Buying used
Recently I saw this on Cracked.com in a collection of “Ways You Can’t Stop Wasting Money, in Three Steps“: And it’s relatively easy to l...
Category: Life
Customer service
Article: Owner Tired Of Rude Customers Puts Up Genius Bar Sign To Teach Them A Lesson, And It Works Instantly The idea of customer service is, in general, satis...
“I don’t believe you” vs “You’re lying”
If there’s one aspect of misinterpretation that really gets my goat, it’s this: “I don’t believe you” = “You’re lying!...
Homo wifius
“And here we are today on the trail of the elusive creature, Homo wifius, also known as the American wife. It’s late in the morning, but it’s ...
Redirecting UPS packages
If you’re a UPS MyChoice subscriber, you likely received this alert in your e-mail recently: The second point caught my attention: automatically having al...
Deceived parents
How many times have we heard the variation of “my child would never do something like that”, even in the face of overwhelming evidence demonstrating...
Jasmine Edwards
This is Jasmine Edwards: This picture is from an incident on February 2, 2014, involving an acquaintance, Jazmine Bryson. Bryson is currently being held on Clas...
An act of war? Really?
I’m really starting to wonder how uptight women have become today when a woman posting a picture of herself several days after giving birth is called &quo...
Codifying child care
When you send your kids to a public school or private school, you have to abide by the rules of the game. It’s as plain as that. Public schools are owned ...
Black Friday
It always amuses me when people complain about black Friday. I’ll admit that I’ve done it, but then I’ve also worked it, along with Christmas ...