Secret Shame

When she burst out laughing at the sight of me naked, I had the feeling that it wasn't gonna happen.

tags: humor nakedness [add]

2009-06-29 15:47:51 / Rating: 109.75 /

Tito

I made something of myself and became respectable enough that no one could imagine my felony charges of 17 years ago.

tags: people change [add]

2009-06-29 15:45:41 / Rating: 68 /

Joe

My grandmother once challenged me to a drinking contest, then proceeded to concoct an elaborate plan to cheat and win that involved her identical twin sister... and people wonder where I get it.

tags: grandmother twin drinking contest elaborate plan [add]

2009-06-29 15:44:57 / Rating: 136.75 /

Kristin

I made it all the way to Iroquois County before I finally burst into tears.

tags: love change leaving [add]

2009-06-29 15:43:14 / Rating: 31.75 /

e coli

My pit bull-rottweiler only eats cat treats and is scared of my eight pound cat.

tags: dog pets food strange [add]

2009-06-29 14:03:01 / Rating: 80.5 /

Lewis H.

Ronald Reagan's robe fell open in front of me and there he was naked as the day he was born.

tags: work humor famous [add]

2009-06-29 14:02:34 / Rating: 47 /

Ann

Quitting a job that you love is much harder when your boss starts crying in the middle of the conversation.

tags: resigning job boss [add]

2009-06-26 13:51:22 / Rating: 154.25 /

yep

The first time I met my father was when he made a delivery to my house as a UPS worker.

tags: absent father UPS [add]

2009-06-26 13:43:24 / Rating: 115.25 /

RingoW

My cat prefers dog food.

tags: humor cats dog food [add]

2009-06-26 13:42:48 / Rating: 53.25 /

TGB

When I arrived at my dad's house after hearing he had died of a heart attack, the first words my mother said to me were, "Did you tell your dad you are gay?"

tags: gay death father mother [add]

2009-06-26 13:42:02 / Rating: 79.75 /

LUYD

Your band's first official gig is not the best time to learn that your drummer is epileptic.

tags: concert drummer epilepsy seizure [add]

2009-06-26 13:41:16 / Rating: 128.25 /

Jen

The first person to congratulate us on our engagement was a homeless guy who then proceeded to ask us for a dollar.

tags: proposal Green Mill homeless guy [add]

2009-06-24 12:40:40 / Rating: 129.5 /

Batman

My heart broke as I pulled the black cape around my neck and saw the tag that was labeled, "Does not enable you to fly."

tags: Batman cape fly superpowers children [add]

2009-06-23 15:42:36 / Rating: 254 /

Molly

The first thing I noticed after my dog died was how much food was accumulating on the kitchen floor.

tags: dog need a broom [add]

2009-06-23 15:40:44 / Rating: 137.75 /

abused

Five years later, I still have a scar of my husband's entire dental impression from when he bit my abdomen.

tags: sad humor abuse [add]

2009-06-23 09:56:06 / Rating: 49.75 /

Still Romantic

While my husband (then boyfriend) proposed, I could see a man standing on a picnic table and peeing into the bushes in my peripheral vision - but it was the best night of my life all the same.

tags: romance proposal humor [add]

2009-06-23 09:49:48 / Rating: 137 /

Dee

At our grand daughter's christening, my daughter-in-law introduced me to her cousin as, "This is my husband's dad's wife".

tags: family [add]

2009-06-22 15:28:26 / Rating: 66.5 /

Gemini

There is no cool way to puke.

tags: childhood sick sad truth [add]

2009-06-22 15:27:22 / Rating: 98.75 /

>.<

As I listened to my friends joke about bulemia, I wondered what they would say if they knew what I did every night after dinner.

tags: bulemia friends regret [add]

2009-06-22 15:26:10 / Rating: 62.5 /

Thornton Wilder Award Winner

My dad stopped complaining about my bad grades when I won $100 for a short story I wrote out of boredom during math class.

tags: writing school irony [add]

2009-06-19 16:30:56 / Rating: 181.75 /

KC

A couple of times down the hot metal slide and no one would know that I had wet my pants.

tags: childhood recess school [add]

2009-06-19 16:30:10 / Rating: 216 /

embarrassed

We thought we were being so sneaky with our teenage sex rendevous, until we walked up the stairs to his room and heard his dad say, "Better make it a quickie guys."

tags: sex humor irony [add]

2009-06-19 16:30:01 / Rating: 182 /

Ellyn

My husband informed me that he isn't a kid anymore because he eats his snack packs with a spoon.

tags: funny ironic child [add]

2009-06-19 16:28:05 / Rating: 131.25 /

Office Cat

"Isn't it a little early in the morning for Dr. Pepper?" she commented, sipping a cup of coffee.

tags: caffeine [add]

2009-06-19 16:27:00 / Rating: 63.25 /

Confiture

I'm told the scar isn't noticeable, but I still hate that four-year-old girl I used to be for not putting her feet down.

tags: childhood scar [add]

2009-06-19 16:26:51 / Rating: 43.5 /

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