KJA's descriptive writing was excellent, it really took me there, except without the stink thank goodness!

I can't decide whether your head story or the little girl eating butt noodles is worse!

Ok, look. This is BY FAR the most terrifyingly horrifically disgusting story I've ever heard of or read and I've worked in healthcare for decades. In fact, I was happily eating yogurt while reading the other stories until I got to yours.

after spending a total of 2 weeks in Montreal and Paris, I wish for a Metro here in Fl. Even if I'd have to wear a scuba suit and food shop daily.

You are SO right. The damned condo commando, cheap construction and mold problems makes my blood boil, the constant road construction and the traffic are exhausting. Stress levels in my workplace are insane with the low pay and the commute hell. It takes about an hour to go six miles AFTER rush hour. But this is…

One of the photos of the diorama of the standing dead guy had him surrounded by flower arrangements and had two fans blowing on him, because the viewing was at home and they didn't have A/C.

Someone please tell me how did they get Abuela to straighten out and fit into her casket?

Those are really lovely names, but the girls I knew had made-up gibberish names as anagrams. Nothing that flowed well or was spelled easily. They wore them well in a sense but then again they had no choice because there wasn't a way to shorten them that sounded good. If I had the nerve I'd tell what they were, but…

no, but close!

There are 5 people named Humberto in my family. Count them, 5. Most go by their middle names, except one went by Berto. Smexy!

In my country, hideously odd mish-mashed and made up names tend to abound. There was one classmate named Neysa for father Nestor and mom Sandra (the "y" means "and"). Then the two siblings who shared one name - one spelled forward and the other spelled backwards. Totally hideous.

I used to work as lactation counselor and we recommended to moms various coping suggestions such as covering baby with a shawl, facing a corner or a wall so that the pearl clutchers can keep their stares to themselves, etc. I agree with you, much prefer happy feeding baby than screeching baby. No one needs to whip a…

My hair is the same: fine, wavy in parts and curly in others and it's taken me years to learn how to wrangle with it. What seems to work for me in this Florida humidity is to wash once weekly or 2x a month with sulfate-free shampoo use Suave coconut conditioner or Herbal Essences conditioner... it doesn't make it…

Something similar are those foul Asian drnks that contain peeled grapes. Chunks in beverages are unnerving, to say the least.