WHAT WE THINK IS OKAY AND NOT OKAY IN MOVIE THEATERS _ A new survey asked Americans about potentially divisive behaviors in a movie theater. Broadly Acceptable Behaviors:
• Leaving to use the bathroom during a movie
• Applauding at the end of the film
• Leaving before the movie ends
Overwhelmingly Unacceptable Behaviors:
• Video chatting on the phone
• Leaving trash on/at one’s seat
• Putting feet on the seat in front
Speaking Volume: Whispering:
• 71% acceptable
• 19% unacceptable
Regular volume talking
• 81% unacceptable
• 11% acceptable
Other Behaviors with Some Acceptance:
• Taking off shoes: 24% acceptable
• Texting on phone: 36% acceptable
• Singing along to music: 33% acceptable
EVER BEEN TURKEY DUMPED? _ Breakups are hard, no matter who you are. Even harder? When it qualifies as a turkey dump. In it’s purest form, it’s a breakup that happens over Thanksgiving to first-year university students — high-school sweethearts who part ways after promising each other they’d stay true and do the long-distance thing after being admitted to separate colleges. It goes like this — one freshman in the relationship starts blossoming like a flower. Explores new interests. Makes new friends. Goes to cool parties. Realizes boring ol’ boy/girlfriend back home isn’t remotely as interesting as all these college students. Being a good person, they decide not to do the breakup via text/phone/etc. Only solution? Meet up over Thanksgiving weekend and deliver the killing turkey dump blow.
WOMEN REVEALED WILD SECRETS THEY DISCOVERED AFTER THEY MARRIED
• That he plays video games. For 10–15 hours a day. Even when he married. And had kids. And had a full-time job. With marriage counseling, he cut back to five hours a day. It’s now back up to about 7 hours a day on weekdays.
• He dunks his Oreos in water instead of milk. I still don’t know why, but I’m horrified by this. No, he is not lactose intolerant, and no, he wasn’t poor growing up. He’s not a vegan. And we had milk in the house when I caught him doing this. He just prefers to dunk his Oreos in water.
• Been married for 5+ years and we’re from different countries. He just told me the other day that I’ve been pronouncing his name slightly wrong the whole time we’ve been together; he got used to it and just never bothered to correct me.
• My ex told me his middle name was James. I saw afterwards on his driver’s license that it was John. He would lie about random stuff all the time, for no good reason.
