I had two contrasting experiences with kids tonight at work.

The first was two little girls (I’m guessing age 4 and 6 approximately) with their parents. The youngest was being whiney the second they walked in, crying about not wanting to sit at the table I brought them too, crying about the food. Her father took her…

I live in a ski town. I’m 27 and longboarded to work today, yesterday I took my shortboard to the skate park. My ex fiance is 37 and a snowboard instructor who still skates. His roommates are in their 40s and skate regularly. There’s guys into their 50s who are still teaching snowboarding, skateboarding and loving…

Most of them are here anyway. In the late 90s you couldn’t go anywhere on the front range without seeing more CA plates than CO, especially Douglas County. Later, I went to CU, aka the University of California at Boulder, and was once more out numbered. The best part is how most of them would get so patronizing about…

Sadly the only hospital in my entire county refuses to offer SANE exams. It’s not some podunk clinic either, it’s a a level 3 trauma hospital with one of the country’s top ranked and most expensive orthopedic surgery clinics. They send you to the “closest” ER that does perform exams... over 50 miles away and over a…

The CBI one I had done also took my clothes :-( Not just what was left of my torn, stained underwear I never wanted to see again but the new tank top my mom brought me from Hawai’i as a gift and my favourite grey jersey bra. They wanted my jeans as well but that’s where I had to draw the line. Not just for practical…

"[I] still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box; and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody."

Some people take pride in being successful at something. Some people like to challenge themselves and push themselves and achieve the next goal they've set. Some people truly enjoy the game or sport they play.

I was a nationally ranked D1 athlete (mind you as a female- do with that what you will) and didn't compete…

After seeing everyone here in CO mutiny and jump off the bandwagon, I mostly just want to go down to Dove Valley, find Peyton, give him a big hug and tell him that I still love and appreciate him.

I also think the Broncos should borrow Roy from the Avs for a couple days, just to put a healthy fear of god and everything…

Pinkham, sorry I've been MIA. I just got my ass handed to me for a month, with 60 hour weeks including a doozy of 4 open to close lead shifts in a row (the third of which was NYE) with servers who were all also on doubles, meaning I couldn't break them to eat beyond letting them slurp down cold soup in our storage…

I always had the best birthday parties as a kid. My mom is a super creative graphic artist (well pre-computers she was). This is a woman who left school after grade 12 (Ontario went to grade 13 at the time) because she was a literal Cinderella. She'd worked at her dad's garage going up so after she backpacked Europe…

And don't worry you weren't scammed, there's people who are honestly like that in this world. They congregate in my neck of the woods it seems, wealthy, older, second home owners who spend summers here and leave for the ski season/winters. I'd imagine there's a lot of this in places like south Florida too. Florida is…

Right! I understand not wanting to cook and I understand legitimate food allergies. I'm more than happy to help accommodate someone if they are 1) nice and 2) aware of the extra work I'm going through for them. The thing I won't ever understand is the people who eat out regularly at the upper end of moderate to high…

That's amazing! Providence was a major culture shock for me, not just because I'd never been to the East Coast before but also went from a public school in an inner city urban district to a an Ivy (I eventually left the school). The latter was probably responsible for most of it, I'd never heard of a gap year, was…

That's okay! It's yiddish for grandmother. Zaddie is grandfather. Jewish kids use it like you would meemaw or nana or what have you.

Sorry troll, no food for you.

Some of the girls I ran track with at the national level from Denver left CU because of how racist of an environment it was. The n word being thrown around and other crap. Some went to LSU, Bama, etc. like southern schools because they felt they were more racially tolerant. That's a HUGE issue CU has to look at. I'm…

I had a similar experience the day after my fiance dumped me a month before we were supposed to get married. Also work in a tourist area. It's not always bad, I've seen some great people.

Nope, but I do know the place. East Side.

I did two years at CU and at 22 was in the dorms for financial aid reasons. It was hell. I went to high school in Aurora and Denver so the University of California at Boulder types drove me wild. I almost got in a fist fight with a rich Chicago B-school kid on Pearl Street for talking crap about how dumb native in…

You're too kind! I'd need a proof reader for sure. I'm not half the writer Pinkham is. He'd have to be my ghost writer ha ha. Never the less I definitely have enough stories...