I despise the practice of overbooking, but there are times when
“no-shows” do cost the airline money. The most common one: The no-shows were delayed from a connecting flight due to weather, and the airline books them on a future flight at no charge.

Exactly. I’m not a fan of watching with subtitles either, but I’d rather make that TINY sacrifice so that more people can enjoy the movie.

Supposedly, it’s part of the process of “deal-making.”

*standing ovation*

Varies by small town, I guess.

Real conversation with my parents (who voted for Trump):

My in-laws leading up to the election: “He’s bluffing. Like a good business-man.”

I had a similar experience with my friends. It felt like most of my white friends were disappointed that there weren’t more jokes about being Indian. Anyone who watches Aziz Ansari’s stand-up knows that he does NOT center his jokes on his ethnicity, but more on his stage in life and the universal struggles of dating.

Konkani!

Yeah... that’s a really good point.

Finally, a Romcom that is relevant to my interests.

Yep! We get a lot of visitors, and I can’t wait to have a place to put them. I hate getting up in the morning for work and having them spread all over my living room hung over because they decided, hey, they were back in Austin, so they might as well close down Barfly’s. On a Tuesday.

haha so my friend is an elementary school teacher up in Georgetown. And she is seeing a massive influx of hispanic families who have been pushed out of Austin. Like, her school doubled its number of ESL kids in less than five years.

Thank you! The house-hunting process was hell.

My favorite party trick is telling people from out of state that Houston has one of, if not THE, best food scenes in the U.S. (which is true). And then having them rush to tell me that Houston is a hellscape full of cars and is dangerous and in Texas (oh my!). Oh well, more yums for me.

My friend’s couch-surfer from Connecticut asked him on the first day, “So where can I get some goooooood southern cookin’?” My friend was nicer about that than I would have been.

It’s funny to me that a state that literally encompasses the area of eight East Coast states is assumed to have a uniform culture. Like, if you were to tell a New Yorker that they must be “the same” as someone from Scranton, they’d tell you to fuck off.

As someone who has been house-hunting with a “meager” $250k budget, I co-sign all of this. Why is a 1,300 square-foot house far from the city with no mass-transit or urban ammenities “worth” over $350K?? It was a sad day that I realized, “O wait, Austin doesn’t want us anymore.”

Well at least these white essay-writers are LEAVING you. They are COMING to Texas, and now we have to deal with them and their attitude that Austin/Houston/wherever is basically like their safety-school.

We don’t want them in Austin either. Make them stop coming.