I will never understand this attitude. I HATE the two minute check or whatever it’s called, when the waiter comes over to see if everything’s okay when you have taken 0-2 bites of your food. But it would never occur to me to blame the waiter for that. It literally happens at every single restaurant. Does he think all…

Hodor

Every summer we would head from D.C. down to Tennessee, where my grandfather owned the oldest working grist mill in the country. It was originally built by Davy Crockett’s father, and was still powered by water within my memory. My grandfather used to traumatize me by telling me that kittens sometimes fell into the…

Went to Gettysburg when I was a kid with my mother, my brother, and my grandmother. My grandmother, who can’t drive for shit, drove the whole way and refused to let my mother take the wheel. So we were treated to her constantly stopping on the goddamn interstate to check and see if she had missed her exit, while cars…

The canoe trip from hell. We were going to take a 3/4 day canoe camping trip. go up a couple of lakes in Northern Maine, carry canoes across to others, come back down to our starting point. My sister and I are in our early teens. On the first lake, we have one of our typical early teen sister battles- fighting about…

OMG...your poor mother

When I was 7, my family drove across country. It was a really fun trip - we camped, visited family and went to a lot of tourist sites (even getting locked in Lincoln’s tomb one night!). On the way back to California, my dad convinced talked my mom into camping on the banks of the Mississippi which had been a childhood…

This story involves ALL THE SPIDERS! You have been warned. I went to visit family when I was 13. My family amd I ate neurotic about cleanliness. First night there I had my lower left leg bitten by spiders and had 19 spider bites the next morning. Next night, my upper leg left and some of my back. The third night, I…

My dad is an astronomer and in 1989 was offered a research opportunity in Santa Cruz, so my parents decided the best thing to do would be for all of us to go and rent out our house. Here are some highlights from those three months:

There is so much why here, why she put effort into her hair is like, way, way down the list.

I don’t understand why this couple actually believes that the rest of the world cares about THEIR marriage.

I think Alan Moore has said something similar about how horrified he is at all the guys who come up to tell him that they really identified with Rorschach.

I think this guy is saying that the mob is good? To me, it sounded like somebody didn’t “get” Goodfellas.

An invitation is not a summons. Nobody is required to go to a party they don’t want to attend.

No it isn’t. At some point in your life, as your family, professional, social circles grow and you get older and have gone to dozens of events, you finally stop torturing yourself just to be “polite” Women do this way, way, way too much. The only thing you “have” to go to after awhile in life is funerals. Power to ya…

I just finished a year of teaching 9th grade and I have had 9th grade girls say things to me that made me want to slam them to the ground, but as a human being I have the capability of understanding that is NOT OK. How the hell is a grown man incapable of not saying in his head, “I don’t care what a 9th grader thinks…

I keep seeing a post about how the kids hired a DJ who played, and I QUOTE, “FBomb” music. So the neighbors called the cops to make a noise complaint. Because “FBomb” music.

The picture used for the article was when Ellen threw them a real curveball and asked if they’ve ever been so bored that they were willing to watch an entire episode of Entourage.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Not to mention she can no longer use most of the facilities at her own country club, where she has been a member for over a decade. http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/02/cai… Welcome to the sisterhood, girl!