Archive for April, 2009

Oh, Father, Where Art Thou?

There are two kinds of weddings: the kind where two families joyously unite to make a third, and the kind where the bride expects to be crowned.  If you’re in the latter wedding, then God help you, especially if you aren’t Beautiful or don’t Look Perfect for Her Day.  The Background:My husband was previously married [...]

Forget The Party. Give Me The Booty.

If you thought listing registries in wedding and party invitations is bad, how about just sending out the registry?  Someone I know apparently thought it would be a good idea to throw the archaic correlation between parties and gifts to the wind:  instead of hosting a birthday party for herself (a faux pas in itself) in order to [...]

Begging For Baby

I use facebook as a social networking site, and find it particularly useful for checking up on the lives of people I don’t know well enough to talk to every day. While this in itself is probably questionable etiquette, I believe the “Facebook Invitation” I received today is far more suspect. The invitation came from [...]

Get A Move On, Little Customers.

One evening, two girlfriends and I were at the beginning of a fun night out and decided to have dinner at a mid-priced local chain Italian restaurant (I say local because it’s only in Arizona) with a great atmosphere and fun, enthusiastic and accommodating wait staff. This restaurant is known for having very long wait [...]

A “Gimme” of the Macabre Kind

Serendipity sent me to your site and I have ever thanked her for it.  I’d like to take this opportunity to share the tale of my in-laws–well, the tale of my mother-in-law, at least.
“Devon” was the youngest of his family, spoiled by all his sisters and particularly by his mother.  I met him when we [...]

Michelle Rodriguez Wreaks Havoc as Bridesmaid at Best Friend’s Wedding

“The Fast and the Furious” star Michelle Rodriguez was no model bridesmaid at the four-day wedding of her best friend and manager, Giancarlo Chersich, to beautiful Dominican actress and television host Celines Toribio, reports The Post’s Sandra Guzman.
At the welcome dinner at the Casa de Campo Resort in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez pushed fully clothed [...]

Bad Business

After having been out of the job market for a while, I was eager to go back.  But since I hadn’t worked in a couple of months and was finally getting back to being healthy again, I thought temping would be the way to go.  I figured if I didn’t like the job or if [...]

Zip it, Dad

My story is about a boy I dated in high school, Clark.  He was actually a very sweet boy with good manners and gentlemanly behavior.  I don’t know where he learned, but it wasn’t from his father, who our tale revolves around.
As Clark and I were young, without much money and fairly early curfews, we [...]

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No Mercy For Merci

My story is about someone who belongs in EHell for the way they received a thank you note. There was a manager (former teacher) at my previous job that really rubbed everyone the wrong way with her condescending lectures and attitude, yet always loved to explain how completely tactful she was. (Isn’t that a contradiction [...]