I was late for French (2nd year college so everything was in French all the time), and said, upon entering class, "Pardonnez-moi! Beaucoup de traffique." Everyone nodded except the professor who laughed, and we all looked at her, frowning. She said, "En Francaise, 'traffique' est... drugs."

My (now ex) fiancé and I had a somewhat long-distance relationship. I worked an a city 3 hours from the small town we lived in, so I would stay with friends or my parents while I worked my 4 days on, and go home on my days off. Things were never "good" when I was at home, but anyone can tolerate each other for 4-5…

Sucks I'm at work and thus without my usual Kinja login, so stuck down in the greys. Again.

I think your comment points to something really important, which is that there's not necessarily some bright line crossed in the aging process where you're 100% lucid one day and 100% out of it forever the next. Which is what really strikes me about this whole story.

Yeah, the crazy reviewers are usually fairly obvious.

It hasn't won yet, there's plenty more time for voting.

It hasn't won yet, there's plenty more time for voting.

Lurleen. Lurleen. Lurleen. Lurrrleeeeen.
I'm begging of you please put down that pan.
Lurleen. Lurleen. Lurleen. Lurrrleeeeen.
Please don't bake it just because you can.

We have a six flags in atlanta, does that help?

The best smokescreen for gossip that Southerners (especially Southern Baptists) have come up with is the prayer request.

My husband and I met and started dating as teenagers. A few years into our relationship I started to have bouts of depression. Then, 3.5 years into the relationship, I started compulsively cheating on him and had bouts where I never slept. Somewhere in the middle of this, we got engaged. He found out about the 5th…

A note of follow-up (and thanks!) for you guys: You all had really good and helpful suggestions of how I can better manage this series so we get to highlight more of your great stories. This month, I'm going to try asking what I hope will be more specific questions and see if things work out with more granular…

People who will do this stuff to animals will do it to people, too.

This all day girl. Didn't the "bra under see-through shirt" thing go out of style a while ago? Also I hate wearing bras so making all shirts that damn translucent fabric really grinds my gears because I'm not trying to get arrested for indecent exposure.

Clothing Companies,

When will translucent garbage fabric go out of style? Even if I liked the Once Upon A Time shirt, it would look stupid on top of a white camisole which I'd inevitably have to wear unless I'm going for risqué Cinderelly.

Happy anniversary, to the one who knows food reviews are always better with more whine.

I have a big ol' puffy afro . . . anyone have any suggestions for some sort head covering? A regular knit hat doesn't fit over all this hair. I've tried the "stretchy" headband things but I can barely get those over my hair and then they aren't big enough to provide any real warmth (much of my forehead is exposed and…

No wipes, no way.

Aww. I'm sure you were gorgeous though. But I do know how you feel. My matron of honor was a right shit all day long prior to the ceremony. She was so late getting ready to go to the church, so I ended up having to leave for my hair appointment prior to going to the church without her. I was there by myself in the…

Oh, fuck this. I'm guessing he was being bullied at his school and the adults couldn't be bothered to do anything to rein in the little shits, just like it was when I was a kid. The excuses were always, "oh, they need to work it out themselves," or "oh, honey, just ignore them, they're jealous," or other bullshit…

This has to be about the tenth time I've heard of such an incident.