That 50-year-old is still shaking from letting their kid drive to school, and is now going to work where they’ll dread going back to pick their kid up and let them drive home. Or maybe a few more practices in empty parking lots first… Which are fucking hard to find by the way, they’re all full of cars!
In bed?
Jk, but maybe we shouldn’t be shaming someone’s punishment-seeking kink
Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” I probably should have used it in my previous comment. It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” Especially at storytime. The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.
“of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.
(Note, I modernized the spellings of “sudden” rather than try to switch focus back and forth)
Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.
And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!
But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.
Aha. But that sounds correctable… So not having any people assigned to checking on railroads and making sure the system recognizes them as railroads would be due to miserliness on the part of Tesla then… And might also say something about why some Teslas have been known to drive into bodies of water (or children, but that’s probably a different instance of miserliness)
I’m pretty sure Tesla self-drive does a lot of stupid things you never would, too. That’s why they want you at the wheel, paying attention and ready to correct it in an instant! (Which defeats the whole benefit of self-drive mode imho, but whatever)
The fact that they can avoid all responsibilities and blame you for their errors is of course the other reason.
Since the story has 3 separate incidents where “the driver let their Tesla turn left onto some railroad tracks” I’m going to posit:
Teslas on self-drive mode will turn left onto railroad tracks unless forcibly restrained.
Prove me wrong, Tesla
Amber bot is shit at poetry.
The idea of an onion as a metaphor for heartlessness is intriguing, because it’s layers all the way down, but there’s no poetry in the approach.
If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.
"Computer works fine now, but the smell of decomp is becoming unbearable… "
Phones are irrelevant. No matter how rushed they are, and even though they’d probably have TSA PreCheck, they’d still be slowed down enough by post-911 security to count heads. And the very fact Kevin’s not getting into trouble would be a red flag for Mom.
Guess your job doesn’t involve saving the lives of hundreds of pregnant women and their babies. I guess if everything you’ve done over the past 10 years was ripped out and thrown away it would destroy nothing of value and you wouldn’t care. And if we hired a bunch of goons to attack you every time you were online and threaten you in person it would have no affect on your mental health. But she did, it was, and it did for her.
You know how they say “kids are resilient” but really it leads to them needing therapy as adults?
I’m convinced a lot of the random physical pains of old age are the delayed effects of those childhood injuries we jumped up from and immediately forgot.
Respect for the capital letters