TabbyCat

I already disrobed. After years of motherly love, home-cooked meals, endless worry, and college tuition, it was my final act of developing well-balanced humans. And you suggest I pay them off to leave?

Oh, I'm sure there are plenty more. You just usually don't post about them on pcom.

The last one is apartment hunting!

Uhm...no...

And maybe someone will realize this is A KID they are punching. Sheesh. Are you proud if your rock pile is the biggest? [edited for missing be verb ]

As you slide down the banister of life, May the splinters never point the wrong way.

When they are 18+ and still live at home, you will find yourself walking around nekkid just to horrify them out of the house.

A man (or woman) is theoretically free to worship chicken, if they wish. I'm quite sure there are cases of chicken-worship-conversion somewhere in the world, maybe even here in the good old US of A. But he or she can't expect that KFCU (Kentucky Fried Chicken University) would be too happy about the time and money they invested sending that individual to plucking and frying classes if that man or woman suddenly had a chicken-worship conversion experience (an ACT OF CHICKEN) and declared he or she could no longer kill, cook, serve, or eat chicken. And rightfully so, KFCU and those who f

I just came across this quote: "Let us be thankful that we have something to be thankful for. That pumpkin pies are once more in fashion. That turkey is cheap enough for the poor man's table. That the cranberry crop wasn't ruined by the frosts. That the country is still quite safe in spite of the politicians." And what I found most interesting? The quote is from a 1888 edition of Good Housekeeping magazine... We do have much to be thankful for, in spite of everything we might find to complain about.

Sorry if I took what you said seriously. I suppose I should have known better, right?

^That was truly, truly ugly. Do you practice insensitivity, or is it just natural for you?

Seriously? I'm all for enhanced screening and keeping our flights safe. It's incredibly important. However, does that mean that sensible folks can't appeal that enhancement is applied with some sense of REASON? In the Winter following 9-11, my two sons, both teens, were flying to Texas for Christmas. I was allowed to accompany them down to their terminal, since they were minors (and the youngest was just 13). The boys were randomly marked for "enhanced screening." They were pulled aside and thoroughly searched; even the skateboard my older son was taking as a carry-on was disassembled.

How ironic is it to heavily screen pilots for things they might carry on to a flight?? They have the steering wheel once they're screened and allowed on the plane...

Who's a Republican? I'm not, and I get quiche. So...uhm...you must mean some other quiche kitchen.

No. After, not before.

GIMME BACK MY ROOSTER!!!

There's drama here?

The quiche.

Truly. What could be worse? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQ6CL_1QvU

Yeah, but I suspect tampons would make the list of the pre-approved. Because some things are considered worse than others by those who get to choose. You know.

I think they should add Red Bull, Jager, and vodka while they're at it. And beer. And McRib and KrispyKreme. Surely Quarter Pounders have done more harm over the 30 years they've been legal than Four Loko did in just a year or so. And butter. Maybe they should just hand out the things on the "approved" list, and save all the time and money it takes to ban otherwise legal things. Or maybe there should be no stores at all, but just ration stations where we can all pick up our pre-approved goods. Yeah.

That made me cry. Awesome. So awesome.

Perfume is a problem for me too, SOLO. I hear ya. And some folks seem to soak themselves in it before they go out in public. Nine times out of ten, it will give me an AWFUL headache if I have to be in any extended (more than just a couple of minutes) contact with strong perfume. Cigars give me migraines, but they don't really have the stigma attached to them that cigarettes do, do they? Incense kills me, but they burn it in malls without a thought.

I am a former smoker. But when I WAS a smoker, I went out of my way NOT to be offensive to others. And still, no matter where I went to smoke away from others, someone would almost inevitably walk up to where I had removed myself to and scorn me for smoking. After a while, you just get a bit of a thick skin about it...I mean, I'm already outside, at the edge of a pasture, away from anyone who looks like they might breathe...and then if YOU come across MY path, I'm disrespectful for smoking around you? Uhm, NO. Once several years ago, I was at a "sports grill" in Austell, in the bar ar