I am still friends with my friends from childhood/high school—even the people who have babies I don’t give 2 shits about. The trick is keeping in touch very loosely, seeing them once or twice a year, and liking their shit on social media. Don’t always throw the baby out with bath water (HAHA IN THIS METAPHOR THE BABY I…

So nothing else happened for 4 years, and then this person enters SAA all of a sudden? Am I missing something here?

I’ve quickly learned (from Captain Awkward: go there right now if you’ve never been, I have grown so much as a person and a “bitch) that having a “script” of responses takes a lot of the pressure off. Next time potential FIL says something racist, look him in the eye, let the silence become just a bit uncomfortable,…

“accused child molester Woody Allen” should read “accused child molester and confirmed daughter marrier Woody Allen”

He’s a guy of ordinary intelligence who’s under the impression he’s brilliant due to a combination of straight white dude and knowing a lot of people dumber than him. It’s one of the most irritating personality types.

Ugh. That ceiling/wall corner and the window are the two places that would freak me out if I saw ever anything!

I’ve never commented on this platform before, but seeing this post the day after this weird thing happened seemed like too much of a coincidence. I’m commenting hoping one of you might have a logical explanation for what happened. Something that makes sense and lets me forget.

This is a little more creepy/disturbing than scary, but it’s something that still gives me chills when I think about it (and I try not to think about it very often). Note: All names have been changed.

I had a Spanish teacher suggest that you could deflect a mugging by loudly conjugating verbs: “Yo hablo tu hablas el/ella habla...”

One of the self-defense tactics I have heard is to use a complete nonsensical sentence in a normal voice right before you’re about to make a move (escaping/running/hitting), as it distracts people by tying up some of their neural circuitry. Or you can say it in a not so normal voice, and it makes them think you might…

Maybe he didn’t want me to outshine him. There can only be one weirdo in this relationship!!

I naturally had to google Ghost Corgi immediately.

I bought a bottle of wine on the way home as weapon/comfort.

YES.

Dude, helpful ghosts can be incredibly nice. The ghost in our house was a dick to me throughout my childhood (I posted about it last year, but I would have to dig through last year’s entries to find my story), but after my father died when I was ten and my mother and her new husband got really, really abusive, that…

sooooo just fyi i’m reading some submissions and emails alerts are popping up in the bottom of my screen and i’m jumpy as hell

Ok here’s my contribution and I hope it gets me ungreyed because it’s 100% true and scary as fuck.

Right before I turned 21 I moved to a new city, transferred colleges, and got an apartment by myself. I picked a place out on the third story of a rambling old Victorian mansion - a modest studio with white metal cabinets from the 1950's and a rusted fire escape which always gave me bad feelings. It was metal, and…

he doesn’t want a partner - he wants an accessory, a bauble, a thing he can look at other people and say, look at this thing that i have and you don’t. 

This one idea that’s germinating is about a black mailman. Someday that will happen. I’ve got huge lists [of black actors I want to work with]