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This Purim, I’m taking a break from my regular humor column to talk about an uncomfortable topic that is particularly prevalent this time of year, and no one really wants to address it. It’s an addiction that people don’t really consider a problem until it’s too late – one that’s claiming more and more people each year. It’s in our yeshivos, it’s particularly in our Bais Yaakovs… It’s even in our preschools. I suffer from it too.

If you’re a doting husband who helps his wife clean for Pesach by standing over her and telling her what parts of what she’s doing are not halachically required (“What? Now she has less work to do!”) then perhaps at some point she’ll tell you to clean your seforim shranks.

The thing about my trash collectors is that I can never figure out how long it will take them to collect anything we leave out.

Welcome back to “How Should I Know?” -- the humorous advice column that is approximately 40% me trying to help people with their questions in a way that they’re not meshubad to actually follow my advice and 60% a way to get people to unwittingly send me topics.

One of your main concerns as a parent when your child gets braces is, “Is there parking at the orthodontist’s office?” That’s the one aspect that’s maybe in your control.

We’re cat-sitting, apparently.

It was my wife’s idea. My wife is nice that way. I barely talk to my neighbors, so this is not a situation I would have gotten us into.