Dude. I implore you.

This, exactly. I know myself that I'm in no way a potential rapist, but I also know that if you stand me beside an actual rapist, you will not be able to tell the difference.

#notalldudes

"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness." - Annie Savoy

Your 40 Year-Old, Male, Single, 5'10", Fit, Bald, Caucasian, Hazel-Eyed, Overeducated, Nice Dressing, Wine- and Food-Obsessed, West Loop-living Secret Admirer

Dear Single Men of (Insert Any City Here),

It would be hilarious if there weren't versions of this guy all over the place trying to shoehorn in a meetcute with stressed out commuters who are not interested in making new friends on the street/bus/whatever.

Right? And to everyone saying "Oh big surprise, a dude on Craigslist was a dick!", I say to you: this is a lot of dudes. Like, a lot. Who realize why you have earbuds in and don't care. Who realize why you have that scowl on your face and don't care. They think they're just that fucking special, that even though…

P.S.: Oh, and by the way, it'd be nice if your default expression was a smile - or, at worst, a merely neutral expression - instead of a scowl that says, "I'll cut you off at the knees if you try to talk to me." C'mon, is life really that bad? Just sayin'.

do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

Local Chicago woman likes to scowl at all times, gives zero fucks if you find her unapproachable.

If my boyfriend told me that he loved the way that scarf matched my eyes, I'd be like, "Wuuuuut? 0_o" I don't know. It sounds like a weird compliment.

But I can't - because you're always walking around with your damn earbuds in ("Don't talk to me!")

Wait, you honestly think that not going from grey to black in 20 minutes means Tracy's deliberately keeping you down? She probably has no idea you commented. This is just the nature of the greys.

I've only known one Cool Girl, who is still a good friend. A reformed stoner turned marathon runner, the mom who still curses and drinks a beer with gusto, who complains about her husband's motocross hobby, who worries about her kids being bullied, and has written a novel about her high school days that made me…

Yeah, I think it's a phase a lot of women go through. I was totally a Cool Girl in high school. I thought that because I like football, video games, comics, and prefer whiskey to vodka I was different from the OTHER girls. I thought I could only get along with my select fellow Cool Girl friends as far as women went…

My 92 year old grandfather lost his wife while they were both in their mid 80's. My own family lived about three hours from him, but thankfully my aunt and uncle and cousin only lived 20 minutes away in the same town. They would come over to visit and check in with the nurse and mow the lawn, etc etc. Really a good…

I understand that with age there can be a decline in cognitive ability, critical thinking. But I wonder what kind of scams there will be when I am in my 70s/80s. Being exposed to these seemingly obvious scams now hopefully makes us immune to similar scams in the future. But someone out there is going to try shit, so I…

Recently one of my library patrons called me over to ask how to attach a file to an email. I generally don't comment on people's files unless I see horribly misspelled words, but in this case she had a doc file filled with her personal information (name, social, address, birth date, etc) and was trying to attach it to…