Archive for the ‘just don't’ Category

life lesson #1243

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

When blogging about your parents, be sure to add a note in there telling your sister (if a sibling reads your blog) to NOT CALL YOUR MOTHER LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY. And in particular, to not tell said mother—when she asks where you heard about it—that you READ IT. Seriously, my mother is so ...

missed connection: amtrak

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

You, girl on the train with her boyfriend (who was helping a nun with her suitcase). Me, long-haired, bony-assed youngish dude with a beanie wearing jeans. Your back was toward me when your hand slid up my leg and grabbed my ass, but I know you were only trying to be sly ...

grr

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Annoying things your boyfriend shouldn't do... buy your birthday presents, have them delivered a week early, WRAPPED, and then leave them in the middle of the living room floor. To taunt you. Yeah. Asshat.

and where am i?

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

So here's something else to add to my "just don't" file... Don't try to have two cell conversations, at the same time, while attempting to walk back to your car in an unfamiliar area. Particularly if you're in Cambridge (with roads designed by drunken Irishmen) and you're tired and wearing heels. I had ...

heatstroke

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

It's handy to have a friend who's an EMT, someone who will know what to do in times of crisis... say, if you pass a car accident or the man at the next table is in cardiac arrest or, OR especially if you're dumb and you stay in the sun ...

just don't

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I'm thinking about having a category called "Just don't." As in, the opposite of "Just do it." The first post? Just don't attempt to unclog a sink with a plunger... ::coughparticularlywiththestopperstillinthesink,stoppingtheholecoughcough::. Yeah... it doesn't work too well. And then you end up breaking a butter knife, chipping a nail and being late to work ...