Kind of, I guess. I come from a rural state (Maine) and have often heard about other people from Maine people know, but they generally don't assume I know them.

Yeah, it's annoying, but it doesn't make me angry or anything. The two people I wrote about weren't all that old— one is a couple of years younger than me (I'm 32), the other is 40ish. I don't know that I've ever really had an old person do it. My mom will do stuff like that sometimes. Once, when I was dating a…

Oh, I definitely think it's funny— I'm not angry about it, just a little perplexed by their behavior. I laugh about it, too.

I just love when people, upon finding out I'm a lesbian, start to give me a list of all the gay people they've ever known. I know that it is some misguided attempt at trying to let me know that they are okay with gay people, but it is really, really annoying.

I feel the same way. My wife is my wife and it pisses me off when I refer to her as my wife and homophobic people then keep referring to her as my "girlfriend." I feel it really minimizes our relationship (which I'm guessing is their goal) and it is hurtful.

I hate when I call my wife my wife and straight people who are apparently uncomfortable with that then refer to her as my girlfriend, my friend, my partner, or whatever else. I find it very disrespectful when people do that to me. I always want to refer to their husband or wife as their boyfriend or girlfriend and…

This was in New Zealand, so prices may be a bit different there.

It's not just putting something in a box without postage, it's getting into someone's mailbox without permission (so, you can't throw a stamp on something and open someone's mailbox to put it in— only the mail carrier can do that). The post office takes this quite seriously. I used to manage newspaper carriers and,…

Mailboxes are supposed to be private because confidential and/or valuable stuff is often mailed to people. The post office takes this quite seriously. I used to manage newspaper carriers for a local newspaper and whenever one of my carriers would put a newspaper in a mailbox (which was quite often despite the fact…

I'm sorry you are going through that. I live with a chronic disease (CRPS, a progressive nerve condition) and I couldn't have kids as it was because of all the medication I'm on and the constant, severe pain I was in, and then I had a neurostimulator implanted a couple of months ago and that really made it impossible…

My mom completely changed a few years ago and suddenly decided to divorce my dad. It was strange, but whatever. We went to visit my parents in the middle of all this and one night, my mom insists that her friend's son is having a mental breakdown and she has to go and help her friend. I find this very strange,…

I was wondering the same thing myself. I saw in another article that he escaped because of a hole in the fence caused by the storm and that the family is still living in a hotel room because of extensive damage to their home. I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I'm hoping maybe they left him in the…

We had a cat that one of our dogs was in love with and he loved her back. The dog would come up behind the cat, pick him up with her front paw, then hold him against her stomach so she could hump him. He loved it and would back up when she got behind him and move his tail out of the way so she could go to town on…

If it's not a constant, excruciating pain, she probably doesn't have CRPS, but just wanted to mention it in case. I hope the pain goes away eventually for her. Foot pain is just the worst and I'm sorry she has to deal with it, too.

This just makes me want to cry. I have a progressive nerve condition (CRPS) that leaves me in constant pain because of a (non-elective) foot surgery that damaged my nerves in my foot. I live off heavy painkillers and have a neurostimulator implanted in my spine just so I can walk and I am still in serious pain…

Does your girlfriend have CRPS? Has she talked to a pain management doctor at all? Not sure how bad the pain is for her, but I just ask because I had a bunionectomy that ended up giving me CRPS, a progressive nerve conditon. The orthopedic surgeon who did the surgery told me there was nothing more she could do for…

I know. I have CRPS, a progessive nerve condition that was caused by a surgery that was supposed to correct my foot problems but, obviously, just made it much, much worse. I now have a neurostimulator implanted in my spine just so I can walk. I'm still in a lot of pain even with my neurostimulator and tons of…

My wife always tells me I have a "porn star pussy" because it looks like the ones you see in porn movies and magazines. I think all of them are beautiful, of course, but I do like that my wife thinks mine is perfect.

I worked with an older man who had been married for 50ish years. His wife died and then he died later that day. My impression was that he intentionally overdosed after she died. It was very difficult for his kids to lose both parents in the same day. So sad.

Yes, unfortunately, my dad and my wife's mother seem to like each other. They live nowhere near each other and they only see each other when he visits me, but they get all flirty when he is here. I don't think anything physical has happened between them (at least, I really hope not!), but the innuendo can get kind…