Well I hope they ordered a salad

A popular restaurant in our area went to no tip, but had to slightly increase prices to compensate. It did not go well. They had to go back to tipping to not close and lost a lot of regular guests. I’m all for no tipping, but restaurant failure rate is already so high, it may have to be a state or nationwide movement for us to ever see that.

I care...see what I did there? I single handedly refuted your whole argument. Be careful when speaking in absolutes.

But... But it takes less time to fold a fitted sheet than a regular one?

A regular one you have to manually square up all the corners with each fold.

Fitted though, slam that thing in half, stick your hand in a corner (like a mitten) and stick the nearest corner over the top. Do the same on the other side, and then flip two of the corners into the other two. Ignore the bunchy bit around half of the sheet, and pretend the corner of the mitten (where all four fitted corners are now stacked on top of each other) is the"real" corner. Fold once or twice more on top of itself and you're done.

And significantly faster than folding non-fitted sheets, because you don't have to find the corners and line them up.

PSST...Can you straighten the linen closet again? PLEASE?

Commenter has a valid concern.

Commenter asks "You actually expect us to believe someone brought duct tape into church on the chance there was a noisy kid"

Why, no. Some people just come prepared with tools & materials for a variety of situations. This was one of those kind of people and one of those kind of -- as it turns out -- situations. Think Boy Scouts: always prepared! Heck, it could have been a leaky pipe.

Commenter further asks "he could use it on in front of his parents?"

I'm not certain, but it looked to me like the kid's mom was one of the folk who exclaimed "Hallelujah" and his dad was one of the people who exclaimed "Amen!" after the kid was silenced.

Ha! Too Tru. 💯 on your side. Stupid Liberal that I am.

I won't use services that charge absurd fees. I'd rather go without than go broke.

I have a daughter whose OCD for folding clothes and linens comes in handy! LOVE IT when she straightens the linen closet! It's like looking at a wall display in BED BATH AND BEYOND! I open the closet doors, and just stand there in wonder! Then she rolls all of the towels in the bathroom like we are in some luxury spa! My daughter ROCKS!

Exactly. Fees are corporate profit, period.

After reading "How to Keep House While Drowning" I decided that it is nuts to fuss over things like folding sheets when you're struggling with summoning the motivation to do life in general. So now every time I wash my sheets I put the clean flat sheet, fitted sheet and three pillowcases inside the fourth pillowcase. Everything is kept together. Sheets are wrinkled after the first night theyte on the bed so it doesn't bother me in the slightest to shove them in there.

I'm a cash tipper. No app is going g to tell me how to spend my money. I tip well when I can, almost always a healthy, tya, cash tip. Unless the Driver refuses to follow simple instructions, like don't leave food on the deck bc the rats, or other humans will get to it first, ants get into everything, inclement weather destroys paper/cardboard. Most drivers are fantastic and kind, I keep special money set aside, ready for those people. I also gift the mail carrier and the extra special UPS drivers. But AH with attitude who ruin stuff, no.

Tip if you use a duvet cover (or you could do it with a flat sheet): fold the nice, sharply folded duvet cover around the fitted sheet (and pillowcases). You’ve got a complete set when you change linens.

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That’s actually really nice.

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Lol but it's not really funny-funny. I'm a big tipper depending upon which type of service I'm using. Food Delivery Drivers of any kind should be tipped well.

I care. I don't fold them for anyone else, but I do fold them for me.

Or you could just use your microwave.

You actually expect us to believe someone brought duct tape into church on the chance there was a noisy kid he could use it on in front of his parents?

Seriously, a ball of pizza dough is like $1 and sauce and cheese and toppings could be around $10. And you can make multiple pizzas

For people like me who are clean freaks…a little OCD about stuff like this, your solution would make me crazy!

Holy shit

1. A short acknowledgement - e.g. 'I'm really sorry to hear that.'
2. Pause - offer a short break for them to open up (you never know how important this could be to someone)
3. Move on with the conversation.

I swear vinegar is some magic elixir shit.

Clothes stink? Clothes not soft? Coffee pot taste funny? Dandruff? Impotence?

It just does it all