That sign would make me turn around immediately.  I also turn around for high water signs.  I gave up defying death a couple of years ago.

Absolutely.

I don’t disagree with you.  I’m going to tell you what I tell everyone else - write your congressperson.  You have a valid viewpoint, and the people making this policy don’t care what I say about it, but your congressperson might.  I say “might” because some of them suck, but perhaps you live in a district where yours…

Write your congressperson.  The last time anyone asked my opinion was in a class.  I’m not being snide.  You have a valid point, and I have no way to influence how foreign policy is carried out.

Way above my pay grade, dude.  If I was in charge of making US foreign policy make sense, I’d have gone insane a lot sooner.

That’s true even if you suck at it. Even if you tell people you suck at it and they’d be happier doing it themselves, they assume the X chromosome means it’s your job. I had this boss, who I hated already for other reasons, and I’d just started the job. I was told on Friday afternoon that I needed to set up a three…

Yeah.  My brother tried to pull the “but I don’t LIKE hospitals” crap when my mother and father were in them.  My not very sympathetic answer was “Tough shit.  Neither do I.  Get here now.”

I don’t think a lot of girls discourage their male siblings from helping for any reason.  I know there are wife/husband pairs like that, but I would have been delighted if my brother had been required to do any of the annoying chores I was, and I wouldn’t have cared if he screwed them up.  He’d have been the one who…

The first time I saw my father lift a hand to do a chore around the house I stood there with my mouth open watching him.  I was 20.

I see... well, if she insists on being miserable, no one can really stop her.

Same.

Her son came home with a dirty mask and she’s upset about it? Has she met little boys? They’re dirt magnets.  My best friend when I was little was a boy. We could be playing outside all day (usually Batman; we loved Batman) and he’d be a total mess and I would still be clean.

Wow.  I bet that was helpful to you, a new bike rider with questionable balance...

I got it too... and someone replied to something I wrote months ago, so it’s not just you and me.  I’m getting to read some interesting stuff in the greys, though.

With all due respect to your tiny little internal scream - you needed to be vaccinated to go to school. This is really no different except that you can avoid it by changing jobs. You couldn’t avoid school vaccines by changing schools.  

Yeah, neither do we.

Well, she’s not wrong; everyone who gets the vaccine IS going to die. It’s just that everyone who doesn’t get the vaccine has a much higher chance of dying SOONER, and of a virus that could have almost certainly avoided if they’d have gotten the vaccine.

When she was about 18 months old, my oldest niece used to call both her mother and me Mommy. We finally figured out that since she always held up her arms when she said it, she thought it meant “pick me up”. My sister, bless her, thought it was funny.  And when she got older, she called me Reader, not Aunt Reader,…

That’s where everyone’s mind goes first - mine did too - but once you get past that you realize that he was also listening to conversations she thought were private. Inmates in prisons at least get to talk to their lawyers in private. Imagine having to live in such a way that everything you say is recorded for the…

The minds of these people who think everyone’s in on this big hoax - I just don’t understand. Have they ever tried to throw a surprise party? Ask someone to keep a really good secret? Keep kids from finding out what’s in those wrapped packages? It’s impossible. And they think an entire state’s worth of hospitals,…