Can you write a story about how to stop being scared of the teens that wait for the bus at the end of my street? Every time I stop for the light, all 8 of them turn and sulkily stare me down. They intimidate the fuck out of me. I’m 28.

When I was 14 just kissing and dry-humping my boyfriend with my t-shirt off in his bed caused him to cream his sweatpants. Imagine: a girl! in your bed! with her bra showing! kissing and dry-humping you! It was too much for him.

I am doing a 30 Day Decluttering Challenge. I cleaned out my junk drawer and two kitchen cabinets. Today it’s apparently Sweat Your Balls off Day, so decluttering is delayed due to torpor.

Polyamory sounds exhausting to me. Being a complete introvert, just thinking about juggling multiple people in my life like that makes me all kinds of tired. If my marriage ever goes south, I’ll just stick to internet porn. Or maybe a sex robot if they ever get those going before I’m too old to give a damn.

I gave birth last Saturday, when I was only 25 weeks along, because my high blood pressure turned into preeclampsia and then HELLP syndrome in a matter of days. Original plan was to keep me at the hospital for as many weeks as possible before delivery, but my labs turned bad and then worse and doctors think I would…

I eloped yesterday! It was small and quick as hell and awesome.

Why can’t they just sell some of their homes/expensive shit to pay off the IRS and then slowly rebuild their brand (whatever that is)? I don’t understand rich people. Like, you’re hella broke. You don’t need 5 walk-in closets.

I keep a bag of lollipops in the filing cabinet near where they have to be quiet. In the event that it wasn’t a drill or went on for a really long time, everyone is getting something stuck in their mouths. You have no idea how much I hate that I have a plan for that scenario.

Brag thread! What’s a super cool thing you have accomplished recently?

Congratulations and best wishes! Lots of great replies in this thread, and I won’t repeat some of the things already said, so here’s something new from mine (married 9 years, together for 13+):

One year I gave myself much higher ratings than the boss gave me. I asked for a meeting to discuss my scores, and so she and I sat down, me with a prepared list of major incidents where I had fixed something and solved the problem.

I was unemployed for almost a year (7 months or so) and the job search was really demotivating. I also was living with my inlaws at the time, so almost in the same boat.

Given your foreign sounding name, do you think employers think that you need sponsorship to work here? If so that may discourage them from contacting you. I usually put on my resume “Green card holder” at the top. That helps for me. You can put your immigration status or specify that you are a US citizen in your…

Professional Jezzies, how do you deal with the job search? I graduated college last June and have been looking for a job since Fall of 2015 and am getting nothing. I went to a pretty good school, but have a humanities degree, so maybe that’s what’s been stopping me. It’s also a bit paranoid, but I’ve recently been…

My mom told me: “You’re going to change. He’s going to change. In 5, 10, 20 years, he will not be the person you married and vice versa. Don’t cling to what you thought you knew or were going to be.”

Nope, but I’d go have a conversation about it. The hats are shaped like cat-ears, they’re cute and pink, and there’s nothing vulgar about them. So guess what? it’s a hat and teacher sensitivity can take a hike.

I am grey and may forever well be, but I am going to make this post anyway, because my beloved (and i do mean beloved) grandmother died friday morning at the age of 94 and i am packing to go to her hometown to her services.... i was her POA and lots of other stuff blah blah blah but in the aftermath of her dying, a…

I’ve never felt so proud in this moment. To have met so many amazing - huge understatement - people has revived my soul like never before.