Working for a land conservation nonprofit and partnering with the land management agencies, you would not believe the complaints people have. My favorite was the gentleman who repeatedly called, demanding to know what our plan was to stop the earthquakes in the region.

I posted this on some other gawker site once, but my friend owns a smaller boutique-type hotel on Miami Beach. He was once berated by a family checking out who told him that they would never recommend his hotel and planned to post bad reviews... because it had rained every day of their vacation. In Miami. In August.…

When I was in college I spent a semester in Europe. My mother was telling our neighbors about my trip, and told them that I had visited Germany and went to the concentration camp in Dachau. The neighbor lady (a grown-ass woman) asked: “They do tours there? Don’t the prisoners care that people are coming just to look…

My husband and I went to Yellowstone on our honeymoon and we overheard a dad confidently tell his children that the buffalo hanging out around the hot springs were “probably robots like at Disneyland to trick all the other tourists.” I’m still not sure if that was DadHumor or if he seriously believed that.