See, I never had a problem with my patches falling off, but I switched to NuvaRing because I had one doctor put the fear of death into me about the chances of developing a blood clot. She told me she refuses to prescribe them at all for that reason and switched me to NuvaRing. I was about to get really exasperated…

When I was a kid my biologist dad got us Zoobooks, and we were pretty obsessed with them. Each magazine was focused on a different type of animal or animal theme and had tons of kid-level information and lots of pictures. We kept them for a long time instead of kind of just tossing them out like you do most magazines.…

Me too. I was a Girl Scout until high school, and I've always been happy with how progressive the organization is. I can buy my cookies proudly from roving Girl Scout bands!

OMG. I'm glad someone else thinks that. My boyfriend and I were just talking about that last night. I always thought it was just pronounced "Smog" so I crack up every time the announcer goes "Smaaawwuuggg!"

My GPS is too bossy and it always wants me to take the ferry, even when the ferry is out of service.

I thought it was pretty awful. But I am very picky about my musicals.

Probably traffickers had to dump it because of a possible run in with the authorities. Growing up on an island close to Mexico in Texas, people would sometimes find huge bales of weed washed up/hidden in the dunes. Sometimes it was a boat crash but a lot of times product was dumped because of possible contact with the…

I love the Muppets so much, and thankfully found a Muppet-loving dude. When we first got together and I discovered his family's major Christmas tradition was getting together and watching the Muppet Christmas Carol, I knew I had found a good one.

The glove box makes officers VERY nervous. When I was a kid, I was driving with my mom and my younger sister when my mother got pulled over for speeding. My mom is a small pleasant-looking middle class white woman driving a minivan, and my sister is about 8-10 years old and in the front passenger seat. When the cop…

In my Texas public high school in the late 90s/early 00s we had a "health" class that was a general phys-ed/nutrition/growth and development type class that was supposed to have a sex ed unit, but it was taught by my weirdly asexual, uptight, super-Christian women's basketball coach. On the day we were supposed to…

Like a lot of people said, this style comes from historically black colleges and universities... but that being said, I don't know about the rest of the south, but marching band is some serious shit in high school in southeast Louisiana too. Marching bands are a fixture in Mardi Gras parades where they have to march…

Americans? Sorry! We were arguing about whether it was in the UK or just a part of the Commonwealth.

I'm glad you did! That's hilarious. But I empathize. Boyfriend and I were on the verge of screaming at each other over Wales (and this was BEFORE any drinking). Turned out I was wrong, but I insisted I was right because my grandpa emigrated from Wales so CLEARLY I knew what I was talking about (sorry pops).

I'm not a big fighter. It's mostly my personality — I recoil from confrontation. It makes me very uncomfortable. I also tend to not take hard stands on things, and if I do I keep it mostly to myself (I worked as a reporter for years, so it's a bit ingrained into me). My boyfriend and I fight, but we probably only have…

What's the stupidest thing you've ever fought over? One of the first big fights my boyfriend and I got into started with a debate about whether Wales is a part of the United Kingdom. We were walking to a bar, and this was before either of us had a smart phone to just look it up and diffuse the situation.

A friend of mine had to travel out of state to get hers!

Yeah, here in the south I can't even get a doctor to give me any sort of IUD at all because I am a young woman and haven't had children.

My mom also has an indoor-outdoor cat who mainly poops outside. He was a butch jetty cat that my parents adopted and gradually domesticated. After being the designated litter box scooper for many years I think the fact that he poops outside is one of her great joys in life.

Ohhhh maaaan I don't really do celebrity crushes, but I have got a MAJOR thing for Jason Statham.

Hmm. I eat a lot of cheese AND I have a lot of weird dreams, but I always assumed it was that melatonin I take before bed. That stuff will make you dream trip.