Lyft is offering discounts to help get people to the polls today. Use the code “VOTE24” to get up to $10 off Election Day rideshares, bikes, and scooters. It’s called the Lyft Up Voting Access Program and they’ve been doing it since 2014. Uber and Lime have similar deals today………………. An elementary school in central MO…… read more »
A six-year-old girl in England named Ada Hawkes had a happy Halloween thanks to a bunch of neighbors who learned sign language for her. Over half of the people in her neighborhood took time out to learn some simple phrases, like “trick or treat” and “you look spooky.”………….. A one-year-old dog in Canada named Phoenix…… read more »
This is good news if you’re traveling for the holidays and your flight gets canceled. A new law went into effect this week that requires airlines to issue actual refunds. If your flight gets canceled or significantly delayed, they have to refund your money if that’s what you want. They can’t just do vouchers anymore………….. The…… read more »
Last year, a Utah family had to take down a pole dancing Halloween display because it was attached to a city street sign. The residents moved the display to their yard with their own pole, and the story went viral. Now, everyone in their neighborhood is getting in on the skeleton display action, and it’s become such…… read more »
The BBC just did a big write-up on a group of guys in England who’ve met up for drinks almost every Thursday since 1968. They’re all in their 80s now. They say they’ve maybe missed 25 Thursdays in 56 years. (They joked that they used to talk about “soccer and sex.” But now it’s “more…… read more »
An NC woman posted a video after showing up at her aunt’s door and surprising her with a sign that said, “It’s a go . . . Kidney buddies for life.” An Amazon driver happened to be dropping off a package, and it turned out he ALSO received a life-saving kidney transplant 25 years ago……………………… read more »
A guy in Illinois tried to buy a lottery ticket from a vending machine at his grocery store, but the machine malfunctioned and wouldn’t give him the one he wanted. It would only let him get one kind of ticket, so he bought that instead . . . ended up matching all six numbers in…… read more »
A 20-year-old guy from South Africa barely survived a vicious shark attack this year while snorkeling in French Polynesia. And he decided to own the experience by making himself a “trophy.” Doctors pulled one of the shark’s teeth out of his left arm, and he turned it into an earring…………… There’s a story in the…… read more »
An 82-year-old woman in Georgia named Betty Cartledge just voted for the very first time. Her late husband discouraged her from voting, but he passed away last year, so she had her niece take her to the polls to vote early. She didn’t reveal who she cast her ballot for, but said she’ll be back…… read more »
A woman in Kalamazoo, Michigan recently gave birth in the parking lot of a brewery. Her husband was rushing her to the hospital, but they didn’t quite make it and had to pull over. They named their new son Forrest WELLS Baker . . . “Wells” because the brewery is called One Well Brewing. And…… read more »