YES. ALL the time.

One of my cats would LOVE that hoodie. Her favorite thing in winter is to sit on my chest while I (try to) play games at the computer, and a warm pouch to put her butt in would just be awesome on top of more awesome.

I live in a small city, so I always have to factor in another ~$200 to get to places like BWI or JFK in order to use sites like these. Between this, Norwegian Air, and WOW Air, I’m hoping to find a midsummer flight to Denmark for less than a thousand bucks next year instead of the typical $1200+...

The Dutch are almost universally awesome. I’ve only ever had one bad experience that I can think of: a singularly unhelpful lady manning a ticket station in Venlo who allegedly spoke no English - which seems unlikely considering Venlo is right on the border with Germany and there are lots of people changing between…

In a stomach-churning sort of way, yeah. I’m a lifelong atheist with family that is either agnostic, generically spiritual, or barely Catholic/Jewish - I know consciously that this is truly a thing, but reading the application is like something out of a psychological horror novel.

Worst: four days in a German hospital because of a freak nosebleed that was too far up in my sinus to cauterize, so they shoved an inflatable tampon up my nose and put me in a room for the weekend. Bad: missed the festival I’d traveled all that way to see. More Bad: no wifi, so had to deal with obscenely expensive…

“If there is no longer a father in the home or he refuses to participate in the application process, a mother or trusted mentor should fill this out and identify herself/himself in the process.”

My mom would have married me off to a clean-cut Navy officer - she and my dad used to invite them over to dinner under the guise of “adopting” guys who couldn’t go home for whatever holiday. I saw right through that horsepucky and was SO not interested. I was polite, but bolted as soon as I could do so without being…

Happened to a friend’s family - super-religious, the kids were sheltered and isolated, and they ended up experimenting with each other.

I worked with a woman who didn’t know she was pregnant until she went to the hospital with severe back pain that had lasted for a day or two. The baby started crowning while they were in the waiting room. Now, if I’d known she was pregnant, I would have recognized the signs, because I’ve worked with other pregnant…

I would have broken his nose with my elbow and served him a bill for dry cleaning the blood off my clothes.

I have nothing truly dramatic (a lot of the best stories are not mine to tell), nobody’s ever been mean to me, but I’ve encountered a looooot of musicians over the years, most of them drunk to some degree.

Haha. I was thinking about commenting, but all of my stories are of prog/power metal bands that are only famous if you’re into that style of music.

...who thinks Joe Biden is hot? o.O

My stepdad does both of the classic grunts (“unh unh unh” and “uhhHH?”), which I picked up from him, and almost nobody ever gets the reference.

Insert youtube video from True Blood: “I reeeeally want you to taste my biscuits.”

I like Duolingo a lot. Rosetta Stone has its uses, but it’s a lot more of a time sink. Duolingo lets you learn in short bursts if you don’t have the attention span to spend an hour a day with it, you can keep doing the same lessons over and over until it sticks - it’s repetitive enough to help you learn, but not so…

“No point being upset with someone doing their honest-to-God best.”

Saw a similar incident in college - a girlfriend of mine got maudlin about having had an abortion (slightly relevant!), drank FAR too much, and the dominant personality in the room refused to let us take her to the ER because we were all underage. One of the gay boys put her in a cold shower, got in there with her,…

There was the day I meant to make bread and discovered just how long it had been since I’d used the dill weed when I looked in the bottle and found it full of (long dead) bitty insects. *barf* Presumably the eggs came with it, considering it was sealed, but still *barf*.