Probably the one where my family forced me to come with them to another state for church summer camp, for Extended Family Abuse Time (so called because when I wasn’t being forced to pretend everything in my family was fine when in public and talking with beloved relatives, I was being screamed at and threatened by my…

I went on a trip to Germany and Holland with my parents and sister. This in and of itself was not a disaster; it was coming back that was nuts. I flew back to Boston early so I could go to work. My flight had a stopover in Detroit, which had just gone through a huge snowstorm, so lots of overtime for the ground crews, …

This isn’t gonna win, but damn it, I’m gonna share. I got my license at 16 and the next winter break, we decided to drive my grandmother down to see her cousin in Pensacola. Grandpa and my father stayed home. So it was a just us girls trip with my mom, her mom and my sister and me. We typically stay overnight in…

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Ours is a story that started out with great intentions. My mother, two aunts, and an uncle had been visiting Ogunquit, Maine, for many years. Then they got too old to get up there by themselves. They missed it, and it was a really good trip for them — fond memories and a view of the Marginal Way. So my patient and…

We almost never went on vacation when I was a kid, but when I was about 12, my parents decided to pile my identical twin brothers and me into the minivan and drive 10+ hours to Twinsburg, OH for the town’s annual twins festival after seeing it featured on some TV program or another. Imagine attending your typical…

ooh! Ooh! My mom’s family is from S. Florida, so “family vacation” always meant “visit Gramma and Grampa in Ft. Lauderdale. Cool. It has a beach! My grandparents live like, on the damn beach so my brother and I would jump out of the car, throw on a swim suit and run head long into the water on a semi public-ish beach…

Short version: our family vacation was interrupted when we were detained by US customs and had our RV confiscated, leaving us out on our asses with all our stuff. We took an 8-hour train home.

When I was in fifth grade, my family rented an RV to go to Niagara Falls (our Nantucket home was under renovation and you’ve…

Nope. It is not ok to have sex in a home where you are a guest. Unless your host very clearly told you that you are free to be intimate with whoever and you didn’t bring it up first. Then I suppose it’s ok because you have the host’s blessing without having put them in the uncomfortable situation of having to tell you…

Totally. We shouldn’t get pissed when people in high positions of power spew offensive and discriminatory statements. Its not like anyone might look up to them, or take it as acceptable behavior.

There was a great bit in the X-Files in one episode when there was a TV show being made from Mulder and Scully’s adventures, and the actress who was playing TV-Scully (Tea Leoni, David Duchovny’s actual wife at the time) asked Scully to show her how to run in heels. So for a whole scene Mulder spoke to someone in the…

The damn heels fucking get me on Castle every time. It was refreshing when they actually made a joke about Beckett’s always perfect hair and stiletto boots. She’s a good character so I’m really :/ about the shoes.

The heels thing as practically mandatory for women is so odd to me. I’m a woman who has happened to have arthritis, mostly in my ankles and feet, since I was about 13 so heels just are not an option for me. But in workplaces I have been judged as presenting unprofessional, I have been questioned on this, I violated…

MOST TABLES LOVE THIS, BITCH.

I can’t really see any man caring about this because men LOVE their penises and have a hard time realizing that their dick isn’t the center of everyone else’s universe as well as their own. If some girl ran up to them and said “I love that cock.” there’s a good chance they’d laugh and think “Man, I love my cock too.…

Men live in fear to; nothing scarier than the sound of high heels clicking behind you on a dark street.

JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU GET OLD AND FAT, TABLE! THEN YOU’LL BE BEGGING ME TO SEXUALLY HARASS YOU.

Why isn’t it smiling? What a fucking bitch!

Don’t be so sure...

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