Not every state. This is Texas. I’m in California and my kid went to school with shoulder length hair that was half blue. My relatives in Texas kept asking what the school was doing about it. There’s nothing on the books about hair and the principal said it looked cool. Hair has always been a control issue in bible thumping communities, which I thankfully am no longer around.

From my experience:

Gently let your husband know that if his mom says something negative that he should not pass it along to you. What his mom said did not hurt you until he told you. That’s how I taught my kid not to spread gossip.

As for your mother in law, if she comments that something is messy, hand her a broom. That’s how I got my certified-clean-freak mom to stop making comments. “Vacuum’s in the closet” was another one, but she was my mom, not my MIL, so it wasn’t as hard for me. Sooo…have your husband do it. :)

Also non-cartel coyotes rest during the day. I lived in Nevada where coyotes are a given, but never in my life saw one during the day.

Holy shit. I had to turn it off. WTF.

My kid is learning to drive and I wanted to rent/get ahold of a manual to teach that too, but nothing doing. You can’t find one to rent and I’m not buying a whole car for a few weeks’ training.

I had no idea it did this. My apologies.

That’s a good idea.

That is a) good to know and b) pretty cool. Thanks :)

That was very thoughtful. Thank you.

Say where it is out loud! That’s my stove trick–“THE STOVE IS OFF”. Yes, I have walked away from a lit burner before.

Por que no los dos?

SoCal food coaches are amazing. I’m in San Diego. We have entire events based around them.

All the ADHDers in here. :(

Same. Same.

Hand Blasters?

I never knew about these. I had to look them up. …and now I want them. It looks like you can still buy them online.

Yup, most of these are. I wish the slinkys were still metal.

They’re crazy fun, so they’ll never die. If it helps, I played on one in the early 1970’s.

Thanks so much. I’m usually better about this.

And you had to boil the water before putting it in. I never saw one with moldy water, but I imagine someone somewhere did. Eww.

Choco-taco is for you.

They are definitely a thing, but I don’t know anybody who has tried them. I did work with a guy who says his friend tried it, but idk. Definitely a thing.