There was some cleansing fire, actually, yeah.

I had no idea your mother was robbing the cradle! I LOVE it.

Yes, I followed in her footsteps!

Ugh, Juliebird. I have encountered this and find it very frustrating. Also if someone responded - "I can endeavor to make myself available to aid you in your time of need" - I would melt. Our receptionist at the office speaks like this all the time and my customers and everyone in the office adore him. His email exchanges when he applied for the job simply made me swoon.

he came out with something like "I can endeavor to make myself available to aid you in your time of need".

I don't know. Speaking as someone who is ridiculously socially awkward, I feel like things like this (speaking this way) is a case of Know Your Audience Or Face The Possible Consequences Of People Who Don't Think You're Half As Clever As All That.

(To be clear, many times, I'm willing to let people think I'm an ass because of how I speak. And your intern maybe have made that judgment call. In which case, rock on, awkward smart boy. Rock on.)

There was some cleansing fire, actually, yeah

After the house blew? That's where I bailed. I was going to bail after the disease (cancer, I assumed) reveal, because I knew there was a lot of pain for me ahead. And lo!

Oh hey, I have a weird question: Does anyone have any idea if stainless kitchen appliance are here to stay? I don't really like them, but if they are going to be the nice standard for the next 5-10 years, I should get them.

I wasn't there, I don't know the tone of the whole situation. But I've had indecipherable conversations with him where he ends with "you know?" and I smile for five seconds and then shake my head because I have no clue how to parse what just came out of his mouth, and he never made me feel dumb for not knowing (I just felt dumb naturally).

Dudes almost thirty and still lives with his mum. I'm not sure how much he gets how to gague responses to different audiences.

Maybe I'm defensive of him because I find him terribly sweet and not malicious or pretentious, just alien.

They never said exactly what the disease was, but he found another treatment and moved back to California (offscreen). The conspirators all went to jail for three years and Amy Ryan inherited millions from the old lady Larry David had been working for before he got all revenge-y (also offscreen). You didn't save much time by bailing after the explosion.

Whirpool has announced its challenge to stainless, it seems: [link]

I think stainless steel is on the way out, but that is based on nothing and I am not good at judging trends like that.

Get something you like. You have to live with it meanwhile.

Says the woman with the cast iron faux-woodstove in her kitchen. Which I love, but probably wouldn't be considered a selling point.

I dislike stainless, but not ask much as granite. But I am a kitchen outlier. I think it will probably turn to something else soon.