Awesome, thank you so much :)

Oh wow! Is there a specific type of paint you use for this?

So, like, the plane crash happened on the ground? That’s a letdown. Way to overstate your fender bender.

Yeah, the coughing puzzled me as well. Lyme is pretty common where I live, unfortunately, and my mom had chronic Lyme. It was several very difficult years for her but coughing? Um, no. Literally never heard of coughing being a symptom of Lyme disease.

We got engaged in a parking garage and I loved it because it was just us and he was so nervous and cute.

Gah. A shop I love sells them too and they’re $50. They look really cool but no. Just no.

Are you sure? As in, you’ve talked to them and they said they’ll hate you forever or whatever if you change it? People can surprise you. My Irish Catholic married at 17 had 6 kids grandmother quietly told me it was lovely that I didn’t change my name when I got married. (She’s my maternal grandmother so it wasn’t her…

I’m always entertained by articles about women changing/not changing their names when they marry. Everyone except me seems to have a deep, meaningful reason they made whichever choice they made. I don’t. I just didn’t want to change my name so I didn’t. It actually never occurred to me to tell my husband until he…

Yeah, I can see how sometimes it could be effective but it just seems like such a small, small, small number of people who would be receptive that it seems pointless overall.

I’ve always wondered about door to door evangelizing. Like...I’ve never been home, twiddling my thumbs, and thinking that I just might change religions if some rando came to my door. A couple of LDS kids did come up to my Japanese coworker and I one day and started their spiel. He interrupted and said, “I’m Shinto”.…

Yeah, I tried Diorshow and thought it would be amazzzzing. Meh. I went right back to my Ulta mascara. It's weirdly perfect.

South Africa is so beautiful and interesting. It's impossible not to love. I'm pretty sure the airline is obligated to get you back- call them and raise a stink.

Oh, I like that idea!

I'm such an advocate of not forcing kids to hug/kiss someone if they don't want to. My mom would always try to make my niece (she's 3 now) hug me and has stopped only because she got tired of my lectures about bodily autonomy. Haha. Dude, she's 3 and I see her maybe every 5-6 months since we live 900 miles apart. It's…

My version of this was around age 15 or so. My Girl Scout leaders (the most awesome trio of ladies EVER) invited an ob/gyn to one of our meetings to answer questions. The meeting before, we’d all written down questions and put them in a big envelope so that no one would feel awkward about her question. It’s a tribute…

Well, in VA, it’s legal to use your cellphone while driving so I can’t say with certainty. Personally, I would have no issue with using your phone for that specific scenario, so I wouldn’t write a ticket but that’s not to say it won’t happen. If it were me, I’d go to court and explain your rationale and see if the…

If you read the Snopes article, you’ll find that it’s not a hoax, it just depends on where you are. In my state, #77 (sorry! I wrote *77 the first time- should be #) will connect you to the Virginia State Police. I was pretty clear in my post about #77 that I was referring to VA specifically. VASP also states on their…

*77 is for state police, though (at least in VA). It won't get you to the local PD or SO. 911 is that way to do that so I advocate that. This happens fairly rarely in my neck of the woods so it doesn't overwhelm the 911 system by any stretch.

I’m a cop in an area with plenty of rural spots and I have no problem with someone doing this. Here’s what I ask people to do: call 911, put on your flashers, and turn on your interior light. At that point, it’s very clear to me that you acknowledge the stop, aren’t trying to run, and recognize my need for safety.

He...thinks that “post menopausal therapy” is contraception? Methinks he skipped biology class to buy that tatty shirt.