Mom criticizes daughter for being ‘too relaxed’ at the airport: ‘Traveling without parents makes you realize the airport was never stressful.’

Why are some parents so stressed at the airport?  The airport is not fun for most people. I am one of those rare individuals who feel peaceful at the airport. I like that everything is contained, and there’s nothing to do before the flight but sit around, read, scroll on Twitter, or spend $13 at …
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Does Therapy Work if You Have a Higher IQ Than Your Therapist?

Some people believe that IQ is all that matters.  If you weren’t born yesterday, you know that being smart doesn’t make somebody happy or well-adjusted. There are a ton of incredibly intelligent people who feel unimportant and unchallenged as life goes on, which can lead them to some pretty dark places. They think their intelligence …
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New York Woman Demands First Date Order an Uber to Pick Her Up, Sparks Debate When He Refuses

How much should you expect from a first date? Let’s be real, nobody likes feeling as if they are unwanted or simply a placeholder for whatever another person desires, but that is exactly how things often go in the rocky world of dating. Most serial daters have stories of meeting up with somebody who looked …
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Parent Criticizes YMCA For Banning Nuts From Their Facility: ‘There is Something Deeply Troubled With The World.’

What’s so wrong with keeping people safe?  A sizable portion of the population thinks their personal liberties are more important than other people’s safety, and that’s not right. They don’t care if someone could pass away from breathing in peanuts on an airplane: they think their right to eat peanuts wherever they please is more …
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Restaurant charges over $100 for pineapple on pizza: ‘Cultural damage has a cost’

Do you enjoy pineapple on your pizza? Should you? We’re all entitled to our own tastes, but they might offend others. Is that our fault? No! If you want to eat French toast with black olives and pour orange juice in your coffee, who am I to stop you? As long as you’re enjoying yourself …
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Mother-in-law asks son-in-law to drop everything to help her move furniture at 7:30pm on Memorial Day

Would you drop everything to help someone with an unexpected chore? Sometimes it’s nice to help out the people in your life, but other times you have to protect your peace. That’s what happened in this story, where a family member asked for some help in a pretty unexpected way. Her son-in-law then brought the …
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Chronically online parents criticizing young couples for traveling will not increase the birth rate

To travel, or to have children. Apparently, those are the only two options in life. A young couple recently went viral for showing off photo albums documenting their travels. These are no ordinary photo albums that your mom bought at Sears to preserve your baby pictures in the 90s. They’re bound like books, complete with …
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Reader criticizes children of boomers for selling all of their late parents’ old books for only $20: ‘All this stuff is basically worthless, even in mint condition.’

Should they have kept their parents’ old books? Or sold them for more money?  Anyone who has ever moved can tell you that books are one of the least fun things to move. They are so heavy and take up so many boxes and spaces. After moving books once, I’ve committed myself to primarily reading …
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Texan real estate agent boasts that town outside of Dallas has the best real estate in the world because it has more HOAs than anywhere on Earth: ‘Current entry price is $1.2 million.’

What makes an area great to live in?  You might be a country mouse who wants to live in beautiful nature, away from the hustle and bustle of big-city life. You might be a city mouse who loves the chaos and grime of a city, and every cultural and economic institution that is at your …
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New Yorker claims it’s taboo to ask fellow New Yorkers what they do for work: ‘It’s a sensitive topic for the Brooklyn crowd for sure.’

Is it really so inappropriate to ask somebody about their job?  Most of us like to think of small talk as pretty universal. I’d be willing to bet that you could walk into any office in America and ask the employees, «What did you think of the season finale of The Pitt, and at least …
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