Avaya is AMAZING. Despite the Quakes being in last place I went to see their draw against Portland last Sunday and had a great time. Didn’t notice the pitch conditions at all which means they were fine.

Seconded!

Well slice me off a piece of wedding Torta, I want to give this entire thread a hug.

yaaaaas

“ The ironically-named Center for Medical Progress”

This doesn’t remotely compare to what you’ve done, but I was reading Camus’ “The Fall” last night and thinking how I wish my French was good enough to read it in the original language.

OMG this would be an absolutely perfect thing to say to my infuriating coworker but because he is both mean and dumb I unfortunately cannot. However, eternal thanks for helping me express what is wrong with him.

I played with my friends and my folks. My mom stole the show when she said “Dick Fingers”.

Costa Rica is the Tottenham of CONCACAF.

That it was! And in fairness, you did make it sound like you were writing the place off due to this article.

Yeah because if I heard a story on the internet about a country where some stuff got stolen out of a parked car and then the police helped me I’d be terrified to go there too. I’d much rather visit a country where the news stories are about mass shootings at churches, police killing unarmed civilians, and racist…

Unless you are planning on doing something illegal, I don’t see how you would be afraid to end up in jail. It’s a civilized country, we would much rather have our tourists enjoying the place and spending their money that using up resources in a jail cell somewhere. Also you’ll find that everyone in the tourism…

Costa Rican here. I’m very sorry for your experience, and I’m glad that between the positive resolution and a little time/perspective you were able to turn it into this humorous tale. It’s too bad other people seemed to miss the fact you wrote this whole thing with tongue firmly planted in cheek the entire time.

Shame (Ding!)

This story has fascinated me from day 1 and you’ve done a fantastic job bringing all this out in the open where it belongs! I’m heading to Sacramento this weekend for my cousin’s baby shower and I’m intrigued - but also a bit scared - to ask my uncle (retired chief counsel for the CA energy commission, so both a…

Oh my God I love you

+1 family show

+1 Twitter follower who doesn’t get sarcasm

This very nearly made me cry. At work. If I was anywhere else I wouldn’t have been able to keep it together. Dammit.