I just need some cardboard blocks!

I just wanted a nice, simple toy for my niece for her second birthday on Sat., after talking with my sister I decided on some cardboard blocks, which are way more fun than they sound. They are big...

Is it wrong to contact someone after 10-15 years just to make sure they are OK?

I became good friends in college with a girl who was an exchange student from Italy. After that year she went back to Italy; we lost touch after a few years, but I know she came back to the U.S. to...

What the heck is that noise?

I have been staying up far too late. Nearly every night around 2:00 am, if I am in my room and awake, I can hear a noise that sounds like something being rolled across the floor, coming from next...

I just can't be in the wedding!!

I am single and have a decent-sized group of mostly single friends, whom I met through a local social/networking group. One of these friends asked 3 of us from that group to be in her wedding,...

Have you ever had this happen to your car window? Could it be the cold weather?

The other day I was on my way out to meet people for a bus trip to Atlantic City. I got in the car, closed my door, and at that moment, the rear passenger side window shattered into a million pieces....

Do you reply to all responses for discussions you've started?

I'll admit that as a fairly new member, I have not started many discussions. In any forum I go to, I'm always more likely to reply than to start a new topic. I had thought that it is polite to...

I was rude at the store today...

Oh I am a little ashamed, it is not the first time I have been rude but it was really sort of uncalled for this time. I was shopping for clothes after work, had gathered about 15 things only to be...

Do you still remember any of the things you had to memorize in school?

When I was a in school, particularly elementary school, we did a lot of memorizing that seemed pointless. Yesterday, I was making a post here, looked at it and thought something is wrong, I think...

Covering your tracks

I forgot that I had borrowed my mother's computer a few times recently (we live in the same house), and then yesterday she was looking for a book online and she says to me, "Hey I'm on Amazon and it...

Would you take your kids to Starbucks?

OK now I have to say, I love children, though I don't have any of my own. And sure, if I had children, I might still want to stop for a minute and pick up some coffee from Starbucks. But Starbucks is...