I worked at a council in the Southern US, and over the last three months I worked there, they lost three great people (including me, not to toot my own horn), in large part because the salary and benefits were so crap. I personally was in a part-time position, got 20 hours a week at $10 an hour, and zero benefits. A…

I was a Girl Scout camp director. We did knife THROWING last summer at our camp. Now, the littlest ones didn’t do that- they did darts and dartboards- but we taught a whole slew of elementary schoolers how to safely and properly throw a knife. Then again, we also did the canoeing, swimming, archery, outdoor cooking,…

Nope. There are two companies that manufacture and distribute Girl Scout cookies- Little Brownie Bakers and ABC. They use two different names because they are technically two different products.

When I worked at the sports bar, we (servers) weren’t allowed to cut people off unless they reached a point of criminal belligerence. And even in that case, they wanted a manager to handle it. We were supposed to document any time we served someone 4 or more drinks, but that was about it. They WANTED people to keep…

I used to live in Georgia. At one point I had to walk out of a work luncheon because a male coworker was gleefully recounting the time he beat the shit (his words) out of his then-16 year old daughter because he found a joint in her cigarette pack. I had to walk because it was that or say something to him that…

Teenage me would have vomited all over myself if my father had tried to tell me what to wear or what not to wear.

I used to play with my Game Boy Color (ha ha, 1997) under the desk in class in high school. At a private, lily-white college prep school. I never got tackled or thrown on the ground, and I was a mouthy little 13-year-old. I was far from the worst- the rich white male hockey players pretty much did whatever they…

Yeah, I’m sitting here tearing up over that photo. Look at how he’s looking at her. So beautiful.

When we moved into our place in Georgia, we had to purchase our own fridge/freezer. The home did not come with one. None of the homes we could afford came with one. Luckily, we were able to afford one through a rent-to-own place. (Which also led to a lot of jokes about paying Aaron’s before they came to repo the…

I am still a weird shitty picky eater, but in a weird way. I hate peanut butter (the smell makes me gag, truly), don’t like pizza, ham, chicken wings, doughnuts/pastries, cinnamon, mayonnaise, soft bread of any kind...a lot of perfectly normal things just taste AWFUL to me. And as a kid, I was even worse. I liked most…