Unless you have a fully funded emergency fund, no debt, and a paid-for house, nobody should be paying $170 for pants. MAYBE if they lasted for 20 years, but not for a pair of pants you will wear for a few years and then donate or toss.

Hear hear! I love Dressbarn, but all of their tops and jackets are too tight in the upper arms for me. So my entire wardrobe consists of sleeveless Dressbarn tops with shrugs and cardigans to go over them, because I would never wear a sleeveless shirt in public.

I'm from PA and I assumed it was Bristol, CT! I didn't even know there was a Bristol, PA.

Yes, exactly! I was questioning my own sanity and memory. She swears up and down very convincingly that she never said X or did Y, even though I can tell you the date she said it and what the circumstances were (the date one particular thing happened was someone's birthday party, so I remember it because of the…

Thanks. Husband is definitely on my side. His stepmother is about 16 years younger than his father, putting her at only 10 years older than my husband. When his father remarried, he lived at home briefly while he was in college, and he said she made his life miserable. Within days of the wedding, she was screaming at…

I agree with you. It's just too bad that his son has to suffer for it.

Yeah, I think he's kind of given up on life. I used to feel sorry for him until he straight-up lied the day she was haranguing me on the phone. I'm sorry about your grandmother. It's hard to cut off contact, but if you're suffering because of her demands and outbursts, it's best to get away from it. I put up with this…

Crestwood is a good school. I have friends who teach there now. I took the Sem test in junior high, but we didn't have the money for me to go there, so I stayed at Plains Jr. High and then went to CHS. Small world!

One of my in-laws displays many of the traits of a narcissist, specifically someone who is a "compensatory narcissist." Deep down, I feel sorry for her sometimes because I believe much of her behavior is rooted in the fact that her mother abandoned her when she was a baby and her father abused her pretty badly before…

I only know one person who seems to meet the criteria to be a narcissist, and she is literally the worst person I've ever met in my life.

I actually liked the barf description. It's rather apt considering the state of the region these days.

I personally call it Wilkes-Berry. I've heard people call it Wilkes-Barrh, for sure, but I've never heard anyone say it as "Wilkes Bare."

Did you happen to go to CHS?

You beat me to it!

Huh, I live in Wilkes-Barre and have never pronounced it "Wilkes Bare."

Hey, this is my local news station! I never thought we'd end up on a Gawker Media site. =)

I'll be sure to tell my mother. She's been driving a stick shift her entire life, and she lives in a pretty mountainous area. I asked her if she's going to get an automatic next time she buys (she's almost 60 and has bad arthritis, and sometimes she says using the clutch kills her leg on drives with a lot of stopping…

In my state, your medical record belongs to the doctor. When my SMIL's gynecologist retired, she was allowed to get a copy of her record to take to her new doctor, but the retiring physician kept the original. Coincidentally, this is why she now hates Western medicine: the retiring doctor apparently wrote in her chart…

I'm horny during my period, but I *must* have sex after I stop bleeding. When my hormones crash, I get so dry and itchy that my boyfriend's penis doubles as an internal scratcher of sorts.

Don't tempt me, either. We just took in our FIFTH cat. Once you have four, a fifth isn't a big deal, but people think we are nuts. This one wormed his way inside because his left ear is folded over (the vet suspects he had a mite infection, shook his head too hard, and burst a blood vessel in his ear, leaving the ear…