Dawn, if you’re wondering.

While we are discussing reading. Here’s a book.

Try the south entrance next time. You get four parks within a short distance. More spread out, less tourist traps and friendly locals.

Almost all of the places I have lived have been tourism heavy.

• French Quarter, New Orleans
• Park City, Utah
• Kissimmee, Florida (Disney)
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Austin, Texas (not at first, but definitely the later years)
• Destin, Florida

There is one recurring theme. People on vacation are stressed the fuck out, desperate to enjoy their very limited and probably very expensive time off, and impatient. This makes many of them rude and entitled. Many people forget to bring their common sense and their manners when they go on vacation. They also have a propensity to binge on everything including food, entertainment, and especially booze and/or drugs. Locals are under no obligation to take your shit just because you are blowing $10k on a week or weekend vacation (of which you only get two of per year) with the family, and you are having an existential crisis that you hope your expensive vacation might remedy. Some of us are just trying to get a coffee on the way to our daily grind and you have decided to let your kids sample every flavor of ice cream in the shop before only buying a single scoop. If you see people waiting, be nice and offer to let someone else get their order in while your kids make up their minds. It is common courtesy.

I live in Jackson, Wyoming. I can assure you that any hostility towards Yellowstone tourons in Jackson, Teton county Wyoming and Teton county Idaho is very well deserved. Maybe not you in particular, but there are plenty of people that come this way and forget to pack their common sense and manners. So, good people get the rough treatment thanks to jerks with no care for the wilderness they are there to admire.

The tourist season for Yellowstone is very, very short, and the rest of the year it is absolute paradise. All that said, most locals are really friendly. If they seem prickly, it is because they are stressed. Imagine if your town’s population went from 12,000 to about three million visitors in three months. Smile, be friendly and they might warm up.

PS: If you meant the West Gate entrance in Montana then take what I just said above and multiply it. That place is fucking insane during peak.

I had a colleague, she eventually went to Google, who would hard pass candidates that showed up to an interview in a suit. I find that as stupid as dinging someone for not wearing a buttoned up shirt for the interview.

EDIT: I did tell her that was tremendously stupid and that they were just trying to show respect by dressing up.

In a company I worked for in the 1990’s, accounting was all women, many hot, and all horned up. I do not mean this as a good thing. I was in a committed relationship to my now wife and these ladies didn’t stop. They also had a stack of Playgirl and other nude men magazines in their bathroom. Very toxic, but that was southern Louisiana back then.

Try POOPH Pet Odor Eliminator in one of those atomizer spray bottles (super thin mist).

Oh, I know poverty in Bulgaria well. Not my own but someone very dear to me is from Sofia. She is one of three sisters. One married a mafia accountant (not by luck or accident), one turned to sports to get out, and the last became a sex worker and porn actor in Italy. None are poor now.

As I said. No shame in survival.

I was talking about OP.

The world is ruthless. You do what you gotta to take care of you and yours. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, it shouldn’t be shamed. My 2¢.

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That’s a shame. Hopefully they add lossless someday.

Shrinkflation. 7" used to mean “insertable”, now they measure tip to base.

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The amount of fucking going on in the 50+ age group is absurb. The kids are off to college and it’s time to get freaky!

Source: I’m currently uncomfortably close to The Villages.

…for people going places.

Like rehab.

(PS: Not a dis on rehab. Rehab is good. If you need help, please seek it.)

Came here for this. I bounced before I could reach that “mission thar changes everything”.

and he can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny