That struck me too. And even within China there are variations. A friend made a dinner for a group of us once with foods from his home town in southern China and it had more in common with Creole food than what we think of as Chinese.

We can let this one slide but if you start saying saying chi-pol-tay, we're taking you to a nursing home :)

Meh it wasn't about the trouble so much. If I was being forced to apologize I was in trouble already regardless. It was mostly a spiteful thing towards my sister (likely the person I was supposed to apologize to.) I was usually still so mad that I refused to extend even that courtesy.

Oh of course! I don't want to hear or give a blow by blow of any experiences. but I got jealous hearing about a conversation my best friend had with her mom about first kisses. If I tried that with my mom she'd act like I'm graphically describing giving a very drunk underage blowjob.

I was 15 and had just came home after my first ever date. My mom asked me if I had a good time and I said yes. Then she said to me 'I'm glad you had a good time, and I'm sure you'll have a lot fun dates in your life but I don't need to know the details." and that was the end of that conversation forever.

I was a smart mouthed kid who would argue that I didn't mean it, or try to negotiate that I'd come back and say it later when it was true. It didn't always work but I think at least once my mom was like, "well how do I argue with that?"

I'm kind of the same way with my mom. I have lots of siblings and a few of them have medical/emotional/behavioral/educational problems spread out among them to varying degrees. I don't say this to sound like I'm better than them because I've had my share of problems too, but overall I try to be the one that my parents…

Some days I felt like my parents had no idea who I was and other days I was completely sure they saw through all of my tricks. The older I've gotten the more the latter feels true. Now that I'm almost done with college I feel like (with my mom especially) we do the song and dance of don't ask don't tell about my…

I invited a guy in college back to my dorm room to watch dumb youtube videos. Since I didn't have a couch we sat on my bed. It wasn't tough to make the leap from there.

I'm glad that it worked out for your friend. I definitely believe that it can, but I also know timing will likely be an issue in my love life. I've cut a lot of guys loose just because it isn't fair to them for me to ask them to wait while I figure out if I could be attracted to them someday. That doesn't really make…

reminds me of the hate people have for vegetarians lol

I am demisexual. For me, the only person I've ever been really sexually attracted to and been comfortable being sexual with was a close friend that I had known for five and a half years before I even began to think about him in that way. For me it is very true that it was not at all about what he looked like. In fact,…

I asked to be excused from dinner early to go back to drawing in the basement. My parents said okay and as I scurried off my dad called after me "Write if you get work!" so I pulled out a piece of drawing paper and wrote: Dear dad, I have work. Love, Me. and slipped it under the door so my parents would see it at the…

Ugh that happened to me earlier this week. Luckily he backed off pretty quickly when I answered a few of his questions in ways he didn't like (I was older, wasn't impressed that he was on An Important Sports team, and didn't fawn over him because he was "new to town") I did see him get a girl's number later though. I…

I had corn on pizza for the first time ever about a week ago. I'd never considered it but it was pretty good. Now that I think about it, I don't think any of the pizzas we had would pass this list. Corn and pesto, bacon and pineapple, and sausage with peppers. I loved them all. I guess I'm an abomination.

Yeah when allergies are involved sending stuff back is reasonable.

Once I ordered a veggie omelet. It was supposed to have spinach and onions and cheese with diced tomatoes on top. I was brought a folded egg filled only with onion. I still didn't send it back.

I have a friend who used to order the strawberry "creeps" at brunch. I think it started out as him actually not knowing how to say crepe, but became kind of a joke after that. We thought it was funny but I'm sure the waitstaff all thought we were dumb.

That was my thought. They're shortchanging somebody. Either their workers or you.

I like that idea. I also liked how my parent's friend's daughter did her wedding. She allowed kids to the ceremony itself but not at the reception. I know the ceremony is the boring part, but that's the part that I feel is about family. The reception is a party for and about adults.