Servers do get a living wage in Australia. Minimum wage (which all servers can expect, and some are paid above) is absolutely a living wage. Minimum wage is $16.37 per hour . Compare that to the US, where the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Imagine trying to feed and house yourself and a kid, for example, on $7.25 per…

That is just beyond my ability to comprehend. What a dickhead. My mom is a little bit nuts. I love her, but she's not right sometimes. When I was about 10 she told me my dog got run over...for April Fool's. I love me some nice, non-scarring April Fool's jokes, but that is just messed up. Not on par with a fake HIV…

That's more like sociopathic. Sociopaths should not celebrate April Fools.

Congrats, and the booby milk thing just made me laugh out loud. I've got a toddler and I remember well all my friends being in the bizarre "emotions make me lactate" place (I couldn't bf, but everyone else did). Such a funny, weird physiological thing.

Forgive me for being on the side of the biker, but I love this story. I have wanted to do this so many times, but I am a small woman (avian bone syndrome), and I don't scare anyone. At the last movie I saw in a theatre, there was a man next to me filming the whole thing on his Android. It took 15 minutes to work up…

Best to do something about it sooner rather than later. It gets worse. I had it on and off for years and it got much worse after I had a baby (something about pushing a stroller, combined with the laptop thing). I couldn't pick him up for months. I wish I had just dealt with it when it first happened. Apparently you…

Is it the ring finger and the pinkie? And do you do most of your work on a laptop? I got ulnar nerve entrapment on both hands that way. It sucks. An osteopath or PT can fix it though. Hurts, but it's worth it.

Thanks for your good wishes.

I definitely have less of that kind of thing going on than I used to. But I will still sense people's pain or joy in a really visceral and startling way. Like I'll be passing by someone on the street, or sitting next to someone on the bus, and I'll be overwhelmed by their sadness or loneliness. I used to take it on…

I love the affectionate practical joker ghosts! Growing up, my friend Mindy's house was haunted as fuck. The usual stomping upstairs when the whole family is in the basement, turning lights on and off, and slamming doors. But with kids, he was kind of goofy. Whenever we'd go to the basement for our epic Michael…

EllyMae, I used to be a very plugged-in and empathic child. I "just knew" things. Not really sure how to explain it. By the time I was in middle school, many of my friends' parents talked to me when they were having a hard time. I was a very sober kid who had an unending sense of caring and empathy. I was also in a…

I am not a great fan of the bow hunting (not that it matters), but I totally appreciate that you didn't shoot wildly and considered the fact that it could be endangered. I come from a family of hunters and, though I couldn't do it, I get that it means a lot to a lot of people and it serves a purpose to take the…

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm sitting on the sofa with my toddler, who is using my leg as a super-highway. If an image as scary as this popped up, I'd be sleeping in his bed till he's 12 or so.

Aaargh. I love ghost stories, but am never scared by them. This story and the story about the solo camper who found pictures on her camera of her sleeping self have just UNGLUED me! I WATCHED YOU. I would hyperventilate and then die. You don't happen to have a friend with that kind of sense of humor? When I moved out…

Nope. This wins for me. Ghost truck is scary and well written and interesting, but this is fucking terrifying. Gah. I have read every story on this years' thread, and read 2011 again for fun, and I got nary a chill. This story just scared the pants off me.

I read this sort of quickly and was nodding to myself and thinking "yup, feral pig or boar" and had moved on, but then I read the other comments and came back to read more carefully. Giant Human Footprints! I love Sasquatch stories. Spooky, but exciting!

Okay, that is very creepy.

I desperately want to go to a meeting with someone sitting in one of those. Can you imagine going to ask for an extension on your exclusion from jury duty and having the court officer hula away as he stamped your document? Priceless.

I've been saying that for a while, but I have never seen the documentary evidence. Thanks for posting. I don't dig the ZZ Top thing they're rocking, but under those beards, they are handsome men.

That is awesome, in an awful way. My brother tied me up in his room once and told me we were playing "cops and robbers." He was the cop and I was the robber. In jail. Then he locked his bedroom door and told my mom he wouldn't give me back unless she gave him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The kid had issues.