A strange game-theory experiment plays out in my house with some frequency: I am a person who wants to eat 2-4 “Natural” Oreo-equivalent cookies after dinner, hoping that the package will last the week. My wife, however, eats them a sleeve at a time. As a result, I feel compelled to gorge myself on them just so I get…

I didn’t mean to say you didn’t have a say, I just meant to put my own credentials on the table. Not to try to trump yours, just to clarify my own. Hence: to each their own.

25 miles of range in 12 hours? That doesn’t seem right to me. My Leaf can charge 70 miles or so overnight.

For what it’s worth, I’m also speaking from 20 years of restaurant experience, 15 of them serving/managing. To each their own.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT draw attention to the dropped plate. They know. Everyone knows. Let the record-scratch silence speak for itself. Have whatever 4-year-old feelings you have, but do not under any circumstances clap, or yell “Hey!” or groan loudly like you’re in the studio audience of a sitcom taping. Silently…

Flipside: only complain if the noise is actually unreasonable/ disruptive. I used to live in a condo building that allowed dogs. My upstairs neighbor didn’t like that my dog sometimes barked when people came and went. The dog was not barking at odd hours or keeping anyone awake (I am sensitive to shift work concerns…

I’m dissapointed. In order to really replicate the experience you should have invited two friends to stand in the bathroom and look the other way while pretending they couldn’t hear or smell you.

I’ll still wait until Gummi Bears is over to start watching, though.

They should have a playlist that let’s you reproduce an entire Disney Afternoon block from your year of choice.

A large handful of food allergies for my youngest have turned this into a special art in our house.

That’s a great little commuter. I’d daily that and keep a high-mileage 4runner or Tacoma around for the weekends.

Ever since my toddler stole my stovetop kettle, yes. It is his now. There is no getting it back.

My house came with a microwave. Otherwise I wouldn’t own one and probably would have bought an electric kettle instead.

I acknowledge potatoes. I still like to boil them for a while, but I have certainly given them a head start in the microwave. Haven’t tried the popcorn.

I’ll trade your onions for dill relish, but yeah.

The only things a microwave should ever do are boil water or melt butter.

This. As an American, I firmly believe that American Exceptionalism is a terrible disease and that most if not all of our cultural ills stem from it and the confirmation bias that props it up.

After eating ketchup on hot dogs my entire life, I recently started leaving it off in favor of two kinds of mustard (yellow and course brown). I’m not saying I am now morally opposed to ketchup on hot dogs, but I don’t think I’m going back.

“Find out if your state is reducing tax revenue it could use to properly fund education by eliminating taxes on the items it is requiring you to buy because they are not in the budget like they’re supposed to”