SLC here, and yes. I lived in NYC once upon a time and a friend took me to “the country” for a “hike” once. He told me we were done and and it was time to turn back. I thought we were still looking for the trailhead.

Whenever this topic comes up in the comments, you can tell who is commenting from the East coast and who is commenting from out West. City-dwelling Westerners are much more likely to get they’re tires dusty on the weekend and see the value in something small to do that while also parking in the condo garage.

Every generation needs its Brat or Baja.

I really like Sour Skittles, but my mother withheld affection from me. Coincidence?

Good for you, seriously. Acknowledging our own mistakes to our children, especially when they’re the one’s who have been wronged, is just as important in modeling good behavior as doing it right to begin with. 

“Thank you so much for brushing your teeth, that’s a big help in getting to bed with enough time to read stories. Tomorrow night, do you think you can work on doing it the first time I ask so we have any more time for stories? I really enjoy that time together and I know you do to, but I need your help to get there.”

I am so so so very tired of this asshole.

I have an acquaintance with the last name of Haas who created a personal signature cocktail he calls the “Hass-Style”. It consists of a warm shot of gin and a slap in the face.

My desire to check real estate prices was driven largely by some wings and beans I ate at Martin’s.

I was in Nashville for a conference last year and was impressed by the city in general. Out of curiosity, I checked out real estate and was pretty blown away by how expensive it was. I live in a pretty hot up-and-coming market and expected it to be comparable or cheaper, but NOPE.

It’s about 110,000 now.

Inherited it 5 years and 50,000 miles ago.

Literally waiting at this moment to hear from the shop about my head gasket repalcement being finished on my ‘07 Forester.

The Pinto is the first family car I remember, so I have a nostalgia loyalty there.

The “this is too mainstream now” argument is sooooo tired. If you were only into a thing because it was underground and edgy, then you, too, were liking it for the wrong reasons.

Nothing says entitlement like feeling entitled to someone else’s oppression.

In Salt Lake, using your snowblower for someone you know uses a shovel. Less universal, but definitely a thing, when hiking, to step off the trail for mountain bikers to pass. Hikers technically have right-of-way, but it’s just less of a hassle for hikers to step off for a moment. It’s always appreciated.

As much as I wish the US would get on the metric bandwagon, Fahrenheit is a better scale for atmospheric temperature. It is calibrated from 0 -100 by range of habitability (roughly) rather than on the freezing and boiling of water which makes sense for science but is not very useful for the weather report. Also, the…

Hey, don’t blame me, I voted for the other person whose name I just had to google even though that was only like 9 months ago.

I live in Utah and I did a double-take at a “Senator Romney” headline the other day. Kinda forgot we did that.