I basically said the same thing this morning after seeing this news. Believe me, as an American I cannot explain how or why anybody thinks this is acceptable, let alone desirable. I feel like I’m losing my freaking mind. And there is nothing anybody can do to stop it except those who run the Republican Party, and…

She’s just setting up an opportunity to show (again) what a hypocrite he is. 

His face looks like that because he’s thinking “I just paid WHAT for two helium balloons?!”

Yeah, it isn’t clear to me what men’s increased involvement in pre-natal care is supposed to look like. Granted my memory is bad and I am looking back across the gulf of sleepless years that has made it even worse, but my recollection of the pre-natal period is that I needed to know how to take care of myself properly.…

Do you have an allergy-friendly version of that peanut activity?

Yeah, we have to throw away cardboard boxes in the middle of the night and hope our children don’t notice or there will be hell to pay.

My strategy is to cover as much of my skin as possible, because one time I literally got sunburned at 9am on a cloudy day in April in the vicinity of Boston. 

I think it sounds great to live in a society that a) gives people time away from work to have other things in their lives, and b) cares about whether people are mentally healthy and happy. 

It doesn’t make sense for a 12-year-old to hang out with a toddler either. 

It is reasonable that you’d like him to go with you, but also reasonable that he’d prefer not to. From his perspective, it’s 7 hours of driving in a single day to go a party for a stranger where he isn’t going to know anyone. If the kids are young, that would be extremely challenging for them. I wouldn’t drive that…

After looking at these photos I feel like I have less of an idea of what camp is than when I started.

What is even the point of being rich? You can’t buy your way into the school of your choice AND you still shop at IKEA like us poors? 

Nothing makes me laugh more than some 30 something woman from the Mid-West tells the camera how magical it all is and how they wish they had something similar...

I don’t know anything about grandparental rights, and I’m not a lawyer. I do know that in my state parents having access to their kids is the highest priority— my friend left her husband after he beat her up, and even with photographic evidence taken by the police they share custody of their very young daughter.…

So it sounds like he acknowledged in their conversation that he should have contacted her in advance. Classic “better to ask for forgiveness than permission”. So much entitlement behind that way of thinking.

I agree. Also, I think there’s some self-deception/self-convincing going on too. Like, if you get almost no vacation time, and your day-to-day life is spent juggling home and work responsibilities and racing from one thing to the next, you need to believe, at least a little bit, that you had a good time on vacation.…

Because they don’t realize how hard it is going to be and by the time they do it’s too late?

That was my first thought too. It must cost a fortune to open a restaurant in Union Square, and they didn’t even do their due diligence? It just goes to show how easy it is to live a segregated life, even in a place as diverse as New York. It should take a pretty minimal amount of cultural awareness to avoid something…

Yes! Or, in this case, a customer who is so convinced he knows everything that he makes an assumption rather than asking a question. 

This comment perfectly sums up why I hate my BIL. Except for the name, this is 100% him. He once told me that he didn’t tip a server because he ordered a dish with cheese in it (he doesn’t like cheese), not realizing that one of the ingredients listed on the menu was cheese...and this was the server’s fault because…