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1. 5. I met my husband online 12 years ago, when AOL was all the rage and his 3GB Compaq was smokin’ fast. We chatted online for months before meeting in person and it’s been magic ever since.

   Not that I didn’t have a few awkward dates also. But for the most part it was all pretty good.

   posted by Jen on 5-29-2009 at 5:00 pm

2. My sister and I wrote a fan letter to a hair band, Dangerous Toys, back in the day. We did get a letter back, supposedly from the lead singer. It was probably some loney roadie longing for fame and recognition.

   posted by RC on 5-29-2009 at 5:30 pm

3. 3. My husband is a fan of the Muppets, and years ago I thought it would be funny if I could get an “autographed” photo of Kermit for him. I tried, but I got a form-letter response saying they don’t have time to accommodate autograph requests. Here’s the best part… there was a lengthy handwritten paragraph at the bottom saying that the puppeteers are very busy people, and if they took the time to sign autographs, they wouldn’t get any of their work done. Seems like it would’ve been faster to just write “Kermit” on a photo!

   4. There was a homeless man who used to hang out at the downtown parking lot where I parked for work. He was nice and liked that I acknowledged him with a “hello” every morning. Out of the blue one day he told me that his birthday was coming up, and I had to bake him cookies. It cracked me up, and I actually did bake cookies for him, but when I brought them he was nowhere to be found.

   posted by JD on 5-29-2009 at 6:05 pm

4. 4. I bought a couple corn dogs at a Safeway near my college campus one day, and a homeless guy asked if I had any money. I told him no, but I did have a corndog. He said he never turned down food and we sat and talked about college and my plans after my education was finished all the while eating corndogs and splitting a soda.

   posted by Lucas on 5-29-2009 at 6:21 pm

5. 1. I spent half a night wandering around a sketchy part of town, walking through two graveyards and ended up spending the night away from home with friends. Could have ended much scarier.
   2. For a long time I was rather scared of octopus. Now I know it’s pretty tasty!
   3. I have, to Piers Anthony of sci-fi/fantasy novel fame. He wrote back a nice long letter and put me on the subscription list for his fan-journal. He also included one of my ideas in a later book.
   4. Despite living in an area with a great deal of homeless persons, the only interesting interaction I had was with Pink Umbrella Man, who would walk very slowly down the main street wearing all pink and carried a pink umbrella lined with tinfoil. Every time I would see him I’d say hello and he’d quietly smile and say hello in a soft, nearly effeminate tone.
   5. I met someone through Facebook and we dated briefly. He was a pothead who was only interested in sex, but I was lonely in a new town. We stayed together for two weeks. I have had more success finding friends through those dating sites (okcupid being my site of choice) than any partners.

   posted by Laurel R on 5-29-2009 at 6:51 pm

6. 1. i bailed on going to a baseball game with friends a few years back… good thing i did, their car flipped on the freeway at a busy interchange. everyone was ok, but the pictures are pretty gruesome and the paint marks on the concrete wall freak me out every time i drive past.

   3. there was this crappy show on E! a few years back – Filthy Rich Cattle Drive. it featured the kids of super rich people and celebrities trying to herd cattle somewhere. most were uber spoiled and complained the whole time. one guy was really great about the whole thing though and was a super class act. i felt the need to post some praise on his web site and he e-mailed me back a nice little note… the celeb – noah blake, yup, son of robert blake. weird.

   4. on my way out of a concert a few years back, i was chatting with another guy who had attended. halfway to my car, we encounter a homeless guy who tells us what a great couple we are and how he needs to hold my hand and treat me right. we didn’t want to argue with the homeless guy so we held hands and continued on our way. a little awkward, but we didn’t want to be bothered. well then his ride shows up, his wife. im sure she was thrilled to see her husband leaving a concert while holding my hand. imagine me trying to tell this woman “the homeless guy made us hold hands!” sure. she was cool about it though and gave me a ride to my car so the guy wouldn’t harass me (i parked kinda far away).

   5. and lastly, i randomly ran into an old flame while on match one day and we ended up getting back together and dated for a year or so. i’ve had pretty good experiences with match.com overall. still friends with a couple guys i met there.

   posted by tiffany on 5-29-2009 at 6:52 pm

7. 1. What, in retrospect, is the most dangerous thing that nearly happened to you?

   When I was 17 (Back when I knew everything) I was pulling out of the movie theater parking lot with my girlfriend in the car. I don’t remember exactly who did what (I was the 17 year old driver – it was probably my fault) but something the other driver did ticked me off and I caught up with him at the next light, rolled down my window and started verbally accosting him. (I had quite the temper – and I wanted to show off for my girl.) He was a few years older than me and very buff, I was tall and Fluff.

   I got it to the point where we had both pulled into a parking lot yelling at each other. My big threat to him… are you ready for it…. “Go ahead and hit me, I’ll have you arrested for assaulting a minor!” He laughed and left, I declared victory.

   My girlfriend didn’t talk to me the whole way back to her house except to tell me how stupid I was (She was right.) Her FATHER called me the next day telling me NEVER to do something that stupid near his daughter again. No need to worry on his part, she broke up with me the next day.

   I have mellowed a lot since then, (After all, once I graduated college I didn’t know everything anymore) It was stupid, and I could have been severely beaten (or killed)

   3. Have you ever written a fan letter? To whom? Did you get a response?

   In 3rd grade I wrote a letter to President Bush (no, the other one). It can’t have been anything earth shattering, probably telling him to free kids from school or something. I got a packet back thanking me for my letter including an autographed picture of the President (I assume he did not really sign it) and a picture of Air Force 1.

   4. What is the most interesting interaction you have ever had with a homeless person?

   When the swine flu hype started I was at CVS on Main St. in downtown Houston. There was a homeless person (I assume) in line in front of me. She had a towel wrapped around her nose, but not her mouth. She claimed that God was punishing our nation for gay marriage like he punished Sodom and Gammorrah, and that she was not going to die.

   I almost explained to her that if God wanted her dead a towel around her nose would not stop him, and that Houston would be one of the last places God punished for gay marriage, but it was not worth it.

   5. Online dating is fairly common and pretty well accepted as a norm – hence, match.com, chemistry.com, eharmony, etc. What horror stories or success have you experienced?

   Once I met a girl on an online dating site, I took her to the movies and got into an altercation… (OK, that is a joke.)

   posted by Witty Nickname on 5-29-2009 at 7:29 pm

8. 1. Ooh! This one’s mine! I got locked out of my house when the bloody painters snapped a key off in the lock. I climbed the scaffolding in the rain whilst, wearing a long skirt and mule wedges, to get to my bedroom window on the third floor. I got in safely, but my palms still sweat at the thought of how high up I was, and how inappropriately dressed for the activity in that weather. Those wedges had no grip at all!

   2. Those scorpion lollipops and chocolate covered ants that were popular a few years ago as, quite literal, gag gifts. I just can’t bring myself to do it.

   3. I don’t think I’ve ever sent a real fan letter. E-mails to bloggers doesn’t count really, but those I’ve sent have always been answered.

   4. We had a few homeless people use the bookshop I worked in as a sort of day centre occasionally. It was interesting to note that my floor was very popular because we had the sci-fi, crime, reference and health care sections.

   5. It’s been a while since I e-dated, but I always thought that it was pretty easy to tell from the profiles and e-mails who was a nutter and who wasn’t, so I never had anything scary happen. I also found it much easier to ask important questions before you’d ever met the person, which I really liked to.

   posted by Jen - The Alien Spouse on 5-29-2009 at 7:37 pm

9. In retrospect, one of the most dangerous things that almost happened to me was when I was in my 20’s working in an all night in and out store on the third shift. Two guys came in around 4 in the morning and it was obvious they were getting set up to rob me. Just as one started to come around the counter, a customer walked in and they fled. They proceeded to go down the road a few miles, robbed the female clerk on duty, kidnapped and raped her and dumped her out on a dirt road.

   As for fan letters, when I was in my teens, I was always sending fan letters to Donny Osmond, Andy Gibb, John Travolta, Tony DeFranco, and Shawn Cassidy. I got many autographed photos back that I adorned my teenage bedroom walls with!

   posted by Jan on 5-29-2009 at 8:12 pm

10. I’m actually using JDate right now (the Jewish version of Match.com) and aside from being hit on by several 50+ men, I haven’t had that bad of a time of it.

    There are a lot of guys who are obviously on there just for sex, we call them members of Lay-Date.

    I do though have a second date with a guy tonight that I met on JDate last week. Wish me luck. :)

    posted by Bethany on 5-29-2009 at 9:16 pm

11. My daughter objected to the war in Iraq when she was 11, and talked about how frustrating it was she could do nothing about it. My husband and I encouraged her to write the president, telling her that he would most likely not even read the letter but that it would likely be counted by an aide, and at least she could say she tried. She wrote the letter, including important reasons for her opinion. Several weeks later she got back a form letter and a signed picture from President Bush saying how much her support meant to him and his work. Not exactly a fan letter, but with a terrible outcome. Now she KNOWS that the government couldn’t care less.

    ReCaptcha: sewage everyone

    posted by Julie on 5-29-2009 at 9:25 pm

12. 1. I live in Mexico so to go visit my parents usually requires at least a full day of traveling, usually really late at night (or early in the morning). On this particular trip we were five hours from the border driving along in a red suburban at about eighty miles an hour (I wasn’t driving) when the driver attempted to swerve around the carcass of a donkey. He lost control of the vehicle and we rolled off the highway, smashing windows and things all over the place. I bounced off a guy lying in the back of the suburban and flew out the back window on the driver’s side (no seatbelt), the lady sitting in the passenger’s seat in front of me flew over her seat and landed in my seat. The guy I bounced off of got hit by a tool-chest and the baby in between myself and the other passenger was buried in a pile of coats (thank goodness). I knew what was happening but I didn’t realize that I’d ended up outside until I opened my eyes and sat up. It was a miracle that everyone survived, someone should have died. That suburban should have rolled over on me but it didn’t. We had just barely buckled the baby up in his car seat before the crash happened. Now every time we take a trip in that suburban the first thing we talk about is that crash.

    2. Menudo is AWESOME! We eat it all the time.

    5. I have an old friend that met someone on Facebook and went out to meet her. Realized once he got there that he wasn’t all that interested and so decided to come home on standby. He waited and waited and waited in the airport until he finally ended up buying a $700 ticket to get back home. I felt so bad for him when I heard!

    posted by Liz on 5-29-2009 at 9:49 pm

13. In the early 90’s, while working with Colombian youth, in the city of Rioachia, I was walking in a huge group down the street, when three black SUV’s came flying around the corner. The kids all flew off the street, but I kinda glared at the drivers for being so wreckless and strutted slowly to the side. The last SUV brakes and backs up, the dude starts asking me, real calmly, “If I had a problem?” I was in mid-sentence when my host group, bear hugged me and whisked me off to a side alley and ran me around the block. When we finally slowed down, one of the kids says in English…”Mafia!” and points his finger to his head and pulls an imaginary trigger.

    posted by NT4thBook on 5-29-2009 at 9:49 pm

14. 3. A friend and I, in our 30s, were planning a short trip to Las Vegas and one of the things we had scheduled was to see the show FX with David Cassidy. She had always had the biggest crush on him, so I wrote him a letter about how cool it would be if he’d do something special with her during the show — and also how fun it would be for us to make a movie together about two women in their 30s who are obsessed with David Cassidy and maybe they all run around Vegas together solving mysteries or something.

    Although I did not hear back from him (and he did, in fact, pick a lady from the audience during the show), I count it lucky that they didn’t prevent us from checking in at all, as creepy as I probably made us sound.

    4. One morning I got off the subway in NYC on my way to work and there was a lady staggering around the platform yelling, “Change, change.” I murmured, “Sorry, no,” as I walked by, and she slugged me hard in the arm. I told the transit staff upstairs, because I was afraid she’d assault someone who would hit her back.

    posted by Kittymama on 5-29-2009 at 10:25 pm

15. 1. I went to a summer running camp when I was in high school and our coach had us running on trails, me and my friend were lagging behind and lost sight of the other people. We managed to go off of the trail on accident, and ended up being lost for about an hour and a half, luckily we found a road eventually, along with a freaked out coach, who reminded us that we were supposed to stay in one place when you get lost not wander the road…oops

    4. One day it was raining off and on and I’d just cleaned out my car, in doing so I’d noticed that I had like five umbrellas for no apparent reason since I always forgot to use them. So I see a homeless person at a light with a sign saying anything will help, so I roll down my window and hand him one of the umbrellas he gets a grin on his face and said thanks, I think that was the best interaction I’ve had.

    posted by Asil on 5-30-2009 at 12:35 am

16. 1. This past december i was on my way home from working a double shift at the restaurant. i drive through a national park to get home and there are a lot of deer so i’m always very careful. i made it through the park safely but after about another minute of driving a deer jumped out directly in front of me. my immediate reaction was to slam on the brakes and jerk the wheel. the brakes locked up and i started fishtailing all over the road until i eventually took out a tree on top of a five foot embankment. i ended up with some scratches on my face from the airbag but otherwise i was fine. but the car was totaled. and it was my boyfriends car (who i met on match.com). i was very lucky; after seeing the car i was surprised i was actually alive to see what it looked like from the outside.

    3. when i was about 10yrs old i had gotten a book from the catalogs they give out in elementary school. it was a book of a bunch of different celebrities and their information on where to send fan mail and lots of other tidbits of info about them. i don’t remember all of who i sent out letters to but i do know specifically who i got some letters back from. Janet Jackson was one and Blossom (who’s real name is eluding me right now). but i’m sure it wasn’t either one of them that actually wrote the letters back. i also got some stickers and buttons and autographed photos. oh, i think michael j fox and christian slater were a couple of the other ones. this was 1992!

    4. there’s a woman in philadelphia who rides up and down south street on her bike. she wears all neon colors (spandex biking shorts and sports bra) covered by a white fishnet shirt. at least, those are the colors they used to be, you can’t really tell through all the dirt that’s caked on them. she carries an old boom box with her on her shoulder while she rides and every so often she’ll stop, put the stereo on the sidewalk and dance, er.. grind on the seat of her bike and sing along with the music. right in the middle of the sidewalk! one day i was having drinks with some friends at fat tuesday and she stopped right in front of the bar, which is on the second level but it’s all open to the outdoors and there is a short balcony. on this particular day she had found some ping pong balls.. lord knows where. she put down her boom box and started taking the ping pong balls out of her pouch and one by one tried to spit them from her mouth at me and my friends. when one of them almost landed in my drink we decided we should move further back into the bar.

    5. i met my current boyfriend on match.com and things with him couldn’t be better. there were a couple guys i met on the site before him that did not go as smoothly. the first, as it turned out, lived right down the street from me. i thought that was a sign. but once me met up i saw the crazy in him. he couldn’t stop talking about his ex. after putting up with it for some time i finally decided to just play along and i asked when exactly they had broken up. turns out, they were still married. she had just kicked him out and filed for divorce two days before i met him on the site. i didn’t have a response… i just picked up my things and took myself home.

    the second guy i met lived a little further away. but i was used to driving since at the time i had a bit of a commute to work so the hour drive didn’t phase me at all. before we met i laid it all out for him and made sure he knew i didn’t put out on the first date. i probably wouldn’t even kiss him. he said he was fine with it. we met at a bar near his place and everything was fine. after a couple drinks and some conversation i felt i had a pretty good vibes from him and i was pretty sure he wasn’t a creep. so when he asked if i wanted to go back to his place to watch a movie i agreed. he failed to tell me that he still lived with his parents (at 33 years old) so i was mortified that i had to meet the family unexpectedly on the first “date”. then he proceeded to try to make out with me during the whole movie (or what i could stand of it) and kept whispering in my ear how bad he wanted to have sex with me. i kept trying to politely turn him down.. his parents were right in the next room! finally about 45 minutes into the movie i couldn’t take it any more and i exploded. i explained to him AGAIN that doing that kind of thing on the first date was not my style and he was giving me the creeps. in a not so nice way, and loud enough so his parents could hear, grabbed my things and left extremely angry. needless to say, i never called him again. but i did get a couple whiny voicemails asking what it was that he had done wrong. ugh. creep.

    and then my current boyfriend. i had such good feelings about him that we decided to meet up after only a week of online chatting and talking on the phone. we hit it off right away and i’ve never been happier with anyone. just goes to show that yes, there are some nasties on internet dating sites, but if you stick to it you can find the right person for you.

    posted by nailbunny on 5-30-2009 at 12:45 am

17. RE #3:

    When I was in junior high or so I had a huge crush on Sean Astin and wrote him one letter. I don’t think I got a reply but I am still a fan of his and only went to see LOTR with my late husband because he was in it :-D

    RE #5:

    I haven’t ever used online dating but I have used the prequel: personal ads, but only once…

    It was a couple months before I graduated high school and I had gotten some Christian personals some how and replied to one. The first date was the afternoon after my graduation and it was very bizarre, too long to explain here, but at the end… he tried to get something I wasn’t ready to give, especially on the first “date”, and that was that for me. And the end of my personals foray.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 5-30-2009 at 1:01 am

18. PS RE #5:

    I met my late husband online, but not through any dating service, just through chat. We were married 4 1/2 years and had a son (who is now almost seven) before he died unexpectedly almost six years ago.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 5-30-2009 at 1:04 am

19. Jan, your story freaked me out. How awful for that other girl but I’m glad you are OK.

    3. I used to love the children’s author Zilpha Keatley Snyder when I was a kid and found her books still held up well when I was an adult. I wrote her an email, telling her as much and she wrote a very lovely note back.

    About 10 years ago, I found out that Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Olsen on Little House on the Prairie, was an AIDS activist and I wrote her a note to let her know I thought she did great work. She also sent a nice reply.

    Celebrities people have actually heard of? I got nothin’.

    posted by Mother Chat on 5-30-2009 at 7:47 am

20. @Julie:

    That’s sad. I wrote a letter to Clinton back in 1992 or 1993, when I was 7 or 8, about how a group of elephants was being treated horrendously at this crappy mall parking lot circus that was around town. I’m sure the letter I got back wasn’t actually from him, but it was personalized and actually addressed what he and Gore were doing for animal rights. It was clear SOMEONE read the letter and didn’t just send back a form letter they sent to everyone.

    Maybe Bush just got more mail than Clinton.

    posted by Kate on 5-30-2009 at 11:37 am

21. 1. What, in retrospect, is the most dangerous thing that nearly happened to you?

    In my late 20’s, I travelled quite a bit and was quite confident no matter what city I was in (including NYC). I flew to NYC for a weekend to go on a date with a guy I had met on New Year’s Eve. The date was ok but kinda weird, and as far as I know the guy isn’t a serial killer, but I realised later no one really knew where I was, who I was out with or where I was staying. The date consisted of dinner, an after-dinner drink at a bar in Chinatown (I only had water), and then hanging out at his brother’s (whom I’d never met before) apartment. What was I thinking?!

    4. What is the most interesting interaction you have ever had with a homeless person?

    I grew up in a small town, and didn’t have any interactions with homeless people until I moved to Pittsburgh right out of college. I went to get a sandwich for lunch one day, and on the way back to the office, I came across a homeless person begging for money. I told him he could have my sandwich, and he started crying, and told me “I’m so hungry”. The way he said it just broke my heart.

    A much more light-hearted interaction happened here in NZ. We have a ‘famous’ homeless guy called “Blanket Man” (he has a wikipedia page). He mainly sits around the CBD mostly naked (and with a blanket) smoking pot out of a beer can and listening to an MP3 player. One day my husband and I walked by him, and he looked at me and said “Permission has been granted! For f***ing!”

    5. What horror stories or success have you experienced?

    During my travelling years, I decided to check out Match.com. I only met weirdos, so gave up pretty quickly. However, my friend and coworker decided to try her hand at the site – the first man she met was “the one”. They had one fabulous date, took themselves off the site immediately, and were engaged 6 months later. They are still married to this day with two children!

    posted by dawn on 5-31-2009 at 5:58 am

22. i was driving – had just exited the free way first in line at the red light. the road was sharply curved to the right obstructed on the left. light goes green – car behind blows its horn not just a friendly toot a long blast. i thought whats this guys problem ? i go to take off then jammed on the brakes narrowly missing being flatened by a semi speeding through the intersection. i went from being angered at the rude horn blast to being almost killed to realizing that horn blast was a warning by that driver who could see the danger approaching.

    posted by dirk alan on 5-31-2009 at 6:21 pm

23. #1 the most dangerous thing that has ver happened to me was about 11yrs ago i was almost hit by a plane on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, the plane lanmded on top another one about 15-20 ft away from where i was standing.

    #2 i try to stay away from strange foods except watching bizarre foods on the travel channel.

    #3 a fan letter? nope

    #4 i work at a “quickie mart” so we usually has to chase the homeless off the property to keep them from begging for change.

    #5 I met my partner online 9 yrs ago we chatted for about 2 weeks online and on the phone before wee met in person, been together ever since.

    posted by cindy on 6-1-2009 at 12:32 am

24. 1. My husband and I were skiing in Telluride, CO this winter and rented a woefully inadequate car to get us back and forth from the airport. On the way out of town the last day, we got caught in a huge snowstorm on a mountain pass. Our car started to slip on the steep incline and eventually stopped dead in the middle of the snow-covered road. My hubby and I were just discussion what we should do to get unstuck when he suddenly started nervously repeating, “Semi…Semi..SEMI!” I saw it coming toward us out the windshield, and just as I turned to reassure him that the semi had plenty of room to get by us, I saw a WHOOSH out of the right corner of my eye. My hubby had seen a semi coming from behind us…the two semis passed us simultaneously, one on either side of the car! Yikes!

    posted by erininhouston on 6-1-2009 at 10:06 am

25. #1 I was buying a bike off Craigslist, and it was all sorts of creepy that I should have thought better of. First off, he wanted me to come over at 10 pm. Then he didn’t give me directions over email, he wanted me to call him and would give directions. So I left my gf at the apartment and called him. This means she didn’t know where I was going and would have no record of it.

    When I got there, I said “Hi, I’m Kevin, I’m here about the bike.” In one motion, he says “It’s down in my basement,” while stepping aside from his door and pointing at an inner door. I’m already thinking this is weird, but cheap bike, you can’t beat that. We walk to the stairs, and he just points down them. He wants me to hit the stairs first. With every step I take I turn my head just to make sure he isn’t about to pull out a machete or something.

    Finally I get down, and there is a bike there. Everything is fine, just a little paranoia. And when the brake line broke on the bike right then and there, he knocked off $10!

    #3 I wrote joke fan letters to Alan Alda and Chris Penn. Alda replied with a signed picture, but no comments on the bizarre letter I’d written. The Chris Penn letter (RIP) never got responded to, although that one was even more hilarious.

    posted by Kevin on 6-1-2009 at 10:57 am

26. 1. My most dangerous situation was just a result of flat out ingnorance and inexperience. I had only been driving for a few months (admittedly, I didn’t learn how to drive until I was 19) when I had a blowout on I-10 coming into Houston. I was on a pretty busy part of the freeway and had no real idea what to do. I was in the left lane and didn’t think that you could drive a car with a flat tire across 3 lanes of high speed traffic, exit and go to the gas station on the feeder road. So, brilliantly, I decided I’d just turn my hazards on, and leave my car there immobile in the fast lane with all of my belongings in it while I ran across the freeway and down the gas station to call a tow truck. It was 1996, back when we still used land lines and not everyone had cell phones. As I’m on the phone I see a police cruiser pull up to my car. I run back across the freeway doing my best not to die and then officer gives me a HUGE lecture and gets me to drive it off the road. The next day there was a report on the news of a woman whose legs were crushed when a car smashed into her while she was on the shoulder of another Houston freeway. I felt so dumb and so lucky.

    2. I actually want to try sweetbreads. It’s the thymus gland and pancreas. I’ve heard a lot of good things about them. I’d also like to try fried brains. Since the brain mainly consists of fat, I, for some reason, think cow brains would be delicious. Authentic bird’s nest soup would be interesting, too. I doubt I’ll ever try any of them. I was a vegetarian for 15 years and now I really only break for good texas bbq and good sushi.

    3. I wrote a fan letter to Wil Wheaton when I was about 12 (I’m 31 now). I fell in love with him in Stand By Me when I was 9 and watched Star Trek: TNG obsessively. I never got a reply, but I never really expected one. Hell, I don’t even know if my mom actually mailed the letter or not. I also wrote one to Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block. Definitely never received a response on that one and I *know* it was mailed.

    4. When I lived in Austin, I took public transportation everywhere and the downtown bus stops are a great place for your daily dose of crazy. One guy asked me where I was going one day – I told him I was going to work. Then he asked for a drink of my coffee – I told him no. He yelled, “F*ck you, b*tch! I f*cking hate you!” and stormed off. Another day I was wearing a pink shirt and brown slacks and this lady started talking to me about what a beautiful color combination it is and how she painted someone wearing those colors once and that after the painting was finished she and the person had a huge fight and she’d beaten them severely with a fireplace poker. I went ahead and just got on the next bus that came by.

    5. I met up with a really nice guy, we had a great dinner and some drinks and got along really well. We kissed at the end of the night and made plans for later in the week. The next morning he starts sending me texts about how he gets an erection every time he thinks of me, but he was not that polite about it. He was horribly crude. At that point I made a point to cease all communication. When he asks for an explanation, I give it to him. His reasoning was that he thought we were “beyond the acquaintance phase of our relationship.” I told him that we most certainly weren’t at the porn talk level of our “relationship.” Thankfully I never heard from him again. Other than that, I’ve met really nice guys but none with whom I’ve really clicked. Quite a few of them are still great friends now.

    And thanks for picking my question, Jason! :)

    posted by nikki on 6-1-2009 at 2:37 pm

27. Homeless: While I was living in Chicago, there was an elderly woman, no matter how dirty her clothing, body, hair was, she always had her make-up done. Blondish Grey hair teased high, bright red lips and eyeliner that one day, I hoped to perfect.

    One day, while waiting for the bus, she came up and started a song and dance. She sang “I’ve Been Everywhere”, 2 verses and one chorus. She ended with a little hop and her hand out to me. “Cigarette please”. For that moment, I felt guilty for not being a smoker, “Sorry, I don’t smoke.”
    She glared at me and yelled “Bitch!” and walked away. She ignored me on the street after that.

    posted by Karen on 6-1-2009 at 4:44 pm

28. One of my psych professors had Ted Bundy as a student… I guess taking him for class is kind of risky…. (Just kidding, just kidding. But he really did have him as a student.)

    posted by StephK on 6-3-2009 at 5:15 pm

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