That's such a pain. If I miss a call, my phone says "missed call" on the home screen. That is enough of an indication that I need to call the person back. No need to drop everything and find a quiet place to check my voicemail to find that out.

I thought we hated voicemail because it's inconvenient. If I can't pick up the phone to talk, that usually means I'm also in a position where I can't pick up the phone to listen to your voicemail. Why not get the message across instantly by texting? I'm more likely to be able to do that at a given moment.

I guess my heart just went out to your friend, who I imagined has no idea why you're not calling her back. If you're going to react to something, react in a way that helps leads to a resolution. The longer you wait to call her back because she left you a voicemail, the more voicemails she's going to leave you.…

It sounds to me like it's not voice mail that's the problem in your life, it sounds like you have a really annoying friend! Thank you for your vent, I liked it.

The good thing is that large scale production best-practices does include sustainability.

I can imagine it: Same expression as in the photos, falling into his apartment through a window, blandly saying "Oh. I broke my ankle. I'd best call John Bradley."

Looking back I didn't mind uniforms in my school specifically because it took away all of the pressure of finding something cool to wear every day, especially since it was an equalizer and we were on the single-mother end of the spectrum.

I was one of those people.

Was really mostly convinced people like you didn't exist. Your BF is lucky, and would be wise to remember that for the rest of your lives.

No! Everyone I know got married in their 20s so now everyone is getting married AGAIN in our almost 30s. Be glad they're getting married now and cross your fingers that waiting means they're doing it once.

This totally happened to me. I dodged the bullet then I hit 34 and everyone's getting married and/or having babies. That's okay, I didn't like having money anymore, anyway.

My guy turned to me in the middle of watching Sherlock and said "We should get married." Now that's romance, people.

This! My friends are always giving me a hard time about what I read. I like reading everything! YA books are for the days when you want a great story that's easy to digest but not to lengthy. Reading is escaping no matter the route. Set the snobbery aside.

There were no tattoo parlors in SC when I was growing up (there are now... just legalized in the last five or so years), so lots of kids ran for the Georgia border on their 18th birthdays. The heady rush of legal adulthood slamming into the poor decision-making capabilities of adolescence led to many a regrettable Taz…

I know right? So many punchable douche faces in those photos.

Also, not quite related, but I saw it today and want everyone to read it:

I know I'm in the minority here, but I think what would bother me more than someone taking a picture of me without my knowledge would be having that picture shared with thousands of strangers without my knowledge.

I've done a similar thing for a coat I though my GF would like on the train. It was one of those tan camel ones, but with a black silhouette of a vine or something. She texted back that I was a creeper.

I said this in another reply as well, but I think people are missing what he meant because this is a transcription of a homily, so you don't get his inflection, which was probably important. My guess is that his inflection changed to make clear that everything starting with "It's better" was a quote from those…

Also this! I've ended relationships partly because the other party DID want kids. That was MY deal breaker.