Hot honey?

You don't need all of those things (if we require pro sports then you leave Atlanta on I-20 and the next city is Dallas, which isn't what I'm trying to say either) but you need some of the cultural stuff that only pops up with density. That's almost 20x the people from the original example.

Appointment television, what a lineup

This is makes me happy

Definitely a squishy definition based on the relationship to the surrounding area, but maybe one that expects too much

It's definitely skewed by my experience always living near mid sized or larger cities, but you go into town to do regular shopping or meet up with people or go use some municipal service and you go to the city for arts and museums and higher end shopping and professional sports

Ouch

No, those are definitely cities and pretty majorly shifted goal posts

I will accept muffins, tho

There's nothing wrong with being a large town!

One of my more insufferable takes is that the US only has like three big cities (New York, Chicago, usually Los Angeles) and that combined with how sparse the population is in so much of the country really distorts our collective perception of what a city is

Not a city, extremely small

Saw someone describe the place they live as a "small city of about 35,000 people" and Americans are wild, y'all

I *think* I found somewhere I can just take a picture on my phone and upload it (because they need the hospital letter with an exact admission and birth date to officially start the leave, which is mildly annoying but fine)

I did my first maternity leave at a midsize startup that had a contract with a super employee friendly leave administration service. I'm about to take my second leave at a huge company with a much more annoying leave administrator who appears to want me to fax documents while three days postpartum?

Also non negotiably needed MY hair products and MY blow dryer with diffuser and that shit is all heavy and travel sizes do not last 7 days

Me and the four pairs of shoes I brought on a 7 day work trip this spring 😭

Hmm I wonder what happened in January of 2025 that changed funding for essential medical research so substantially.

I didn't get a lot of cinnamon, they were just...weird

I really liked the lemon ones, the pb cinnamon roll were a little too much going on for me

Sometimes I need music to be my hype guy and disco is great for that

Seriously, what about Abba or Earth, Wind, and Fire is supposed to be embarrassing

Nothing OP is saying is wrong the entire thing is just so bizarre 😂

I don't post or interact on threads, I only lurk and judge

Also you went on a Sunday afternoon. Of course it was crowded! When we go on the weekends I remind my 2yo that we have to pack our patience, maybe he needed a reminder like that 🤔

But you just....didn't go. You didn't have to go to get mad about it 😂 (although I've shopped at Costco since I was single, some stuff just made sense)

Oh also for some reason milk is over a dollar a gallon cheaper at Costco than at my regular grocery stores right now so we try to get milk at Costco if we can (our Costco is about 12 minutes away, this is both a blessing and a curse)

Although we are currently on a closer to weekly grind than monthly because the toddler demands raspberries

Costco is absolutely why we kept our sketchy but still functioning fridge when we bought a new one last summer (from Costco, obviously)

Sass we are mad posting about mf SunDrop on this fine Monday morning