too much internet

Getting paid to goof off really isn't as awesome as you would think.

tags: work bored internet [add]

2010-03-13 22:23:48 / Rating: 34.75 /

Bob Loblaw

Flying towards the finish line, I hit a bump and my front wheel folded like a potato chip.

tags: bike crash race [add]

2010-03-13 22:22:52 / Rating: 13.75 /

snakey

I knew he was the one to keep when our second date, during which I accidentally gave him a facial scar with my teeth, was not the last.

tags: scar humor fun angel the one partner relationships WesterCon [add]

2010-03-13 22:20:33 / Rating: 12.25 /

Duckie

She couldn't tell for 8 months, until that night in the college dorm bathroom.

tags: unwanted pregnancy childbirth oops baby college [add]

2010-03-13 22:20:03 / Rating: 13.25 /

pat

This morning, my dad was doing the laundry and my stepmom was fixing the pipes.

tags: humor family [add]

2010-03-11 16:15:50 / Rating: 81.75 /

zerofourfiveone

I knew our week-long school trip to DC was off to a good start when we woke to a fire alarm at 3am and waited in the parking lot, in our PJs, until sunrise.

tags: PJs DC class trip fire alarm [add]

2010-03-11 16:15:43 / Rating: 22.5 /

for real though?

I curled up in bed after my shower, naked as the day I was born, not expecting the fire alarm to go off at 4 am in my co-ed dorm.

tags: humor college naked fire alarm [add]

2010-03-11 16:13:41 / Rating: 43 /

jg_rat

I had the privilege of sitting with Dad as the pain, fear and confusion went away and his breathing became quieter and quieter, and I shared in a little of the peace that came over him then.

tags: death parent peace [add]

2010-03-11 16:13:19 / Rating: 59.5 /

I realized I'm a true dog person when I had a dinner of plain pasta and a stolen snickers bar, because I couldn't afford anything more than that after buying my dog's prescription food.

tags: dog food love [add]

2010-03-09 11:51:38 / Rating: 129.5 /

Lore

My family always joked I started going to church because I was having sex with the pastor, but that didn't come until much later.

tags: sex love religion church family [add]

2010-03-09 11:50:16 / Rating: 124.75 /

TooSneaky

After tip-toeing out at 5am and getting dressed in the car, I realized my cell phone was on her bedroom floor.

tags: one night stand fail [add]

2010-03-09 11:48:08 / Rating: 55.75 /

cannwin

I don't think my husband realized I knew all those words until he sat next to me in the delivery room.

tags: childbirth marriage swearing [add]

2010-03-05 14:15:40 / Rating: 196.5 /

myfairmaybe

When he told his four-year-old daughter that the doctor just needed to look at her eyes to make sure they were okay, she whispered, "Will he put them back in when he's done looking at them?"

tags: child eyes health humor misunderstanding [add]

2010-03-05 14:15:31 / Rating: 194.25 /

ShyGuy

Right before the janitor turned the lights in the classroom on, we feigned sleep thinking she wouldn't know we were making out.

tags: humor second base high school [add]

2010-03-04 15:59:38 / Rating: 62.75 /

MissingMum

Diagnosed in October, terminal in November, gone by December.

tags: cancer loss mum [add]

2010-03-04 15:57:24 / Rating: 161.5 /

Maddy

It wasn't until after I discovered the 3D glasses from "Avatar" still in my purse that I realized I had accidentally dropped my $40 sunglasses into the recycling bin instead.

tags: humor movies accident sunglasses [add]

2010-03-03 10:35:59 / Rating: 195 /

Rook

While my mother and her boyfriend were upstairs I quietly removed his size 34 jacket from the back of the chair and replaced it with my nearly identical size 46.

tags: humor size mother youth conflict [add]

2010-03-03 10:34:32 / Rating: 55.25 /

Contaminated

The day I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder was the day I chased my best friend down the street with a butterfly knife.

tags: odd humor sad awkward [add]

2010-03-02 13:30:58 / Rating: 83.75 /

AwkwardTruths

Afterwards, I deeply regretted telling my hairdresser that my mother had had a nose job.

tags: awkward regret [add]

2010-03-02 13:13:33 / Rating: 38 /

Rae

When I was 3, my cousin convinced me that avocado was really moldy butter and 15 years later, I still can't eat it.

tags: gullible childhood humour [add]

2010-03-02 13:13:26 / Rating: 115.5 /

WFZeman

Two days later, I went back to the high school I'd sworn to leave forever.

tags: high school angst runaway growing up childhood teenagers [add]

2010-02-25 08:07:38 / Rating: 80.25 /

Know more now

I didn't understand that he asked for six sugars in his coffee because it helped him keep feeling high.

tags: drugs recovery service learning [add]

2010-02-25 08:07:13 / Rating: 48.5 /

Alice Fitzhugh

If it weren't for the accident last night, I wouldn't have the possibility of a photography job for a musician.

tags: car accident fender-bender photography coincidence [add]

2010-02-25 08:06:06 / Rating: 46.25 /

LBriers

My dad's last note to me was "Always hear the music in your life."

tags: dad death love life happiness note [add]

2010-02-25 08:04:29 / Rating: 212.75 /

She was Annabell

I walked in to my daughters bedroom to wake her up from her nap and saw that she was blue.

tags: SIDS newborn sadness [add]

2010-02-25 08:04:01 / Rating: 129.25 /

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