The multiple names curse was strong in my second grade class. We had 2 Olivias, 2 Ashleys, 3 Codys, and Erin and Aaron who everyone mixed up if we said it out loud.

The good news is they immolate the closer they get to the earth’s core!

Ugh, yes. Until I got on birth control, it was almost guaranteed one day a month the cramps would be too bad to walk by midmorning. The nurses thankfully had really good hot water bottles. Sometimes that + midol worked, sometimes dad would come get me on his lunch break.

It’s not—it’s a desperate attempt to remind her fellows that one of their own will be up for election next year and the GOP brand can only take so many hits. Coupled with the fact that voters skew liberal in presidential years, the GOP is in rouble if they pull a shut down now.

Trying to save her party from themselves, a noble if thankless task. But seriously, this lady has her eye on 2016, mark my words. She knows a shutdown will all-but doom most GOP nominees since they’ll either have to badmouth their party fellows from congress or look like utter assholes. As so far only Trump seems to…

Yeah. Thankfully I lucked out. The owner liked me becuase his grandaughter (aka jerk manager’s daughter) saw college-student me as a role model and so when she noticed her dad and the other guy were starting to get to me, she got the owner to permanently keep me at the other store. Her concern was pretty valid, they’d…

I’m asxeual so I think I’m invisible whether I move or not. It’s a mircle they were able to order from me!

Tza was, in fact, completely confused by the whole thing until afterwards. I was just sort of like “...okay?” and did my job. I’m still wondering to this day if they expected me to get hysterical or or uncomfortable or something.

Especially since it’s just used as a catch-all. One kind of needs to say what the problem is.

I have a friend who’s brother was in the air force. He once got disciplined because he didn’t slice a cake evenly enough. You have to be so freaking on oint it’s ridiculous.

I usually hear my mom addressed by last name, but she’s a teacher and it’s usually from her students (it’s also a much more unique name than her first while still being easily remembered). My friends generally alternated between first and last with her. My dad was usually first name. Most of my friends’ parents were…

There was a line in a short story I once read that makes a lot of this make sense to me. “The human mind is a marvelous thing. Simply tell it what it doesn’t hear and it’ll fill in the gaps itself [about what the sound actually is].” Once you insist on what didn’t or can’t be the thing, your brain will crank out all…

I was in high school during the 08 election and still remember how people thought tons of women would swing to the GOP for Palin. It was so freaking dumb.

It’s Palin all over again, admittedly one with better choherency. “Oh, we’ll put a woman on the ticket as VP! Bwahaha now all the women will vote for us wait, wait, what do you mean they don’t like her? She’s a woman!”

Eh, it was a bad one. You said “’Grrl power’ isn’t feminism” and I’d recently been reading the comic and made a bad quip about what “grrl power” was. Sorry if it offended, just a bad joke.

Initially I thought this said “Florida senate Contender” and was like, “yep, sounds like home all right.” Then I realized it said “failed” and thought “...well now I have to read it to see if she’s still from FL.”

Just making a joke.

THIS. There was a bomb threat at my elementary school and it was one of the worst days ever. They evacuated everyone right after we got to class, and most kids didn’t know what was going on. Most everyone left their things inside. Incuding food, which was an issue when we were outside for nearly five hours (this was 2…

We did that with romance novels at the charity bookstore attached to the local library...except we sold them in giant paper grocery bags, so you got like twenty. Did the same with hardbound Reader’s Digest collected editions (to this day I don’t know who kept donating those...)

Tampons are fine, virgin with no inclination for sex so that’s not an issue. And yeah, the way she asked very not well done, especially since I was already stressed out.