I didn’t get my licence until I was 23. I could deal with taxis and public transit with a toddler, but a toddler and a newborn was too much.

I do know that in Ontario, when my sister turned 16, getting your 365 (a learners permit that gave you up to a year to pass your drivers exam) was about 20 bucks. When I turned 16, 8ish years later, they had introduced graduated licensing and now your G1 (formerly your 365) was 100 bucks and you had to keep it for an…

Mother at 20 here.. It’s a real catch-22. I sometimes think about all the things I could have done had not had kids early.. but at the same time, getting married young, having kids young, then getting divorced young gave me courage to take chances that I never possessed in my late teens. Upon graduating high school,…

I know these stats are US-based, probably but another issue with driving is how bloody expensive just getting your learners permit in some places. Writing the test for your G1 level licence in Ontario (so basically a learners permit you have to keep for a whole year before you can graduate to your G2, which allows a…

Did you find it as odd/yet not surprising as I did that all the reaction shots from that Buzzfeed article featured white folks and their reactions (Granted, I’m not clear on Sarah Hyland’s ethnicity)?

Same. My house had two bathrooms when I bought it but we had a sewer back up and found out the previous owners had never installed the downstairs toilet properly (with a pump, because gravity) and we decided it was more financially feasible to just rip out the bathroom and make it extra storage than to try and fix the…

Also, in a public washroom you could inadvertantly cause some severe issues for anyone with respiratory problems.

My next house is going to have a bidet if it kills me. I go through SO MUCH TOILET PAPER and also sometimes things get rubbed raw and I feel like that wouldn’t be an issue if I had a bidet.

20 years of colitis here and also surgery for colon cancer that left me with 10% of a colon. when you have to poop 6-8 times a day, you learn not to be picky about where.

The day will come. It happened to me. I felt like an asshole. I don’t use those stalls anymore. The guilt was too much.

I’ve quite literally had this happen. and while we’re on the subject of motion sensored bathrooms.. this is a common occurence for me:

I once found a shitty diaper shoved rather haphazardly into the sanitary waste disposal.

If there is one good thing about 20 years of colitis and a bout with colon cancer, it’s that it has completely destroyed any sense of embarassment I have about pooping in public. Waiting until I get home or until I am completely alone is a luxury I simply don’t have. When you go 6-8 times a day, you don’t get to be…

That’s fantastic! Nothing I hate more than the assumption some stores (I’m looking at you, Old Navy) make that if you’re a size 20, you must also be 7 feet tall.

A kindred spirit here LOL

I went through a (decidedly non-pregnant) phase where I was wearing maternity shirts on purpose, because they tended to fit me in the boobs and shoulders without being restrictive in the belly area. Mind you, this was during a time where looser, flowy fits and empire waists were a big thing.

I feel your pain.. I am very much a pear shape. Part of the reason I’d rather all sizes just get displayed together is that to outfit my top half and my bottom half, I have to shop in two different sections, since I have a fairly average bust, a bit of a belly, and a huge ass and thighs. Shopping is a damn nightmare…

I cannot fucking wait for this whole ‘Cold Shoulder’ thing to DIE already.

I’m going to keep this in mind next time i need work clothes. Haven’t been there in years, but I’ve gotten some cute Reitmans stuff second hand.

Video not available. Dammit.