I didn't look too deep into the actual trolling

Don't.

What does YOLO stand for?

I just learned this at a comedy show on Tuesday! It stands for You Only Live Once.

Hell naw, man. You Obviously Like Owls.

I sometimes do this. When I'm turning left and I know people blow through the opposite stop sign all the time, I wait to make sure they are, in fact, stopping. It's not being polite, it's fear.

This is me. The denizens of New Orleans constantly find new and exciting ways to scare the proops out of me on the road, so I exercise a great deal of caution.

Yeah, when I was in New Orleans in January for work, I had a car that I used to commute to the Convention Center. Just taking Canal back and forth -- people are insane there. And you still can't turn left.

Just FTR:

Roundabouts make the baby American Jesus cry!

Not if you call them rotaries, like god intended.

Man, it's a catch-22. They see me hesitating, even when I have the right-of-way, because their "body" language is scaring the bejesus out of me, and they gun it. But I'm deathly afraid of being the aggressive one lest they be the jerk who doesn't yield.

My boss will be firing our idiot seasonal tomorrow. Thank the lords. I thought our high/drunk freshman last year was bad. What's awful is that I think this kid is low-functioning Aspergers. He needs such explicit instructions. Not just hand-holding, but spoon-feeding. And we need someone in the position who is independently competetent and self-sufficient.

He needs to go far far away, and yet I'm still wondering what the liability is for firing someone with a (potential) (undisclosed) cognitive disability. I mean, either way, he is unable to perform the job as advertised, but I still wonder.

And that's when so-called jargon like "let's take that discussion offline" is so handy!

I...am not so jargony. But again, subtle doesn't always work in my workplace. Scientists and tech people do tend to bend to a type.

Marylanders don't get roundabouts. Which is why I think some fairly recent ones are going away.

My friend from Boise found the traffic here confounding as a passenger. But she's headed to Boston, where her parents are renting a car (her brother is getting married in Ducksberry?) and I think they are going to end up shellshocked. I find the DC drivers ridiculous, but I can deal, now that I know the stupidity. I don't think they are at all prepared for this.

It was a good visit. Her daughter N LOVES Pumpkin, to the Elmira point. And I hooked her up with the neighborhood girls and there were many tears upon the last of the 3 playdates. G, 5.5 and N, 8, exchanged addresses and really sweet cards. G's mom said she asked incessantly about N today. It was a true meeting of long-lost sisters (they even look like they should be sisters, uncannily so.) G wants to move to Boise now.

My students use “YOLO” all the time. Seriously. It’s their favorite acronym. One of them tried to let me use it as one of her new vocab words.

Duxbury. Not Ducksberry, but I LOVE THAT.

getting ready to go from a 4 way stop and an approaching car that looks like it might blow through? That is why I have a GD horn and I will LAY ON IT! I might all yell MY TURN MF, MY F'IN TURN! and shake my fist. Ford Focus OF DOOOM!