Ryan
Walking out of the club after the memorial concert for a man who was supposed to perform that night, snow fell quietly to the sidewalk.
2006-08-31 18:00:52 / Rating: 182.75 / 
Story archives - August 2006
Ryan
A legend sang at my wedding.
2006-08-31 18:00:26 / Rating: 157.75 /
Lch
After twenty minutes of trying to order a p-p-p-pint of larger from the bar with a drunken stammer, I gave in and requested two half's in the same glass!
2006-08-31 16:17:23 / Rating: 183.75 /
Kate
A ten-year high school reunion is painful, and the only saving grace at mine was the open bar.
2006-08-31 10:23:06 / Rating: 78.75 /
Dan
Very few entrepreneurs can say they were conceived on a hot air balloon ride, and also share a direct lineage to both Edgar Allen Poe and Thomas Alva Edison... myself included.
2006-08-29 22:33:02 / Rating: 128.25 /
Ryan
I shudder when I think that I considered myself a Republican in high school.
2006-08-29 11:12:06 / Rating: 148.5 /
Anonymous
I don't know if I would have stayed with him all night comforting him while he puked his guts out into the toilet if I'd known that he wouldn't remember it the next morning.
2006-08-29 07:39:42 / Rating: 206.5 /
Nogs
I offered myself up like a whore, and he blushed and stammered and told me that, while flattered, he couldn't take me up on it for fear of offending my husband.
2006-08-28 21:32:32 / Rating: 153.5 /
Prufrock
I was with her for eleven years, the last three of which she was sleeping with the neurologist who would give her two beautiful daughters.
2006-08-28 21:30:58 / Rating: 151.5 /
Sheryl
When asked to name the one person absent from her life that she missed the most, she responded, "The person I hoped I'd be by this point in my life."
2006-08-28 14:17:20 / Rating: 1178 /
refeed
It turned out that Hunstanton was quite windy after all.
2006-08-26 12:19:25 / Rating: 114.75 /
Pablo
When I finished kindergarden I was so excited because I thought it was all the school i would need for the rest of my life.
2006-08-26 10:14:34 / Rating: 238.25 /
Finster
She found out about the public reading of her love letter and she dumped him, but it was she who four years later taught him to read for himself.
2006-08-25 19:57:41 / Rating: 146.25 /
Lindsay
I felt bad when I found out I was the third girl in a row he'd dated who turned out to be a lesbian.
2006-08-25 19:24:16 / Rating: 196.5 /
Lindsay
I shouldn't have told her so much truth when she called me drunk at 3 AM.
2006-08-25 19:24:11 / Rating: 155 /
Lindsay
I thought I would be able to forget about her by moving half a country away, but I was wrong.
2006-08-25 19:24:07 / Rating: 128.75 /
Alison
We were in bed one day and he told me that I was more fun than a game of Magic "sometimes."
2006-08-25 14:18:00 / Rating: 308.25 /
Charles
His tiny fingers clutched the crayon as they had once clutched the trigger, and like so many boys his age, he stuck his tongue out while he drew.
2006-08-24 14:06:21 / Rating: 280 /
Finster
It was the fifth stationary object I'd accidentaly hit with the company car, I was glad that I didn't own my own vehicle and that living breathing things tended to move about.
2006-08-23 20:36:30 / Rating: 193 /
Finster
I sat amongst my excited friends and as the close-up of my eyes filled the cinema screen I discovered I'd been cast as the child-abuser.
2006-08-23 20:36:18 / Rating: 143.5 /
Finster
Things went from bad to worse when we realized all the papers were stuck together from the incessant rain.
2006-08-23 20:36:08 / Rating: 139.25 /
Bill
I didn't look her in the eye when she said goodbye.
2006-08-23 20:35:52 / Rating: 120.25 /
Robin
She said, "Stay."
2006-08-23 20:35:25 / Rating: 152.75 /
Matt
I thought I was going to have to find the ancient abandoned palace complex on my own until a local with whom I didn't share a common language offered to show me the way, up a steep hill and past some chickens and goats.
2006-08-23 20:34:46 / Rating: 129 /
Tracy
College Jeopardy! auditions are much harder than the game you watch on television, especially if one is nursing one's first real collegiate hangover.
2006-08-23 20:23:32 / Rating: 163.5 /
JayOutEast
I spent five days getting there only to realise it was the jouney I should have been paying attention to.
2006-08-23 19:10:22 / Rating: 164 /
jac
I guess that now he knows what it feels like to tell the person that you're cheating on that you love them.
2006-08-23 07:21:14 / Rating: 176 /
Tiara
He was the one who hugged me, asked for a photo with me, danced with me, kissed me - and now I'm the one pursuing him.
2006-08-22 09:44:55 / Rating: 202 /
Jeff
I spilled the lasagna I made for dinner, on the carpet.
2006-08-22 09:44:31 / Rating: 183 /
Prufrock
On the day we were married it rained all day.
2006-08-21 09:52:14 / Rating: 124.25 /
grumblebee
I fell down a flight of stairs, got up, stumbled across the landing, and then fell down a second flight of stairs.
2006-08-19 22:37:39 / Rating: 303 /
Amizu
After progressing from a language lesson consisting of pointing to body parts and announcing the proper vocabulary, my elderly teacher pulled up her skirt, bared herself utterly, and in the dim light, completed her lesson.
2006-08-18 16:26:11 / Rating: 144.5 /
JoeyCat
It was only after I started bleeding from the eye, that I realized perhaps I really was in a fight.
2006-08-18 13:40:31 / Rating: 117.5 /
Erik Wennstrom
It was one of those exams that you absolutely must pass if you want to continue in the program, and I failed the set-your-alarm-clock-properly portion.
2006-08-18 12:28:33 / Rating: 1133.5 /
Shane
I was nearly sent to the hospital because I could not convince the school nurse that my head had always been this shape.
2006-08-18 12:27:29 / Rating: 734.5 /
clementine
I thought it would be wonderful; twenty years later my life is shattered.
2006-08-18 09:44:55 / Rating: 199.75 /
Mindy G.
She knows their hearts belong together and she knows how lucky she is.
2006-08-18 00:04:05 / Rating: 162 /
Stacey
The idea of letting your children choose their own path in life is thrown out the window when your three-year-old declares they are going to be either a doctor or a Walmart cashier when they grow up.
2006-08-17 21:22:34 / Rating: 230.5 /
Stacey
It's hard not to be self conscious about your ever growing pregnant belly when a stranger's child asks their mother if "that lady is having twins."
2006-08-17 21:22:32 / Rating: 153.75 /
J.
It wasn't supposed to turn out like this, with him, but it did and now my entire world has been turned upside down.
2006-08-17 20:36:20 / Rating: 111.25 /
Stacey
A new mother's confidence about her body is shattered when a young child asks if she's still pregnant.
2006-08-17 20:36:15 / Rating: 146.75 /
Finster
I realized the plan to sneak a second holiday in Spain was not going to work unless I only went out at night and returned to work after my "illness" without a tan.
2006-08-17 19:57:32 / Rating: 130.5 /
J.
I wanted to tell him I loved him too but all I could do was kiss him.
2006-08-17 19:56:26 / Rating: 118.25 /
Too afraid to give my real name
I really like her and her hug was more real than her boyfriend would have liked.
2006-08-17 19:56:24 / Rating: 187 /
Erik Wennstrom
After several minutes of poking and prodding, the dentist put down his tools, looked me straight in the eyes and said, "You're going to be putting my daughter through college."
2006-08-17 17:31:28 / Rating: 256 /
Michael
We're going to marry, she simply doesn't know it yet.
2006-08-17 17:30:55 / Rating: 213.75 /
Tony
When hurricane Frederick hit our home town my brother was upset because the TV movie of the week, The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings, was pre-empted for hurricane coverage.
2006-08-17 17:29:32 / Rating: 133.25 /
josh
I had thermite at the age of 15.
2006-08-14 20:12:29 / Rating: 95.25 /
Ainsley
He told me that he hates himself, so I told him that I love him.
2006-08-14 20:12:11 / Rating: 439.75 /
Callie-Co
I've often hear the 30's are the best years of your life, and only a little over a month from 31, that's yet to be determined!
2006-08-14 20:11:40 / Rating: 111.5 /
Melanie
I knew it was bad that day when my mother showed me her wrists, "I cut myself again."
2006-08-14 20:11:00 / Rating: 184.75 /
Gabw
Once I got drunk and told a good friend, who had a boyfriend, that I loved her.
2006-08-14 19:31:40 / Rating: 140.75 /
Shannon
I should have known it was doomed when we fought desperately on our honeymoon.
2006-08-14 19:31:15 / Rating: 169.25 /
Gucky
I've loved a boy with every single operating system, so I should have known it was meant to be when he showed me the OS2 startup screen in his dorm room, but it took me 10 more years and OS X to figure it out.
2006-08-14 19:29:35 / Rating: 142 /
Alex
I didn't get caught until the eight full feature film, but by that time I had had enough of cliche-ridden scripts and amazingly predictable endings (and my butt was getting sore).
2006-08-14 00:02:21 / Rating: 91.5 /
Alex
On my tour of Kyoto I dislocated my thumb by falling down some slippery stone steps as I was exiting a shrine where I prayed for good health and good luck for the remainder of my trip (no pun intended).
2006-08-14 00:11:08 / Rating: 222 /
A. Mouse
The first year she noticed me, the second year we spoke, the third we kissed, the fourth was just natural progression.
2006-08-13 12:04:26 / Rating: 185.25 /
Charlie
My first sexual experience was with my neighbor, who was older than me and told me we should play house and that I could be the mommy and she could be the daddy.
2006-08-12 19:28:27 / Rating: 204.5 /
Daniel
"It'll never work," he said -- the friend who gave me confidence, courage and class -- but, three years later, I'm marrying her, and I'm the happiest man alive.
2006-08-12 17:44:20 / Rating: 187.25 /
Daniel
If only I knew then what I know now, I'd have done everything differently -- but that wouldn't have made me who I am today.
2006-08-12 17:40:54 / Rating: 185.25 /
David
I'm always living in fear.
2006-08-12 16:15:01 / Rating: 98.5 /
Alex
My entire month was spent waiting for him to say "I'm sorry but I like her better".
2006-08-12 15:43:23 / Rating: 96 /
Ewa
He came down for the week, and met with me almost as an afterthought, but I flittered constantly around him while he was here because being around him makes me surprisingly happy.
2006-08-12 15:02:03 / Rating: 108.75 /
chas
They were huge when she was 13 and I knew they'd be saddle bags by the time she was 18, the reason we broke up.
2006-08-12 14:57:53 / Rating: 114.5 /
Vicki
I meant to start my collection slowly, making an addition every few months, but then I bought twenty in one day.
2006-08-12 14:22:20 / Rating: 102.25 /
Erik
It was when he wanted "our song" back, he knew it was over.
2006-08-12 05:15:38 / Rating: 114.5 /
Stu
The user complained that the space bar would not work and wanted a new keyboard, so I picked up her keyboard, tapped it several times on the back until a sufficient pile of biscuit crumbs had landed on the table, then set down her keyboard and walked away.
2006-08-12 03:30:40 / Rating: 187.5 /
Sid
Even five years later, we still talk once in a while that reminds me of how I thought I was in love with her even though we had missed our chance that summer in high school.
2006-08-12 00:47:30 / Rating: 87.75 /
Mark David
As I drove home the knot in my stomach swelled to the size of a small sun, but when I walked in the house I saw she had called and I no longer felt alone.
2006-08-12 00:44:44 / Rating: 158 /
Joy
After she flung the stall door open and laughed at me, I sat cross-legged in the grass and wet my pants, too afraid to return to the restroom.
2006-08-11 11:28:59 / Rating: 117.5 /
Dino
He wandered off to get a glass of water, and decided that nothing, not even the wall he tried to walk through, mattered until he did.
2006-08-11 09:33:10 / Rating: 150 /
Eugene
In the days after my mother died, we found innumerable small boxes tucked away in the drawers and corners of our house, on each box a label and on each label a name that was not mine.
2006-08-11 09:06:34 / Rating: 235.5 /
aharris
After two years, I finally realized that veal is not made from baby cats.
2006-08-10 16:25:20 / Rating: 196.75 /
Rob
I once drove many a mile to visit the Land of Little Horses and, indeed, they were quite wee.
2006-08-10 15:27:11 / Rating: 183.25 /
Dave
A week later, looking for a some sort of sign from beyond after whispering into the ear of my dying aunt a request to say hello to my long dead but fiesty-while-living great grandmother, it suddenly dawned on me that I'd been insatiably horny for days.
2006-08-10 14:21:08 / Rating: 70 /
Brad
It was a mistake to leave Matt in the car to sober up, because it turns out he was in there puking a varitable mix of pure liquid alcohol and huge chunks of roast beef that made me ponder my chewing habits.
2006-08-10 14:00:28 / Rating: 179.5 /
Duane
My wife pushed, the baby squalled, and I knew at that moment that the little girl was not mine.
2006-08-10 13:38:33 / Rating: 169 /
Darryl
One time, when I was young, I thought I was The Rhino (of Spiderman fame) and put my head through the glass part of our screen door.
2006-08-10 12:38:29 / Rating: 170.75 /
RMC
I jumped off a moving train in Switzerland while traveling with some college friends.
2006-08-10 12:26:31 / Rating: 179.25 /
Paul
I once convinced multiple people that a music video involving people smashing watermelons to the ground was about life in the future.
2006-08-10 09:26:00 / Rating: 166.75 /
Jen
I once ran the sound for a touring mime company.
2006-08-10 01:45:23 / Rating: 291 /
Matt
Two summers ago my roommate and I pulled an all-nighter playing Klax, and then hit up the flea market at 6:00 a.m. for records.
2006-08-09 23:44:47 / Rating: 101.25 /
Matt
A couple in their seventies sat behind me in Clerks II and exclaimed, "That was a great movie!"
2006-08-09 23:40:54 / Rating: 122.75 /
Matt
My friend joined a gym in San Francisco, and he realized something was up when there was no female locker room or clientele.
2006-08-09 23:39:18 / Rating: 139.5 /
Kris
I collected paper towel rolls for weeks, gave them to a group of kids and they created a human marble maze.
2006-08-09 23:28:14 / Rating: 123 /
Elaine A
I went to a Bell Biv DeVoe concert on the night of my senior prom and ended up at a burger joint eating chilli cheese fries alone in the most puffiest of dresses.
2006-08-09 22:34:24 / Rating: 119.25 /
COD
I drove 8 hours round trip to look at a horse with no mane.
2006-08-09 16:18:16 / Rating: 148 /
Ryan
I went to a Doug E. Fresh show in high school and left with a bruise on my head after I was hit with a chair.
2006-08-09 13:11:44 / Rating: 103.75 /
Ryan
When I got lost in San Francisco's Mission District, there was a really scary few-toothed crackwhore that asked me, "So where you staying, hon?"
2006-08-08 18:14:01 / Rating: 132.75 /