I just wanted to say that I so enjoy everything you write, Nick. Love hearing your view and really seeing your conflicting opinions on these scenarios.

I haven’t ever missed a flight, but I don’t recommend drinking all night before flying at 5am. I even crossed the border to another state that keeps their bars open later so I could just really party on my last night there and then cab over to the airport. I passed out before the plane took off and woke up needing to…

It's sad how much I miss Soup and a Sandwich! 

They can pronounce the ref’s name as LaMan-shuh to get back at him. (Assuming that’s not how it’s pronounced to begin with. I don’t know the guy.)

I waited tables in Washington state for years and 15% was the standard. I didn’t mind because I was making 10 dollars an hour on top of that. I was also a teacher and generally made more money waiting tables (minus the benefits), which I always found sad.

Exactly this. 

As a lady and a super nerdy Pearl Jam fan, I probably would have been right there with my husband it would have not been concerned about him going. 

I had the misfortune of living about an hour and a half away from there in extreme rural bumfuck Ohio for a year and I thoroughly enjoyed escaping to Cincinnati. If I went now though, I assume I would not feel the same.

I’ve been following his dog on Instagram for four years now then, I guess. I forgot this is why or who it even belonged to. 

Yep. Also mine is only five and would already never dare to ask me to eat anywhere else if I had already packed a lunch. That would not happen. 

This works well as long as you have the extra time. Thankfully, I also just have one child and she is usually so excited to get where we’re going that she’ll be fine with just a bit of playing time at a rest area with a playground and then will hop back in and carry on better than us adults.

CHICKEN PARM!

It pleases me so much to know I’m not the only one. In no particular order, things I became obsessed with after reports and/or think about the report anytime I hear it mentioned: Chernobyl, Venezuela, Saskatchewan, spider monkeys, tesselations.

I was the same way but with Venezuela.

Same! Also, my husband works at a nuclear power plant. I still have a hard time with it. It works so well until it doesn’t.

This is all amusing to me, especially the ear tickle.

Same. This has led to some haters calling him Butt Ugly, but at least they can still spell his name.

How in this age of auto correct are people still spelling ‘ridiculous’ incorrectly? English teacher rant over. This seems pretty lame of MLB, as usual.

I thought I was the only one who had ever used blue curacao as a mixer, but here we are!

My worst choice was my freshman year of college. My roommate and I were at a friend’s house and we thought blue curacao was a mixer because well, it was blue. It did not end well for us. I think our drink of choice was vodka, Malibu and blue curacao.