I’m with the author - I would have wanted to tell the guy he’d been seen, watch him deny it, then say okay, prove it’s not true, drink it all yourself right now. And yes I realize that’s not the right way to handle it, it’s just what I would have WANTED to do.

It's really a terrible place. It could be great, but for where the right wing has steered us off course.

Edit: careful how you approach every individual white American male, because you may do something he doesnt agree with and he could shoot you while defending his freedom and beliefs.

I dunno, I think it’s kind of neat to know what it would look like if I were bleeding out anally, without actually having to bleed out anally.

I want other immigrants to follow the law as I did, and I want companies to enforce the law. I guess this concept is not popular among liberals?

Moms™!

“You’d be so pretty if you just lost weight” My mother started telling me that when I was five.

2 weeks after I had my 2nd son and actually had already lost most of my weight my mother and I are at Target (I'm holding my infant)and she says (she had 8 children but has never weighed more than 105lbs) “WHEN are you going to lose weight? Why haven’t you started exercising!?” 2 older women (strangers) walked up to…

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

I don’t want to fight you, you just seem like you badly need a hug.

Hi! Five cent burger girl here! I know it wasn't you but some rando in the grey and I just wanted to respond (so this is not directed at you Bridgette!)

It reads like my... I mean someone's KFC fanfic.

“There I was, enjoying a light repast at the Applebuddies club, engaging in a fine and stimulating discussion of Amanda McKittrick Ros’s brilliant use of simile and metaphor, when suddenly what should assault my ears but some jenny foreigner defiling the rarefied air of our great nation with her native tongue! Well I…

I’m always amazed at how often BCO aligns with my bookstore-retail history. Plenty of line-jumpers there...but for some reason I’m reminded of a little kid who’d misplaced her parents at my store. She was maybe seven or eight, and by god she stood in line politely waiting her turn, sobbing quietly. (I suspended the…

you did a good thing but you are opening yourself up to a whole world of shit by telling people on the internet.

Why do people think “the back” is some magical place that holds every product they’ve ever desired in their size and or color preference.

stepped forward and told the man to “put your wallet away - no one is impressed by how much debt you have.”

Re: Jasmine, my girlfriend works at a restaurant that serves breakfast/lunch and then closes between 3-5 to prep for dinner service, and I had NO IDEA how often crap like this happened. I swear I hear about it like, daily.

Well, I don’t know, she’s just waitressing in a restaurant.

The Platinum Card story may be the only time that having a customer’s card declined was not a f*cking nightmare as a server. Bravo on that one working out for once.