It seems like a broader solution that could be used in conjunction with the gel being handed out to use with the especially problematic items. I think that what irks me is that all the PSAs don’t do any good if the infrastructure isn’t in place.

So, I hate to go to “required” out the gate especially since the question…

Slightly off topic, but this is something that has irked me for a while. And given the specificity of this solution, I am newly irked.

Yes!

But I think the point isn’t always to change the offender’s mind. Therefore, it doesn’t take an hour or any screaming. I think the larger purpose is to demonstrate decency (that others might emulate in similar situations) and to speak one’s truth in the moment without any expectation that the offender will change…

To me, the dog issue is neither here nor there; your response to it, on the other hand, is hugely telling.

That’s a good phrase, too.

I had not heard about writing on the envelope, and I am not in jail, yet. So I tried to search for that. All the advice I could find, including from the USPS on its .gov site, is to write directly on the envelope “Not at this Address/Return to Sender.” They also recommended crossing out the…

A couple of decades ago, I was a loyal Dell customer. They f’d up my account, and the subsequent “customer service” was so incompetent and disinterested that I have never bought another Dell product since. I am not surprised by your story. Although it was pretty funny!

Pretty common when moving into a new place. But I think “Return to sender” is too vague. It doesn’t indicate why, so you are relying on the recipient to be a problem solver (not good odds.) I always mark it as “Addressee Unknown” and over a period of time (mostly pretty quickly but it can take up to a year for some…

Don’t forget scalp reductions.

As someone who remembers such things, was the capitalization really necessary?

Have we worked together?
I agree, though. Most of the cooling/heating problems I’ve encountered are due to poor design not actual temperature. We would complain to the management company and they would send up a maintenance guy with a thermometer to walk around saying “It’s 76 in here.” No, no it is not! I made him…

Amen.

deleted. mis-read the question.

Usually I see that. I guess“By in large” distracted me.

Similar - but with blackout curtains and white noise.

I would add that one thing this article did do for me is make me resolve to have a movie night at home regularly. Dishes done, phone off, lights dim, snacks at-the-ready. Because one thing a theater has provided for me is a mostly distraction-free environment unlike my usual at home movie-watching habits. And I would…

I agree. I think Alamo Drafthouse sounds like fun. But, really, I’d only do it as an occasional event - a date or a day out with my sister or a friend. Otherwise, I can see the few movies I care to from home without much of a wait most of the time.

Thanks! Just checked and they are opening one in downtown L.A. The drive would be worth it for those movies I really want to see in a theater.

Yes! My aunt and uncle enjoyed going to the movies in retirement. They would sit down and immediately put in sound reducing ear plugs.

Hahaha. And it gets worse with every passing year. I stay home now, partly because I always need a bio-break at about the 3rd act.