Trust me, I understand your situation more than most. It’s not that you just want that big, impractical item in your home: You need it. For me, it’s the full cabinet of the classic arcade game Turtles in Time, which I have moved to a half-dozen different...
“The fewer trips to and fro the better,” answers Frank. “I’d say it’s stubbornness,” says G.J. “It’s a ‘macho’ thing,” adds Carlton. “Mostly, I think it’s laziness,” admits Douglas. “Because we can,” boasts Eian. These are just some of the replies I got when I surveyed a...
As with so many things in life, the answer to this question really depends on which type of Redditor you ask. One guy suggests it’s when you’re dating a woman who plays in a basketball league while you’re playing in a football league; another seems to think...
About a week ago, as I went to feed my 10-year-old pet turtle Grover a bunch of dried turtle pellets, I looked deep into his eyes and wondered: “Does he even know who I am?” “Does he trust me?” Or even, dare I ask, “Does he love...
Odds are, it was just a fit of blind fury when you told your partner that you only married them for their money. But in the moment, you were angry: The world was on fire, and awful things somehow escaped from your mouth. Because if there’s one...
Unfortunately, there are no puberty-adjacent symptoms that correspond with getting your life together. You don’t start growing hair under your arms when it’s time to quit trying to make it as an actor, and you probably don’t start throwing temper tantrums at your parents when it’s time to buy...
According to stereotypes, mechanics exist to prey on those of us not mechanically inclined, try to scare the heck out of us, sell us parts and fluids and fixes we don’t need, and screw with us about how much it’ll cost and how much longer they’ll need...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
The “I wish I could be someone I’m not” market — known more commonly as self-help — is worth nearly $10 billion in the U.S., which means there are a lot of people out there who are desperately trying to change. Like a lot, a lot: One 2014 study followed its...
Making a relationship work when you and your partner are on different schedules can be difficult, frustrating and downright painful. I know this from experience. Until recently, my girlfriend and I were in what you could call a drive-by relationship — we saw each other only in passing, with...
The thing about makeup is men act like they prefer women who don’t wear it, but what they really mean is they want a woman who is so naturally beautiful and flawless that she doesn’t have to. The thing about makeup is even that woman wears it,...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....