I've lost track of how many men I met via dating sites who I went on a date with, had a nice time with, maybe went on a second or even third date with. All the while he's telling me how he likes me, he thinks I'm pretty, let's do this and that together and that other thing, too.. And then one day, poof, he's gone with…

What kind of self respecting cat just lays on her person's arm and lets herself be paraded around lower Manhattan?

Yeah, it's not "breaking up" when you've been on one date.

When women do this, we're called psycho bitches.

I know I saw the second one but I can't remember a goddamned thing that happened in it. Brandi?

I used to live in a 3rd floor apartment where I could see into the backyards of the row houses over the back fence. One yard was fence-to-fence garbage, junk and crap, clear up to the roof of the covered patio. When I knew I was going to be walking up that street later that day, I made a note of which house it was and…

I read this story last week so I've had time to be deeply saddened and horrified.

Oh, dear. I go nuts if I can't poop for a week and resort to Dulcolax suppositories. Have you been screened for IBS? Unfortunately, the treatment would probably be about the same, but at least the testing rules out anything else.

While on my long commute to work I mistook the cramps for menstrual cramps. When I realized they were not, I got off at the next exit and drove around desperately trying to find a gas station. There was none. I got as far as the parking lot of a hotel before crapping my pants. I've never admitted this before, but the…

My eyes tell me it's a common car for this area but that doesn't prove it's a good car. Muscle cars are also common which makes me wonder if they garage them all winter or something. (I'm jelly - I'd totally get a muscle car if I could afford to keep two cars. Or didn't mind running off the road a lot in the winter.)

Cars require different levels of maintenance and my line of thinking is that driving it over the course of a lease period will give me a better idea of how good a car it is. If I think it's a good car, then hopefully the lessor will let me buy it and if it needs work all the time, I give it back and am not stuck with…

I want and can afford a Jeep but am nervous about buying one outright as I've never owned anything but safe, solid, sedans. So I've been thinking about leasing to "try it out" except everyone yells at me that leasing is stupid. So thanks for this. I still haven't made up my mind though.

My work and my daily activities don't bring me into contact with many available men. If I didn't do online dating, I wouldn't date at all.

When two stories of the same event are this far apart, I figure the truth is somewhere in between. Doesn't have to be right in the middle, though. Her version of events could be closer to the truth than Schulman's.

I' m so wound up when flying that someone would have to be Pig Pen for me to notice how they're dressed. I'm concentrating too hard on not losing my shit when they run out of overhead space and force me to check my bag, then sit on the runway for 90 minutes.

I travel alone frequently and never get selected for extra screening.

Around 1992, my stepmother and I got into a knock-down, dragout fight over my wearing a nice t-shirt (instead of a blouse) with my skirt and jacket for a plane flight. She even pulled out the "if you don't dress/behave properly, you will be raped" that was her fallback argument against every act of mine she…

"There comes a point where, as long as your family's OK, you've simply run low on fucks to give, and you choose when to give them because they're valuable and they mean something and you don't want to waste them on things that aren't fuck-worthy."

I walked by Yankee Candles at the mall last week and I'm pretty sure the intended effect of Yankee Candles is NOT to make passerby cringe and ask "What the fuck is that stench?"

Gee, I wonder why these gals are single. They seem like such great catches, totally low maintenance and not at all demanding.