I don’t disagree. Unfortunately, the spouse and I both have extremely specialized professions and this is where the work is right now.

In my car, before leaving in the parking lot.

I’m genuinely surprised he hasn’t been awarded a place in the Trump cabinet.

I mean, you’re not wrong. In other situations, it’s been a boon. This past time was just irritating.

Four months ago, I would cheerfully, blissfully, and enthusiastically said, “AND I AM HERE TO BE THE ONE TO DROP THIS KNOWLEDGEBOMB ON YOU, DR. DOUCHECANOE.”

But this time, I just fixed him with a withering stare and said, “If I could get my hands on a thousand dollars at a time without major suffering, my husband and…

He was the one who came up with the one thousand dollar figure. He knew, he just doesn’t live in a world where that’s a prohibitive number.

Since we’re being fair, I’m not sure how many girls/women who want babies RIGHT NOW walk into a doctor’s office and say, “I’m interested in long-lasting, high efficacy birth control. Research has shown me that the following options are probably best for my situation ... what do you think?”

I could get my doc to take it out and replace it, but my insurance won’t pay for another until we’re to the use-by date on this one.

My first doctor gave me a little grief about it because I had just gotten married and she wanted to make sure my husband was on board. She ultimately did the insertion, but it felt a little like she thought I needed a permission slip.

The one in the middle was really concerned about when we’d be starting a family and…

I live in a very conservative area of the country. I do not mind being cheerfully disagreeable.

Prior to the election, needling asshats was one of my favorite hobbies. Post-election, I just want to stay not-pregnant. I’m an educator, so I can spell out exactly how that needs to happen, and why it needs to be at a very…

I live in Kansas. This is my second or third new doctor after the first few refused to believe that a woman my age didn’t want to be ready to make the babies RIGHT NOW.

My IUD is good for three more years, but I’ll likely be fertile longer. Insurance won’t pay for a replacement while it’s still functional, so I’d asked my doctor if it was possible the IUD had slipped and needed to be replaced.

He said no, which I expected, but then tried to reassure me it was no big deal because they…

They’re my parents, my boss, the lady who walks our dogs when we’re away, and several neighbors. I can’t cut the entire state and can’t change jobs.

I think I was more trying to say that I’m exhausted of having conversations trying to reason with people who don’t want to have discussions or and aren’t open to being reasoned with. I know that if I know a handful of stories, there are worse. I’ve spent a lifetime in sonservative America and have a lifetime of…

I don’t understand how this is the news I’m reading, but I talk to coworkers or racist friends and they moan that people were only “minimally inconvenienced” at airports. “There were waits of maybe a few hours” and everything else was “caused by protestors.”

I personally know two people who weren’t allowed to board…

Way back when Facebook still encouraged you to have a quote as part of your public profile, my younger siblings both used this exact quote (“WhhyyYyyyyyy?!?”) attributed to Nancy.

He runs through my mind every time I drive through Oklahoma. I’m not his type, but if there’s an environment that made him comfortable trying to get away with rape so many times there’s probably another one like him.

I literally went through the same process and am relieved to learn I am not the only hopelessly jaded American reading this.

Too soon.

She got them off their computers and out into the real world, harassing people in PERSON. So she’s ended cyberbullying and reduced obesity.

Or something.