I totally thought this title said bring a ‘packet of powder’, and I was very confused for a solid twenty seconds.

I’ve had a flight delayed beyond the 3 hour limit that turns it to cancelled (Frontier) and I didn’t have most of this, but still got rebooked. All I had to do was stand in line behind the guy that blamed the gate agents for the plane’s mechanical issue. When I got up to the agent, I apologized for him being a dick…

A couple of my single coworkers told me that they envy how nice my husband is to me. Like, how did I land this person who is nice? Um, because I am nice to him, too. And I am drawn to nice people. We treat each other with kindness (not 24/7, we’re both human and have bad moods and guess who bears the brunt of my PMS…

brb, going to cry in the darkness

Right, I think the creepiness comes from putting in tons and tons of effort. It’s not like this guy went SUPER out of his way to garner personal details about her from the internet. He saw she would be somewhere through a friend’s profile and showed up at that place. I won’t pretend I wouldn’t be a little put off by…

dandilyn likes to say “Starbucks” instead of online. I keep telling him that while technically true, it’s more embarrassing.

My boyfriend and I met on Tinder. He had a hilarious tagline and awful photos and apparently I was the only match he got because his pictures were so terrible. My reasoning was, this guy is HILARIOUS worst case we become friends. In real life he’s adorable and funny and just awkward enough around girls that it’s…

People ask me all the time why my wife and I have this apparently idyllic and wonderful marriage, and I always say the same damn thing: “we work really hard at it.” It’s not idyllic. It’s hard work, and means constantly giving of ourselves.

Your post reminds me of one of my favorite Bright Eyes lines, “I’d rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery.”

I think people are more invested in the fantasy of accidentally being in the same place at the same time as your soul mate, than the down and dirty reality that sometimes meeting the right person takes work, and sometimes involve particularly un-romantic things like scrolling through online profiles. I can understand…

Exactly. It’s also why women continue to want amazing memorable proposals, and men want to give them: because we want markers in our lives that feel “magical” somehow. We want to believe that we’re somehow special or unusual, and the world isn’t just waking up to the same old shit every day.

My first real conversation with my wife was about Star Wars.

My boyfriend and I met online, way back when it was not that cool to admit that you cruise Craigslist for dates. I really don’t think he ever told anyone how we actually met. I regularly told people because I thought it was funny or edgy or something, I don’t know.

Thank you for being honest. I’m calling bullshit on the women saying that they’d find this cute and not creepy. Complete bullshit.

Is the question rhetorical? Because if it is...

Yeah, this is no different than asking a friend where their cute friend likes to hang out, and then going there.

Why? Because our lives are mundane drudgery and all of us want something, no matter how brief and stupid, that is magical and special to happen to us. No one gets an owl at age 11, no one follows a white rabbit down a hole. We sustain ourselves with fictions because reality is mostly an awful, cold place where you…

I saw this on Prudie the other day and couldn’t believe the comments that thought it was totally ok and not creepy. If I was this guy’s wife and he told me the real story behind our initial meeting I would reevaluate our entire relationship through that lens, wondering what other weird stuff had gone on unbeknownst to…

Even when I’m not looking for a new job I dress at or above our severely under enforced dress code that is very relaxed. I wear a dress a few days a week, I rarely wear tshirts ect. I would just prefer for any potential future managers to have a good impression of me from the get go.

If you want to send a subtle message to the powers that be, slowly, a little bit at a time, take personal items home. At some point, your supervisor will notice that you quite literally have nothing tying you to your job. I did this once and, about a month later, one of the partners noticed and asked me about it. I…