Dear LFTP: skateboard kids, pea gravel, and the law
- What can a neighbor do about reckless skateboarding teenagers and loose dogs in the street when the parents don't care?
The second Dear LFTP letter: a neighbor terrified of hitting reckless skateboard kids (no helmets, loose dogs) writes for advice. The hosts go full comedy — tripping them, parking over the sidewalk, throwing pea gravel on the street so they wipe out, a flip-number scoreboard — before the Secular answer is read: talk to the parents about the near-misses, then call the police or animal control, which the hosts mock as 'be the worst possible neighbor' and the reason we have a hard time loving each other.
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Dear LFTP: Champ the untrained dog and holding boundaries with your son
- How do I handle my son bringing his untrained dog Champ on our weekend grandson visits?
Mike reads the second letter: the writer hosts weekend grandson visits where her son Dennis brings Champ, an untrained destructive puppy that runs wild, barks, and digs.
From No. 586 · Nothing Personal
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Dear LFTP: wife mocks husband's bladder problem in public
- How should I respond when my wife mocks me and my bladder problem in public?
Mike reads a letter from a man married three years whose wife calls him vulgar names in public and makes his bladder-control problem into comedy.
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Dear LFTP: the birthday invitations
- Should parents be allowed to send birthday invitations to school when only select students are invited?
Mike reads the second letter: the parent of a special-needs pre-K child saw a Facebook group post exposing that her daughter was excluded from a birthday party.
From No. 574 · Starring Ted Danson as Joab
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Dear LFTP: Cindy's baby name ideas
- What should I do about my friend's terrible baby name choices?
Mike reads a letter from Dave about his longtime friend Cindy, six months pregnant, who keeps proposing names like chlamydia, bidet, chalet, and cliche because they sound pretty regardless of meaning.