Oh boy, isn’t that the truth. I once took some out-of-town relatives to the Science Center on a game day (we always take the train to Exposition Park) and you never saw so many clueless newbies in your life.

It should tell you when it expires. However, I have a senior card and the way those work is different, so you’ll want to check to make sure.

Trump will make up some suitably juvenile nickname for you.

Thanks. I was only speaking of the transfers I know about.

Oh, you’re right! Thanks for the correction.

If you register your TAP card you can check the balance online.

My granddaughter has had a Nintendo 2DS for about a year now (she’s 5). She regularly beats the pants off me at Mario Kart. I even got my own 2DS when I found them on sale and even with practice....  she still beats the pants off me. I have always been truly inept at video games. It does provide a lot of entertainment…

I would move to the Big Island if I could possibly swing it. I have loved volcanoes since I was a little girl and could only read about them in National Geographic and my parents’ Encyclopedia Britannica.

Los Angeles:

My parents were king and queen of “DON’T TALK BACK!” My brothers and I were not to express any opinion that contradicted our parents’, especially during “discussions.”

My grandmother’s partner was Hungarian and she always put sauerkraut in goulash. It was the only way I would eat sauerkraut as a kid. Because my dad could burn nearly anything and when he wanted to put sauerkraut on a hot dog or something he’d plop it into a pan and put it on the electric stove with the burner set on…

The fireworks display when you got the right answer was impressive.

I think one of the main reasons why older people are so often hesitant about today’s technology is that when we were kids, everything “tech” was both expensive and fragile and our parents made damn sure we kept our mitts off it. In my family we had the additional hazard that my dad was a world class neat freak and…

My son had a Dataman and finally wore it out to the point where we couldn’t fix it. It was pretty darn impressive for its day.

Can someone please swap in a Louisville Slugger?

I have a well deserved reputation for being absolutely terrible at video games. The only one I was even halfway good at was Lemmings, which should give you the picture.  :)

After close to 50 years of grocery shopping, I am completely burned out on it. I consider it one of life’s gifts that I can now afford to pay someone else to do it for me. I tip 25% (Instacart default is a measly 5%). And I always thank the driver personally and give them 5 stars. It’s the least I can do for someone…

The Bronners are genuinely nice people. Two Bronner sons (grandsons of the original Dr. Bronner) were in the Boy Scouts with my son and Mrs. Bronner was very involved with the scouts as well.

The Bronners are genuinely nice people. Two Bronner sons (grandsons of the original Dr. Bronner) were in the Boy…

I’m glad these things weren’t invented when I was a kid. When my mom kicked my brothers and me out of the house in the morning with instructions to “go outside and play” it was probably just as well that she couldn’t track us all over the neighborhood.

It was hard to convince my husband to do that. But it turned out that his brother had gotten the boot from another “downsizing” company at the same time and HE collected unemployment, so finally my husband applied. It gave us a few months of income at least.