The idea of 25 guys in one night makes me want to sit in a tub of ice as I careen off a cliff to end it all. But hey, more power to her as long as it was consensual.

lol. That was my reaction too.

Squinting at the original column. I guess one reason I’m not an advice columnist is that I’d immediately tell her to get an abortion. You get an abortion, you get an abortion, everybody gets an abortion! [insert Oprah gif] First, abortion. Then, STD treatment. And finally an examination of one’s life and one’s choices.

That dance had a glorious run, it really did, but Drew Magary’s Chopped-winner abomination has finally taken its crown.

oh god, if youtube had existed like it does now when I was a teen... trouble.

My best friend moved away for a year in my teens so there was some pretty epic documentation via handwritten letters (we were both kind of budding hipsters and thought email was totes boring, and this was before Facebook etc) . But other than that, yeah, pretty much been lost to the sands of time.

Our notebook chronicled our driving by the houses of the boys we liked. Incredibly detailed notes. The route, weather, time, cars parked nearby, if we were high or not. Just straight up stalker notes. Oh God, I’m so embarrassed for 17 year old me.

That was.... unnecessary.

This gif is so White it has a fully diversified trust fund.

I have journals dating back to my teen years to the present. I’m in my 40s now. Any time I look back over a significant time span and read that stuff, my usual thoughts were “I was a dumbass back then”. The teen ones are the worst though. Overwrought poetry, and “no one understands me” and all that shit.

All my embarrassing cris-de-coeurs were written in a little book that had a heart-shaped padlock on it. THAT is where you write your secret life! NOT on a forum in front of millions!

“Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but I just have to tell you: I love your voice.”

I found mine when I was cleaning out my house after my mom died. I’m at the age where I find it both hilarious and embarrassing, rather than just one or the other.

I actually have one of these notebooks saved as well as a binder full of notes we sent to each other during the day. I have it hidden because I’m terrified someone else will find it and see how embarrassing we were back then. But hell, it’s fun to look back on it in the privacy of my own house.

I’m 34. Just this year I pitched the dozen or so journals from high school that I’ve been hauling around forever. Mostly b/c my own children are old enough to find them and read them but really b/c they are so damn embarrassing.

Social media during my teen years would have been a nightmare. I have a teenager now. Thankfully, he’s far more interested in shoes than anything else, so all he does on social media is post pictures of shoes.

This makes me feel old. I did the same thing with a group of friends. We had a notebook we passed around, writing notes to each other.

Yes, tragically uncool. And yet, inventive! Using your brain in new ways! We had a series of glyphs.

Code names and symbols! It was awesome.

I live in fear of anyone ever seeing the notebook I shared with my friend. She still has it and says we will read it together someday. Nooooo. I wish she would burn it.