What is something a guest in your house did that made your jaw drop? How did you react?

A friend was staying for a few days and he was in the room we let him use and wife and I in living room talking about 10 PM and he walks by naked. When he came back by wife offered to get him a …

Top stories for Long   What is something a guest in your house did that made your jaw drop? How did you react? Terry Douglas, former Retired, IT Director • Answered Fri A friend was staying for a few days and he was in the room we let him use and wife and I in living room talking about 10 PM and he walks by naked. When he came back by wife... Read more » 58 2   What do chefs do when they accidentally drop an expensive cut of raw or cooked meat on the floor? Dan Bradbury • Answered January 11, 2022 I worked in restaurants from age 18–24. I worked mostly in the front of the house. Mostly as a server then bar tender. Fun times. Dropping stuff on the floor isn't a proble... Read more » 1.5K 18   If a private walks by a general outside, but he is carrying a fragile box with both hands, what should he do? Will he get court martial if he does not put box down and salute? What if he does but the stuff in box breaks? Which would be worse? Tony Peterson, studied Nuclear Machinist Mate at Former Military (1994) • Answered July 16 I can tell you what happened when I was bringing out trash after a six month deployment and some newly assigned officer decided made a comment on my uniform. He was I belie... Read more » 77 14   My neighbor is threatening to shoot my outside dog who barks all night, what should I do? Jana J. Monji, studied at University of Southern California • Answered May 21 So you have an "outside dog" and you know the dog barks all night? Do you also have an "inside dog"? Why do you think it is okay to be such a bad neighbor that you let your d... Read more » 7.1K 505   How do you handle a call to the police if you shoot someone who breaks into your house? Jim Doherty, Police officer for more than 20 years, serving local, state, and federal levels • Updated June 11 Call 911, ask for an ambulance for a gunshot victim, and a police response. Divest yourself of your weapon before the police arrive. When they arrive, say the patient was br... Read more » 141 61   There's a veritasium video that says there are mathematical statements that are true but can never be proven. How could one ever know that. How can a statement be true if it's not provable? Logan R. Kearsley, MA in Linguistics from BYU, 8 years working in research for language pedagogy. • Answered July 23 Consider the Halting Problem. For every computer program, there are two complete and exclusive possibilities: either it will run forever, or it will halt after a finite amou... Read more » 57 54   Why did my top performing employee quit after write up? Kathy Casey, Retired, Cantankerous, Wise Lady at Life on Earth • Answered July 5 I did it. I was a 6 year beloved employee at a Golf Course whose name you would recognize. I ran a state of the art type of snack bar. During a member/pro tournament of 200... Read more » 3.3K 68   What does being "poor" look like for someone who lives in an upper middle class neighborhood but is lower middle class? What can they afford and not afford that makes them feel "poor" in this situation? Kathy Lee, I am old • Answered July 26 I can answer this question because I've been poor, I've been middle-class and I've been upper middle class and I've noticed my own behaviors change while moving through the... Read more » 10 2   When a child actor has a gruesome on-screen death or their character's corpse is shown, how does it affect the parents of the child actor seeing it? Thomas Canfield • Answered July 12 There is a famous story about the 1931 "Frankenstein" where Boris Karloff's monster meets the little girl, Maria, who is not afraid of him. They start tossing flowers into ... Read more » 22   Has a teacher ever accused your child of doing something that you know he could not have done? Lesley-Anne James, Mother of a Daughter (2000-present) • Answered June 17 Twice and Mummy Bear came out both times. The first time was when my daughter was in reception (the first year of school in the U.K.) and literally only 6 weeks past her 4th... Read more » 1K 11   Is there a specific amount of time one should stay at someone's house when having dinner with them? Marcia Proven, former Retired at State of Michigan Department of Human Services • Updated 30m ago My rule of thumb when I have people over. Cocktail hour - then have a leisurely dinner at 6pm, dessert, etc. - chat at the table or move to the living room or family room o... Read more » 33 3   In the U.K., is "fruit by the foot" called "fruit by the meter"? Marian Clarke, Managed Multinational Teams From 20 - 300 Pax (1999-present) • Answered July 26 I had to google this, because it made absolutely no sense to me at all; I'd never heard of it. When I found it - it's a Betty Crocker product - I googled the ingredients…. t... Read more » 497 72 Read more in your feed

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