Yes! lol. My first foreign country experience. Good old Nogales.

When I was 15, my two friends and I hopped a plane to visit the 4th friend who had recently moved to Arizona. I'm not telling tall tales, but we were good girls: honor roll, etc. Well, this 4th friend had become part of the "cool kids" clique in her new school, and the coolest thing for high schoolers to do was cross the border into Mexico where the drinking age was 16 at the time, and they barely checked ID. So off we went (this was way pre-9/11, border was open to Mexico and Canada back then) to a really fun little bar in Mexico that played great rock music. Things were going great until the music came to a screeching halt, the lights came on, and a bunch of armed men came in. I had never even seen a gun in person, and here's this group of men with guns pointed. They brusquely checked the bathrooms, talked to the manager, then left.

Now me, as a 15 year old girl WHOSE PARENTS DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, where I was drinking, for the first time, underage (I was a month away from turning 16) was about shit my damn pants.

Apparently it was a fairly common thing for bars to be checked that way for drugs, etc, but holy shit. All I could think was I'd have to call my parents from a Mexican prison, to tell them I had been busted drinking (i had all of 2 beers).

My girls are 16 and 19 now, and I don't even know how I would react if I found out they did something so stupid. lol. I mean, I'm sure they have, I guess they were also just smart enough to not get caught.

Well now I will!

The older i get, the more frustrated I am with how we continue to do things. And my job is directly affected by medical debt. NO ONE should go into massive debt on account of needing medical care. NO ONE should have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for insurance premiums that are garbage.

EVERYONE should have access to the same, affordable care. Sigh.

Was that a class action? I didn't hear about that one. I think we did the google and snapchat that we're waiting on.

In Illinois we received texts/email similar to when Facebook was sued. You could opt-in for the settlement. The FB one netted each person ~$400.