Forum: Your Stories

My wife loves to barbecue, that's the manly side of her. She is basically responsible for the grill. I will go fill up the propane tank, but beyond...

Last weekend, the doorbell rang and I got up to answer it. Some guy with a portfolio was standing on my doorstep and I moaned. As I opened the storm...

One of my wife's girlfriends is a flight attendant for Delta and this is what she has heard: About 20 minutes before landing in Detroit, this guy,...

I park outside in a lot next to my building. They are putting up a new building next to us. I walk out to my car last week around 5:30 and see a...

I was in NYU grad school at the time and living two blocks west of the campus. One winter morning, it was snowing real hard and butt cold and I had...

Not as bad as the Meet the Parents movies but pretty bad. My in laws live in Summit, NJ and my wife, then girlfriend at the time, and I lived in New...

I have family and friends in Westchester, so every now and then I take somebody's car around town when I'm up there visiting. I live in New York City...

Two workers in their 20s, male and female, got to challenging each other to a one mile run and this afternoon was the scheduled race. So, a group of...

I work with a guy who's son is Afghanistan and he heard this week from him and all his son could talk about was how this sniper shot that was taken...

We had a really hotly contested 12 year old boys soccer game today in the rain and our team was tied at 2-2 with about five minutes left to go. We...

I was nearly two years out of college and working in Investment Banking for a large bank. That meant that I worked monster hours for pretty decent...

I am not a biker. My idea of biking is jumping on my mockingly inexpensive mountain bike and cruising around my neighborhood with my kids and my...

We go to a Catholic Church in town here and, one Saturday evening, my family was attending the Mass Service. We have two young boys, 4 and 2, and my...

My cell phone company just called me to tell me I was paying too much for my service. OK. Of course I'm paying too much, isn't everybody?? ...

A common Minnesota weather phenomenon known as an Alberta Clipper had brought the temperature down to a blustery twenty degrees below zero with more...

We have a conference room on my floor at work that holds about 20 people around a huge table, but often we have 20+ in the room so those people sit...

(The Monkeys Went Bananas) I grew up in the military/foreign service, and wow, did we live in some Third World dumps! When I was 14(long time ago)...

My wife and I took our two kids, 5 and 3, to a Mexican fast food place and the meal went fine. There was just a mild mess for me to clean up from the...

Let me start out by saying that although my passport claims that I am American, I grew up in the Foreign Service and lived all over, including in a...

SUNG TO THE TUNE OF CAMPTOWN RACES The healthcare bill finally passed, do da, do da The dismal approval cannot last, do da, do da The people...