You know what they say, you can never truly go home again. This might be a maudlin thought, but it can also be freeing. Home isn’t a physical space; it’s a feeling you get around the people you love and the places you feel comfortable in. This doesn’t mean it’s easy to let go of …
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24 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 7, 2025)
Why is it so funny when things go wrong? Are humans just so cruel by nature that when we see somebody else fail, we can’t help but laugh? Are we that insecure about our own success that it makes us smile to see somebody else make a mistake? Or is it a sympathetic response? Are …
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Apartment complex charges tenant $75 for having an overnight guest: ‘ I tried calling the desk numerous times before the charge was due to dispute it’
Nobody likes feeling controlled, especially in their own home. When you’re in your house, it’s your rules. Except, of course, that’s never true. Especially when you’re renting. Landlords have a way of getting into your business even when you don’t want them to. It’s kind of their whole thing. They would go into your home …
Seguir leyendo Apartment complex charges tenant $75 for having an overnight guest: ‘ I tried calling the desk numerous times before the charge was due to dispute it’
Black Friday shopper grabs item from woman’s cart, says it’s fair game because she’s not holding it: ‘Is this woman just uniquely shameless?’
Black Friday is a wild holiday, full of surprises. The deals used to be good, but now it’s all smoke and mirrors. The prices are inflated anyway, so the discounts seem negligible. But that doesn’t stop people from beating down the doors of big box stores and trying to grab what they can while the …
Seguir leyendo Black Friday shopper grabs item from woman’s cart, says it’s fair game because she’s not holding it: ‘Is this woman just uniquely shameless?’
27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 30, 2025)
Designs are all around us, and we don’t even always notice them. When we get into our cars or snuggle up in our beds, design isn’t usually the first thing on our minds. We lead busy lives, and we often get preoccupied with other stuff. We have deep and robust personal lives, and that often …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 23, 2025)
Sometimes things just fail. We don’t know why. Sometimes we put so much into something, and he just can’t get anything in return. You know this if you’ve ever tried to assemble IKEA furniture. No matter how detailed the instructions or how simple it seems, you will probably reach a point where it feels like …
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22 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 16, 2025)
We all hate to fail. It’s not in our nature to easily accept defeat. We hate to be caught with our pants down, proverbially. It activates that caveman part of our brains that wants to run and hide our faces from the rest of our tribe. But failure is also a necessary part of life. …
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23 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 9, 2025)
Design is incredibly important, and you know that if you’ve ever lived in a house where you could not stand the decor. Maybe it was full of tchotchkes and the thin layer of dust, and you’re a minimalist. Or maybe it was all cold concrete and steel beams, and you missed the warmth of a …
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Entitled family tries to take over 7-year-old’s birthday at public pool even though they paid $45 to reserve it: ‘Your tradition is not stronger than my reservation’
There’s a classic Seinfeld bit about car rental services when Jerry goes to pick up a rental car and they don’t have it. He then says to the clerk, «You know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation. And that’s really the most important part of the reservation: …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 2, 2025)
Sometimes when things fail, it feels out of our control. That can be hard if you’re like me and a bit of a control freak. You know this if you’ve ever watched somebody else cook. You realize your instinct to backseat drive wants to override your sense of goodwill and politeness so much. But you …
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