When I worked in a clothing store, old-school British sitcom "Are You Being Served?" hit WAY too close to home. It is JUST like that - incompetent management, pompous supervisors, fussy customers, and scrambling to deal with whatever dumb promotion the boardroom came up with THIS…
I'm surprised anyone is shocked by a pub in England doing this. The UK had a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals decades before doing anything about cruelty to children.
I like kids, but drinking establishments aren't really appropriate places for them.
Italian hotel rooms often have a drain in the floor and a shower head in the ceiling instead of an American-style shower. Which was fine UNTIL my hotel room in Rome flooded when the drain instantly backed up. And the front desk guy spoke a dialect of Italian I didn’t recognize, so…
Ugly Betty made it seem as though Fey Sommers had survived her fatal car crash, even revealing that Fey's casket was filled with rocks. But the bandaged woman presumed to be a badly injured Fey turned out to be a post-op Alexis Meade so...where the hell did Fey's body go? It was never…
I’m a young Gen Xer. Using the internet to research anything other than current events was considered cheating (most of my classmates did not have home internet yet, so this was rarely an issue), and could get you suspended. Cell phones and pagers were completely banned, and having…
Tip for Tuscany: don’t overlook the Museo Archeologico in Florence. Everyone else on my college trip went to Pisa (and complained that it was overhyped). I had a great time seeing Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan artifacts.
If you come to Los Angeles and really want to see Hollywood, by all means go, but be aware that the Walk of Fame is overhyped and the sidewalk is FILTHY. Google the location of your favorite celebrity’s star to save time, take pictures, DO NOT TOUCH OR SIT ON THE SIDEWALK (I cannot…
Overrated: Hollywood (except for the Hollywood Museum and the historic theaters). Go to the Academy Museum instead; it's clean and classy.
Hidden gem: For families, Bob Baker Marionette Theatre. The puppeteers are incredible. For grownups, the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and…
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