That was a beautiful car, and I couldn’t even drive it as I can’t drive stick. (I probably miss it more than I do him.)

Very likely true, but it comforts me to know she’d be paying through the nose regardless.

Years ago, I was in a minor fender bender, and had a rental from Enterprise while my car was in the shop. On the day my car was ready to pick up, my (now ex-)husband was driving his 350Z to meet me there when he was t-boned at an intersection by a drunk driver (at noon-ish). My husband got away with just a sprained…

Until the mid-90s, South Carolina’s only area code was 803. This means that there are a lot of people who’ve rarely had to dial a 10 digit number in their entire lives.

When I lived in the wild, wild... uh, suburbs of North Jersey, I used to have bears raid my birdfeeder. Twice they snapped the 4"x4" post in half like a twig, presumably just for convenience’s sake.

Your parents aren’t from Iowa or something, are they? I grew up in Pennsylvania, and have lived in NJ, NY, SC, and am now in Rhode Island, and I never once heard the term until a Midwestern online friend used it online last year. Not even the boxes of step-sister’s and my cousins’ sets when I was growing up called it…

To my knowledge, only Midwesterners are willing to call Bean Bag Toss that, while the rest of us recognize it as an obvious sexual euphanism that someone tried to call it as a joke.

Me when reading comments from all the people wondering how a six year relationship produced a seven year old child:

Couldn’t you have found a picture that doesn’t show that poor woman being hugged lovingly by her murderer? I’m not usually bothered by that sort of thing, but I’m having a visceral ‘fuck that guy’ reaction. There must be some solo shots around.

Those offers are usually vouchers, not cash. Cash comes into play once you’ve been bumped involuntarily. So they’re offering coupons to cover a future fight, if you happen to have anywhere else you’re looking to fly before said coupons expire. Some people have a flexible enough schedule that that’s still a good deal,…

Maybe because they all needed to get somewhere too? Some people have extremely flexible schedules, but most people do not. I’ve never once flown somewhere where it wouldn’t have been a serious problem to be delayed by a day. If I have a meeting in Chicago that’s important enough for me to fly in for it, I both need to…

Romania’s spread up there is amazing.

“He didn’t want us to show a straight size model next to a plus-size,” she told us. “He said it ‘invited you to compare’ the two. It doesn’t. Unless you’re a misogynist.”

Also in NJ, Flemington’s was much improved the last time I went through, but similar. In my experience, the biggest problem was that every road feeding into it was a very busy two lane road, but once you were in the circle itself, it was unclear how many lanes there were. I think that’s fixed now.

All I can think is that I’d spend the entire time worried about getting shower water and soap in there. Verdict: not relaxing.

I’m of the “not intrinsically wrong, but wow zero to 120mph there” side of things. Lots of people are into that, or into fantasizing about that. But it seems like if it’s something he’s into in a knowledgeable and responsible way, there should have been a conversation first.

Well, yes, I’m fine with that.

I’m generally one towel a week.

You’re good. I shave maybe once a week in the fall/winter/spring, often less, and maybe every few days in the summer since I’m wearing shorts everywhere. I wonder if your boyfriend is like the guys who think that there are tons of women on tv who aren’t wearing makeup - oblivious to certain facts about how bodies work…

There is literally nothing to grip in my shower that can take my weight when I start to fall over; do you have a stripper pole in there or something? My shower curtain rod is a tension rod, and the shower head isn’t designed to hold more than itself and maybe a soap holder.