Keeping warm really does help the nurses find your veins. One time I had to get a lot of blood draws in a short period of time (we were testing the half-life of a drug) and it was just awful, I was getting all bruised up...then I put a sweatshirt on. A few minutes later I was fine, nurses could get at my veins no…

I think this proves that I'm a communist or something: the problem that I have with women's fashion, and the reason I haven't bought any new clothes for two years, is that I hate the shopping experience. It's too overwhelming. There's too many decisions, too many choices, too much noise and junk. I want to look nice…

It's one of those things that's good in theory, and might be ok sometimes (like at 3am at a 24-hour grocery store) but is terrible in execution. Maybe working a register is a "crap job" but apparently 90% of the general population isn't smart enough to do it because IRL the self-checkout lane is always the slowest…

I think the whole point of a new years resolution is to always be working to improve yourself in some way. Nobody's perfect and nobody can possibly meet all their goals but the important thing is to try.

Don't underestimate spatial memory. Have you ever noticed when you're punching in an alarm code or a phone number you knew from pre cell phone days you don't really remember the numbers, just the motions?

I know everybody's all like LOL, vegan AND gluten-free? But maybe one is a vegan and one has celiac disease, or maybe they have some guests with one/both of those requirements and were trying to be accommodating. Sometimes gluten substitutes taste weird, but if it was a good caterer the food could have been really…

Yeah, vegan gluten-free food, NIN, and Ayn Rand quotes aren't my idea of a good time...but if it's my friends I'd still go.

My problem is when my friends call me at work: I drive for work, and I use my cell phone for both work and personal stuff. I have to be reachable all day because management will send me to help out on other routes or pick up stuff. When I get a work call I respond to it right away, because otherwise I get hollered at,…

Absolutely, I've totally fallen for that and it was the same deal. It is easy for quiet people to masquarade as "Nice".

So re-read your post, and imagine that instead of you it was written by your sister or your BFF. What would you say to them? Yeah the guy's probably not a serial killer but he sounds sketchy and if you're uncomfortable then ditch him.

Sometimes the door-to-door people can also take a huge cut. One summer I was looking to make extra cash and found a job posting on craigslist for fundraising for an environmental charity...well it turns out we got paid by taking 30% of whatever we brought in that day. And we were told that if people asked, we were…

Whatever you do, if you get paid too much and give it back, get it in writing that you gave $X back on X date and get the HR person / supervisor / whoever does this to sign. You keep a copy, they keep a copy. The last thing you want to do is give them what could be hundreds of dollars, then see that deducted from…

Cash bars are just so, so wrong. I've seen some where they charge for all the drinks even sodas! Like wtf? Here's a tip, from someone who has been to a lot of weddings: if you wanna have booze at your wedding, but you can't afford it, guess what? Even if you don't have a drop of booze at your wedding, some…

People do stuff when they're on vacation that they would never do in real life. I think they get so enamored by the new place they think it's perfect and they let their guard down. Problem is that country ain't Disneyland, it's a real place with unfortunately real crime just like America. I did a study abroad and I…

Americans have pretty distinct accents. I did an Italian study abroad and they could sniff us out a mile away, and could tell us apart from British foreign exchange students b/c our accents sound different from theirs when we spoke Italian. We're also, with exceptions of course but our culture as a whole, we Americans…

We need to repost this on io9 to get some more ideas, but off the top of my head I'm thinking time travel conspiracy, clones, or anti-aging hibernation chamber / cryogenic freezing. This woman could be my grandmother but she looks better now than I ever did or ever will. She defines the word "striking", it feels cheap…

Absolutely! I think even just a free play / run around type thing would be preferable. I'm probably biased because as a kid I was way behind the other kids physically, very small, very wimpy, so I was always the worst at every activity we did and I got injured all the time. I ended up completely rejecting all sports…

So I'm a woman and I never do my makeup or do my hair, except maybe once or twice a year for a special occasion. But back when I used to, getting stuck in a rainstorm without an umbrella suuucked, so I would have appreciated the gesture. If a man offered one to me now I'd probably decline just because I wouldn't need…

I'm surprised this wasn't part of the original article: eat slower! Not like, chew your food 32 times, 'cause nobody wants to do that. But just eat like you're getting paid by the minute. Take lots of breaks. Talk to people. It's easy to overeat if you eat too fast b/c it takes your stomach a while to tell your brain…

I don't know what to think, there's so little detail IDK if I'm supposed to be commiserating with the author or with the boss...