Kirameki

For some extra detail, this was before contactless pay was available on a lot of vending machines.

It’s a lot smaller compared to other stories, but it was a credit card skimmer in a vending machine. Two transactions for $95 were charged at a gas station in a state over 1,000 miles away from us and our bank alerted us of possible fraud. We definitely got the money back, changed… Read More

—And don’t hesitate to seek out a second opinion when your symptoms persist but your physician(s) dismiss you.

This is a good answer. I get a loooot of phone calls from doctors’ offices using numbers that aren’t in my contacts, so I just let the calls go to voicemail.

I definitely picked up a shirt at a conference a few years ago that praised the Oxford comma. :’D

It might be basic compared to others’ contributions, but Nando’s—a chicken-based restaurant that’s popular throughout the UK. It’s a pity there aren’t any locations closer to me here in the states (where there are a few locations scattered here and there).

Black cat running across the floor chasing red laser dot

#4: the toilet putter…uh…thing brings back a great memory. When I still taught an undergraduate public speech course as a graduate student, we had the freedom to create a couple of supplemental assignments. In order to introduce the persuasive speech unit, I decided to play informercials.… Read More

That’s one thing I think about every so often. When it comes to pathological liars, I wonder whether it’s a matter of keeping track of the lies or simply believing their own lies.

Thank you!