Guess where? Chicken hair!
I just want to say that I thought the OP was funny. My earlier post was just a memory triggered by the OP.
Chicken hair? No, chicken’s bare!
I’ll probably be labelled a soulless git for this, but I find this hilarious!
This too. Brilliant, Tris! Thanks for sharing these stories. 
You forgot, “Pull the string and eat the gut!” 
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Come on, you have just described a largest percentage of the threads on SDMB!!
I am rather new the the boards but I recognized Anita’s post as a light hearted one and assumed there was a backstory. My frustration was that even after Aunt Geobabe gave the backstory … we still got the outraged & angry posts. I enjoyed Anita’s post. It brought me back to my daughter’s venture out of the nest at 19 yrs old. I was self employed, very busy and away from home a lot anyway so we really weren’t getting into each other’s hair but she decided it was time for her own apartment. She was working her way through college,(very independent … wouldn’t allow anyone to help her financially!) had three parttime jobs and thought she could handle an apartment too. Darned if she didn’t do just fine. I would sneak groceries over occasionally, buy her a tank of gas when I knew she was getting broke and we remained best friends…then and now!
I feel certain that Anita has a good relationship with her son and he probably thinks she is cool for allowing him the freedom to go be “grownup”.
I’d say someone getting their panties bunched around their neck tight enough to cut off oxygen over what was obviously (even to those of us who don’t know Anita a cute joke is far and away more obnoxious.
Trying to “spin a complete piffle of a non-story” into an excuse for self-righteous indignation and then failing is just sad.
Closed at the request of the OP.