I have traveled a lot for work over the past year due to my job and have achieved Gold status on American. The secret is that for non-vacation flights (for example: Pittsburgh to Denver as compared to Philadelphia to Punta Cana), most people are travelling alone and are too cheap to pay for seats during the checkout…

I’m incredibly cheap and almost never pay extra for a seat assignment, but my wife and I are going to Greece next April, and the plane we’re on is a 3-4-3 layout, but with a few two-seat rows in the back. We paid an extra $220 roundtrip total to ensure we’d have a row to ourselves for both of the ~10 hour fights, and…

It’s just a standard ramekin!

FYI, once the cabin door closes, the head flight attendant is the rule of law on the plane.

No way I’m switching seats so that I can get my legs crushed while some lady who wasn’t paying attention while booking can not feel bad about her incompetence.

Sorry... you over tipped :-). My usual tip for crap like that is .25 cents. Well, that has happened to me only 2 times that I can recall. Of course being a single diner can be very challenging. But in restaurants that treat me real well, I will most times give a 30% tip.

It’s not worth it to me to try and separate that out. Did my order take 45 minutes because of a kitchen problem, or because the server screwed up? Don’t know, don’t really care.Is the food cold because of a kitchen problem, or because the server took a long time to pick it up? Same answer again.

It’s a good point you’re making — that the scenario in the West Wing episode shows the Republicans being deceptive, and the Democrats battling deception with deception, but only in order to have a fair vote. And, you’re right, everybody votes. But the Democrats can’t just bark and stomp and cry about it. They got…

They weren’t at home, they were attending to other government business. When an institution operates on norms for decades if not centuries to see that overturned by crass opportunism should come as a shock. That the Republicans are so callow that it is no longer a shock is besides the point.

I can’t identify the boots in the banner. I’ve asked reddit and even tried to contact the photographer through UnSplash and so far nothing.

I can’t identify the boots in the banner. I’ve asked reddit and even tried to contact the photographer through…

What are the boots in the title picture? Nicest of the bunch. 

What are the boots in the title picture? Nicest of the bunch. 

The boots in the article thumbnail look infinitely better than any of the footwear mentioned in the article. So, what are they and where can I get them, please?

The boots in the article thumbnail look infinitely better than any of the footwear mentioned in the article. So,…

What about the boots used in the headline photo?

What about the boots used in the headline photo?

It really is that simple. It still to this day amazes me how many people still don’t grasp this basic concept.

You can drive for any ride share company. You can pick your hours whenever you want. You can pretty much use anything thats not a heap of crap to do it.

I wrote this elsewhere, but even as a not entirely traditional person, I really only cared about the ceremony. I wouldn’t have cared if my sister wore this for photos or during the reception or interrupted our first dance or whatever. But to me the ceremony is the only part of the wedding that is actually important,…

The bride/sister may be an actual saint. The MOH/sister has a CLEAR need to be the center of attention at all times. 

It’s not a joke, it’s a giant middle finger at spending thousands of dollars and putting ungodly amounts of pressure on ourselves just to please a bunch of people who, in the end, only want free food and drinks

Wow, the guy really is in an Ivory tower.

Look, y’all, I get it that Elon and his companies have had some pretty cool ideas and done pretty some cool things. His ideas about transportation - either terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial - are shaking up the status quo and will inevitably lead to some remarkable innovations in the next few decades.