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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‘I was just on my way into my apartment when a stranger stopped me’: Man off the street offers stranger $5 to use his bathroom, man refuses
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But there isn’t always a place for you. You know this if you’ve ever roamed a city. You spend all day bopping around from place to place, walking through different neighborhoods. And then it strikes you. You need to use the bathroom. But odds are, you’re in a …
Seguir leyendo ‘I was just on my way into my apartment when a stranger stopped me’: Man off the street offers stranger $5 to use his bathroom, man refuses
‘These kids are being used as a cute front to fund luxuries that parents should be paying for’: 5 and 6 year-old kids run lemonade stand every day into the school year, sparking neighbor’s concern and suspicion
Running a «business» when you’re a kid is a rite of passage. For some reason, all of us want to grow up way too fast and thus want to role-play all the parts of being an adult. We want to pretend to have weddings, have kids, and have jobs. I remember playing «teacher» with my …
Seguir leyendo ‘These kids are being used as a cute front to fund luxuries that parents should be paying for’: 5 and 6 year-old kids run lemonade stand every day into the school year, sparking neighbor’s concern and suspicion
‘It’s dishonest not to tell him’: Carpenter fixes her elderly neighbor’s broken fence overnight, fellow neighbors pressure her to tell him she was the one who did the kind deed
The Money Song from the great American musical «Avenue Q» proclaimed, «When you help others, you can’t help helping yourself!» The song is about the importance of giving money charitably, not because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes you feel like a good person. It’s the deep, dark secret of charity …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s dishonest not to tell him’: Carpenter fixes her elderly neighbor’s broken fence overnight, fellow neighbors pressure her to tell him she was the one who did the kind deed
‘It takes a village’: Entitled woman lists neighbor as her son’s emergency contact without permission and threatens to end their sons’ friendship when neighbor confronts her, after receiving multiple surprise calls from his school
You can make eye contact with someone passing by on the street, yet you do not get down on one knee and propose to them. You can help an elderly lady cross the street, yet you do not sign a contract to become their full-time caregiver. So why in the world would this mother make …
Seguir leyendo ‘It takes a village’: Entitled woman lists neighbor as her son’s emergency contact without permission and threatens to end their sons’ friendship when neighbor confronts her, after receiving multiple surprise calls from his school
Karen neighbor complains about 7 and 9-year-old kids playing outside at 10 AM, demands that they stop running around and laughing: ‘Meanwhile, I can hear her vacuuming and blasting her TV through the walls’
Some people live to complain. They have easy, comfortable, happy lives, and that bores them. They’re so bored that they have to seek out problems to complain about, as it makes them feel important. When I was a teenager working at a restaurant in an incredibly wealthy community, I was always shocked by how little …
Seguir leyendo Karen neighbor complains about 7 and 9-year-old kids playing outside at 10 AM, demands that they stop running around and laughing: ‘Meanwhile, I can hear her vacuuming and blasting her TV through the walls’
18-year-old asks his 41-year-old neighbor out on a date 2 times, neighbor tattles on him to his mom much to his chagrin: ‘When he saw me, he looked enraged’
We’ve all seen the hit 1967 film The Graduate that made Dustin Hoffman a star. If you haven’t, you should read this story, turn off your phone immediately after doing so, and watch The Graduate, because it’s that great. It follows a recent college grad who has moved back in with his parents and doesn’t …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old asks his 41-year-old neighbor out on a date 2 times, neighbor tattles on him to his mom much to his chagrin: ‘When he saw me, he looked enraged’
Kids take neighbor’s mail and ‘return’ it to her after claiming they found it, then demand a reward for their act of kindness, neighbor refuses: ‘Please leave’
When we were kids, we constantly came up with easy and creative ways to earn money. The easiest way was to offer our parents our services for housework in exchange for a few dollars. Some kids would wash their parents’ cars, some would fold the laundry, and some would shovel snow, and they get nicely …
Seguir leyendo Kids take neighbor’s mail and ‘return’ it to her after claiming they found it, then demand a reward for their act of kindness, neighbor refuses: ‘Please leave’
Nosy 60-year-old grandma demands her 27-year-old neighbor give her the $10 rocking chair that she thrifted, insists her grandkids need it: ‘No, Carol. I’m really not interested in selling this. Please go home.’
The generations are colliding in suburban neighborhoods all throughout the country. Well actually, they aren’t colliding nearly as much as they should be. My parents live in a typical suburb that you’d think would be populated mostly by families. Well unfortunately most young families with children can’t afford to live in such a suburb, leaving …
Seguir leyendo Nosy 60-year-old grandma demands her 27-year-old neighbor give her the $10 rocking chair that she thrifted, insists her grandkids need it: ‘No, Carol. I’m really not interested in selling this. Please go home.’
Mom bans 5, 7, and 13-year-old neighbors from her lawn after they repeatedly threw things at her house, friend accuses her of taking away their place to play: ‘They don’t have much of a yard’
Nobody wants to become a caricature of an old man, yelling at kids to get off his lawn. So many neighborhoods are hostile to children playing that they just don’t anymore, opting to stay inside and play on their iPads instead of getting the cops called on them for riding their bikes, .2 miles away …
Seguir leyendo Mom bans 5, 7, and 13-year-old neighbors from her lawn after they repeatedly threw things at her house, friend accuses her of taking away their place to play: ‘They don’t have much of a yard’