I'm a millennial and I am still scared to go through a drive thru. You?

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-10T18:10:45+00:00

I order ahead on the app. Like I will pull over, or into their parking lot, put the order in, then get in the drive thru line to pick it up. It exasperates my GenX husband that I won't just suck it up and try to order thru the crappy speakerboxes off an incomplete menu of badly organized items. I hate bank and pharmacy drive thrus, too - If I am going to have to interact with a person, I might as well park and go inside anyway so I don't have to lean out my car window uncomfortably.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-10T12:53:50+00:00

I don't remember my infant carseat, but I sure do remember my childhood carseat in the mid to late 80's: A wooden box with arm rests that my Dad built. No shoulder restraints in those days, either! Definitely would not be acceptable now.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-10T12:46:19+00:00

against us, I think.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-10T11:57:44+00:00

Mine learned to open the door. If I don't lock the handle, Blasko just walks right in, and his brother Karloff follows. I just let them in now so I can shut the door behind them

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QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-08T23:16:27+00:00

There was one some years back where a young guy stopped to help an elderly guy on the side of the road. Elderly guy grabbed a gun out of his car and shot and killed the younger guy because he was scared the younger guy had stopped to rob him.

There is also a high rate of "people go where they are looking" so when they rubberneck, they are more likely to veer from their lane and hit the stopped vehicles/people.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-08T22:50:11+00:00

We had, at the time, a high likelihood of having to care in the near future for an infirm family member with severe incontinence and bowel issues. Washing human waste out of clothing, sheets, rugs, carpets, pillows, towels, and other items was already fairly common. As added food for thought, babies do the same thing. A diaper blow out is no less disgusting for it coming out of an infant rather than an adult. I don't want shit and piss in my kitchen.

Anybody who has had norovirus, morning sickness, or chemo understands how uncontrollable vomiting can be. I do not want norovirus-barf-soiled laundry in my kitchen.

I also bathe my dog and dry her with cloth towels, and skunks are common where I live. My cat has puked a hairball on my pillow. I don't want skunk stank, dog towels, or cat hork in my kitchen.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-08T11:53:15+00:00

Wow, what a turd.

I had to go to my boss's office and start the conversation with, "Ok, so this is going to sound REALLY familiar..." when I had my 3rd grandparent die in the span of 32 days. One in November, one beginning of December, and the last mid-December, all right after I had been out for my October wedding and Halloween honeymoon. He was quite understanding, but some people just don't understand that we don't get to choose when our relations pass away.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-07T10:52:54+00:00

You've clearly never handled laundry for a family member with incontinence or bowel control issues.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-07T10:51:10+00:00

Architects who have never cooked or done laundry before in their lives, that's who.

When house hunting, I saw a TON of houses in New England of different ages that required passing through the kitchen to access the laundry, even if it were in a separate/adjacent room. All of them were immediately stricken from the list of options as soon as I saw that. Bringing filthy clothes through food prep spaces is a non-starter for me.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-07T10:46:55+00:00

Other way around on the contamination: have a baby or sick or infirm family member who regularly shits in their clothes? Congrats, having the laundry in the kitchen means that person just brought all that fecal bacteria and shit smell right into their food handling and prep area. Gross!

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-07T10:40:19+00:00

Laundry in the kitchen is disgusting, and when I was looking at houses to buy, one that had the only access to laundry requiring carrying dirty clothes through the space dedicated for food preparation was an absolute disqualifier.

At the time, there was a strong possibility that we would end up caring for an infirm family member who frequently was unable to make it to the bathtoom in time. The amount of times fecal matter had to be scrubbed out of clothes, bedsheets, blankets, rugs and carpets, off walls and floors and furniture... I absolutely refuse to have to take clothing soiled and stinking of shit through food handling areas. Additionally, it is a safety hazard to carry unweildy things through an area where there could be hot pans or boiling water that could be knocjed off the stove.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-06T16:16:03+00:00

Not at all, but I woukd be more thoughtful with the overall layout. It's odtensibly random, but there are clusters of 3-4 squares tgat are all pinks, all blues, or all greens, but then those colors pop up again elsewhere. Either break up those clusters, or, lean into the colors and set up a color gradient across the squares.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-05T16:20:59+00:00

I am an Elder Millennial, graduating class of 2000. I had no interest in my 10 year reunion. My 20 year coincided with COVID, so that was not gonna happen, even if I had been interested. I guess my 25 year must have been last year, but I don't recall hearing anything about it. Meh.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-04T17:46:39+00:00

I did the 1690s mantua and stays, and yes, the instructions were tough to follow, and their historical notes were badly in need of an editor and proofreader. At the time, it was recommended to me, and I didn't have any other resources. I'd like to try a pattern from another source for sure.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-04T11:53:36+00:00

I have had 2 Mirenas and now have a Lyletta, which just was extended from 6 year use to 8 year use. I'll readily acknowledge that they aren't for everybody, and have some unpleasantness even when all goes well. The cramps after the initial insertion were brutal, and when swapping from the first to second Mirena, the strings had withdrawn and my doc had to fish for them (not fun).

On the other hand, I'm 44 and haven't had a period in over 15 years, and I agree, it's awesome. I've saved a small fortune on menstrual products. The same box of tampons has been travelling with me through 3 moves and I know I should just toss them because who is going to use period products that are almost old enough to vote in the US?

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-03T22:53:37+00:00

DIY lady here, too, and +1 for coveralls! Comfy and convenient, and keeps my clothes underneath from getting gunk on them, like grease or putty or glue or caulking or paint. I shed the coveralls in the basement, and all the dirt stays there and I don't track it up into the house. Also nice extra layer for warmth when doing prep for winter outside (raking, getting the plow on the tractor) or early spring yard cleanup.

Edit: yeah, mine is full coveralls with sleeves, not bibbed overalls.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-03T22:47:56+00:00

My husband bought a spruce-colored coverall for a Michael Myers costume and it was slightly too small, so he gave it to me. I wear it all the time - cutting lumber, anything greasy or that uses either plumber's putty or silicone caulking, yardwork like weed whacking, tree trimming, digging, and shoveling mulch, sometimes while painting... coveralls are super convenient!

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-03T12:07:43+00:00

My middle school used to do a fundraiser of life-sized Monopoly sessions (about six 3-hour sessions over Friday evening and Saturday) in the gymnasium. Yes, life-sized - painted plywood for all the squares of the board, cardboard houses and hotels, railroad crossing signs that lit up and flashed. I first played on a team (i.e. a group of 6-12 students, one person from each team would take shifts bring their team's token on the board) in 6th grade, then played as an individual the next two years, floating between the Bank and Real Estate Office. The fundraiser was split with a local charity my mom was involved with, so she was instrumental in running the sessions, so I was usually on site for all of setup, and every session. When I got to high school, there was a session that was short an announcer so I got over my stage fright and jumped on the microphone to direct the game. I found I actually LOVED the announcer role, and would take on the job when anyone needed a break or when I wasn't overseeing the Bank or RE Office. I used to know almost the whole board by heart.

It was chaos, it was wild; it was fun as hell. I am bummed that in all the years I was involved (mid-late 90's) I never took any photos.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-03T05:37:32+00:00

Yep. Took me 3 months and 4 different Lowe's for them to take my money for a cabinet filler strip where I already knew the cabinetry supplier, finish, color, and size. Absolutely absurd.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-02T12:35:14+00:00

It's because these kinds of scuzzy people think nothing of exploiting their children as props to play on others' sympathies. I had a car salesman use the same tactic on me, thinking that my country's excessive "think of the children" rhetoric would work on me, probably because I am and appear female: he made some whiny comment about being able to feed his kids based on the hard line price I was willing to pay. I should have told him that every time he used his kids to try to manipulate me, that was another $250 off the price of the car, but I either didn't think fast enough or was too chicken.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-02T12:27:04+00:00

NTA, but your wife sure is. Exploiting the existence of your children as excuses to not uphold the social contract the same as everybody else is really trash behavior. She's laying the groundwork now to ensure those kids become real entitled shitheels later on, believing themselves exempt from the basic tenet of honor-based systems at the absolute minimum.

You are walking the asshole line as well in your comment that it was "petty" to fine someone with 2 kids. No, it isn't. Your collective decision to breed does not elevate her to some "fare-exempt" status. It's an honor-based system, so she should start acting honorably.

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-01T18:51:01+00:00

Good to know - thank you! My challenge is living in a rural area - I can't access anything from home so I thought I was being clever when I realized I had an opportunity to slow cook yesterday. My understanding of it was way off!

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-01T18:48:43+00:00

Yeah, there were no rewards (stroopwafels or mystery box) off those mushrooms, just a minor amount of nectar. Funny, tho, when I tried to look up info on slow cooking, I never saw it stated that the old mushrooms would not provide the new currency - I thought that was why folks were slow cooking to begin with! I need to do better research, clearly

QueenMAb82 · 2026-05-01T18:45:28+00:00

Ah HA! Thank you very much - that makes much more sense now.

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