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Someone who uses the gym in our building seems to be taking the remote controls. Do I confront him?

A friend calculates lunch tabs to the nickel, based on who ate what. It's inelegant. Should you speak up?

If someone's bag is on a bus seat you want, "loudly ask them if their bag paid its own fare."

Learn the best advice ever received by the Rag's Ruthless Advice columnists.

What to do when friends don't return your food storage containers? "People suck. Share via Ziploc." 

Otis loves Trader Joe's potato chips with ridges. Should he be allowed to go in and shop for them himself?

Cynthia Kaplan is the author of two acclaimed books of humorous essays, Why I’m Like This and Leave the Building Quickly and has written for