Imaginary boycotts of things I can’t afford, or places I can afford but would never patronize are my favorite. Like I have never shopped at a Hobby Lobby, or eaten at a Chik-Fil-A, so when I found out they were totally reprehensible it was super easy to give the up!

Good for you! 26 is such a perfect age- I love my life but I wouldn’t mind awhile in an alternate universe where I can be that age again. All the clubs and dancing! Travel the world! Meet tons of guys/girls. Don’t work at a boring job for too long! You can sleep when you’re 43 like me.

Man, I get the annoyance if this is a regular thing, but my reaction to reading your list was, “Your friends are awesome!” I don’t have a huge friend circle, granted, but we rarely get crazier than dinner and drinks for birthdays.

I found a shop that sells cute board shorts with bikini tops for the beach, and I nearly punched the air. In the store. I was all, hellYES now I don't even have to tidy my bikini line.

Crashing in a hotel room with multiple people I barely know to save money.

- Caring whether a bar or a restaurant is cool.

One of the weirdest questions I’ve been getting regarding my upcoming wedding is how I’m going to decorate the “bride and groom” chairs. I figured we’d just sit in the chairs everyone else is sitting in (provided by my venue), but nooooooo omg how will they know you’re the bride????

It is truly hideous and dumb, and not in that hideous and dumb way that some shabby-chic things that you can kind of see being nice if you squint are, but just a straight double shot of “ugly as possible” and “pointless as shit.”

it’s a necklace for your chair because life has lost all meaning

Whenever I’ve had it (New England/Northeast generally) it’s a smoked salmon/lox situation and it is fucking bomb.

There’s a bit in Frost’s poem “The Black Cottage” where the narrator is talking about a somewhat backwoodsy, not-at-all-urbane woman whose sons had died fighting for the Union in the Civil War, and that her effort to make sense of her family’s sacrifice comes back to the idea that all men are created free and equal.…

Seriously though, I am always really impressed when I see someone totally nail a parking job. Usually parallel parking. Don’t think I could ever comment on it though, lol

OR..... Did you try saying “hello”? Fear of the rural, and the poor, is rampant in urban folks. I’m a woman who lives outside of Colfax and see it all the time in folks visiting from the Bay. You’re trained to be hyper-alert and with good reason. I understand it, actually, but the lesson you took from this interaction…

“I ate quickly and quietly, like a funeral had happened, and I needed to eat to remind myself of my body. The food was delicious, and I said so. When I got my receipt the discount was already on it, which made it feel like a secret, which made me angry “

So I might get yelled at for this (I also might not because there’s like 500 comments on this article already so people who would yell at me might not see this), but I think the no kids at weddings and such is a bit rude and stupid.
I don’t want children and I don’t have children, and honestly communicating with…

My cousin had something similar at his wedding. Kids were allowed but they had they’re own smaller reception with kids food in the lobby and were taken care of by 2 sitters. And they had games and a movie going. You had to be around 12 to be in the main reception. I thought that was a fair compromise.

It seems most of the writers for this blog and many of the commenters operate under the opinion that you can really care about the wedding or the marriage, but not both. Which is ridiculous.

I suggested a app called (this name is up for revision) “Tinder for couples to find other couples not for kinky stuff but just cool other couples to hang out with because we need some mutual friends who live in this city”

As a married man in his 30’s, I find I get the most excited about new fun couples that my wife and I have lots in common with, and seem genuinely fun to hang out with.

I kind of feel like you aren’t really the one to tell someone what is or isn’t appropriate to tell a bride given that you don’t like the idea of getting married or of wedding traditions. I get what you are saying and at first I was gonna be like hells yeah! Why would you say you are gonna be a beautiful bride? I’m…