I think it’s pretty crazy and kinja agrees with me. There I was with a father and a mother and as a guy I tried to help her out.

This is probably no relief to you but when our beloved dog died at 16 1/2 (!) we were in the zet’s office where they gave her the injection and we watched her pass away. I went back into the waiting area. I didn’t cry; I’ve seen too much death in my life. I went to work the next day and a few days later we had our big…

I have never disciplined a stranger’s child in a Catholic church but I’ve done it before, in public. The mother may not have been American but she probably came from somewhere where Masses are held in even more reverence than they are here. I’m surprised the priest didn’t grab the kid himself and make him/her take…

I don’t know whom to respond to so I’ll respond to you. I’ve lived with dogs all my life. I’ve gotten fleas and lice from them and cleaned up more doggie vomit and diarrhea than most people will see in a lifetime.

PS: I’m in New York. We all become yentas, even those of us who aren’t natives. I’ve had perfect strangers come up to me when I’m walking my hellbeast and give me dog training advice. I’ve had dogs all my life and a perfect stranger wandered up to me and grabbed my dog by the scruff of his neck and explained, “This is…

Sorry, I am an a-hole. I hate seeing children cry or in distress. And having none of my own I get to sleep regular hours and wander around unencumbered. This little girl was totally miserable through no fault of the parents, who were a little distracted and probably used to the acting out, so I stepped in (totally…

You’re not a parent. Once you leave you parent’s basement and maybe convince someone of the opposite sex to have a child with you you’ll understand what I was talkng about.

I sympathize. My black husband and I are originally from Boston but we fled to New York once we had our graduate degrees and were able to get jobs and establish ourselves.

I should have 20 or 30 years ago but my husband (we’ve been together for 30 years) was always against it, so we raised lots of dogs instead. My biggest regret. I give tons of money to children’s charities but it’s not the same.

I’m not really wonderful, I can be an asshole (just ask my husband!) but I have this weird calming effect on infants and dogs. Not cats; cats run away when I enter a room, but I’ve had dogs my entire life so I probably smell like a dog and don’t even realize it. I’m a really big guy, really tall and somewhat…

I’m a writer and work in Manhattan. If you give me a MetroCard and a tuna fish sandwich I’ll help you out!

I’m used to it. I have a small relative who is a handful and I make up games and ask her to sing songs whenever I’m around her. She’s on the Asperger scale and is actually a very intelligent, engaging little girl, but she sometimes doesn’t interact “normally” with other people. That’s where I step in. Her parents are…

This sounds incredibly creepy but I’ve been in restaurants where there has been a screaming toddler and the parents were entirely clueless about how to deal with this and pretended nothing was going on. I normally hang out in adult restaurants, and because I’m gay sometimes restaurants popular with other gay men, who…

My mother had a morbidly obese beagle (the beast was huge, he weighed like 80 pounds or something, he was very tall for a beagle) and he liked to go into the backyard and forage and bring her stuff when he came back. One time when I was visiting he brought back a half-dead bat. I almost passed out but my mother, used…

Your mother is clearly not a member of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I take it! Or maybe she is. The funnniest, and foulest, Catholic jokes I’ve ever heard were told to me by Catholics.

Over the course of the last three days I’ve had to create several burner accounts. I don’t know what the Hungarians are doing over at GM IT but they’re screwing with me.

No, I wasn’t banned (I don’t think; there’s no reason that I would be banned, I stayed pretty much out of the Geithner outing wars, disgraceful as that was) but kinja and Safari aren’t playing well together, and my phone thinks logging onto jezebel is like receiving a SOS message from the Titanic, LOL. So I now have…

I think I am already doing this! I’m a freelancer/”self-employed individual business owner” and I get health care through the Affordable Care Act. It is amazing. I went to the health care clinic and spent the entire day there. Not through incompentence; that is how thorough they were. I can see the future and I’m…

There is a joke in the Catholic community that if men could get pregnant abortion would be the 11th commandment.

No. I’ve only been to a few frat parties. My college forbade them but a bunch of guys got together and rented an entire five-story townhouse off campus where they’d throw parties. Many was the woman who drank too much Everclear and Hawaiian Punch out of a trash can and I’d have to beat the bros off with a stick or…