Story archives - April 2009

Sean L.

I found out today from my neurologist that my heavy marijuana smoking actually improved my brain-wave activity and functionality and my IQ rose 20 points, so I smoked a joint in celebration and finished my calculus homework.

tags: drugs irony [add]

2009-04-30 10:38:05 / Rating: 832.5 /

Lita

My roommate for next semester silenced her overwhelming Catholic preaching for an entire year until after we signed the lease.

tags: Catholic religion preaching judgement unbearable [add]

2009-04-30 10:16:37 / Rating: 140 /

bad best friend

The day I got fed up with her daily suicide threats and didn't call to make sure she was okay was the day she was found dead.

tags: suicide friends guilty [add]

2009-04-30 10:09:37 / Rating: 335 /

Doc

As I overheard my employees gossiping about how I "need to get laid," I had to wonder, would that prescription change if any of them knew I am a recovering sex addict.

tags: humor sex addiction hospital university guilt [add]

2009-04-30 10:08:06 / Rating: 398 /

AMCN

I just realized after looking at the photos in the "sold" listing of my foreclosed home, I forgot my soap dispenser in the bathroom when I moved out.

tags: humor foreclosure home soap photos [add]

2009-04-30 10:07:01 / Rating: 158.5 /

MC

The frequency of my public nudity decreased dramatically when I stopped drinking to excess.

tags: drinking nudity party [add]

2009-04-30 09:38:01 / Rating: 190.75 /

I'll get right on it

At the age of 17, a trainee religion teacher told me, an unbaptized athiest, that I wouldn't be given an apple at break if I continued to refuse to write a letter to God.

tags: humor religion apple [add]

2009-04-30 09:37:49 / Rating: 211 /

Bethy

My mother's reaction to telling her I was almost raped was shock that I said the f-word in fending him off.

tags: attempted rape mother disappointment [add]

2009-04-30 09:23:18 / Rating: 281.5 /

sneha

The positive test confirmed that I was a mother, but bleeding at 5 weeks made sure I wouldnt hear being called "Mama" this time around.

tags: pain miscarriage pregnancy loss [add]

2009-04-30 09:23:07 / Rating: 196.75 /

NL

I just discovered my diary from when I was 17 and the last thing I wrote in it was "Am I at the point where an overdose makes sense?"

tags: suicide diary teenager depressed [add]

2009-04-28 16:35:52 / Rating: 231 /

a sign?

It seems like immediately after every time I buy pot, I run my car into something stationary.

tags: humor misfortune coincidence [add]

2009-04-28 16:34:49 / Rating: 170.25 /

Tricia

The day I built my grandchildren a sandbox, my prissy 6-year-old granddaughter announced, "Grandma, I can't play in that, it's got dirt in it!"

tags: sandbox grandchildren play dirt [add]

2009-04-28 16:32:59 / Rating: 231 /

asamatteroffact

Nobody needs to see a dead woman's uterus.

tags: death medical [add]

2009-04-28 16:32:05 / Rating: 141 /

Jeanette Cheezum

My daughter climbed through an unlocked window and found my mother dead on her living room floor.

tags: sorrow death [add]

2009-04-27 15:37:53 / Rating: 161 /

Vii

I find it ironic that the day you stopped loving me, the heart-shaped locket you'd given me wouldn't close and just hung open, looking like a broken heart.

tags: ironic love ex locket lonliness [add]

2009-04-27 15:37:12 / Rating: 313.5 /

Tram

I learned the hard way that you cannot "kick" a flattened soccer ball with the front tire of your bike.

tags: bikes injuries soccer stupidity [add]

2009-04-27 15:27:04 / Rating: 159.5 /

Crystal

Watching my grandfather play with my little cousins, I wondered if my aunt knew that he had molested my mother and their other sister.

tags: family secrets abuse fear [add]

2009-04-27 15:25:28 / Rating: 193.25 /

kay

prom sucked.

tags: prom [add]

2009-04-27 15:25:12 / Rating: 406 /

Peter

The best conversation I've had in six months is when the girl I love and I copy-and-pasted One Sentences to each other through AIM.

tags: meta far away lonely conversation [add]

2009-04-27 15:22:01 / Rating: 219.25 /

seven6eight

She awoke from her slumber to answer her cell phone, but it was the radio that was playing her song.

tags: humor ringtone cell phone Jack Johnson [add]

2009-04-27 15:20:05 / Rating: 146.75 /

sesordnaslluks

As the cashier scanned the pregnancy test, I hoped she wouldn't notice that the next item was a box of condoms.

tags: humor condoms just in case [add]

2009-04-27 15:18:49 / Rating: 156 /

Dani

When questioned about wearing a long-sleeve shirt on the warmest day of summer, my mom grudgingly admitted that she mistook the ink-pad refill bottle for her roll-on deodorant that morning.

tags: humor dressing in the dark disorganized [add]

2009-04-27 15:18:06 / Rating: 359 /

skankin' rob

My boss, who has no college degree and can barely utter a coherent syllable let alone an articulate sentence, is the supervisor of a Yale Graduate with far too much debt.

tags: boss yale student loan college [add]

2009-04-23 16:08:06 / Rating: 217.25 /

matt

The day I lost my virginity was the day my Virgin Mobile cell phone broke.

tags: virgin virgin mobile virginity irony [add]

2009-04-21 15:09:30 / Rating: 2078.25 /

mariposa

The large fries I ordered on April 20th to cure my munchies cost exactly $4.20, and I took this as God's way of telling me, "I approve."

tags: marijuana coincidence [add]

2009-04-21 09:08:44 / Rating: 769 /

mortified daughter

I began to mentally tally the hours of therapy I'd need to fully recover during my mother's "funny story" about airport security searching her bag and discovering her vibrator.

tags: vibrator airport mother horrified [add]

2009-04-21 09:07:37 / Rating: 260.25 /

really, mom?

Today, I got a priority mail package from my mother containing Aleve, two pairs of underwear, socks, and a $10 bill.

tags: mom mail random [add]

2009-04-19 21:37:29 / Rating: 261.25 /

InkedSolace

I applied at vegetarian restaurants, organic food markets, and a bank but the only job I got was at the hunting store.

tags: irony jobs wth selling out hypocrite [add]

2009-04-19 21:36:27 / Rating: 206.25 /

FMyLife

I am nearly 21 and the entirety of my relationship experiences involve being asked out by a mentally challenged kid, a guy who after one date, called six times a day for a week and a half, a 50 year old illegal alien, and the son of the 50 year old illegal alien.

tags: 21 relationships dating boys irony [add]

2009-04-19 21:33:06 / Rating: 332.75 /

fancy spatula

I'm selling my college diploma on ebay to pay off Sallie Mae.

tags: preditors vultures no other choice assholes. [add]

2009-04-19 21:31:04 / Rating: 150.75 /

Kara

I still cry every time I think about the racoon lying in the middle of the road that turned his head to look at me as I passed in my car.

tags: road kill memory [add]

2009-04-19 21:28:17 / Rating: 232.5 /

Ruby

My mother has 1,500 followers on Twitter and I have 7.

tags: twitter how the hell did she do that [add]

2009-04-15 13:09:01 / Rating: 479.25 /

inkedSolace

My boss told me I needed to quit drinking so I told him he should stop having sex with prostitutes.

tags: alcohol awkward relationships jobs didn't get fired [add]

2009-04-14 16:32:00 / Rating: 538 /

Francy

On especially quiet mornings I jolt awake because I am reminded of the morning I wasn't awoken by your tiny cries.

tags: SIDS [add]

2009-04-14 16:29:53 / Rating: 457.5 /

JH

Lying at the bottom of the stairs, I heard him say "April fools?" in reference to the "spider" he spotted making its way towards me.

tags: spider april fools fall [add]

2009-04-14 12:52:47 / Rating: 152.25 /

Shamrocker

I found out the hard way that cucumbers are flammable.

tags: thanksgiving stove cucumbers not paying attention [add]

2009-04-14 12:29:42 / Rating: 273.75 /

Annie in Iowa

It was in the waiting room during one of my dad's chemotherapy sessions that I first learned hot cocoa was better with water, not milk.

tags: chemo hot cocoa [add]

2009-04-14 12:29:22 / Rating: 107 /

i'd like to be credited as anyone but me.

His suicide note blamed me.

tags: suicide love death secret boyfriend guilt [add]

2009-04-10 12:57:05 / Rating: 450.25 /

red

I can't believe nachos may have just completely ruined us.

tags: nachos ridiculous break-up [add]

2009-04-10 12:54:58 / Rating: 206.25 /

Leah

After getting the third package in the mail with a toy cow in it, I concluded that my mother and younger sister were trying to force me to collect cows.

tags: cow college humor [add]

2009-04-10 12:54:45 / Rating: 373.75 /

Jaime

My cat, Scoop, sits in the bathtub for exactly twenty minutes after I have showered, and this morning, she pulled out all the hair that was clogging up the drain using one hooked claw

tags: pets bath humor [add]

2009-04-10 12:53:29 / Rating: 304.5 /

Paul

I knew we wouldn't last forever as soon as I realized she had an "open door" policy when using the bathroom.

tags: toilet relationships girlfriend ex-girlfriend open door number one number two [add]

2009-04-10 12:51:08 / Rating: 205 /

Sam

Until that afternoon, I never realized how many songs I had with your name in them.

tags: break-up first girlfriend music [add]

2009-04-08 16:16:54 / Rating: 234.25 /

daughter of the rev

A stunned look came across my peers' faces as the teacher pointed at me, saying that my dad was going to marry her daughter, so I instantaneously snapped, "Not in that way!"

tags: wedding minister marriage confusion not the first time [add]

2009-04-08 16:13:58 / Rating: 218.5 /

Craig

Out of the blue during diner, in an urgent voice, my 5-year-old said, "Daddy, tell me everything you know about vampires."

tags: kids vampires what does she know that I don't? undead [add]

2009-04-07 14:08:50 / Rating: 740 /

molly

The time I got my hand stuck in the blades of the electric stand mixer, resulting in pieces of bloody knuckle skin littering the dough, I seriously considered baking the cookies anyways.

tags: cookies pain humor [add]

2009-04-07 14:08:37 / Rating: 194.5 /

ewwwwww

I am still shuddering thinking of all the possible reasons why that man smelled so strongly of Lysol.

tags: thoughts imagination [add]

2009-04-07 14:07:50 / Rating: 126 /

Mystery Bullets

The following morning, no one could tell me how three hollow-point bullets ended up inside my coat pocket.

tags: strange scary bullets [add]

2009-04-07 14:07:09 / Rating: 174 /

Emotional Surgery

Once I saw her YouTube channel, I knew that breaking up with her was going to be a surgically delicate process.

tags: breakup girlfriend crazy schizophrenic [add]

2009-04-07 14:06:56 / Rating: 192.25 /

I wonder what else I don't know

When I told my dad I'd misplaced my class ring, he told me his was lost 30 years ago when "a girl died in a car accident."

tags: dad family secrets loss ring [add]

2009-04-07 14:04:34 / Rating: 253.5 /

JC

I could deal when the cancer took both boobs and stole all my hair, but as it fogged my brain into chemo-mush, that's when it finally hit me where I live.

tags: cancer chemo dealing rationalize surviving [add]

2009-04-07 08:40:52 / Rating: 189.75 /

Daughter

He told me I would have to pay for my own wedding as he was packing for his 3 week cruise through Europe on a chartered yacht.

tags: daughter dad cheap wedding [add]

2009-04-03 13:44:12 / Rating: 228 /

Crystal Young

It was when I saw her feet dangling by the bedside wastebasket that I realized she hadn't been kidnapped, but that I had mistakenly pushed her off the bed in my sleep.

tags: childhood parenting sleep [add]

2009-04-03 13:43:19 / Rating: 166.5 /

Cal

It's ridiculously infuriating to attempt cybersex with an ADHD teenager.

tags: boyfriend ADHD damn it! cybersex sex love teenagers i love him anyway [add]

2009-04-03 13:37:59 / Rating: 284 /

who knew

My three-year-old just informed me that there are three really bad words out there: butt, booty, and brain.

tags: bad words children [add]

2009-04-03 13:35:37 / Rating: 337.5 /

Bunnyface

I awoke this morning to the sensation of my dog, curled up against me under the covers, licking my butt.

tags: dog sleep awake humor [add]

2009-04-03 13:26:31 / Rating: 249.25 /

JOH

The past seven days have included alcohol poisoning, acquaintance rape, isolation from my friends, confessions to me about childhood abuse, and lots of cereal for dinner.

tags: abuse alcohol fights cereal cynicism [add]

2009-04-03 13:26:24 / Rating: 204 /

Amanda

The only thing that stopped me from taking the rest of the Tylenol in the bottle was the possibility that my organs would be unsuitable for donation afterward.

tags: suicide pills selfish organ donor [add]

2009-04-01 16:04:29 / Rating: 372.75 /

For a whole year

The next morning, I told myself it wasn't rape if the next time was consensual, but I was wrong.

tags: rape virgin stolen youth silence [add]

2009-04-01 11:26:41 / Rating: 176.25 /

Ruby

My sister walked in on the family crying, unaware we were about to tell her she had been diagnosed with leukemia, and jokingly said, "What, am I dying?"

tags: cancer death sister family crying leukemia [add]

2009-04-01 11:24:42 / Rating: 496.5 /

Molls

After surviving 14 years of camping trips, sleepovers, vacations, and airplanes, my beloved panda couldn't make it through rehab.

tags: stuffed panda bear lost eating disorder rehabilitation [add]

2009-04-01 11:24:10 / Rating: 229.5 /

godfather

I am very happy that I was asked to be my girlfriend's sister's stepdaughter's stepsister's godfather.

tags: childhood humor kinship [add]

2009-04-01 11:21:41 / Rating: 205.25 /

wonderingmom

I wonder if my now 22-year-old daughter remembers, at age 4, that the first thing she said to me after I told her that Daddy had died was, "Can I have a glass of water?*

tags: childhood wondering [add]

2009-04-01 11:21:18 / Rating: 222.25 /