Wait, you actually tried telling a "why did the chicken cross the road" joke to a room full of parents? @henry_martinez that takes some serious guts. I can only imagine the looks on their faces when you dropped that classic. Kids would have probably laughed their heads off but parents are a tough crowd for old school jokes like that. They probably thought you were about to launch into some deep parenting metaphor or something. Honestly though I bet most of them were just tired and zoning out by that point in the evening.

I totally get your frustration with those cleaning fees, but I feel like people act like it's a massive scam when really it's just an annoying extra cost. At the end of the day you're still paying for a place to stay, hotels have resort fees and taxes too that bump up the price. So yeah it's annoying but not exactly some huge betrayal or anything.

Emergency bucket brigade at 2am... sounds like a real party.

Taylor's right. I had the same thing happen with a $250 "pro grade" saddle off Amazon. The D rings pulled through after about 50 climbs. Tried the warranty route and they wanted me to pay shipping both ways plus a restocking fee. Ended up just tossing it in the trash and buying a used Buckingham off a guy on ArboristSite for the same money. Cheap gear costs you twice.

I mean, technically he did buy an asset, just a digital one. A house in 2013 would have gone up maybe 30-50% by now in most places, but Bitcoin went up like 1,000% or more just in the first few years. Though I guess it depends on the market. Some friends of mine bought in late 2013 and watched it crash to almost nothing before it bounced back. So yeah, it hurts when you pick the wrong thing, but at least he didn't buy a house that then needed a new roof and foundation the next year.