MY THOUGHT EXACTLY.

They mostly come out at night. Mostly.

Agreed, I think I would have the same reaction that you mentioned in your last paragraph. Nod and pretend to agree vigorously until you can GET VERY FAR AWAY.

But I love that you did this. It makes me think of when I suddenly realized that beer is basically root beer for adults, right? And so you could make a root beer float with regular beer, right? And then I did. And it was...not awful, but not great. Curiosity for the win!!!

Ahhh....if that's the mildest story, then your description sounds pretty reasonable.

I concur!! There are so many great marketing tagline possibilities. Not to mention product formulations.....like beer with kiddie vitamins? What about beer cough syrup so kids will actually enjoy taking their medicine?

HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT MY LOVE FOR BLACK BOOKS

It's a nice way of making beer child-friendly!

This story makes me love both your dad (for being such a good conflict-resolver) AND your grandmother (for being such a crochety old lady).

You get so many stars for taking on this incredibly challenging assignment!

I also particularly love this one, with the unexplained woman in the shot (and the somewhat disconcerted expression on Pepe's face). Is that her mother-in-law? Her own mother? Someone else entirely? It's wonderful how this image can tell so many different stories.

I was wondering exactly the same thing!!!! The only thing that I don't like is that she's wearing the same glasses frames in several different images, which really sticks out (to me) since everything else changes from image to image. I know that obviously the little girl needs her glasses, but with all the very…

Agreed - one thing I really like is that she isn't making a strong positive or negative commentary on her happiness/contentment in each individual situation. In other words, we can project our own opinions of whether or not that would be a happy situation...for ourselves, personally. Which then gets you thinking about…

It's times like these that I can't wait for them to hurry up and invent time machines. :) So many mysteries that we'll finally be able to solve!!!

That was what I had assumed - thanks for the link. But in the case of mail theft, doesn't the company typically replace the item? I had a package stolen off my doorstop once in another city, and the company sent a replacement free of charge (I guess the cost of it is somehow addressed by the whole mail theft claim? I…

You shed your bra & pants on your porch? Because I'm right there with you on the need to shed as much clothing as possible upon arriving home (ESPECIALLY THE BRA), but if you do that on your porch, you've got some chutzpah....and I bet your neighbors love you. ;))

But that's basically like a pillowcase with a zipper, right? So you have a protective case on the pillow, which functions similarly (i.e. removable and washable). What seems really icky to me would be people just using the pillow itself straight up, for months on end, without any removable + washable cover.

I do know, in fact, because I recently had to switch to frozen miscellaneous calf parts for my own god offerings. I don't think they're fans (the gods, not the frozen calf parts, although the frozen calf parts probably aren't fans either).

Ah!! I heartily endorse that nice little touch.

Thank you! That is brilliant, really...and with the towel it now makes sense. I quite love this idea, to be honest...and think I need to make some of your linen spray as well. (Although it doesn't make your sheets smell like vodka? And the essential oil doesn't stain the fabric?)