Back in high school, my parents were strict about my curfew and driving long distances. I thought it was lame then, but I would not drive 2 hours with a 17 year old behind the wheel now.

People tell you he may have been “just checking out the house” as though that’s not a sketchy thing to do? Should we expect tradespeople to wander through our houses, exploring all the floors, opening hard-to-open doors because they’re just curious? Bloody hell.

THIS! Those assholes straight up broke the number one public transit code, if a lone traveller is being harassed you bring them into your travel fold! 

Growing up my family moved a lot. All within the same town. My parents had their own business building custom homes and for our family they would build a nice house and we would live in it until it sold. By the time I was 18 I had moved 30 times, mostly in the same town. Just from house to house. I mention this because…

This is truly scary because it's like the parents are home, it's OK.  Oh my God, no it's not...

Farrrkkkkk. As always, real people are freakier than the supernatural.

Have you ever heard of the boxcar theory of time? It’s also known as chronodisplacement and sounds a lot like what you experienced. The idea is that instead of a continual flow, time is a series of instants hooked up together like boxcars. Normally you experience things as continuous and smooth, but occasionally some…

Way, way back in the 1980’s, when all phone lines were ‘landlines’, answering machines were rare, and caller ID was not available, I was in Grade 11, home alone, and at the mercy of a persistent prank caller.

Normal sounds can sound unnatural in the woods. (long)

Oh, this is good. I sometimes have this fear!

I was recently driving home from work on a nice sunny evening. The stretch of road this happened on is a slightly uphill, very long block of a parkway, with a very wide (maybe 40 yards wide), sparsely treed median to my right. Since then I’ve tried to count about how long this entire event took and it was probably…

What’s In the Bucket?

You can’t bring other countries into this argument - this is a US decision, full stop.

I’m not sure that her assertion is that preposterous....

Utterly and completely agree that the USWNT is playing at a vastly higher skill level than the USMNT.  And they are doing so consistently.  Hopefully, willful violation will be proven - because honestly, the only way this gets fixed is if it costs the fuckers a lot of money.

They aren’t doing the same job. The women are winning.

The Federation also argues that the women’s team engages in different work because it doesn’t play in the same establishments as the men’s teams.

Which is why I started listening in the first place...so many people had talked favorably about it.

I know, and I am being too hard on them. I just wanted to like it so much.

Oh yeah, it can be incredibly dark — I wouldn’t blame anyone for not listening! I think the hosts feel it too, which is why they share one good thing that happened to them that week at the end, to pick up the mood a bit.