My now husband and I caught the flu the weekend of our first dateversary. He got it first but just had diarhea. We had bought a fancy chocolate cake but didn’t eat it then since he wsn’t feeling well. Two days later he was feeling better so we decided to celebrate by eating some tasty anniversary cake. He went back to…

My ex boyfriend was a scuba and free diver and used to teach an abalone diving class. I went along with the intention of snorkeling around. (I never snorkeled before). I put on the wetsuit, went out a ways and then got really seasick. I was holding on to the float when he came over to check on me. He asked how I was…

OMFG! I can’t even....My husband got a colonoscopy a few years ago and even with a gradual food schedule on Saturday (big breakfast, light lunch and soup for dinner) and no food on Sunday, he started shitting within an hour of taking the laxative and continued until the next morning.

OMFG! You win!

Best vomit story in which I was there but was not the vomitee. So many minor details that add up to make it great. It was 1982 and my BFF had her first date ever, with a guy named Barney (really). Naturally, being 13, she wanted me to come along. We went to go see a movie at the mall and picked up a pound of malt…

Are you my long-lost wedding twin? My husband and I got married this summer and the thought of any formal ceremony scared the shit out of me. We got married at City Hall (I did the nervous giggle too, and had the panic attack the day of. My bestie made sure I ate lunch and calmed me down), We took the relatives out to…

It can also depend on work environment. I’ve had pretty good colleagues for most of my career (almost 30 years now), but one group was like a microcosm of all the stereotypical startup techbro bullshit (even before we know it was a thing). Every woman who passed through there is now a much more outspoken feminist than…

One of the senior profs is like this and got WAY offended about an email that included the usual ‘we are especially looking to hire women and minorities’ disclaimer on an email reminding people to go to a candidate seminar. My boss and another male prof were very surprised by this so they asked me my opinion. I told…

Thank you - my dermatologist gave me some samples of Free and Clear and I ordered some from Amazon.

Thank you - I will give Sanex a try!

I am so sorry about your dental problems. My mom had bad dental care as a kid and has always had issues. She’s 78 now. A few years ago she went to the dentist and is was some asshole subbing for the regular dentist. He told her she needed some really pricy procedures her regular dentist had never even mentionned. She…

I’m a scientist, not an engineer, but I think the two are fairly similar. It’s really uncommon for someone to get that far and then fail their dissertation. If his advisor has been paying him his stipend and knows about the issues, and he is a good student, he will pass. (If he weren’t a good student he wouldn’t have…

That sounds delightful!

No cooking today - I went to a baptism party and ate way too much.

Congrats on your haircut!

This. The depression generation is 75 and up. The youngest baby boomers are 50+, the oldest ones are around the same age as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, so the women cited in the article are mostly boomers.  Sadly, no single generation has a lock on misogynistic attitudes. Back in the 80's and 90's, I think a lot…

OMG. The cognitive decline statement is utterly ridiculous. 

and a math professor to boot. Usually when women are on the front lines in a very male dominated profession, their experiences make them even more feminist than someone who worked in a less male-dominated profession. I know I’m a lot more aware of sexism than I was in my 20's.   However, I have seen a few who pick up…

I’m 47 and their attitudes are more like something I’d expect from someone 70+.

My best friend’s yard had a section which was just dirt. We dug so many holes there, as well as made mud pits. It was great!