It definitely depends on where you lived. I was in 7th grade when Columbine happened (in the DC area, so not close-by) and then in 10th grade when the Beltway Snipers were rampaging through our own county, and we never had anything but fire drills, even after the danger was very much in our area. In the days the…

But then why ISN’T there a statute of limitations for things that already don’t have one? For example, almost every state has no statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse for as long as the victim remains a minor, and many have no statute of limitations even after a victim becomes an adult. That’s…

When my father’s job moved him out of state, he let me/asked me to move into his townhouse because he’s close to retirement and is planning on moving back some day. The very first thing I did was get rid of his 1990's-era waterbed, for exactly the reason of “how will I explain this waterbed to anybody I bring home?”…

2 carats made up of smaller diamonds, which doesn’t make it better.

I lost my virginity on my first break home from college to a boy I knew from high school. Since we were both staying at our parents’ houses, the only place we could think of to have sex was his parent’s boat. Which was in dry dock. And I lost a 2 carat diamond earring in the parking lot gravel climbing back down the…

lol tho Laurie Herndez is also a medalling Olympian and you’re out here acting like she’s nothing but a middle-manager at a retail chain or something? Ryan Lochte has, just recently, had to flee a foreign country because of a situation of his own making that he also lied about and left his teammates behind to answer…

The real question, is, is on what basis a law regarding “cohabiting” rests. I can see the argument for marriage remaining between two people, but I get lost when the demand becomes that only two people in a relationship can live in one house. Where does that leave people who depend on roommates for extra income? Why…

Laurie Hernandez is worth 20 Ryan Lochtes, in any field or discipline.

Yeah, I like a lot of the pieces, but those knit dresses in particular are skewing heavily Cosby sweater-ward.

I want my fat girlfriend to wear all of the dresses posted in the comment above yours. I want every one of those dresses in every size - “straight” size for me and “plus” for her. It would absolutely knock me out to see the woman I love in that blue with the see-through, or the purple gown.

There are two things on earth that are always guaranteed to send my rage into the stratosphere: Cooking instructions that tell me to “stir constantly,” and anything having the label of “elevated/luxury basics.” I can’t imagine the amount of brain damage I’d have to suffer to be willing to spend triple figures on a…

That’s cute, but my mother abandoned her dog with me after her boyfriend had abused it into viciousness. It’s not a situation in which you are going to teach it “who’s boss.”

My extermination company doesn’t do anything but whole-house extermination anyway, so there’s no point staying in an infested room for fear of spreading them around.

OH MY GOD YOUR DOG IS A SCRAGGLY KOALA AND I LOVE HIM from a safe distance that he would not find threatening.

One time in the 4 or 5 years I had my dog, I forgot to close the back door on my way out to class. He went out into the yard through the dog door, then managed to get under the porch, which is connected through the fence to my neighbor’s back porch, and was able to get into her unfenced yard. He was smart enough to…

Lol I actually HAVE been sleeping on my floor - on a twin-sized mattress I put in a bedbug bag before it got infested and which is going in the trash as soon as it’s all over - for months (between how much clutter there was and how little energy I had, it took me 6 months to prep for extermination). And I’ve been…

I am weirdly almost happy that I got bedbugs (I’m not really) because my dad left me this townhouse that is great (in that it’s nearly free and quite close to DC) but was in terrible condition in terms of being full of crap and dusty as fuck and every single inch of wall needs to be painted. I’ve been here for a few…

I’m not even at a place where I can afford all-new furniture, but I STILL got rid of everything except one IKEA chair on which everything can be laundered and the frame taken apart for inspection. The extermination costs $1,200, and while all-new furniture for my whole townhouse is going to cost more than that, I’d…

Weirdly, I DO have bedbugs (my second treatment is this week and hopefully by the end of this month I will not have bedbugs anymore) and this makes me feel a bit better about my life, too. Bedbugs are embarrasing, but they really can happen to anyone.

I have to agree. I’ve HAD a dog like this, but due to my living situation I was able to keep him away from other people with near 100% accuracy. Having a dog like that that needs to be walked in a busy city and live in an apartment building full of other people just seems like a recipe for disaster