If I ran a business and someone called and asked if it were accessible, I would assume they meant to a bus line. If you mean is it ADA compliant, then say that. The word accessible means many different things and different things to different people. Ask what you need to know and don't assume the other person is a mind reader.

Anonymous wrote:Pediatrician here.

This is absolutely not ok.

This is not the French teacher giving a peck to her student when she sees her at the park.

This is a teacher kissing a child only when alone and only showing this "affection" to this child alone. Huge red flags to me.

This is a 7 yr old's version of events. How could the child possibly know whether or not it happens to other kids? He/she can't know that. Especially if it happens in private has the kid says. I'm suspect of the child's version of events, but maybe I'm just not paranoid enough.

Gross. I'm sure someone will chime in with a better way to handle it, but I'd probably just be direct about it and ask if she needs you to buy a box of panty liners. If that didn't work, get a dog. Dogs each that shit don't they?

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doodlebug wrote:Older people get married all.the.time. Don't listen to these fools. In the mean time, be your own best friend. Learn to love you and spending time with you. Throw a Me Party. Living life on your own terms, being confident and not clingy or needy will make you attractive to the kind of men you want to be around.

Grr. Now I have that song in my head.

heh heh heh. Ear worm. A news reporter friend is in San Francisco and posted a picture of a cable car which got the rice-a-roni song going in my head, then that lead to the movie Inside Out and and the triple mint gum commercial and the angry guy's head going up in flames. I feel you!

Older people get married all.the.time. Don't listen to these fools. In the mean time, be your own best friend. Learn to love you and spending time with you. Throw a Me Party. Living life on your own terms, being confident and not clingy or needy will make you attractive to the kind of men you want to be around.

I lost 35 lbs swimming and watching what I ate when I was in my late 20s. I loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:Just go for six months on a tourist visa and work from wherever you're staying. Six mo the is visa limit. Don't tell them you'll be working from home. You'll have to prove the ability to support yourself, possibly bank statements if you're going to be there a long time, and you'll have to prove you're leaving... Have proof of plane ticket out.

You'll need a hell of a lot more than that, Ducky.

then explain what she needs to do if you know so much.

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doodlebug wrote:I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

What? This is bizarre. Does no one go into the pool where you're from? Go to the snack station to get a drink or something to eat?

You can be planning to use it later and storing your stuff there temporarily. It's called basic common sense

You store your things in lockers. You put your towel in the cubby. Done. No need to monopolize a chair and make someone else who actually does need the chair to stand around in the sun or sit on wet pavement/floor. That's just incredibly selfish.

I have never and would never dump someone's stuff if it's on a chair but I would DEFINITELY be thinking you were rude for monopolizing a chair you obviously weren't using. A chair is for people not stuff. Just like on the bus.

let your husband take your kid. you stay home and rest/tackle whatever project you've been meaning to get to/look for a job that requires less hours/get a massage and haircut etc. Then You have the other 3 wks in July with your child because you'll see to it personally the family vacation is only one week not two.

if you have a bachelors degree, look into i to i and get a TEFL, go to SE Asia or South America and teach English for a year.

I think of myself when I was young and broke and how happy I would have been to find a nearly new set of sheets (or dress I can wear to an interview or work, or houseware item I needed etc) at Goodwill for a price I could afford. I would have been ecstatic (like when I found a cute red swing coat by Ann Taylor for $5 when I was broke and needed a coat.) Just think about the joy you'll bring someone else who can't afford what you have.

It's important that she understand to trust her gut but also not to become paranoid that every man walking in the same direction is following her, because they're not. Have her duck into a store or business of some kind if she feels like she needs help. Also have her keep her phone on her and never let the battery get so low it dies because then it's useless.

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Anonymous wrote:Mothers who don't shave their pits, have many tattoos, too many coffee shops and microbreweries. Infrequent bathers

Where?

assuming Seattle, though it could as easily be Portland.

Not as funny as the pp's but here's mine.

I am a nanny and I take care of an almost four yr old girl and her 2 yr old twin siblings. This past week we went on a longish bus ride to a cool park we don't usually go to, but I think we stayed too long because the 4 yr old was getting cranky when we left (maybe because we were leaving?) She was pretty obstinate and demanded watching a certain TV show (she's allowed a show before nap while I put the twins to bed). I said don't hold your breath (she also has to at least somewhat earn the show.) She stomped her foot and said I WANT TO HOLD MY BREATH!

Another time I was on vacation in Seattle and stopped on the waterfront for fish and chips. There's a covered eating area outdoors and there were some birds (pigeons and seagulls) who got in and were scavenging for food. One of my fries ended up on the table somehow so I flicked it for the birds. When I flicked it, instead of it landing on the floor like I intended, I went straight up in the air and landed about 3 tables away right in front of a guy who was sitting there eating. He was so puzzled and was looking all around and up at the ceiling trying to figure out where it came from. Everyone was in the area was minding their own business eating and I was trying to play it cool like I had no idea where this rogue fry came from but was laughing so hard inside (and laugh every time I think of it.) I'm not sure he ever did figure out where that came from.