Just gonna leave this here...

One piece. I volunteer with kids around that age, and erring on the side of caution is a good idea.

Jesus H Christ. That is awful

See, I get confronted by people like your dad who assume I must not have a disability because I'm young and look relatively healthy.

Odelay!

As long as she doesn't default to the oldest as help, it's not their job. I was very much in that situation (I'm 6 years older than velo_sisty) and I am still very resentful.

Eh, from the sound of the rhetoric and her age methinks her parents have some tight tinfoil hats on.

This is unfortunate, and I wonder if it's just a north american thing. Several guys I know have gone and au paired in Germany, Australia and France with considerable success; the parents liked that they could do sports-type stuff with their sons, and these guys are now doing really well in B.Ed programs.

That just MADE my day.

Tiramisu and cheesecakes involving chocolate in equal measure

These are the same anti vax my yoga teacher knows more than my GP people. I cannot stand 'em.

D'aww. Hello, Milo!

Yeah, guys get stuck like that here in Canada too. Takeaway, doing things for twoo wuv is not a good idea.

It's sad because they're usually smart girls, too

Yeah, she's done that to her parents. Repeatedly. Then they get back together. She's 10 years older than her and a banker too, so she's consumed with staying skinny and blonde so he doesn't move on to the next trophy girl. What a shitty life.

You should read a book called The Sex Lives of Cannibals. It's about a very similar situation, you'd enjoy it

She has a point. I've had several girlfriends ditch their education, friends and families to move with a guy (to Australia in one case). They're stuck in shitty jobs and dependent on their partner for monetary support, often in houses they have zero rights to no less. It's kinda cringeworthy.

Addendum: DON'T TEXT AND RIDE. If I have to yell at one more fellow bike lane occupant who has a cellphone out, I will self destruct. Cyclists have the same rights and responsibilities as cars, end of story.

Heat-proof glove to the rescue. Curling wand+ beach spray= velo_vixen's half jewish half nu chah nulth bushwoman hair looks beachy and sexy!

I have family that are Lubudvich, too. Visiting them is uncomfortable as shit, I can't make conversation with my male cousins for fear of them dying of awkward.