re: dating. I literally tripped over mine, so watch your feet.

how do people date?

If you figure it out, let me know.

Every once in a while: when I'm sleepy and don't want to walk the dog in the cold and the dark, or when I need another hand to hold something while I hammer, I think how nice it would be to be married or something. But I really like my life. I have friends and family and a ridiculously bossy dog, and a job that keeps me mostly interested and mostly pays me enough to live here (despite the Nemesis). I don't know where I'd fit in a partner.

I think this means I'm selfish? Or something. Dunno.

Damned if I know about the dating thing. I've been married 43 years spread out between 3 people. None of them were intended. The first one I moved in with to get out of my house at 17. After living together a year I decided we had to either get married or go our separate ways because I was tired of being estranged from my family. He said sure. 12 years later I met someone that I had such an extreme attraction to that I asked for a divorce after knowing him only a week. Three years later he died. Of course I swore I would never ever consider dating much less marrying again. Within 6 months I was living with DH#3. (met in college and thought a fling would be a good distraction from grief) We celebrated our 26th anniversary earlier this year.

Never was in it for the long term, but apparently I am long term girl. I know so many single people that I think would be great couple people, but aren't for unfathomable reasons.

Damn, I did it. I just said the thing I told myself not to say. The person told me since I like paying taxes so much I should send all my money to the goverment and let government decide what I should get, and that while education is goverment's job, there is already too much money being spent on it. It was a toss-up between "move to Somalia" or "your nihilism is refreshing." I went with the later.

Snerk. Well done, WS.

since I like paying taxes so much I should send all my money to the goverment and let government decide what I should get

My brother has become an annoying, very vocal libertarian this election. He's SUPER fond of saying things like "Taxes are theft!" and "If people won't take care of their neighbors out of altruism, it's not the government's job to do it."

And I just want to say, "DUDE. You are turning 40 in ten days. You sound like a college freshman who just read Ayn Rand for the first time. STOP IT."

DH has been engaging while I am just unfollowing and writing them off.

The guy who I Snopsed yesterday replied to it and said "Thanks for clearing that up. I'm still not voting for Hillary but I hate all my choices."

And, you know? I have zero energy to engage and ask who he's going to vote for or if he's going to stay home. I care, in the sense that I want Hillary to win, but I just don't have the spoons to try and convince a truculent vaguely creepy guy to vote for the candidate who isn't going to usher in the apocalypse. If he doesn't already see that, I'm not wasting my energy on him.

My real life very old school conservative friend says he prefers Trump (or Bernie) to Hillary because he is against anything that will make the government bigger and he thinks she will be successful at getting things done, while Trump will not be.

That is so strange to me. Like, wouldn't you want the president to be successful?