Knowing how difficult the customer is from the story, the answer to your first question would probably be an impatient, condescending "I.ASKED.FOR.A.ROOT.BEER.FLOAT.WITHOUT.ROOT.BEER. DO.YOU.NOT.UNDERSTAND?" like the fault is yours. And the answer to your second question would most likely be "That's not how whole…

I get my simple trims at a rural Fantastic Sams. Even if the bill comes out to just $14.99 I still tip and give a big smile and a big thank you like they totally gave me a new hair style. More than once the girl that did my hair looked pleasantly surprised. We live in a farming town and I know these gals don't make…

They're power tripping, because going out in public and lording it over service people is one of the few times they ever feel important in their life. Source: My redneck step-family.

Hershey's suck. I've always wondered why American Kitkats taste so sugary and ordinary compared to Asian ones, then found out that Nestle produces Kitkats all over the world except for the US where Hershey's has permission to produces their little sticks of outrageous blasphemy. Thank god for ebay and savvy…

Oh god, my best friend would happily sing "Killing Me Softly" while slowly ripping off one leg from the chick then popping it into her mouth, then pulling the other leg, then the head...the beak makes a crunching sound sometimes I think? Thankfully I am from a family that indulged my tantrums to only sip the "soup"…

I love Masters of Rome too! It's been years since I read them, but I loved Sulla's sneaking around and his lover who stayed with him to the end. Loved the brawls at the senate, and everybody trying to shout down everybody else. Poor Livia Drusa and her brother Livius who took in her kids. Lots of other things too! The…

Yeah, like National Geographic-style articles. I mean I dunno, I'm such a nerd I cheer up instantly when I see articles here about women in history, never mind if they were obsessed killers or somebody who birthed 300 babies or a fancy Imperial princess. I just devour those stuff. *pushes up glasses and ducks back…

Helps her other kids I'd say, considering that she just watched as one of her boys suffered for months before dying in a painful way. She most likely was a victim of abuse too, but that doesn't mean that she's going to be a good mother to the other children. Maybe the best for them is to be far away from them.…

Love Tim's sidenote. I moved to Wisconsin and am befuddled by how some people can have a Southern sounding accent when they've lived in their little farming town all their lives. Wednesdee, Thursdee, Fridee, Saturdee, Rutabagee (rutabagas!) Yepper, Noper, it goes on and on. Ellen's story: I don't know how she was able…

YES, yes and yes! That's it exactly. I wanted to butt in, "good for both of you that you're alive, not a lot of kids made it" but I don't want to get evil glares and extended Hurr Durr we're so tough lectures from old ladies about how young'uns today are so soft. You just gotta love (HATE) how ignorance of science is…

Just yesterday my aunt in her 60s and her friend of the same age were talking about what a big fuss is being raised about this. They blabbed on about how when they were young they got measles, chicken pox etc and they all survived just fine. Seriously, you'd think older people would know better than anybody about how…

Goddamn it I swear if I trip over somebody's stray clit I will SUE. Put your clits on leashes if there's even a possibility that it will get up and trot off to the next county. Let's all be responsible clit-owners please.

How on earth did that officer not SCREAM (or even twitch?!) when the kitty was hiking up his leg and punching in little holes in his skin.

Rosebudding was still worst for me, sorry. It didn't help that I sat down to read it while having a sad lunch of cold meat loaf. Meat + reading that story at the same time is not recommended.

Ha! You can see the dark haired one start fiddling with stuff. I can practically hear the grumbled, whiny "But Moooomm..."

It just made me verrryyy sleepy. Maybe because my memories of somebody whispering like that to me was when my grandma or aunties were trying to make me take my afternoon nap.

I forgot to say, what's driving me nuts is that the way she wears makeup now is exactly how she wore it at her wedding. Really, that black eyeliner! Big yawn on her for just standing there with the sweetest smile on her face. Like, Kate, go do something unexpected. Make an unscheduled stop somewhere. Hug a person. Say…

It looks really harsh when she's outdoors and it's nice and bright and sunny. She needs a new eye makeup palette. Have to agree with you about the boring part too, they're so afraid of offending the royal family that they come off as so bland. Nice people, but bland. I loved Kate Middleton when she was single and had…

Delta's not consistent with their policies, but I've flown at least a couple of flights with them where attendants repeated over and over again that we had a passenger who's extremely allergic to nuts, and nuts won't be served on that flight and for people to please not open any snacks with nuts on them. That was for…

Good on JetBlue for sticking up for their employee. Horribly mistreated by a customer service rep? Solve it by being a grown up and having grown up conversations, instead of throwing a baby hissy fit. Now he can't even use the "I'm taking my business somewhere else" line, because the business sure as heck doesn't want…