Hi! While finally having booked our WDW package, I am now totally bewildered by the dining options. I got two subquestions: 1) We got the Quick Service dining plan. Does that mean we get points for the whole trip which we “spend” to buy food, or do we have two quick (fast food?) meals per day and can’t move the “credit” to a later date? 2) I read that some folks book restaurant reservations THREE MONTHS ahead. That sounds crazy. But my real question is, which are the best restaurants that are actually WORTH our effort to try to get reservation? (Can we add up quick service “points” to get a sit down meal?) THANKS!!!!!!!!
Thanks! Amazing answer; but I noticed that some of the sit-down prices are like $34 and up, for the dinner choices. Is that the normal pricing??? If so, maybe we will skip the sit down and just stay with the quick service (???)

So I worked at this office supplies store for three or four months back in 2005 when I was 18. Then I worked at a restaurant back in 2006 for two or three months. I got my W-2 forms from both companies but I never filed it because I didn’t know what to do. Then I’ve been working for this company and I am under Code 6, which I think means I am a contract worker. I don’t get any taxes taken out. Right now I am trying to find another job and start paying taxes because I don’t want to get hit in the long run. Can anyone help me out? What do you think I should do right now?

I have been going out with a woman for three months who is about to turn 50.
I am planning dinner at a really nice restaurant.
As to the gift, how much should I spend? I was also thinking about sending flowers to her office that morning. Is that over the top?
Any other suggestions for a memorable 50th??
Thank you
Rich

Sorry this is so long. There’s a lot to the story. I just really need some advice from someone who can relate. Relate either to me, him, or his ex. This situation is about to drive me insane and I have no one to talk to about it.

First things first: He’s 48, I’m 36. He was married to his ex-wife for 13 years and they have 6 kids between them, 3 still under the age of 12, the rest grown. They divorced in 2007. She supposedly divorced him because he wasn’t happy that she adopted 3 little kids, one having extreme ADHD and constantly causing problems in their home. Since she divorced him she has realized she made a huge mistake, is still deeply in love with him, and wants him back (still to this day.)

Anyway, they got back together sometime after their divorce and broke up again 2 months before I started seeing him. During this time she and the kids were still living in his house “because of financial reasons.” Three months passed before she moved out but I still wasn’t allowed to stay at his place. Actually, I’ve never been invited. He always stays at my place at least one night during the week and on the weekends he doesn’t have his kids. I know for a fact she has moved out so I don’t understand why I’m still not welcome there.

During the whole time we’ve been seeing each other, they have been attending different kids functions together, the biggest being baseball practice/games almost every day. I have never once been invited. I brought it up once to him and his reason was “because he didn’t want any confrontations.” I have met his kids once, but he didn’t introduce he as his girlfriend - just as a friend “so they wouldn’t be confused.”

He has made me feel so rejected and unloved for the past 6 months. He has told me in a few messages that he feels love for me but he has never once told me he loves me to my face. Last month I ended things with him because I was sick of the crap only to have him BEG me back (through messages.) I gave in because I truly believed he cared about me and wanted a future with me. But after I gave in and took him back he instantly changed back to being distant and uncaring. Then 4 days later he sent me a message informing me that his ex-wife made a plea for him to consider seeing her again to see if they could work things out for the kids’ sake. He agreed. Then 2 days later contacted me again, saying he didn’t know what the hell he was thinking by letting her guilt trip him into it, and that he made a mistake. So like a dumb*$$ I took him back. I love him. People make mistakes, I thought.

He then requests that I not post anything about he and I getting back together on Facebook because he doesn’t want anyone to know “right now.” He doesn’t want it getting back to her because he doesn’t want her to think he dumped her for me. He “still cares about her well being” and she’s so “deeply in love with him that it would devastate her if she knew it was because of me that he dumped her.”

So tonight he messages me and says that soon the kids will be having baseball games out of town and wants me to be prepared for them (he and his ex) attending together, riding in the same car, and going out to eat together - as a family of course. But what about me???? Is this right? After 6 months am I really asking too much to be included???? I asked him how he feels it is right to spend that sort of time with her and his reply was that his kids “don’t understand divorce” and “how would it look if mom and dad rode in separate cars and ate separately at different restaurants while out of town.?”

Please people, I need some advice here. Am I being too paranoid? I know they will always be tied because of the kids but isn’t this going a little too far?? Should I run for the hills and never look back???

I’m 15 now so I can’t work until next summer. I want to be a waitress at a local restaurant in my town. It’s nothing well known, just a small town place with a few other locations around the area. I don’t know how much minimum wage is (I know it’s the normal minimum wage but I don’t know how much that is). I also don’t know what working hours are. I know they’re open from 9-7 but I don’t know what times are which shifts. I know I would be able to work all hours 3 days a week, and 5 hours 2 days a week for a total of 40 hours weekly. How much could I make in three months? How much do waitresses make in tips? The restaurant is really popular in my town and is a big family place. If anyone could give me an estimate of how much I could make (including tips, please) that would be really helpful! Thanks in advance!

Here’s the story. I met this lady several years ago during my freshman year of college. We were in the same math class together and gradually became friends. She had a boyfriend that lived in Las Vegas, We went to school in the Midwest. During the next two years of school we would meet every Tuesday night and have dinner together, as a local restaurant on campus and sit there talking to each other for hours and became really close friends. I started having feelings for her, but didn’t want to intrude on her relationship, so I kept them hidden. Over the course of the next two years she transferred to another school on the East Coast but then transferred back to a school in the Midwest a year later. Over this time we kept in contact and she ended up breaking up with her boyfriend because he stopped contacting her. A year after breaking up with her boyfriend, she sent me a letter in the mail asking me is there had ever been anything between us. Stunned yet overjoyed, I spent the next 3 hours typing an email back to her telling her the whole truth and my feelings for her. We met the next weekend and started going out. Three months later I was on a camping trip with her extended family and she broke up the relationship saying that she wasn’t feeling it, but she still wanted to be friends. Being the type of guy I am I don’t like to lose friends so easily, so I said I would still be friends with her. Later that summer we took a trip to Six Flags and she made the comment that “She’d start loving me again, once I spoke 100% english.” I was a bit taken back and started to seriously think if I wanted to be around her and started looking for someone new. I eventually found someone, but I could only go back to thinking about her and the second relationship fell apart because of my feelings still for her. I eventually sent her an email asking her why she broke up with me and if we could ever get back together again. She replied that she had been stressed out about finishing college and finding a job and wanted to figure out those things first before settling down. This May she graduated from college and I was invited to her graduation party. It was good to see her again, but I was really taken aback when she introduced me to her other guests as her best friend. I don’t know what I should do. She has given me joy and a ton of heartache. She has been a friend a friend and someone I can talk to, but can’t share my true feelings with. I don’t want to push her into doing something she doesn’t want to do. She calls me her best friend and wants to spend time with, but all I can think about is the past and try to hold back the emotion. What should I do? What can I do?

My boss is technically my friend. We worked together for almost five years in a restaurant. He was a manager and I was soon one after a couple of years. He was eventually forced to leave due to “creative differences” with the General Manager, and now he is his own GM at his very own restaurant. He offered me a job there and I took it.

I have been at this job for about three months now. I was promoted to Assistant Manager in my first month because of my previous experience. Now I am training to be GM because he is becoming District Manager and will be looking after all the stores at the end of December.

We’re both very stressed. He is having girlfriend issues and has a baby due in July along with working 70 hours+ a week. I’m having a hard time adjusting to training to GM because I have social anxiety, which he is unaware of because I have grown comfortable with him after working together for so long (along with friends, my horse, and working 60+hours a week myself).

He was having a ‘Poker Party’ this weekend. Which is basically the group coming over for drinks and cards. I did attend once and enjoyed myself. This week I had booked off Saturday because Friday I had committed too a cancer funding event that would last from 7pm-7am (no sleep). I texted him to let him know I was very tired and asked what time the game was at. He said 10:30pm and I texted back saying I probably wasn’t going to go because I was so exhausted.

He quickly texted back “Fine. Come in tomorrow at 2 then.” Which drove me absolutely nuts. I hadn’t been out to see my horse all week because I had to cover him so he could spend time with his family. I asked if I could come in a bit later on Sunday because I wanted to hit the barn before work. I texted back “We agreed four.” To which I got “See you at 2 tomorrow or don’t bother coming in.” Now I heard he canceled the poker game.

I know I may have hurt his feelings and disappointed him by not coming, but now I think he’s putting my job in jeopardy. I’m a bit nervous to go to work tomorrow because I’m sure I’ll be getting the cold shoulder which I don’t need right now because the owner is flying down on Tuesday to evaluate the restaurant. What can I do to fix this? Is this even fair? I think he’s being immature. I don’t know how to tell him it’s nothing personal without him blowing up on me. What would you guys do? Should I just quit and find a new job while I still can? I really need this job. I could be making enough money to support myself once I become GM.
The poker game was going to be about 12 of us all from work. In his defence, it is thunderstorming out to the point where a few places have lost power. But he lives only a two minute drive from the restaurant so I don’t see why they wouldn’t drive there after work.

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I’ve been friends with this girl for almost 3 years now. About three months ago, I realized how much she has pushed me behind all of her other friends and how she acted differently around different people. As days went by, I kept realizing and finding out more things about her and how much she really didn’t/doesn’t trust me. She has never been openly honest with me, and we never have had a serious conversation one on one. The only time we did was when she had no one else to talk to. She didn’t care at all when I went through depression, but I had other friends who stuck by me. She, on the other hand, used my pain for her own humor. She keeps telling all my friends I’m a lesbian (which was suppose to be a joke with only one of my friends) and its starting to bother me. I tell her to stop and she just laughs.
I’ve tried to talk to her about this, but she ignores me. So in return, I ignore her.
Every Wednesday, she and I and two of my other friends go to this pizza place. My parents were driving us there, and the car we were using was our smaller car. I told some of my friends that wanted to come that they couldn’t because there wasn’t room. My friend said “No its okay, they can sit on my lap” then they all raced in the car without my okay. While we were there, she and my other friend ditched me at the restaurant, so IN FINLAY I’m really upset and sick of her. I want to ignore her, but she keeps coming up to me and would be like “i’m going to bump you!” and she’ll playfully punch me on the shoulder like nothings wrong. I ignore her text messages and avoid her in school, but its so hard to do when she is all over me.

She ignores me when I want to talk to her and is all over me when I want to ignore her back. What should I do? I’m thinking of sending something to her over facebook saying I’m done with playing her games. Is that a good idea? Thanks

I don’t know what to do. I am pregnant (25 weeks) and going out of my mind. Right before I got pregnant me and my fiance went out of state for what was only supposed to be a few months. Now he’s refusing to move back with me and he had promised before we even came here that we could go back at any time if I wanted to. I have been so stressed here and I have no friends or family here. I want to enjoy my last three months before the baby gets here by seeing my friends and going to the restaurants I like and actually having a baby shower. We keep fighting here too. He is either at work or when he is at home we are arguing, and all I do is stay home all day with NOTHING to do. He also has been lying to me non-stop for the past few months. His family is here and I do not want them in my life, they are horrible people, his mom even stole my car twice. I know if we stay here we are going to break up, I am just so miserable, and he won’t get it through his head. If we move back we even have a house there my parents are letting us have so we wouldn’t be paying so many bills. What can I do to make him realize what he’s doing to me, what this place is doing? I just feel like crying all the time.

Currently, I’m sexually active with three different girls. I never mention — to any of them — that I am seeing other girls.

I met one girl while she was working at a department store. She was a virgin when I met her. I’ve been seeing her for four months. I like her because she is innocent, nice, pretty, and very natural. She is 18.

I met the second girl while she was working at a restaurant. I like her because she speaks her mind and ozzes sexuality. I’ve been seeing this girl for three months. She is 20.

I met the third girl just recently (about three weeks ago) through a friend. This particular girl is well-rounded, has a well-paying job, is well-educated, extremely attractive, and the oldest of the girls I am seeing (she is 25 — while I am 24).

I’ve been having sex with all three girls regularly; but I don’t tell any of them about my sex life. When they ask of other girls, I avoid the question.

I don’t think I am in a relationship with any of these girls, but I’m afraid that one (or more) of them may think that we are exclusively going out; I would hate to give this impression.

Anyway, do you think that it is acceptable to continue seeing all three girls? Or must I tell each one of them that I am having sex with other women?