They told people 6 months salary? Oh, that’s so vile. I too would be terrible at selling engagement rings.

I joined a friend of mine who was ring shopping for his girlfriend. My friend isn’t destitute, but there were a lot of other things that he should have/could have spent money on. Plus, his very frugal girlfriend would have been happy with a cheap but pretty CZ ring. In one chain jewelry store, my friend was looking at…

Ugh. I was surprised to learn that you guys have not only heat but crazy humidity. I have expat friends in UAE who describe swimming through the grocery store parking lot.

It is!

After my brother’s suicide, I became very defensive of those whose post-trauma body language is picked apart by armchair psychologists. I was remarkably calm after seeing my brother’s body, to the point where I wondered what was wrong with me. I screamed not in horror, but because I thought that’s what I was supposed…

You’re better off! My friend decided against making things more serious with a guy she was dating because he deeply hated The Princess Bride.

Butternut squash soup is one of my favorites.

My uncle is the ‘soup is not a meal’ type as well and it irritates my soup loving aunt to no end. He also suddenly decided he didn’t like Mexican food, her favorite. (In his defense he does his fair share of the cooking and cleaning up.) My mom and I were visiting when he was out of town, and my aunt used the…

Her argument was that she prefered chewing, but many soups are really hearty. She even disliked things like thick chili with tortilla chips.

I had a girlfriend who didn’t like soup. That’s not among the main reasons we broke up, but it didn’t help the situation. Various forms of soup are 75% of what I cook in winter. Of the millions of possible types of soup, how does one hate all of them?

It’s become the metric by which I compare all life experiences. So far nothing has topped it.

Every aspect of my life got better once I started exclusively making popcorn on the stove with coconut oil. My mom brought me 50 packs of microwave popcorn last week (she thinks Boston has no grocery stores) and I made her take them home.

The zoo is one of the few things I miss about living in Columbus. Especially with the renovations, it is spectacular. Years ago I was hauled along to a sunrise easter service at the zoo, and it ended up being totally worth it because Jack Hanna was there with a snow Leopard kitten I got to pet.

Woohoo! I was at an incredibly beautiful NH lake for a family reunion last week, and my 3 year old cousin declared that the lake was the prettiest toilet she’d ever seen. I love her.

If duck poop is anything like goose poop, I’m in 100%!!11!!!!11

This is turning into a weird game of would you rather. My answer is bird poop as well.

Exactly. Even when walking along the seashore in winter I’ll get as close to the water line as possible before dropping trou. It’s important to stay classy when peeing outdoors.

NY subway escalators give me tons of practice letting go of inner rage. Seriously. I specifically pick a few patience related mantras to work on before visiting. If I lived in NY, I’d be the most chill person ever.

I think the seriousness in which ‘stand right, walk left’ is taken in Boston T stations is one of my favorite parts of living here. If you park yourself in the middle of the escalator at rush hour, someone WILL mow you down. Even little kids know the rule. I just wish tourists were made to watch a short PSA before…

This is actually an intriguing idea. Women ‘practice’ defending themselves physically during an attack, so training how to cope mentally makes sense.