And I feel like when I first started drinking, 15, 16 years old, drinks with flavor were easier to consume. As drinking progressed, those were the drinks I avoided like the plague. I haven’t had a long island iced tea since I was 21 or 22.

And that’s not to say there aren’t well crafted cocktails that taste good, but none of them taste like a coke.

Are you my mom? Are you going to call me when that post-it note disappears and ask me if, for some reason, I know what your password is?

I liked the joke.

Yeah, that’s why they had that name.

My wife takes our kids frequently as well. I’m good for one trip a year, but in much more focused in my shopping than they are.

And you probably do a good job, just like Ford (although I’ve never seen a single star wars movie and it’s going to stay that way).

Ha, very similar story for me, I don’t speak a lick of Italian. My grandmother wasn’t exactly into the affairs of her brothers and uncles and so I think she chose to insulate the grandkids. Fortunately she didn’t insulate us from fantastic cooking.

We mainly stayed in the NY/NJ/PA area, just like everybody else around here.

Hey, mine were criminals too, and they brought some of that classic Italian criminality to Scranton, Pittston, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, enough to have a lengthy Wikipedia article about it. Funny, because it’s not something you recognize at the family parties as a kid.

Simpler times.

I’ll take a bad movie that knows it’s bad over a movie that thinks it’s good every day of the week.

Yeah, my ancestors are from Ireland and Italy. The Irish half escaped the famine and came here and procreated like it was going out of style. My family from Italy came over to escape the fascism (jokes on them). They brought with them the gabagool.

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I’ve sat and waited on inconsiderate people like you. And the worst part is it’s always the person whose time is seemingly the least valuable.

Being fashionably late to a party isn’t what we’re talking about here either. But go on, be selfish.

Yeah, I do my laptop just because I always have it, since I’m always doing work in whatever downtime there is, people showering, whatever. Remote is nice. I have been lazy enough to remote desktop from my phone to the laptop to change things so I didn’t have to get up. It is incredibly inefficient.

And nowadays they let you cast to them (sometimes). But even ones that were locked I’ve gone and just asked for the unlocked remote and maintenance has always provided. The hotel brand cares; the workers do not give a fuck.

So you’re saying the US saved the world from Japan for a second time?

It was an accidental attempted murder. A mistaken identity assault.

Accept that you don’t care about others’ time, got it.

Exactly. I drive and watch people hover on the sidewalk, clearly intending to enter the crosswalk, but not making that move. I stop whenever I even so much as think someone might cross. I stop and sometimes they turn instead of crossing. Whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s two seconds. But it seems like everyone else on the road can’t be bothered.

And so it’s because of that that I just walk into the road. And I should say into the road, but not into the travel lane, per se, because I don’t actually want to get hit, I got kids, and it would be a stupid funeral if “Dad died doing what he loved, being an idiot.”

I’m glad little shitheads on motorized bikes is a problem all the world over. I get them riding through the playground where my kids play.

NJ just required the ebikes be registered and insured and put age requirements on them, and so I have noticed lately a drop in shitheads, but there are still some out there.

I do that. If I get to a crosswalk, I don’t stand and wait for cars to stop, I step into the road and make them stop, because thems the rules. I don’t do it while I’m staring at my phone though, because that’s dumb.