Up until a month ago, I was always too nervous to go to a barber shop to get my hair trimmed because I was afraid of this exact situation. So, for the last few years it’s been: shave head, grow out, shave head, grow out, etc. I finally got an uncharacteristic burst of self confidence and waltzed into a place near my…

When I was 13, I lied about my age so I could work in a McDonald’s because I really, really wanted the money. For three days, I stood at the counter, fumbling through people’s orders, getting burned by the deep-fryer, being screamed at by staff and customer alike. On that third day, my manager came up to me and told…

If I were tasked with an article like that, I think I would have probably done something like, “BRING BACK PERMS for some reason”. Like, white women CAN have really curly hair. They’re just... not afros...

I find this surprising. I work in an independent card/stationary store and our cards pay the rent. It might be the neighbourhood, but people seem to be buying as many cards as they were a few years back.

If it makes you feel better, at least three other people have thought that.

The other day, my boyfriend and I were at a cafe getting breakfast, and a group of young boys (about 12 or so) walked in, and I thought to myself, “It’s so strange that a group of incredibly small, adult men would all go get breakfast together” before ever registering that they were kids. That line of thinking, I…

I worked in a bar/restaurant that served coffee in the morning as part of our brunch (and fuck it, all day if you really wanted to see through space and time at nine in the evening). In the same strip was a Starbucks, so you can see how some issues arose. This woman comes in on my second day.

I noticed something really similar. I never had many nice things, but I do remember begging my mom to buy me something from a really popular store in town, thinking it would increase my social capital. By the time I finally got one of these very popular (in retrospect, ugly as sin because THE NINETIES) items, kids…

Oh GOD WHY WHY they're SO SMALL

[yawns]

I can’t even go two rounds with one person, I admire that sort of stamina.

The resolution of the last one was the only one that didn't make me want to cry. I've been on the side of these situations where some assmunch makes me, at the time a kid, cry because they're sad, abusive garbage with nothing better to do. Shame. Someone post some kittens.

I think this is one of my favourite pieces of writing ever. It was so impassioned and convincing.

I'm happy that at least some of these ended with a sense of resolution. I particularly like the popcorn one.

I've used the LUSH henna a million times and was able to colour again later with permanent dyes, with no bad results. Henna has gotten a bad rap because of metallic salts and progressive colours over the years, but I have never had any bad luck with LUSH. As a huge company, they would be stupid to try and cut their…

Halter maxis on short, larger people is always cute, always always. Maxis in general are, but I feel your pain if you're shorter because I have never been able to find a maxi that isn't trailing behind me as I walk.

I love her voice so much for some reason. I wish everything I had to read was dictated in her voice.

I started wearing sweatpants around my boyfriend by week one, because when I am scampering around in the morning trying to make coffee I am not going to put on jeans because I am not a fucking chump.

When I was a child, my father suggested to me that the reason that the grocery store's butcher section was populated by a large volume of dead chickens is that the farmer was a drunk driver. I believed him.

I feel like the majority of articles I read about this subject are exactly the same. Whenever they have a positive bent, it just seems to parrot previous articles, regurgitating the same sources, motivations and outcomes. I feel like the purpose of writing an article would be to present at least reasonably novel…