My very Jewish fiancé started telling his elementary school classmates that Santa wasn't real - after they made fun of him for refusing to sing Christmas carols in their public school music class. I never could figure out which side of the ethical line that fell on.

I did the laxative one. I had mistaken the laxatives for normal chocolate when making both the cookies and the chocolate milk.

I was nearly raped by one of my landlords, when I was in college. My boyfriend at the time went ballistic. He had words with the landlord. The landlord claimed that I misunderstood his affection. I went to an attorney (about breaking the lease) and contacted the police. I was brushed off by both (he say/she say). The…

The landlord, who, after he found out that I was out of school and looking for work, would show up after my (male) roommate left but before I was out of bed and let himself in through the door that was closest to my bedroom. He never went into our upstairs neighbor's apartment, and never showed up unannounced and let…

So for most of my childhood my mother was just insanely busy with work 100% of the time, especially around Christmas, so she would usually give me cash and commission me around December to buy her Christmas presents for her and wrap them, just to take some of the stress off for the holidays. This way the only presents…

We might share moms. That's totally something my mom would do. Like the year she gave me work shoes... work shoes that were my old work shoes that I threw away because my feet were now too large for them. She dug them out of the trash, wrapped them, and was very confused as to why I wasn't overjoyed.

I created a burner account because this story is so mortifying. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship, then marriage for over 20 years. No matter how I toiled and sacrificed, nothing was ever good enough, including gifts. Circumstances conspired so that I ended up jobless before a Christmas some years ago,…

I'm going to go with the worst gift I've ever given. My father died suddenly of a massive heart attack when I was 13 in September and the following Christmas would be the first that my family would celebrate without him. My father was an amazing man who took great care of his family and Christmastime was especially…

I used to babysit for this awesome, and really well off, family when I was in high school. The Dad was a doctor and since I was from a poor town they were the coolest of the cool with their fancy house and in-ground pool. The kids I babysat were kind of snotty, but they didn't know/realize because they're young and…

I have a goodie! Three years ago, my grandmother on my mom's side decided since my sister and I didn't have children, she wasn't speaking to us. Mind you, I was 24 and my sister was 21. Both very single.

I've never gotten really atrocious gifts. My dad was all about making his kids happy at Christmas- he would go to Toys R Us in the middle of the night to be extra sneaky. One year, when my sister was 3 or 4, she asked Santa for a "big Barney" (the stupid purple dinosaur). Barney was her JAM. My dad somehow found a 4'…

My boyfriend gave me ankle weights for my 23rd birthday. I left them on the dining room table when I moved out a month later.

I'm 5 months pregnant with number two. I work full-time and my nerves are shot to hell most of the time and I have no energy. I also have no sex drive whatsoever (many pregnant women get more horny, so ymmv).

Here is the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/us/…

Yep. Confirmed. Link is NSFW.

This is Texas. Federal laws are for other states.

If it gets stuck up there you end up on my favorite TV show. The Untold Stories of the E.R. Below is a clip that made my mother and I weep with laughter.

You know what they say, Pitches Love Vibrato.

I get what you're saying, but leaving out women in Seattle is egregious. The grunge culture was super feminist and was equally influenced by women. A HUGE part of the movement was walking away from the horrible misogyny in the rock music of the 80's.

My friend was sexually assaulted at a college party one night, so her boyfriend found the guy's home phone number and called his mother in the middle of dinner to tell him what he had done.

You had never seen a person repent so fast before.