I used to work next to (like, a foot away from - we didn’t have cubes, but shared table space) a woman who was engaged and it was similarly dramatic - although probably with less jewelry. She had an engagement calendar on her portion of the wall, with a new picture of them for every new month, and a countdown to the…

I like slash, but this is vomit-slash-vomit, and it does nothing for me.

(a) His different of “handsome” is, um, markedly different from mine. Is he using it to mean “puts his hands all over people” somehow? Hand-some?

This is only semi-related, but I think that the people here will understand.

Hell, I’m American and it bores me!

Ha, “setting up franchises”!

Right! And I’d like a president to have more maturity and confidence than a seven-year-old boy on the playground.

I had a colposcopy too, about a decade ago. They warned me that I would get “discharge like peanut butter” and they were not wrong.

Yep.  I’m no fan of Kim K. (and that’s putting it lightly) but I’ve been in situations where I’ve feared for my life, and I wouldn’t wish that kind of terror on anyone. 

This election mess has made me kind of nostalgic for the days of Dubya, and I *hated* Dubya. I mean, he was kind of doofy and said a bunch of dumb shit, but he wasn’t malicious and hateful like Trump is. 

I worked as a counselor at a summer camp that had latrines, not toilets. Some kids were afraid of using the latrines (I never cared; when you gotta go, you gotta go.) One kid avoided using the latrines for days, apparently, and instead took a big dump on the floor of the showers. As low woman on the totem pole, I got…

Yep. My dad had frontotemporal dementia, starting at age 62, and watching him slowly become a husk of himself over ten years was one of the worst things I’ve experienced.

Yep. I worked as a daycare teacher for a little while, so this is one of my pet issues even though I’m childfree. Childcare workers work SO HARD and get paid SO LITTLE, even though they’re doing the important work of building tiny little citizens.

Ha. There’s a yuuge difference between “temper” and “temperament.”

I need to preface this story by saying that this was many years ago, and that I was more insecure and more of an asshole back then. I would have handled this differently now, and I still feel guilty about it.

My dad also had dementia, and one time I found a Penney’s catalog on his bed, open to the bra section. I was amazed and kind of grossed out.

HA! But seriously. I have been saying for weeks that, if he has more money than God, why are his hair and tan so horrible?

Omaha native here too! I was just going to add this as another note that no, not all flyover-state people are backwards or Republican. Yay blue dot!

Ha. This makes me think of an old SNL spoof commercial for coin-slot moisturizer - for the top of the ass-crack.

THIS. I want to see a fat character whose whole deal isn’t about her fatness, and who is focused on something other than food...