Husbandguy was urging the others to come in, while the other fella urged husbandguy to come out. Husbandguy (aka @windthin.bsky.social ) won the #PoliteOff . He got to hold the door for the couple entering. (He insisted I include he won.) #PeakMidwest #Politest #MidwesternNice #SuperPolite #Kohls

We achieved Peak #Midwest today, friends. So we were coming out of Kohls, as one does, and husbandguy was holding open the inner door, while another couple were coming into the Kohls and the fella of that couple was holding the outer door open. The #PoliteOff began! #MidwesternNice 1/2

in #minneapolis and just got the most #midwesternnice catcall: “hey sweetie how about i come over and make you dinner?”

I first noticed that the man standing and talking to the family at a table near us in the Chinese restaurant was annoying them 20 minutes ago. He's still monologuing at them. #MidwesternNice #SitDownAlready

Earlier, a neighbor came to tell me how slippery the roads were because he heard me scraping ice off my vehicle. My neighbor was concerned for my safety. #MidwesternNice #HereToStay #Ope

Bennett Braun, psychiatrist who inflamed a ‘satanic panic,’ dies at 83 Patients accused him of spawning false memories of devil worship and human sacrifice. He later lost his medical license.

Best obituary line of 2024 (so far): “That’s when my head began to clear,” Burgus told the Tribune. “I began to add a few things up & realized there was no way I could come from a little town in Iowa, be eating 2,000 people a year and nobody said anything about it.” wapo.st/4aD6ddp #MidwesternNice

In Holland, Michigan, caught in a monster thunderstorm walking 1km back to car. Hadn’t walked 2 minutes in rain before someone stopped: “You need a ride?” #MidwesternNice