The Giving Tree definitely. When I got to the end of the book I was like "WTF? This is the worst message ever!"

Oh my God, how can they tell kids that? You just carry make some benign excuse as to why you can't go outside and do something inside to keep them distracted. Jeez.

Me too. Cheap alarm system - bells on the doors and windows as I don't have a dog (my cats will probably hope the guy will feed them). Also, pepper spray and one of those self defense tools on the night stand.

In other words, when we're young we try hard to impress people by being perfect and everything to everyone. When we get old, we just don't give a crap what anyone thinks anymore. It's wonderful. Life is much better then.

The slow moving ones, yes, its the runny-jumpy kind that would be the problem.

I saw "The Day After" way way too young and probably didn't sleep well for a month after that. It was like the end of childhood for me. Talk about an existential crisis at 8 years old.

Yeah - its not wish fulfillment on my part to survive the apocalypse. I'm too lazy now and have had more than my share of trauma in "normal" life. Once the Ben and Jerrys and cigs are gone I'm pretty much out of here. On the other hand, these stories fascinate me - but I'm not taking any notes. Seriously, who wants to…

I want every single kitten in the known universe right now.

I HATE it to. I am the world's biggest baby when it comes to that. When I have to have blood drawn - I need to have lidocaine on the skin beforehand, have to lie down during it, and they cannot tell me what they are doing - don't tell me the needle is going in - just do it and get it done. Its a much better experience…

I would guess he wasn't stupid, he was just a mamma's boy. He probably never had them any other way than his mommy cooked them. In which case he probably has no idea how to do laundry or wash a dish. Hope his date was duly warned during this encounter.

I didn't finish Season 3 as I was never into the witch thing - not saying it isn't worth watching though - because it did have some great actresses. Season 2: No dead kid ghosts but a lot about the "evils" of both the scientific and religious worlds (don't think the show wanted to offend solely one side). Also weird…

I didn't hate Anne Hathaway until she started gushing about her role in Les Mis as if it were the best performance of any human being in the history of mankind. It wasn't.

K, small white close-minded town has problem with interracial baby so the lesbian couple gives into racism and has a problem with her too? Thanks ladies for giving gay a bad name.

I heard a story years ago on the radio about someone who fucked with those scammers/criminals from Africa. He literally sent them on wild goose chases all over their country to get money that he allegedly wired them - including into very dangerous territories - he even convinced one scammer that his mother was dying…

K, I want Wompus. I LOVE cats that look like they've been messing around in a paint can.

Agree. I was involved in a lot of women's/pro-choice issues in college - about 20 years ago. Sorry to contribute to a stereotype but it was unfortunately true in this particular circumstance, I found some of the women in that particular group rigid and condescending so much so that I stopped being around them.…

I fell head over heels for a Fox News-loving republican. I always thought that would be a deal breaker but my heart and my libido threw that out the window. My biggest shame would be admitting this to my liberal friends.

Geez, I'm glad at least one part of my body is getting some action.

My mom had an incarcerated abdominal hernia from which she almost died as well. She went into the hospital, spent a week there, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, they just knew she had some sort of infection that they couldn't pinpoint. So they sent her home. She had had a VERY visible hernia for years…

Stop making sense.