Eh, my dad’s been in this country for more than 50 years (from the former Yugoslavia as well) and he is still bad at articles and plurals as well - maybe the syntax in Slavic languages is very different? Plus, I grew up hearing Serbo-Croatian every day of my life, and only learned a handful of words. Some of us don’t…

My mom’s from that same part of the world (Croatia, which was also part of the former Yugoslavia), and she also speaks five languages. Croatian was her “at home” language, but they escaped to Italy when she was a kid, so that’s the language that she learned in school. Then immigrated to the U.S., so English too. She…

This is an irrelevant personal anecdote, but David Bowie shook my hand and handed me my diploma at my college graduation, where he was the speaker, and earned an honorary doctorate. It was awesome and surreal.

I have to say, I don’t hate the Studio 54 look she had going on - that belt is not what I would pick, but I actually loved the jumpsuit.

Belt buckles! LOL love it

Actually, I’ve never mentioned it even a single time since it happened - and not even to my family or friends. I came here to vent.

Regarding number 1, “let him screw up,” I did just that, try to assume that he’s competent when it comes to watching the kids, and he literally lost our 6 year old in a strange town and DIDN’T NOTICE THAT HE LOST HIM UNTIL I MET UP WITH HIM AND POINTED IT OUT over 20 minutes later.

The thing that gets me about number 2, regarding chore divisions, is how she tells you to give your husband a choice, like, do you want to do dishes or laundry?

I would wear that out to dinner tomorrow. It’s fucking awesome.

I would truly love to see your dress :)

Sex with a high school girl? (Insert Matthew McConaughey quote).

Ha! I brought a 24 year old guy that I had just met on the streets of NYC a few weeks before to my prom. The shameful part of the story, though, is that I had a boyfriend (different school) that I had been dating since 10th grade that I decided not to invite because I thought it would be cooler to show up with the…

In Halifax County, my in-laws who live there still call it Lee-Jackson Day :(

I was mortified to find out recently that they “celebrate” Lee-Jackson Day in my new-ish home state of Virginia (I’m a New York born & raised, and Boston educated girl). I’ve been living in the DC suburbs for almost 15 years and never heard of it, but my husband is from deep south VA, and his mom filled me in about…

To be fair, I also have a hard time forming words with my very hot mouth and when I try I only make orgasm sounds, so it’s not all my fault.

Ugh, tell me about it. I have been married twice - didn’t care too much for wedding planning either time. The first wedding was almost totally planned for my parents, because it’s cultural for us to have a huge party, invite everyone from our ethnic group who lives in a 100 mile radius, and make loads of cash.…

I LOVE gifts picked out by kids. When I was 3 months post-partum after my 2nd child (so obviously still carrying the baby weight) my older 3 year old son chose a pair of sequined hot pants for me when my husband took him to Target to pick out my birthday gift. Unfortunately, I never got to see said hot pants, because…

Wow, there was another post about this film yesterday, and I had some sentiments very similar to yours. I lost my younger brother to a heroin addiction last year, and he adored Trainspotting when it came out when he was in high school. He was also a ringer for Ewan MacGregor, which was uncanny. He loved Renton’s…

My younger brother died of a heroin overdose last year. His addiction started with oxy that he got for a hernia surgery some years ago, and the then-legal Florida “pain clinics” kept him addicted to pills for years. When the government shut down the pain clinics, all the FL addicts turned to heroin, and the death…

Sorry to be a PITA, but the image with the story is of Georgetown, not GW.