho. He wasn’t interested in using the gauntlet to save the universe, he was interested in using it to enact his plan to save the universe, which was to kill half of everyone.

My thoughts exactly. Kids watching this will NEVER forget how they felt when the heroes just drifted away into dust, and Thanos sat down and grinned in satisfaction. This movie is going to be the subject a zillion foldly nostalgic thinkpieces in 20-30 years (if anyone’s left alive on Earth then).

Some of us only had two channels! But Hungry Hungry Hippos and Star Wars action figures made up 95% of the rest of our entertainment.

Hopefully they didn’t, and let the kids work it out themselves over time.

Yes, Star Wars was a huge thing with kids at the time. I had Empire action figures, a pop-up storybook, a read-and-listen book, and various printed garments. I actually was too young for it to make a serious emotional impact on me (I was two when it came out, so my earliest memories all have Darth Vader as already…

Takes literally zero extra seconds to throw it in a top loader - just let go of it when you’re done pouring the detergent. I have been doing this for years, because why not?

Yes! A server who doesn’t write things down can both a) alleviate concerns of the table and b) reinforce their own memory by just repeating the order back.

Please stop going out to eat. Your servers hate you.

I’ve worked in some places that gave no real direction one way or the other, where it was entirely up to the server’s discretion. And of course, being a human endeavour, the results varied wildly. Some servers would refuse to write things down and then act shocked and dismayed when they messed up an order, whereas…

No they don’t. What are you talking about? If you don’t get the thing you order, you send it back and get what you ordered, usually at a discount or free for your trouble. This is the 100% agreed-upon exception to the “don’t send food back” rule.

Up until I was seven or eight years old, I lived next door to an older kid named Bryce. We lived right on the edge of our small town. One day he wandered out of town and shot a raccoon. I found this out when he popped up over our shared fence and threw its testicles at me and my brother.

My ex-in-laws used to give me all kinds of shit about not wanting to touch raw meat. I could never convince them that it has nothing to do with “ew, icky”, and everything to do with not wanting to deal with the mess. If I’m preparing food and need to answer the phone, for example, I don’t want to have to go through a…

Does it count if they’re on the right side for the wrong reasons?

Yeah, he seems like an absolute nightmare of a human being.