We adopted two cats at the same time who were supposedly not from the same litter, but we are convinced they at least share a father. One of them got super floofy pretty early. The other had longish fur but never like her sister’s. Seven years later, and less-floofy is catching up to super-floofy. It’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart at a quick glance.

I think the real takeaway here is that they view you as their slave. You’re in good company, I gotta admit.

Owls are just sky cats after all

I’ve definitely witnessed a few people do that swerve, and then do it again a few seconds later because they didn’t put their fucking phone down. Comparing them to drunk drivers is absolutely correct.

This is obviously not at all important but Simpson was an (American) football player, not basketball.

We had a cat hated the dog until her dying day. Spat vinegar at her every time the dog dared to look in her direction. After she passed, we got another couple of cats, one of whom really wanted to make sure the dog knows who’s boss.

Now the poor old dog won’t look any cat in the eye. We have a cat that seems to want to rub up on the dog and the dog looks so uncomfortable and always walks away, it’s so sad! Poor traumatized pup.

My kids recently got the idea to give our old lady cat fresh cold water from the fridge, and now she begs for it and shuns the water already in the bowl.

I had a similar incident; I was in the second lane of a freeway and a truck was going to merge into the first lane from a cloverleaf, and my Tesla freaked the fuck out and slammed on the breaks. I was lucky there wasn’t a car behind me for a bit.

A) If the tree is old, how the heck do you keep it so clean? B) If the tree is new, how the heck did you get her to take to it so fast??

No snark, genuinely impressed by either situation!

Speaking as said older sibling (not yours but someone’s), sigh thanks for the warning, I guess. I was gonna catch it at some point but maybe it’s not worth it. The She-Ra show from a few years ago is pretty good though.

Oh, nothing inherently wrong, but we’ve already had a couple of incidents of bad behavior. My kid got mad about something and sent some angry messages to a group chat that included racial slurs. It was a big learning experience to say the least (for all of us). Since then they’ve learned to unsend their messages, it seems, so while I can say my kiddo learned something, I have to hope that he also learned the things I needed him to learn. Being a parent is so much fun!

Someone is downvoting everything but I agree. I try and keep my helicopter parent impulses under control, but it is nice to know exactly where my kids are. My son (12) has a locked down old iPhone and Apple makes it pretty easy to make it practically a dumb phone. We literally have it set up so that he has to ask for permission before using any apps, with the exception of calling and messaging. (Even messaging is iffy; we want to be able to text him but it opens up texting with friends.) He doesn’t need it at school so he doesn’t bring it, but as he gets older, I’m sure it’ll start to go with him and I’m not upset about it. If he wants to go somewhere with a friend right after school instead of going straight home, it’s fine with me as long as I know about it. Without a phone, it’d be hard for him to make such plans on the fly, and let’s just say that planning ahead isn’t my ADHD-kid’s strong suit (yet—we’re working on it). As long as the expectation is set that he doesn’t use it during school, I think that’s okay; it can just live in his backpack until school is over.

My 10yo daughter’s favorite owl. What can I say, the girl likes uber-cute things! 🥹

CA thing too for sure.

Yuuup, people don’t believe me when I say that my pasty white butt was in the minority growing up. I’m pretty sure my middle school in SJ was about 50% Vietnamese only, not even accounting for other POCs.

Yes I 100% agree! Making everything automatic also makes people complacent and they don’t check to make sure everything is working as intended. I rather miss my light switch in my car. Daytime running lights are dumb unless they are just always-on headlights and taillights.

It’s a damn drive thru lane, I’m telling you!

It used to be in our bathroom behind a baby gate with a cat door in it (also where we have to keep the cat food), but we got a 2-in-1 washer/dryer combo and it freed up a spot in the laundry room, and I was super happy to get it out of my bathroom! I’ll deal with the occasional heist of kitty roca.

In older cars, where you could manually flip the rear view mirror to dim it, my dad would flip it back and forth trying to flash the person behind him so they’d get the hint about their high beams. Not sure it ever worked…

Back when I still used Nextdoor, I once posted a picture of the regular (green) headlight dash icon and the blue high beam icon, and spelled out what they’re used for and that people should know the difference. I got flooded with hearts or whatever the Nextdoor equivalent of upvotes is, I’m sure all from people who already knew and were also frustrated. There are definitely some people who are either ignorant or oblivious; I wonder if any of them saw my post and learned something? Can’t say the problem got any better.

For real though, she’s gorgeous! Scary, but quite a looker!