I never rejoice in an American company hitting the skids, but AA is a bad company to work for and a bad company to do business with.  I fly about once a month for business and am often stuck with AA flights when I have to book last minute.  The reason, of course, is that travelers book all the other lines first.  Ameri...more

I have the same first and last name as my mother, although with differing middle names.  When my mother died, instead of her credit being cut off, it was all transferred to my credit report.  I was not a signatory on any of my mother's accounts and all bills/invoices went to the lawyer handling her estate.  However, bi...more

When the recession hit, my son lost his job and he and his wife moved in with me until he could find another job.  I live in a 2-bedroom townhome and there simply wasn't room for two families'  furniture and household goods.  Since my son had only been married for two years, most of their belongings were quite new and ...more

A few years ago, after my son was born, I had 20 stubborn pounds of baby weight that I just couldn't seem to shake.  I was doing all the right things - eating properly and exercising regularly--- but it just wouldn't budge.  About a year later it started to come off, but for that intervening year, I'd have called mysel...more

When I was growing up we had four separate drive-in theatres in our not-so-big town of about 200k people.  There were a lot of huge Catholic families in my neighborhood (ours included) and  this was one of the few forms of entertainment that a family that size could afford.  It wasn't uncommon to see the entire neighbo...more

Who didn't see THIS coming?   The minute customers started fleeing Netflix, saying they'd rent from Red Box instead, the execs at Red Box started rubbing their hands together in glee.  "If the sheeple won't swallow a 60% increase, they should at least be willing ot swallow a 20% one."   There's no downside for Red ...more

I've been driving for 30 years and never made a claim on my auto insurance.  If I add up all the money I've spent on wallet-sized cards over the years (I haven't received anything else for my money), I could have bought several brand new cars.  While I'm not suggesting insurance is bad, it has had no benefit for me wha...more

I reluctantly decided to opt in on a small checking account I share with my away-at-college son.  We both put money in the account, he withdraws from it, and on rare occasions so do I.  Because I travel a lot for work and, being a college student, my son's communication skills are not the finest, I decided I'd rather h...more

Not just yeah, but HELL yeah.  Chris Isaak would get me watching Idol again for sure.