When I first moved to Québec City with my brand new French, I got a job in a café just so that I would have to use my nervously-minted français every day. QC gets a lot of tourists in the summer, especially in the old city where I was working, and a lot of said tourists are American. If I had a dollar for every…

When I was a teenager I worked at McDonald’s to pay for my car insurance and have money to go out with friends. I often ran the breakfast table, making all the sandwiches and running the grill area. We had this one asshole who would order a steak bagel with extra onions and send it back at least twice because there…

Many years ago, a couple buddies and I worked at a Dunkin’ Donuts on a high traffic tourist beach. We managed to survive the summer mostly intact, but it had still been full of asshole customers.

I hope Melissa Li was nice to my aunt.

Another (regretfully) true story: During my Fazoli’s days (back at the second location I worked at) we had a guy who was a regular jackass. I hated this guy, because he was a condescending prick, and always had the most pain in the ass special orders he could come up with. So, one night during the week of the Final…

When I was in high school, some local, road-side hotel decided to convert their restaurant to a Chinese buffet. They called the high school to see if there were any “Chinese girls who would like a job.” Damn it. I was the only Chinese girl in the school, and actually, yeah, I wanted another job because college was…

Another Starbucks Story.

True enough. But rather anticlimactic now. Heh.

And the horrible thing is that if there were a link between abortion and suicide, it would very likely be caused (to an extent) by the way organizations like this one make women feel like shit for having abortions. If I ended up pregnant and at a crisis pregnancy center, they would be very unlikely to talk me out of…

... that it would be fucking sweet? Or that I wouldn’t be able to have sex for two weeks?

I went into one because it advertised itself like a birth control clinic when I was 16. They were offended when I told them I was there for a birth control prescription (which would reduce the likelihood of me getting an abortion). I then asked for directions to the closest planned parenthood which they refused but I…

A lot of people who support CPCs also believe that various birth control methods “cause abortions.” Their most common reasoning is because some BCPs and IUDs prevent implantation of a fertilized egg into the uterus.

I’ve only ever been to get Plan B, but my interactions there were lovely, professional, and non-judgmental. When I asked for Plan B, they asked me a few questions about my partner, about whether everything had been consensual (yes), and if I wanted any testing. If I did, they told me I could come back. Someone helped…

I accidentally ended up at one of these places years ago, they did a pregnancy test, showed me the video, gave me the pamphlets and told me I wasn’t pregnant. Ended up I was. I still had an abortion but I’m sure they thought by lying to me I’d put off doing anything until it was too late.

There is a CPC across from the high school in my town. A high school which, conveniently for that CPC, does not educate its students on how to use a condom or other birth control methods. These places are evil incarnate.

I sat through hearings on so-called “informed consent” legislation that requires doctors to tell women specific “facts” about abortion and show them pictures of fetuses at various stages of development. The “pro life” groups pushing the bill kept stressing that women deserved information before making abortion…

I ventured into one because they set up in the SAME BUILDING as the clinic. The escorted me and a friend into an office and shut the door. Once my friend caught onto what was happening, he told me to get up and leave with him. I tried to open the door, but the LOCKED it behind us. My friend threatened to call the…