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Just Dave

I wrapped my jacket around her shaking legs and heard the dull, staccato thud of Steve slamming his fists into one of the men who had raped her, just before I went hunting for the other one.

tags: almost too late hunting a rapist instant justice for a victim don't call me a hero [add]

2010-01-11 14:46:56 / Rating: 526 /

thumpersrock

When I came home late and found the lawnmower in my bed, I realized my dad wasn't kidding when he said he wanted the grass mowed "today."

tags: humor dad teen lawnmower [add]

2010-01-27 09:32:14 / Rating: 236.75 /

Momof5

Now that my sister is depressed, mom says it's a "damnable disease," but when I was depressed five years ago, I was just "a bitch".

tags: playing favorites parenting bias depression screwU2 [add]

2010-01-22 09:15:36 / Rating: 219 /

finn

The cop would have given me a speeding ticket had I not been wearing a complete ninja costume that Sunday morning.

tags: ninja cop [add]

2010-01-27 09:27:35 / Rating: 204 /

Customer Support

When she started the call by referring to her computer as her TV, saying she couldn't bring up her "Wahoo," I knew I was in for a fun call.

tags: work facepalm [add]

2010-01-19 16:20:13 / Rating: 196.25 /

Caught with my pants down

Discovering that window washers do still exist and discovering that I had no idea where my pants were happened at the exact same moment.

tags: window washer surprise shower no pants humor [add]

2010-01-22 09:14:14 / Rating: 173 /

Kasey carroll

My brothers tears covered his face, his eyelashes sticking together, as he stomped his foot down and demanded that my mother stop choking me.

tags: violence family courage [add]

2010-01-22 09:07:00 / Rating: 157.5 /

liz

The day after I lost my virginity, I tried to send my parents the message subliminally by repeatedly setting the thermostat in the house to 69.

tags: sex love first time [add]

2010-01-27 09:28:53 / Rating: 154 /

Katherine

We were married for more years than she's been alive.

tags: divorce mid-life crisis the other woman [add]

2010-01-22 09:09:18 / Rating: 138.25 /

Spare socks...

Rolled up black socks are strikingly similar to my compact umbrella in appearance, not functionality.

tags: It just doesn't rain in LA! socks umbrella [add]

2010-01-22 09:08:30 / Rating: 136.75 /

LadyJame

That's when I looked down and realized my fake nail had somehow caught fire, and no one was around to witness it but my fish.

tags: humor funny life [add]

2010-01-14 11:09:41 / Rating: 121.75 /

Host

I was the last person to find out that I have Dissociative Identity Disorder and that one of my personalities has threatened my friends.

tags: impossible scared multiple personality disorder insane [add]

2010-01-27 09:29:17 / Rating: 118.5 /

Red

I came out to my family over 6 years ago and the most painful reaction came from my father who said, "I thought you were smarter than that."

tags: lesbian coming out hurt [add]

2010-01-22 09:14:03 / Rating: 107 /

TPK

I wonder what their lives are like now, whether they're happy, and if they ever let themselves remember the night in 1981 when they were drunk and ran that Volkswagen van off the road playing "chicken."

tags: father death accident the year everything changed [add]

2010-02-02 12:50:43 / Rating: 100 /

Iceberg

At my mother's funeral, my grandparents argued over the type of lettuce they had eaten the night before and I interrupted them by admitting I was pregnant.

tags: pregnant lettuce funeral grandparents [add]

2010-02-02 12:49:54 / Rating: 99.5 /

Wofford

Thanks to my brother, you'll no longer get detention for having blue hair.

tags: humor hair dye breaking the rules changing the rules brother [add]

2010-02-01 11:21:40 / Rating: 98.75 /

Indy1jeep

I knew what we really were when I realized we had eaten our Christmas Dinner out of a cooler from the back of a pick-up truck.

tags: redneck foxworthy pick-up truck truck Christmas Dinner [add]

2010-01-11 14:47:40 / Rating: 88.75 /

Someone

I said no to the coffee but yes to the date.

tags: coffee date humor relationships taste [add]

2010-01-18 17:15:32 / Rating: 88.5 /

Chrinda Jones

As the door to the Taco Bell restroom came crashing over top of me, all I could think to say to him was "I said I'd be out in a minute."

tags: true life humor [add]

2010-01-13 13:30:19 / Rating: 83.5 /

David

My ex-wife would freeze up every time she told the story of coming home from church as a child and finding all the dolls she had left lined up in tiny chairs replaced by the dead squirrels that her father had killed that morning.

tags: childhood shock [add]

2010-02-05 10:20:12 / Rating: 79 /

Happy

Seeing my mother-in-law tangled up in her electric fence made me happy.

tags: mother-in-law happy cruel [add]

2010-01-22 09:06:46 / Rating: 77.5 /

so what?

The only year I refused to go to my neighbor's Easter party was the year she dropped dead during the party.

tags: guilt death neighbor brain aneurysm [add]

2010-01-14 11:09:25 / Rating: 71.75 /

kristi

Today my son not only discovered that he can avoid taking a nap by climbing out of the crib, but also, if he is extra quite and doesn't wake up mommy, he can climb the fridge to eat the rest of the Christmas candy.

tags: monster child humor nap time graveyard shift [add]

2010-01-19 15:34:32 / Rating: 68.5 /

kbh101

I realized the crumbled bit of pill left over resembled a cookie, and laughed out loud at the image of the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street gobbling up Lorazepam.

tags: humor [add]

2010-01-11 16:07:31 / Rating: 68 /

Red Nails

Fast-drying nail varnish doesn't seem like such a great idea when it's splattered all over the leather sofa.

tags: humor nail varnish oops [add]

2010-01-11 16:06:47 / Rating: 67.5 /