Oh, I get the "you seem so normal" thing all the time too. I'm not the exception to the rule either. Usually, I just let these things go, but the moment felt too perfect to pass up.

When you are in a public space (particularly a professional setting) with other people, it is usually wise not to stand around bashing a group (that you are clearly ignorant of) with the assumption that everyone in a room agrees with you or believes the same thing. Glad to see the negative stereotypes are still going…

I work in a place like that now. There isn't any kind of policy, just that everyone seems to mind their business and gossip is frowned upon. I have been here a year and a half and can honestly say I have only heard one person speak ill of someone else and I shut that shit down immediately. There are people I work with…

One of my ex-boyfriends ended up dating and marrying my roommate a decade ago. I thought he was an asshole then (hence why I broke up with him) and I still think he is a controlling narcissistic asshole, although one who has learned how to treat people with some semblance of respect. I thought he treated her terribly…

Although I have moved on since my last breakup (got married even. woot!), I still have a large slice of loathing for my last boyfriend before Mr. Bean. Some feelings are hard to bury. Once in a blue moon now, I go visit his Facebook and laugh at the fact that he has a really ugly baby. I know it's terrible and no one…

When I first got married, I did the bulk of the household chores with the understanding that my husband was studying very hard for his computer certificates. For a while there I felt like a 1950s housewife....except I had a full-time job. I tried very hard not to be offended. But man, when he finished studying and got…

I had a roommate once who, a few weeks after I moved in made a comment about how he had never cleaned his personal bathroom (we all had our own). He wasn't messy and seemed to know how to clean the kitchen, take out the trash, etc. so I just figured he was one of those people who didn't like the clean and since it…

I'm not from any particular ethnic culture that pierces their kids' ears, but mind have been pierced since i was 6 months old. It has never bothered me. Morally wrong? Seriously? It isn't a sin to have your kids ears pierced. This isn't FGM here. If you don't like wearing earrings, stop wearing earrings in them and…

While living in Boston, there was this super hot guy that I saw on the subway quite often. He had these amazing blue eyes and I couldn't help but stare/eye flirt with him whenever I saw him. I should state right now that I am actually a notoriously terrible flirt, but I just couldn't help myself. My co-workers would…

I shared my story, but this one was at my brother's wedding. There were seven bridesmaids and my SIL was insistent that there be the same amount of groomsmen. Except that my brother could only think of six people who he wanted as groomsmen. So one of the bridesmaids said that her boyfriend, who my SIL and brother…

This is why we didn't do toasts. I love my friends and family, but I definitely don't trust them to deliver a speech.

My husband and I both grew up in working class families who were on disability or welfare at times. We have a lot of shared experiences growing up up in that sort of environment. Three years ago my husband started a new career, a few months before we got married. I finally got my dream job a few months after the…

My younger brother who is a photographer and used to work as a photographer and videographer for a wedding event company, did all my photography for my wedding. He isn't a bad photographer, but he kept forgetting to change the lenses from indoor to outdoor and back again. The result was that all the photos of me…

I worked in a bookstore when the first book came out. Apparently, in the early days of the series, there was someone on some talk show who said that the book 'literally' saved their marriage and that they recommended it to every married couple out there. The next day we had middle aged women and men coming in to buy…

I have a strange name, or at least one that isn't common. But my brother's all have very normal names. When people ask how I got my name, my go to response now is, "My parents were on drugs." It isn't too far from the truth. Me personally, I would probably name my kids after beloved book characters. Alanna, Madeline,…

One of my brothers is obsessed with music as is his wife and so they have named their children Gibson (after the guitars), Jensen (after the amps), and Aria. Not sure where they are going to go from here, but they want 6 kids, so there are sure to be three more musical names.

My solution to this is that my husband and I do everything household related together or at the very least, with a lot of communication. We write up our shopping list together, partially because we need each other to remind the other what we need and have already. We grocery shop together. We have an official laundry…

I have to absolutely agree with this. I too live in the Chapel Hill/Durham area and I work across the street from an interfaith refugee ministry and I would have to be blind not to see the looks that people give the women in their hijabs. People that work and regularly volunteer there. I cannot imagine how that must…

My company bought Kuerig coffee pots and put them in all the kitchens (5). If you want coffee, you buy your own Keurig cups and make them that way. It's actually rather brilliant and cleaner. We do have a coffee pot that people can make special coffee in, but it's pretty rare and usually a treat kind of thing. Like my…

I have to keep people like you in mind when I am at work and frustrated because I don't seem to be connecting with anyone. I have to remind myself that not everyone cares to make friends at work, or wants to be social, and some may even loathe the suggestion of it. One has to tread very carefully around these people…