Oh, this involved travel for everyone involved too. I eventually gave them links to 20 options online and told them to pick one if they couldn’t get themselves together. The best part? After harassing me for that list for 2 months, none of them ended up wearing anything from it. Which was fine with me, except for the…

Oh lord - my saying “Wear whatever you want” to my bridesmaids turned into EVEN MORE work. Because each of them contacted me individually and asked to set up a time to go looking for their dress with me one-on-one. They said it was because they wanted to make sure I liked the dress that I picked, but, seriously, as…

If they said Scrubs, I would immediately agree to stay in their care forever and ever. Especially Dr Cox

I think I’m adding this question to my screening interview for a new doc. “Did you become a doctor because of a TV show? You did? Committed to 10+ years of school plus a lifetime of a gruelling career because of some shit you caught Thursdays on ABC? I’m going to go ahead and keep looking.”

After 6 weddings in 2014 (one of which was ours), we’ve decided we are only making friends with people who are either a) already married, b) never want or plan to become married, or c) only intend to do J o P ceremonies wherein we can invite them out for drinks sometime in the next month and say “first round’s on us,…

If you bring anything as a gift to a destination wedding, bring a card. Remember they are travelling too; any gift you bring, they have to worry about getting back.

Tis, but slightly altered. Can’t remember the exact wording, but I have a very clear mental picture of Hepburn saying something about “Oh, I think they’re divine on older women...”

Without knowing too much about you, your beau or your situation, you may have hit the nail on the head with the parent divorce thing. I seriously considered leaving my partner for the exact same reasons you're outlining here. We'd talked about a timeline for engagement/marriage, I made it a condition of a move I made…

Was that this past semester by any chance? Because I may have been that instructor.

I know! Oh, sorry the unlimited wine and champagne is such a bummer, dude

Yeah, I do not get that. I was a bridesmaid at a wedding where people did that. I was mentally thinking "WHY DID WE TAKE THE PURE WHITE THING OUT OF ITS PROTECTIVE CASE? All we are doing is drinking and applying make-up. This will not end well." Fortunately, it was all okay.

Right there with you.. Both of these diagnoses have also been made by all of the armchair addiction experts/psychologists in our family.

I'm fairly certain my husband's response was that we had known he was coming, and that no one's budget is big enough for the amount of hard bar that guy can consume. Actually, that may have been why he spilled on my dress. I hate that guy.

My sister-in-law's boyfriend spilled red wine all over my dress. I saw him coming at me with an overfull glass of wine, already tipsy as shit, told him to stay well away because he was already spilling on the floor, and he managed to get it all over my dress.

I recommended this post and it turned the one you responded to black as well... Oh dear.

It's their own fault, really...

Can you imagine how hard that poor stork had to fly? Boy are his arms tired!

/try the veal.

Check out Sidney Whale Watching. They're recommended by the BC Aboriginal Tourism board, and they're probably most likely to be more respectful of both the whales and the cultural significance of the area.

This politician DOES have a history of extreme asshattery. Especially when it comes to women's issues. Here's something from earlier this year, which is by no means the only example: Peter MacKay and the mystery of the missing female judges

"I have a pile of grading" is also good. YMMV, depending on how much your extended families disrespect teaching as a profession. One side of the family is awesome when I need to mark, the other? Not so much...