Why the past tense? I still hate him! I had reoccurring nightmares for almost a year after leaving that place. Feral cats is probably the nicest thing I've wished upon him.

I love it too. That song came out right around the same time I was trying to reclaim my independence and tell myself I have a right to exist in society as someone with a disability. I'd listen to it whenever I went to the store so I wouldn't be so scared. I laugh at it now, but hey, it worked.

I saw a lot of those when I went out for New Year's. It was ridiculously cold but they were still carting people around. I chatted with one of the drivers and she said she made pretty good money this way. Public transit is crap in my city so there's a demand for this sort of thing. I imagine it'd be a lot more fun…

Yeah, my mother was brought the wrong baby twice in the hospital. She said it was really hard to tell because she was still weak from delivery and hadn't gotten a good chance to look at me. It took her a little bit to realize that it was the wrong baby, she just kept looking at it and looking at it and finally…

I interned for a summer at a place that did something similar. They'd hire all the highschool daughters of the office workers as summer help to do stuff like mow the grass, just to give them a summer job before college. I got mistaken for summer help all the time... people would ask me 'who is your dad?' and I'd…

You just reminded me of how some girls I knew in highschool would snort pixie sticks. They always tried to get me to join in on their shenanigans but I refused. I did not want multi-colored sugar-coated boogers.

I concur. I was about to post much the same sentiment.

If this is true, than my coworkers are enablers. ALL OF THEM. You do not want to know how many boxes of donuts were brought in last week. It was like snackageddon. My severely diabetic coworker swears he has to take insulin just to walk into our area. We just feed our addictions as we feed each other - the fund…

I'm thinking about buying my first house and the thought of a $350 home terrifies me. There is no way I will buy a house that expensive, no matter who tells me I can afford it. I doubt I'll spend more than $150 on a house.

That's true, a lot can depend on which direction you're traveling and to what part of the city. If I had to travel two exits further it'd probably double my commute time. I've gotten lucky in that all my jobs have been in areas where I can live so that I'm traveling away from the city in the morning and towards in…

My eyes are low on pigment, so they change color depending on the light. My dad has always loved looking to see what color my eyes were that day and then describing how pretty they were. He'd tell me they were dark blue-gray with a ring of green around the iris... or that they were more green today with gold flecks.…

My first boss was an 8-5 guy. May a thousand feral cats urinate on the interior of his car. My current boss is very flexible with schedules and will even drop around and urge me to just go home early on days when my disorder is flaring up real bad. Guess which boss I work harder for? It's amazing how that works.

I had an unkillable plant - a cactus - and it had survived for many years and was doing quite well. Was even sprouting baby cacti. Then I got a ferret. Once she learned how to climb the shelves she found it, dug it up, and chewed it in half. That was the end of it.

40 minutes to drive 19 miles? What an idiot. My commute takes me 10-15 minutes. All I did was slide my arrival and departure times by half an hour which gets me on the road before rush hour really kicks in. Not to mention the cost of housing in the area is pretty bad. My car budget doubled when I moved away from…

I knew there was a reason I hearted you.

She's a velcro girlfriend. It'd take a crowbar to separate the two. I've offered to teach her, but she's not taken me up on the offer. (and you don't want to steal his car - it's icky and boring)

"In the case of a woman with a husband, the husband would try to teach her to use a new-fangled column shift, she'd grind a few gears then he'd freak out and end the attempt. "

How things have changed. All the ladies I know (myself included) that drive manuals absolutely love them. I've never driven anything else - automatics are just boring. I imagine if it was more accessible to women, we'd have more ladies driving stick. As is, I just think of my roommate's massive dick of a boyfriend…

My dog had a blast with Halloween this year. She loves kids so this was like a dream come true for her - they were coming to the door! To see her! However, after she bolted out the front door after a particularly large group I had to put her on a leash. After about half an hour of silence from both the door and…

I just have to say that is a fantastic story. I'm sure it wasn't fun at the time, but you made me smile this morning. I'll be sure to keep the chocolate out of my dog's reach... I'd hate to see the damage a dog as large as her could do.