Me too. It makes me sad because I have soooo many stories to share about idiot's reactions to my name. I also am a 6' tall woman, so the interactions usually go,"dumb comment/question about name" then "dumb comment about height/speculation on what sports I've played". SMH, America we can do better!
I have found that a good response to, "where did you get a name like that?", is a stone-faced,"I got it as a birthday present"
In my mind of always called this book, The Taking Boy. He is the worst. If he were your boyfriend you'd come home one day to YOUR house and all of your things would be gone. And then he'd text you 6 months later wanting to get back together.
As a dedicated picker I commiserate. Plot twist: I'm also a licensed esthetician. I recommend a 50/50 hydrocortisone + neosporin mix applied to the just picked areas to take down the redness, inflammation, and bacterial growth. A really good body exfoliant with a high (10%ish) aha will help prevent the reappearnce of more ingrowns.
These are the stories I live for!! Humans are so crazy in such a diverse variety of ways. If you have actually attended social events with DD, then I know you must be acquainted with some other very special people. Please share!
Because I apparently have a dark drive to keep myself in a perpetually horrified state, I actually looked for this website. Omfg, thank god I wasn't able to find the actual dog handy site, because the dog anti vax site that I did find was so completely bonkers that I know that I couldn't handle the real thing. This crazy blog I found rambled on about our "neo-Puritan" views on dogs sexual drives, said that we don't actually have a dog overpopulation problem in shelters-shelters are importing dogs from an undefined area "the south"(south of the Mason-Dixon Line, south of the equator, I don't know?!?). I had to stop reading after she claimed it was a FACT that neutered Irish Setters spontaneously begin to try to bite their own dicks off once they reach old age. So much crazy that I would not believe existed had I not forced myself to look for it.
Also my google history now includes unneutered dog handjobs 😱
Ooh, I love referring to horrible work(musical, written, etc) as hot-garbage.
My new fave is to refer to things as "neat" and by neat I mean terrible. For example, " oh wow, you're going to an art installation about flip cup. That sounds neat."
Is that similar to referring to someone or one's self as a jelly roll? I'm old, old, old.
Bless you for bringing an old fave back into my life! I've been at sixes and sevens without it.
As the wizened,old crone of my workplace(40 and a fossil), I've embraced peppering my conversations and texts with 70s-90s slang. Do it!!! These young-whippersnappers are so easy to befuddle and shock.
The look on one girls face when I replied to her request for a ride with," Ass, grass, or cash nobody rides for free.", sustained my good vibes for at least a week. To be clear I fully support my coworkers and am not mean-spirited, but I'll use the slang I know and let the youth enjoy their vernacular amongst themselves.
Oh but there is! Where I live there is a neighborhood app called Nextdoor that's basically Facebook for nosy Nancy's. I was glued to it when I was pretty much housebound with my newborn son. Shit is cray! I live in an older neighborhood in transition; old people and lots of stay at home moms,nothing goes unnoticed. "Strange cars" driving 33mph in a 30 zone get blurry pics of their car/license plate posted. Suspicious people selling magazines, instantly on neighborhood blast. Omg, someone's tenants in a rental were selling meth, it was like a telenovela. On the upside, almost everyone here makes more money than I do and they are always selling good quality stuff for cheap or giving stuff away. And I can leave my doors unlocked when I run to the store.
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