Story archives - tag: "confusion"

NoRegrets

I yelled at my mother the night her mom died, because she wouldn't quit asking me if I wanted to see the body.

tags: confusion phone call trying to leave grief [add]

2011-08-22 20:14:36 / Rating: 258.25 /

Grimm

I was about to burst into tears when my friend pointed out that the D on my results paper stood for "Distinction".

tags: college results confusion [add]

2010-11-01 14:29:40 / Rating: 272 /

Complex Motor Tics and Echopraxia

The next time someone asks what I'm doing, I'm gonna just refer them to the Wikipedia page rather than try to explain echopraxia and watch them walk away even more confused.

tags: teenage complex motor tics tics tic echopraxia confusion awkward needs therapy [add]

2009-11-02 14:36:07 / Rating: 249.5 /

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: 289.75 /

daughter of the rev

A stunned look came across my peers' faces as the teacher pointed at me, saying that my dad was going to marry her daughter, so I instantaneously snapped, "Not in that way!"

tags: wedding minister marriage confusion not the first time [add]

2009-04-08 16:13:58 / Rating: 396.25 /

Rai

He wrote, "See you next year when you're a boy and I'm a girl."

tags: transgender friend confusion friendship gender [add]

2009-01-15 12:37:28 / Rating: 555.25 /

felinefevah

I panicked, thinking my precious fluffy cat had a tumor, until I realized he just had a Cocoa Puff stuck to his ass.

tags: cat humor confusion [add]

2008-07-18 01:26:39 / Rating: 893 /

ViVi

"Hey," he slurred, barely coherent, as he bent over the sink in the womens' bathroom, "help me wash this sea otter."

tags: weed confusion bathroom [add]

2008-06-18 09:44:48 / Rating: 687.5 /

Definition

I don't know if it qualified as rape, but I know it was wrong.

tags: rape confusion childhood innocence steal lies sex [add]

2008-02-25 21:21:58 / Rating: 710.75 /

Steph

Up until two days ago, I thought Ernest Hemingway was a large, black man.

tags: history confusion [add]

2008-02-20 12:52:47 / Rating: 431.75 /

Weekends?

This is the second time I have confused Sunday with Saturday.

tags: confusion sunday saturday [add]

2008-02-04 11:39:48 / Rating: 356 /

lucky

I heard him say "good luck" as I walked out of the theater, but I didn't understand until I survived the car crash a week later.

tags: good luck car crash confusion apathy luck drama teacher director [add]

2007-12-17 11:03:24 / Rating: 606.5 /

Confused

He told me that "I mean the world to him," after he admitted that recently his world had one too many planets.

tags: disappointment lying confusion [add]

2007-10-18 14:03:07 / Rating: 480 /

IE

Had I gone back to sleep when I saw his number, he'd be dead, but I still feel like a bad friend.

tags: overdose suicide friendship depression confusion [add]

2007-09-18 13:13:54 / Rating: 679 /

Bryan

I traveled around the world for a year and only felt lost once I arrived "home."

tags: confusion travel [add]

2007-09-18 13:11:12 / Rating: 568.5 /

Samantha

We've been chatting for more than 3 years now, yet in the back of my mind I always think of the posibility that he could be an internet pedophile.

tags: internet pedophile love confusion [add]

2007-04-05 16:52:11 / Rating: 533.25 /

Girl in English class

I finally admitted to myself that I liked him, but now I am scared that it will never work out.

tags: relationships confusion hope [add]

2007-02-12 12:32:03 / Rating: 467.5 /