What's a Mom To Do?
I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry when my 16 year-old daughter's first paid babysitting gig turned out to be for a 20 year-old stripper who had installed a stripper pole in her living room...
I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry when my 16 year-old daughter's first paid babysitting gig turned out to be for a 20 year-old stripper who had installed a stripper pole in her living room...
My first night of college I felt a strange feeling of familiarity because the hallway lights stayed on all night, just like they did at the psychiatric hospitals I spent my adolescence in.
I wonder if it would be worse to tell my daughter she caught me snorting pain pills or let her keep believing it was coke.
I prayed that when she returned from the ladies room she'd be too drunk to notice that I had abandoned not only her, but also her purse.
I knew I had a problem when I licked the blood off my wrist then wondered how many calories I'd just consumed.
I disliked my coworker when I found out she was fiercely homophobic, but it became serious when I found out she also hated the Beatles.
I made her a card that said, "Congratulations, you're not a mother!" and heard her laugh for the first time in two weeks.
It was up to the police officers on the scene to explain to my nephew that an arrow shot in the air as a tribute to Longfellow does come back down to earth.
And then her grandmother walked in and just started laughing!
My vacation is ruined knowing that 1,800 miles away my cat pooped on the living-room floor.
She was the greatest thing that had ever been "Made in China."
My sister completely skipped her birthday to die the next day on mine.
I had to stop reading "Miss Lonelyhearts" when Nathanael West used the same words the LA Times used to describe your murder.
My mother stopped buying me Barbies when I was a child after she found them hanging by their necks from the stairwell.
It cost you two weeks, $15,000 and numerous complaints from other employees, only to discover I was right all along.
My grandmother never asked me to go back to Sunday School after I was told to color a picture of Jesus, while going through a 'draw handlebar moustaches and pitchforks on everything' phase.
$128 and a shot in the ass later, I stopped being terrified that my swollen eyeball was going to pop out of my head.
I told my daughter her smile could stop wars, but she decided to test the theory.
When my pastor jokingly texted me the message 'Dude, you should really stop fantasizing about licking whipped cream off my buttcheeks...' I realized that I really do fit in there.
I once left a half-barefoot girl at a gas station forty-five minutes away from home at one a.m., but I'm usually a pretty nice person.
I ate a baked potato like an apple, because I was too lazy to go downstairs for a fork.
I am a Protestant in a Catholic RCIA class only to appease my fiance's parents, but I wish the priest would stop referring to my kind as "heretics."
She had an affair with him and miscarried his baby, so no, the HR lady isn't going to fire him.
Even before I could smell her, I could tell by the way she waddled that there was something unholy in that diaper.
My sister texted me, "Good luck in there!" while I was in the bathroom.
Even though my hamster died a year ago, I still find her food seeds in my bed every morning.
After playing dollhouse with my goldfish for the fourth time, my mother finally decided to buy me a hamster.
My english teacher said if we got enough sentences published we could count it as our midterm.
I never realized how much my husband farted until we boarded the dog for a few days.
I'm so glad you licked the tears off my face before you died.
Losing my infant daughter was the most pain I've ever been in; her organs saving two babies was the balm that helped my healing and provided hope.
I know he had fun because he yelled "SHAM-WOW!" at the end.
It was probably inappropriate to laugh when the preacher tripped over the alterboy.
A student tried to stab me, and an administrator harassed me, and because I stuck it out until he asked me to resign, I'm the one with a record.
How was I supposed to explain to my co-workers that the wet spots on my pants were caused by a mosquito flying all around the urinal?
Mom unknowingly ate the mushroom chocolates I left in the fridge after the music festival.
I once cut my friend's hair for free, but he complained so much during the haircut that I shaved letters into the side of his head.
Nothing is more awkwardly fulfilling than having a child prefer you over their own mother.
I should have known he was bad news when he told me he used to pour milk in his bed and sleep in it.
You wouldn't laugh at my joke, yet I overheard you telling it to someone else later.
Leaning over the toilet holding my hair back and noticing the faint scars on my wrists, I realized how ironic it is that my senior year superlative is "happiest."
No one would have guessed that the knife they used to cut the wedding cake would be exhibit C in the trail just 10 months later.
I remember fighting with my sisters over who would make what breakfast item, when my mother finally had it and yelled "You make the grits and I'll cut the cheese!"
"Keep the change," they said with a smile as I incredulously looked down at the $55 for the $30 meal.
I wasn't even drunk when I pushed the liquor store's shopping cart into the night manager's car.
I believe that "the consultative period is now over" is management speak for "stop talking because I'm tired of ignoring you."
I was briskly desensitized to gay people when my roomate's boyfriend stayed in the dorm room for a week straight.
I had the entire best man's speech memorised but as I stood to deliver it someone handed me a stack of cards to read out and a dyslexic's panic made me forget everything.
I turned the other cheek for two years, but when he spit on me I fought back.
The only thing that I can remember about it is the strange looking chair that I had to sit in, and how you never hugged me after that.
I knew I would marry her when, instead of scolding me and complaining that video games were more important than her, she sat down beat my high score.