Ah. That makes sense. That's why I get really angry when science gets shafted in the school system. Your parents aren't stupid, they just didn't have the opportunity to learn about that stuff. Which I suspect is the case with a lot of these anti-vaxers etc.

you DIDN'T. what was their pro-photosynthesis argument? you HAVE to elaborate, this is fascinating!

Are you being serious?! It seriously took more than saying humans don't have chloroplasts?

What about the ultraviolet rays in sunlight, HMMMM? what would we use to protect us from that?

ugh the subway yoga may thing pissed me off so much.

Seriously, just do something meaningful for your significant other, it doesn't have to be big, it just has to come from your heart (hopeless romantic here).

Some guy at a party once tried to tell us all that merpeople were real because he saw a documentary about it. When we IMDBed his documentary and it was clearly labeled a mockumentary, he scoffed, "IMDB is no more reliable than Wikipedia." True story.

Give me photosynthesis or give me death.

Yes, she's terrible. She's promoting a "natural diet" of foods, all while deceiving her readers into believing they're free of chemicals, even though all these so-called "foods" are made of potentially toxic chemicals like water, proteins, starches, sugars, and oils.

"there is no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever"

When I was 14 and having my first houseparty, one girl's mom called to make sure a parent was present for my "sleepover." My parents weren't really in the picture (which allowed me to have parties in the first place) so no one at my school had ever met them. So when the mom insisted she speak to a parent I was forced…

I used to work at a strip club in Dupont Circle D.C. that was a block away from the utterly fantastic Kramerbooks & Afterwords, a 24 hour bookstore and cafe.

Here's the biggest lie/deception that I ever perpetuated on my parents ...

Thanks! The best part was the job only had a few requirements: a bit of heavy lifting and 'a fair working knowledge of the geography of Australia' because we were sorting freight into shipping containers. So I had to know, for example, if a package was going to Katoomba, which is a town in New South Wales in the far…

My mom still thinks the tramp stamp I got 17 years ago is henna that I keep getting redone. You believe what you want to believe.

Worked at a summer camp for three years, and one of the games the staff would play would be to see who could come up with the most ridiculous lie the campers would believe. Yeah, yeah, lying to kids is like shooting fish in a barrel, but it was still fun.

One time, I was walking with a group of campers back to their…

I eloped when I was 19 to a boyfriend I had only dated a month. I didn't tell my parents and just said we were moving in together. A month later I deeply regretted it and filed for divorce. It took two years to finalize and I had already started dating my now husband during that period. I didn't tell any of my friends…