160 pounds, senior year of high school, my mother’s advice on getting a prom date: “Lose 100 pounds then you’ll have a chance for a date or start over in college”

On a Spirit (of course) flight back from Puerto Rico, my friend and I, among other passengers noticed a terrible smell. Someone had thrown up into the seat back pocket itself. The solution: empty out bags of coffee grounds into the vomit filled pit. Not an improvement