Story archives - September 2009

stranded

While rushing to work, it was only in the split second after I closed my door that I realized my keys were in my other purse and my roommate was away for the weekend.

tags: locked out late for work stupid [add]

2009-09-30 21:49:47 / Rating: 92.5 /

Gabriel

When class was canceled we talked for the first time.

tags: school university friendship love [add]

2009-09-30 21:49:24 / Rating: 145 /

Dianne

Two weeks into my convalescence I realized that the animals I watched daily in the back yard -- birds, squirrels, bunnies -- led a secret life that included not only a daily search for food, but also expressions of love, caring, and mischief.

tags: animals convalescence [add]

2009-09-24 15:34:55 / Rating: 180.5 /

Mmmhhm

After I circled B for the tenth time, I had to wonder if I was getting all the answers wrong or if my teacher had a sick sense of humor.

tags: multiple choice test humor teacher [add]

2009-09-24 15:33:22 / Rating: 546.25 /

Chels

My police boyfriend once called me on the phone and squealed happily, "Man, I LOVE catching bad guys!"

tags: police [add]

2009-09-24 15:31:38 / Rating: 257 /

Sorry, dad.

After my mother judged me for what she discovered in my anonymous blog, for the first time in my life I understood why my father had left her and I forgave him.

tags: secrets parents forgiveness [add]

2009-09-22 14:24:29 / Rating: 261.75 /

parker

He has a playlist inspired by him titled "Scum."

tags: boys music [add]

2009-09-22 13:09:47 / Rating: 109.75 /

Backseat, windows up...

It wasn't until I looked on the floor in the backseat of my car that I realized my lacy black thong was still on the floor from two nights ago.

tags: humor car panties thong embarrassed who else saw? went to dinner with dad [add]

2009-09-22 13:09:21 / Rating: 116.75 /

regretter

You're just the skinny-jeans-guy in my Sci Fi class I idolized last summer and I'm just the too-loud girl you've forgotten, but I still hold my pencils the way you do.

tags: crush idols writing regrets missing you [add]

2009-09-21 11:56:16 / Rating: 342.25 /

Such a Rebel

I took advantage of the fact that it was three in the morning to perpetrate the ultimate indiscretion: showering in the unisex.

tags: bathrooms up late [add]

2009-09-21 11:55:12 / Rating: 85.25 /

cg

On my very first camping trip, I learned that if I drop a dead caterpillar in my mom's coffee, she will not only not get mad at me, but she will also still drink the coffee.

tags: humor mistake childhood mom [add]

2009-09-21 11:54:58 / Rating: 176.5 /

Not Meant For Apartment Living

My neighbor just casually returned two pairs of panties that I'd left in the shared washing machine.

tags: oops laundry panties embarrassment humor apartment neighbor awkward [add]

2009-09-21 10:02:58 / Rating: 105.25 /

Bored of Boredom

I didn't understand what was so funny until I realized a Bachelors of Journalism from Fontbonne University is a "BJ from FU".

tags: humor college embarassing degrees [add]

2009-09-21 10:02:27 / Rating: 260 /

Slim

Receiving a die stolen off of a Bulgarian backgammon board as a birthday present didn't do a lot to alleviate the jealousy I felt for not being able to go to Europe with them.

tags: travel birthday friendship jealousy games theft criminal [add]

2009-09-21 10:01:28 / Rating: 107.75 /

BB23

Because of my dog, we've had to put stickers at the bottom of the glass door so she doesn't keep walking into it.

tags: dog glass door [add]

2009-09-21 10:00:52 / Rating: 152.25 /

That Mom

Yesterday my 6-year-old daughter informed me that she would like a turtle named 'Herpes' for her Birthday.

tags: child humor birthday turtles [add]

2009-09-18 15:18:57 / Rating: 306.25 /

Mia Moore

I was trying to be funny by pointing out to my boyfriend that his girlfriend is such a dork, but it came out better than expected when I told him "Your dork is such a girlfriend."

tags: humor dork girlfriend [add]

2009-09-18 15:17:45 / Rating: 180.75 /

Not Bob Vila

The screwdriver shaped hole in my arm is a prime example of my experience with home renovations.

tags: #2 phillips homewrecker [add]

2009-09-18 15:17:17 / Rating: 127 /

tiredalarmclock

As the vet inserted the needle, I noticed that my kitty was still purring.

tags: love cat death [add]

2009-09-18 15:16:21 / Rating: 259 /

cg

As I tried to tag a sentence I submitted, my computer suggested the tags "sex, poison ivy, humor, feet" and I can't remember ever submitting a sentence that would include those four things.

tags: sex poison ivy humor feet meta [add]

2009-09-18 15:14:56 / Rating: 146 /

Close Call

My boyfriend confused the words "fornicate" and "elope."

tags: marriage sex [add]

2009-09-17 14:38:45 / Rating: 161 /

Dog Sets it Off

My dog set the security alarm off, and as a result, 32 policemen with 8 police cars rushed to my house.

tags: dog security humor [add]

2009-09-17 14:38:03 / Rating: 109.25 /

Sam

I find it ironic that while I'm here procrastinating the One Sentence pointer finger is pointing to the link for the website that my homework is on.

tags: homework school college procrastinate [add]

2009-09-17 14:37:01 / Rating: 152.5 /

MaryMM

Thirty minutes at 400 degrees was way too long for potato chips.

tags: cooking [add]

2009-09-17 14:36:47 / Rating: 109.25 /

The wandering homeless

The day I dropped out of high school, botched my entrance into Harvard, and set out on my journey across the country on foot was the day I realized I would come back for you, and only you.

tags: wandering love returning hope dreams life travel friends life of a hobo [add]

2009-09-17 14:36:15 / Rating: 280 /

Snakey

My rider friend assures me that 'Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear' is about the LAST thing you want to see when the mirror's on your motorcycle and the object is an irritable grizzly bear.

tags: biker humor motorcycle bear [add]

2009-09-17 14:34:46 / Rating: 179 /

House of Cards

While I was overseas fighting a war to make others' lives better, you were at home destroying mine.

tags: War commitment bankruptcy infedelity [add]

2009-09-17 14:33:37 / Rating: 244.25 /

Kendra

I was the conscientious one and always left my keys with the security guard when I left the building, so my co-workers should have known that I was still somewhere inside the museum when everyone else was evacuated during the bomb threat.

tags: betrayal trust issues [add]

2009-09-17 14:32:20 / Rating: 74.25 /

Oops...

Attempting to flush my botched mashed potatoes down the toilet was only the first of many mistakes that night.

tags: potatoes clogged toilet mistakes [add]

2009-09-14 11:22:42 / Rating: 160.5 /

Atleast we made some new friends

We realized as we went up to pay our respects, that though they shared the same name and everyone was very friendly, we were obviously at the wrong funeral.

tags: funeral obituary humor embarrassed [add]

2009-09-14 11:17:24 / Rating: 571.25 /

Fired by God

Today I was fired from Barnes and Noble because a customer complained that I had stocked Christian Bibles in the fiction section.

tags: Bible humor books work [add]

2009-09-14 11:14:14 / Rating: 446.25 /

Hellen

Thanks to the Discovery Channel I went to Norway and married a Norwegian farmer.

tags: Norway Discovery Channel [add]

2009-09-14 11:09:08 / Rating: 187.25 /

Canadienne

The day my father got deported was the day I attended my first anti-Bush rally.

tags: immigration bush childhood gone too soon bittersweet [add]

2009-09-14 10:54:29 / Rating: 137.25 /

traveller

After they detained me and took my passport at the airport for being too young, the Arab security guard noticed me sobbing and brought me cookies from his own lunch.

tags: travel kindness [add]

2009-09-10 13:35:35 / Rating: 527.75 /

Sister

I didn't think I was doing anything wrong until you walked in the room and I instinctively jumped away from him.

tags: sister lover ex-boyfriend kissing [add]

2009-09-10 13:33:21 / Rating: 136.5 /

12Letters

Coincidentally I met the next man I would love on the same night the last man I loved cheated on me.

tags: love cheating humor irony [add]

2009-09-08 13:41:50 / Rating: 161.25 /

Gladys

It's going to be hard telling my ex-mother-in-law that she is now going to be my sister-in-law.

tags: divorce remarriage love not incest [add]

2009-09-08 11:28:56 / Rating: 151.25 /

Joanne's sister

It took several visits to the cemetery before I realized that when my father started digging around my sister's headstone, he was going to put stones under it to keep it from sinking and wasn't going to dig her up.

tags: death childhood [add]

2009-09-08 11:27:52 / Rating: 148 /

Café Chick

When asked how he could be certain the speaker had blown, Dad dramatically explained (with grandiose arm gestures) that, "I plugged it in and all I heard was nothing".

tags: humor sound equipment explanations broken [add]

2009-09-08 11:27:08 / Rating: 124.5 /

Dinosaur Spotter

Today at work a "superior" asked me for a video file in an mp3 format.

tags: ridiculous technology old age [add]

2009-09-08 11:21:46 / Rating: 123.75 /

Dumped

A week after he broke my heart and said he was gay, he drove 10 hours to visit his new girlfriend.

tags: broken heart dumped [add]

2009-09-08 11:17:36 / Rating: 120.5 /

Caroline

A wave of guilt came over me as I watched the moth struggle in the spiderweb after it had be derailed from its path by the smoke I exhaled.

tags: death guilt [add]

2009-09-02 08:40:14 / Rating: 210.25 /

EGT

I wish that Alzheimer's had something to do to with why my father won't walk me down the aisle.

tags: alzheimer's elope angry [add]

2009-09-02 08:39:05 / Rating: 152.75 /

history geek

After being assigned Denver for our American cities project, she looked at me in confusion and earnestly said, "Isn't Denmark an animal?"

tags: aardvark confusion Denver [add]

2009-09-02 08:38:26 / Rating: 157.25 /

gross

My sister caught me eating the callus I'd peeled off the bottom of my foot, and that was the end of that habit.

tags: gross humor childhood [add]

2009-09-02 08:38:12 / Rating: 153.5 /

Michelle

My sister's comment that her new computer had a 1GB harddrive confirmed my suspicions that she didn't know enough about computers to make such a purchase.

tags: humor technology family [add]

2009-09-02 07:36:50 / Rating: 148 /

sensei

I am dreading going to school tomorrow, which will make things difficult, since I am the teacher.

tags: teaching summer can't be over students [add]

2009-09-02 07:36:02 / Rating: 277 /