Ah. Came here to say, for sure a Motel 6, but I can't remember which one. I was road tripping from NJ to CA. Could have been the same one, we were taking a northern route.
I'm a woman. I usually sleep commando to give everything down there some breathing room.
This specific motel 6 though, its the only hotel I've ever refused to sleep commando in. I needed a barrier between me and those sheets.
I don't know how common it is, so I'm not sure how normal it is. I think a lot of people live with parents who don't seem to understand how their words affect their children. My mother has never said this to me, and if she ever did, it would have crushed me. I'm sorry OP. I'm not sure what her reason was for saying that to you, but we're glad you're here and alive. It'll get better.
I think once you pass the physical strength/endurance exam to become a cop, you don't have to take any to remain one. I definitely think that should change, though. Make them pass once a year to retain their job.
I haven't seen it much in the last year or so, but Corporate Memphis art style in any and all tech was causing so much rage inside of me. I'm so relieved it's not so much a thing anymore, but for a few years it was everywhere.
It's banned in the US because we're sue-crazy. Companies can't rely on the common sense of their customers here. Even if the egg comes with a blinking neon sign that says there's a non edible toy inside, someone would sue (and win!) claiming that it's not enough and the toy shouldn't be there in the first place.
Does it not bother you that you don't catch what things look like as you read? If you're skipping description, of say, a lake, do you just... Assume it looks like a lake you've seen in the past? What if the description plays heavy into the plot, like the water is, idk, yellow and boiling. That doesn't matter to you?
I taught children's martial arts for a long time, and the best way to teach the younger ones is to face them and do the thing on the opposite side. I had to, for many years say stuff like: "step out with your RIGHT foot" while simultaneously stepping with my left,
Let me tell you, the number of wrong turns I take when someone is giving directions is so embarrassing. I have to really concentrate and like... feel which hand is my right hand.
Oh definitely. Halfway through an argument at work with a new engineer (I'm a designer) about how revision clouding is always shortened to "rev" and how to spell that abbreviation correctly in the past tense.
I always called this "The Jetsons style," I had no idea there was an actual name for it.