L
He showed me the picture of me he loved, but that was the one I Photoshopped to look less unattractive.
2010-09-29 14:13:59 / Rating: 225.5 / 
Story archives - September 2010
Toby
When I was two, I taught my five year old brother how to undo the child-lock on the kitchen cupboards.
2010-09-27 14:27:36 / Rating: 440.25 /
Diego
It took working for a religious organization for me to finally accept that I'm an atheist.
2010-09-27 14:27:29 / Rating: 346 /
John Pesebre
A strand of noodle hangs on the chin of my sleeping baby.
2010-09-27 13:08:24 / Rating: 165.75 /
Kristen
Although my parents and the police had spent three frantic hours looking for me, my mother had the presence of mind to take a photograph when they found me fast asleep under my bed.
2010-09-23 13:36:39 / Rating: 488.25 /
D
When I was 19 I wrote my 40-year-old self a letter that I am about to read.
2010-09-23 13:36:14 / Rating: 763 /
Odd Elizabeth
They suspected we were at the graveyard because it was Halloween, but when I pointed to the date on the tombstone the guard looked remorseful and told me to stay.
2010-09-23 13:34:59 / Rating: 514 /
M.
On my way home from the hospital, I was stopped at a red light only to see the man responsible for my stay at the other side.
2010-09-23 13:34:23 / Rating: 249 /
Dana
I cried when I saw that my girlfriend's mum added photos of me and my girlfriend to her family album.
2010-09-23 13:33:55 / Rating: 675.5 /
Phil
I'm pretty sure that most people would not take their groin X-rays to work to show their colleagues.
2010-09-23 13:33:14 / Rating: 185 /
Dmac9000
I was 46-years-old by the time I solved my first Rubik’s Cube.
2010-09-22 14:26:31 / Rating: 271.75 /
A mystery
To this day, I still have no idea what happened to my favorite bra.
2010-09-22 14:23:04 / Rating: 325.75 /
Angie
My mom joked, "Tell the interviewer, 'I love children, especially with noodles!'"
2010-09-16 14:26:04 / Rating: 396.25 /
BK
Stuck in a U-Haul van with your dad for two hours may be a 12-year-old's nightmare, but mine became a personal hell when he pulled out the AIM conversations of mine he found.
2010-09-16 14:25:50 / Rating: 185 /
C'mon everybody, let's go!
After three years of Spanish classes, I finally understand why Dora the Explorer says "vamanos" instead of "vamos."
2010-09-16 14:24:35 / Rating: 207 /
Strut
When I saw the young man at the supermarket check me out, I held my head a little higher thinking, "Yeah, I still got it."
2010-09-16 14:22:54 / Rating: 305 /
Phil
I woke up this morning at 4:45, happy that I had managed to sleep in for a bit.
2010-09-16 14:22:01 / Rating: 241.25 /
mistake
I had felt so relieved when I remembered to take the envelope of nude pictures of myself with me when I went to my room that night, and it still makes me cringe to think what my father must have thought when he found them on the bathroom counter the next morning.
2010-09-13 15:23:50 / Rating: 245.5 /
emeryl540
Upon meeting my adopted Chinese daughter, a redneck neighbor offered her best southern-drawl 'compliment': "Well, her eyes ain't nearly as squinty as I thought they was gonna be."
2010-09-13 15:12:46 / Rating: 287.75 /
room full o' balloons.
Potato peelers do not discriminate between the skin on a cucumber and the skin on my fingers.
2010-09-13 15:11:20 / Rating: 277.75 /
Margaret
As she pointed her phone at me and said, "Let me show you some pictures of my cats," my heart sank as I noted the photo caption "1 of 158."
2010-09-13 15:09:16 / Rating: 248.5 /
Jordan
Water Aerobics: 30% working out 70% floating around gossiping.
2010-09-09 08:28:16 / Rating: 450 /
First Class
You know you are a band geek when the hardest part of basic training was not being able to play your trumpet for 3 months.
2010-09-09 08:27:15 / Rating: 251.5 /
Jacque Lynn Schiller, summer, 2010
Darling Nikki was probably not the best song choice for family karaoke, Christmas, 1984.
2010-09-09 08:25:06 / Rating: 373.25 /
Happy Wife
As I slowly walked around, sipping my wine, and admiting the paintings, I discovered my husband in the corner of the gallery - watching 101 Dalmatians on a small TV.
2010-09-09 08:24:25 / Rating: 396.25 /
A
The sidewalks and doors were covered in blood, and I still wonder why no one called 911 and saved my brother.
2010-09-09 08:24:13 / Rating: 349.5 /
Jade
One week after my niece was born to my seventeen-year-old sister, the father hung himself.
2010-09-07 14:37:31 / Rating: 361 /
On August 29th, 2010, I became one of the mythical .1%.
2010-09-07 14:37:04 / Rating: 259 /
Caring Sister
My brother seemed surprised and disappointed when my reaction to his coming-out confession was, "Oh, okay."
2010-09-07 14:36:35 / Rating: 320 /