Thanks for the laugh/sob.

My sister does CASA and she has definitely had to cut a lot of family vacations short in order to show up for court dates. She also seems to write a lot of reports. But that's because it's a pretty important role -- her feedback informs decisions about whether to return kids to biological parents or allow them to be adopted into permanent new homes.

We watched the Shakespeare episode of Moonlighting in my high school English class, and it's crazy now to think that he was only 13 years out of high school himself at that point.

I like North Jersey Shore for that strip along Sandy Hook Bay.

Are you originally from there?

I'm really worried about the effect the warm winter will have on this summer's fleas and ticks. Maybe a good late-March storm would keep those suckers at bay a little longer.

We went on a 6th grade field trip there. I remember a girl picked something up off the ground to ask me what it was and I had to inform her it was deer poop.

Where are you from that you don't?

Gonna need a bigger cancer.

You could try doing a search for "trivia night" on Yelp.

You might want to start looking for a good nursing home now.

I just went back to driving in NJ after a few decades of being carless in NYC and I think what you're saying is true for 95% of drivers, but there's genuinely a contingent who seem to get off on tailgating and will do so in the right lane just for shits & giggles.

I have a NJ Italian friend whose in-laws bought his toddler son a gold chain because they get such a kick out of the stereotype, and they live all the way in Peru.

Lol this description is way too close to my hs graduating class.

Related, I wonder how many people in the states surrounding NJ have had to provide impromptu gas-pumping lessons to clueless young Jerseyans. That's how I learned.