Crazy About You

I am so incredibly thankful that there people who took me in, clothed me, fed me, loved me when I was kid. My biomom is kraxy, much like the people Erin and Cashmere are entangled with. I know it couldn't have been easy having to deal with the kraxy while loving me. I am so thankful people did it anyway. It's why, even as an adult, I have a number of surrogate families whom I love dearly.

((((Cashmere, Erin)))))

msbelle, I think so. But I dunno all the details -- plus? conflict.

Argh.

Cash, your sitch is way worse. Genuine crazy. At least Bf's ex does love her son, and, as much as I wanna smack her down, there IS attempts at being civil and a wanting-the-best-for-him. She just is...unrealistic and self-centered, I suppose. And I love BF dearly, but he is not as assertive as I am. (He apparently has a thing for strong-willed women. I told him this, and he agreed readily.)

He knows he needs to be more assertive with her, and is way more than he used to be. It's a process.

I HATE processes.

My sister got herself embroiled as proxy caretaker for a cousin with a crazy mother and unidentified father and overseas siblings. Fuck, the hoops the bitch mother put her through were insane. Woman refused to take her son to boarding school. In Jamaica you don't exactly put a kid on a bus, you know? My sister had to drive him cross country, or no education for him.

As soon as he got old enough he moved in with a much older sister in the US, but he'll never forget all the things my sister did for him.

You don't have to tip for takeout, do you? I am, but last time this place didn't charge my card for the tip. And I'm not putting on as much as for a sitdown meal, which I think is reasonable. Or is it?

Pat Kiernan covered a "man-cleavage" story this morning with his shirt half buttoned: [link]

Love!

I tip for delivery, but not for takeout that I pick up from the restaurant.

I think it's reasonable to add a couple of bucks if they put together a nice bag with napkins and utensils for you. I never add a full 15% for take out.

I don't think tips are required for takeout but I always try to add a few bucks for the delivery driver. Definitely not as much as a sit-down meal. And I'm pretty sure most delivery people are paid higher wages than servers. And they don't have to split tips with bussers and bartenders.

edited to be clearer--I DO tip for take out but only a buck or two--for the person ringing me up and if they make sure I have chopsticks, etc.. Always tip for delivered.

::clutches awesome family tight::

I love Pat Kiernan so much.

If there's a tip jar, I'll leave coin change in it. Otherwise I don't think takeout requires a tip.