My best friend had a horror-story post-baby poop. About a week after her C-section, she quit taking stool softeners; she’d had at least one pretty normal poop since delivery — thanks to the softeners, apparently — and thought she was good to go at that point. Not so much. It was Fourth of July, her husband and stepson…

I know one vegan. She’s actually very chill about it. The only reason I even know she’s one is because I’ve been out to eat with her at a restaurant where there weren’t any clear vegan-friendly options on the menu, so she had to ask the server. That and a couple Facebook shares of vegan-friendly recipes that frankly…

I was just thinking how the only person I ever still see wearing Aeropostale on a regular basis (at least the T-shirts and hoodies with big logos) is a mom in her mid-40s, who has one kid in college and another in high school. I don’t know if it’s just because of her attachment to the brand, but for me, Aero is the…

Same here! I’d never heard it until I read those tweets.

I’d never even heard that word until I read those tweets.

Yeah, that reminds me... my husband said his grandmother (born in 1918), instead of just saying she was hungry, or too cold, etc., would ask the other people around her “Are you too cold? I can turn down the air if you want” or “Are you hungry? We can get something to eat if you want.” It drove him insane. He couldn’t…

Pretty impressive, really. I trained for my first half marathon seven years ago, and remember very vividly how sore my legs were the day after I first ran a 5-miler in training — I cannot imagine what they’d have felt like if I’d accidentally done the whole 13.1 without building up to it. Cheers to LeeAdianez!

When I was young, in the early ‘90s, I had to put a dime in a slot on the door to get into a stall in a public bathroom on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md. The only pay-to-go bathroom I’ve ever seen. It was so weird! I still go to that beach, but I haven’t been in that particular bathroom since I was a kid. Now I…

That would get me too! The first time I saw an episode of “Snapped” while flipping through the channels, I stopped to watch it solely because the crime had taken place in a nearby small town I visit pretty regularly, and it was trippy seeing all these local landmarks on a nationally-broadcast show.

That makes sense. The sheer amount of detail in that book, much of which had to have come from first-person interviews, astounds me.

I should, thanks for the recommendation!

Uggghhhh. One of my FB friends (a girl I barely knew in high school 15 years ago and haven’t seen since) posted she was signing up for a self defense class because she feels so unsafe now using a public bathroom. When someone else (a guy) called her out on her bullshit, she told him his opinion didn’t matter because…

I had no clue the shooter said that. I just assumed it was some jerkoff trying to copy the first jerkoff who opened fire on the theater in Colorado.

I have read “In Cold Blood” so many times. I had no idea Harper Lee was even a “research assistant,” let alone a possible uncredited co-author. I hope she gets any credit due.

Nah... Rage disbanded in 2000 when Zach left. The other members formed Audioslave with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) as lead vocalist. Audioslave broke up in 2007. Rage reunited and did some shows together from 2007 to 2011, but as of now they’re permanently kaput.

My friend and her husband argued up to the minute their first daughter was born about what to name her. As soon as they saw her, they immediately agreed on a name neither of them had even considered up to that point, because she “looked like” that name. And damn if she didn’t! She may as well have been born wearing a…

My best friend’s younger brother acted like such a little old man when he was a kid we called him G-Pop. When G-Pop was 13 or so, he got struck in the head by a ball at a church softball game and had to be airlifted to a hospital. When we visited him there, we noticed the ID label on something — his wristband, his IV…

Thanks for the flashback! When my older sister was in high school, she’d switch between country and rap every other week (depended on which friends she was trying to fit in with) and that goddamn John Michael Montgomery song was one of her favorites to blast when she was in a country phase. My brother and I tried to…

I grew up in Maryland and live in Delaware. Very rural, conservative parts of both states. My husband and I go to California for one reason or another at least once a year. We love the whole state. For some reason though, a lot of people around here hate it. One of my husband’s former coworkers went on a rant once…

Oh sweet Jesus, that is dumb. You learn something new every day!