Once in second grade I announced that I was on medication that made me allergic to boys so I wouldn't have to play with a certain one. I gave that up after one recess. People who claim allergies when they don't have them make it pretty rough for those who do.

Some friends and I determined that a taxidermy apartment is pretty much a sign to leave as quickly as possible.

This is adding retroactive panic to my response to the guy who brought his Burmese python to the beach last week.

I was full-on frightened for the first time in my pregnancy during that part of the class. The only real anxiety I had was because of that damn film.

She hit a dickhead triple with that comment: suggesting that there's something wrong with you, suggesting that Asperger's has a simple cause, and making it your parents' fault. Too bad there's no vaccine for ignorance. Oh wait, it's called learning more about something before you say something terribly rude.

She's the queen of passive-aggression so I'm sure it was purposeful. And the Miss shocked me too, especially in an academic context.

Salutations and last names get me so fired up! I kept my last name, and most people get that, but lots of our family/friends keep referring to me with my husband's last name as though it's going to passive-aggressively make me change my mind? Same with my daughter's hyphenated last name. It's her name, accept it, it…

What I wouldn't give for a Vancouver-Seattle-Portland high speed link. Having taken the Shinkansen many times for both business and pleasure, I can say that it is the best way to travel, unless you're stuck in the smoking car.

For me it's the almost total inability to use my tray and definite inability to use my laptop. I get that some people need to recline for health reasons, but I have found that most of those people try to minimize the angle of the incline and don't tend to slam their seats into position.

This reminds me of the ca. 1 year-old baby I shared a bus ride with. I had the roughest day and wasn't feeling well (morning sickness but didn't know I was pregnant yet). But the baby across from me would not stop giving me the double thumbs up and grinning. I still picture her when I'm having a bad day. Sadly, my own…

If you cling so dearly to your ability to kill video-game prostitutes, don't make us think you're capable of being violent in real life by making these kind of threats. Saying "it's just a game" doesn't carry much weight when you make threats in the real world.

Too high on the flap-factor for me to consider them harmless.

The bugs I freaked out over in Japan...such not-fond memories. I will never forget the day I unloaded an entire bottle of window cleaner on a cicada.

It sounds like the Skycaps weren't quite on top of things. Maybe she was pretty lucid with them so they thought she'd be okay if they left her at the gate?

Add to this that a lot of undergrads are still figuring out adult boundaries. I'll also add that a dear friend of mine was full-on stalked by a former student (who was convicted of it). He began by taking advantage of the professional courtesy she was required to extend to him by coming and staying for all office…

I'm down with her discussing it as openly as possible, but I'm not sure that a coming out on the same level as if she were introducing a new partner to her family really makes sense. (Although revealing this information in any way is a coming out of sorts.) But Prudie lost me when she started talking about plushies.

Which is extra-nasty, because their excrement is full of terrible bacteria and ring worm.

I just debuted my new long-sleeved swim shirt at the beach and it was awesome! Didn't even have to worry about getting sunscreen everywhere on my back! (Oh the things I used to do without sunscreen! What was I thinking?)

No joke, this would be a guaranteed means of seducing my husband. Not that he likes fried chicken so much as the idea of meat in a bucket.

The fact that this is a regular form of attack on women rips my heart out. It is the end-game of valuing women for their appearance and tying that to marriage prospects, which in turn are related directly to economic prospects.