Somewhat the opposite. My mom started “borrowing” money from me when I was a teenager. I was too trusting, but eventually i learned to say “no”.

Fuck, I haven’t thought about any of this in a long time. My mom was awful.

Edit:

I forgot to explain why borrow was in quotes. Most of the time I never got paid back. I still believe she intended on paying me back, but was never able to get ahead financially enough to do it. In general if she borrowed less than $100 she’d get it back to me and pretty quickly. Over $100 it would take her too long to save it up and she’d forget about it.

Go on.

What if being shamed is my kink?

What about phrasing it so the effort isn’t on you, but them?

“I’ve never really felt comfortable around [describe group]”. This way, the failure isn’t yours to get comfortable, but on them to mwake you comfortable.

For me an email is when I don’t need a quick response. A text is when I want a faster response but I don’t want to interrupt what the other person is doing. A call is when I want a quick response and I think it’s worth interrupting the person.

I very rarely call.

Hmm. I think I may have to try a golden one.

Right, I agree with you there. I guess I should invert my question. If you’re tipping the driver, what is the delivery fee for?

These two costs seem redundant.

Wow. Just wow.

If you are paying separately for the delivery, what is the tip for?

I’m trying this.

Depending on my mood I go butter and brown sugar, or olive oil, garlic, and Parmesan.

I eat the skin of regular kiwi’s. Am I not supposed to?

Find a purpose that motivates you. For some people that is exploring, for others it is expressing themselves creatively, or helping people, or fighting for a cause you believe in, or trying to make the perfect baked potato.

I don’t know your specific limitations. Perhaps there is motivation in overcoming them, or helping others so they won’t have them too?

You were a little sparse with details, and I trust you have your reasons. Depending on this situation this advice could be pretty insensitive. My goal is not to offend or upset. I hope I haven’t.

Fun fact: the word “spaceman” was originally used to described a journalist who was paid by how much space they could fill. Quoting etymonline com: “journalist paid by the length of copy”.

It didn’t get used to describe a person from space until the the 1940s.

I respect the concern, but if you already ate the bacon that left you with the fat, hasn’t a fair amount of the damage already been done?

It’s also called redundancy.

Such a weird idea. I want to try it.

This doesn’t answer your question, but I just had a great idea for an art project which includes detailed applications of different protection levels of sunblock, and a tanning bed.

I guess stripes would be an easy place to start. Who wants to try it?

If you are used to driving a manual, you don’t rest your foot on the foot rest area, you keep it just about to push the clutch. Also, saying the brake pedal is the full width of two pedals is wrong, but it is certainly wider. I have gone for the clutch in an automatic once and just barely caught the edge of the brake pedal. The results were very confusing, and without exaggerating it took me 5-10 seconds to figure out what I had done. It was while driving my mom’s car with her in it and she looked at me with the most “what the fuck are you doing?” look she has ever made.

This was all over twenty years ago but yes, it is definitely possible.

Technically a gay couple is twice as manly as a hetero couple.

Not really related to the story, I just like that fact.