My favorite is the guys who think the fact that you’re interested in casual sex means you’ll automatically sleep with anyone who expresses interest.

I feel ya.

messages on tinder i’ve gotten in the last 24 hrs:

I disagree that ghosting is a new thing, it’s definitely far more prevalent now though

Agreed. I had a guy on OKC ask me if I was “shy” I said “No” ...and automatically he starts asking me what I like in bed, I told him I wouldn’t have that convo with him and his response was “I thought you said you weren’t shy”

A few years ago, I finally got my first job as a classroom teacher. I was so nervous about teaching 5th grade. The night before the first day of school we held an ice cream social where kids could meet their teachers and drop off supplies. One girl walked in, looked me up and down, and said, “You’re my teacher? Yeah,…

I come from a long line of klutzes. Mom played field hockey in HS and her father ran track, but other than that there is very little athletic ability in my gene pool. Sports was not a big thing in our house, my father didn’t even enjoy WATCHING it.

In first grade, I don’t remember what happened but my first grade teacher, Mrs. McCarley, threatened to paddle every single one of us until whoever did The Thing confessed to doing it. (This was the 80s, so paddling was still a thing.) I did NOT do the thing, and I sure as hell wasn’t getting paddled for it, so I went…

My first day of kindergarten, I wound up sitting next to two other girls named Heather. There was Heather P and Heather S and I was Heather C. Teacher thought it would be cute for the Heathers to be friends. She probably never did this after the movie Heathers came out. But it was 1986. So I sit down, all happy I am…

In the style of the LET ME LOVE YOU! gif, I HAVE STORIES!!!!! Ahem.
My family had just moved to Georgia (my father had just joined the military, and we were waiting for a house on base to finish being prepped for us) but in the meantime, we lived in a trailer park and I went to a school nearby. I was in kindergarten,…

I went on an extended holiday to see my family in Vietnam before I went back to school when I was like 6. When I came back the teacher asked the class a question about the story she was telling and I replied in Vietnamese because my brain was confused so SHE SENT ME TO THE PRINCIPAL BECAUSE I WAS SPEAKING GIBBERISH IN…

I went to Catholic school, first through eighth grade. It was the first day of third grade, 1967. We had mostly nuns teaching, but this class was taught by a lay teacher (that would be a non-nun, for you public school kids). Anyway, since this was our third year in Catholic school, we were no dummies. We knew they…

This is kind of a humiliation/triumph hybrid. When I was starting 3rd grade, we got a hot (for the 80s) new bus driver who I immediately started crushing on. He wore head-to-toe denim and played Bon Jovi for us on the morning of the first day. On the way home that afternoon, I realized fairly quickly that I needed to…

Too bad nobody will see this because I’m a gray. OK, so it’s the early 90s, I’m about to start eighth grade, and I want to complete my over-the-summer transition from boring girl to cool alternative girl. My flannel shirt and Chuck Taylors aren’t enough: To complete my look, I need bobbed black hair like Samantha…

First day of 5th grade, I was a quiet/nerdy only child, who had spent the summer going to another elementary to their day band camp, and did not play any sports or go to overnight camps. So I was not in the “cool” group and was a target for being picked on as a “know it all”, “teachers pet” etc. Well after a…

I was a big, big nerd in school, and I consider 7th grade to be the low point of my social life. I had drifted apart from my long-time best friend and suddenly found that my only real friend was the one girl in class who was even “dorkier” than I was. I hadn’t yet figured out how to accept and embrace this, so I was…

So, my parents moved me (an only child) from New Jersey to Miami over the summer between 3rd and 4th grade. My parents were good parents for the most part, but never really involved or actively interested in my school’s goings ons.

My mother was very prepared for my very first day of school - I was 4 years old - in all particulars but one: colouring pencils. She showed me my pencilcase with pencil, eraser, ruler, and one solitary red colouring pencil, and carefully explained that I was supposed to have colouring pencils, but there was only one.…

On my first day of Kindergarten our teacher was singing “Do Your Ears Hang Low” and I said “No, that’s not how it goes! It’s do your BOOBS hang low!” Only later when I told my mom and she laughed did I realize that she had taught me the wrong version. She loves to tell this story to anyone who will listen.

This happened in the first 2 weeks of school, but I was in Grade 9 at a new school and I was wearing a skirt and knee high boots bc that’s obvs proper school attire. Well, it had been raining out so the floors were slippery and I was in the front hall (which was pretty big and open) where at least 100 students were…