I am the opposite story of you (I’m sorry, I really am - you have had some shitty luck). The consequences of doing bad stuff has been curiously in my favor. I got PCed twice at concerts but that’s basically like getting an adult-sized time out.

I think my trouble stories are less about the trouble and more about the embarrassment. I’ve done some stupid shit but haven’t gotten into significant trouble.

Then the next year, The Who came back to town because why not.

Let me just say I’ve been pleasantly surprised that many of these don’t involve driving while drunk.

Yay for printed penis trouble! My best friend and I printed the scene of the big bright shining star from boogie nights while my mom was in the next room drinking white wine with ice cubes in it with her girlfriends. This being the 90’s the printer was SO SLOW, just a few pixels at a time, and we were more stressed…

that is a happy ending!

The lesson here is never cave. Lying works.

Our new high school was designed by a guy who designs prisons! lovely courtyard though.

Yay for cool adults! I was the favorite RA (or at least that’s what they told me) in college for the same reason. Teens drinking wine coolers in their rooms = teens not drinking jungle juice at a frat party. It also meant that when someone was actually in trouble, they weren’t afraid to call me.

10 years ago while he was still a correspondent on TDS I was walking briskly through JFK to catch a flight to puerto rico and my husband who is 6’2’’ was 20 feet in front of me griping about “why aren’t your legs longer?!” and I was very disheveled and clinging to my various bags and giving him some “oh jfc i was born…

I just came by to post John Oliver’s bullshit historical quote generator! Honestly I wish they would put more in the database cause I got to the end a little too quickly:

This may not contribute anything of substance at all, but my husband’s coworker has met the shooter through work. He works in the food industry and the guy was the health inspector. One of the people he shot was formerly in his position, michael wetzel, and he apparently was a really great guy :(

Do you love it now? We moved to a pretty rural area so it has been hard for me to make friends (social anxiety doesn’t help either) but I think loneliness is overcome-able. The rest of the stuff I can’t change - the climate, my neighbors, etc. are amazing.

I put mine on when I get up and wear it til I’m done with coffee and ready to get dressed, when I let the dogs out first thing in the morning, and if I need to run outside for more firewood in the evening. My husband wears it while he irons his clothes for the day. They are like reverse snuggies so sometimes I watch…

Honestly surprised its tail is full grown, those things fly off like new years confetti poppers. Every one I see around my house is in some state of regrowth.

We do not have children and if we did, I can’t say that we would have made the move either. We went there intending it to be an 18 month chapter in our lives, and then we were going to move on. When you know it’s temporary and you don’t have tiny humans relying on you for sustenance, it’s way easier to treat it like a…

We have a cabin in Ticonderoga, it is... like you say.

It seems like a hard place to be a kid especially for certain circumstances. I was fortunate to live there as an adult where it was lots of outdoor play time, drinking, music, bonfires, and gardening/playing with food. It’s easier to avoid bad people/situations as an adult. A close friend of mine works for social…

They could also contract it out to the “need a mom” people.

I say that every time I fly Virgin. I make these outlandish blanket statements... “I will pay up to 250% more for a plane ticket in order to fly virgin instead of literally any other airline.” But probably not.