I had a similar situation when I moved here from NW Ohio where there is a large Polish population and I missed Paczkis. Grocery store Paczkis are just donuts. Coffee Time in Salem does house-made, hand-rolled Paczkis.

They also make King Cake. I haven't had one, but I have seen them and they look amazing.

I mean, you're right, but that's just something we have to do when we have little ears in the house sometimes. And it's a good lesson to learn that sometimes words have power over other people that they don't have over us.

Personally, it's an "oh your god" situation for me, but not being a child psychologist, maybe that's just too high a concept for a 5-year-old.

Whoops! Sorry, I was a lost redditor for a moment.

Yeah, I know. I have a really bad habit of dropping F-bombs in bad situations because it doesn't even register to me as a bad word anymore. Like, I have my own problems with bad words and inappropriately timed words and I'm way older than your kid. But I am old enough to tell people who are offended by my saying oh my god to fuck off which he is not.

He might be a bit too young to understand the distinction between bad words and words that aren't appropriate in certain settings. But he sounds really upset by the way they're speaking to him. I'd talk to the teacher about how they're addressing it but also maybe make an effort to not say it around him. It seems to be distressing to him that mimicking your behavior/doing something that you think is ok is getting him in trouble at school.

I always tuck my pants into my socks. I once pulled 30+ ticks off my dog on a warm day in February, so I'm wary anytime there's not deep snow cover.

Makes sense if it was originally pronounced "Behar". Then people got lazy and made it one syllable.

Yes, I'm sure those ads are changing minds! /s

If by plans you mean, people have said we should, then yes. If however, you mean the act of making preparations for a project, then no.

I would argue it is still a very serious concern. People die up there in the summer. Someone died up there a couple of weeks ago.

I mean, a lot of these places (128), the speed limit is like 50. People trying to merge at 80 and beeline to the fast lane (while normal in Michigan) just come across as super aggressive here.

Have you seen it recently? Much improved.

Still crap to go toward Gloucester, but it's way better than it was.

Probably both. Also, the lengths people will go to not to pay the deposit on their bottles. There are massive liquor stores right across the state line.