Nice to load the plane and THEN tell us we're delayed.

Did they pull back from the gate? Now it's an "on-time departure"! (In their defense, I have had the experience of the pilot saying we were going to sit for X amount of time and it turned out to be way less, so it was just as well we were loaded in.)

If it were a porno, you'd go out in just a sports bra and Daisy Dukes

Man, I didn't even dress like that when I was a stripper. I'm strangely modest in my clothing for a person with no body shame whatsoever.

I do however support other peoples' right to dress in tiny clothing if they wanna. Go for it. I will stare in an appreciative yet nonsexual manner.

how do people date?

I have no idea. My sister is apparently dating, maybe I can ask her.

I cannot imagine dating. ALl that meeting new people and keeping conversations going in the hope that one of them will take up more of my time and need to be considered when I make decisions, I don't think that's a net positive for me at this point.

I don't know about learning to drive, either. Driver's Ed in public schools went away around here by the time my sister was in high school and that just boggles my mind. Prop 13 has a lot to answer for.

Man, the middle button on my shirt does not want to stay buttoned. Hello, bra. I think it's only come undone while I was sitting at my desk, not walking around. I certainly hope someone would tell me otherwise.

Wow, that sucks, Todd.

Y'all, I have the theme on my work gmail that shows me the red panda going about his daily routine -like a cartoon firefox, I guess? The image changes periodically more or less depending on the time of day. He does Tai Chi at one point with a couple of frogs or something, and waters his garden, and takes tea. Today it got stuck on the nighttime image for some reason, which I don't think I have seen before because I don't look at work email at night for the most part, and it's SO CUTE! Wee ghostie red pandas play Go while my usual guy sleeps in his little house.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 21 and my employer had one of the other employees teach me on one of the company trucks. 3 speed on the column piece of crap huge truck. Everything I have driven since then has been a breeze.

Both boys were taught on standard. I was able to teach one and the other required his dad. It is not all that easy to explain finding a sweet spot on a clutch or using your ears and all that. I was not very good at teaching it.

If it were a porno, you'd go out in just a sports bra and Daisy Dukes

I'm just going to pretend this is how it went down. While the concrete got harder.

I learned to drive stick on tractors years before I learned how to drive a car. Got my license at 16 after taking drivers ed in school, like almost all kids in my school did.

Living in the country, having a drivers license was essential for my high school social life.

I remember being amazed when I transferred to UW_Madison and met people my age who had never driven. One of them explained the whole "not needing to drive when you live in NYC" thing.

Yeah, I grew up in a suburb where there was essentially no public transit. Without a drivers license you couldn't really go anywhere. One time the rest of the family went away for a weekend and I was left home with only the manual shift car ... succumbing to cabin fever, I strapped on my sneakers and walked into the center of town, about a mile, and then walked home.

That is exactly what happened, Jesse. Pulled away from the gate and waited. But after all that, we're only a few minutes late.

Hubby learned to drive stick in the Forest Service. He was put in a full fuel truck and was driven out onto an active runway, the driver hopped out and said, "The next plane is due in twenty minutes, get the truck off the runway," and he walked away. Hubby stripped the gears all to hell, but he got the truck off the runway. Things were different in the '70s.

in the hope that one of them will take up more of my time and need to be considered when I make decisions

You know, the more one thinks about it, relationships need a better PR manager. Once a woman gets used to life on her own, a man (or what have you) doesn't have as many value-added features as you'd think.