Tag: Funny Story
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Summer of ’05: Part II
As I mentioned last time, I worked my face off that summer. I once worked a whopping 22 shifts straight before taking a day off. I was working as a hostess in a restaurant that was, at the time, one of THE most popular places in Philadelphia. How popular, you ask? 500 covers (or people,…
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Summer of ’05: Part I
As we enter into the home stretch of summer time, I think now is as good a time as any to tell you some tales from one of the stranger summers of my adult life. The summer of 2005 was a weird one. I’d graduated from Drexel with my Masters, but was still working in…
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I Can Fit My Whole Foot in My Mouth
When you think of sexual harassment, what comes to mind? Clarence Thomas? That episode of Quantum Leap where Sam was Dr. Ruth and ran into Anita Hill? Mad Men? That episode of Quantum Leap that was kind of like Mad Men? Maybe a Lifetime original movie about some young woman overcoming adversity to one day…
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No, You’re Right. I’m the Worst.
One of my biggest fears is being publicly shamed. Specifically, to be scolded in public as an adult for doing something that I shouldn’t be doing. I live my adult life just trying not to get yelled at. But since my life typically plays out like a sitcom or romantic comedy (minus the romance), I…
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Hey, remember that time we got caught reading Playgirl on an airplane?
* Names have been changed to protect the married with three kids. In my second senior year of college, I decided to go to Atlanta for Spring Break with my friend, Kerri Jackson. How I miss the ruckus and public spectacle that was Kerri Jackson in the ’90s. A girl who could keep pace drinking…
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Violating Work Place Dress Codes Like It’s My Job
Hi, my name is Raina. And I like to learn things the hard way. Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I just looove making the same mistake over and over and that, every time, I will be MYSTIFIED by the outcome. I also love not thinking things through. That will be written on…
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Hey, remember that time we got flashed on the way to see Schindler’s List?
I feel the need to start by saying that Schindler’s List is a great movie. Gripping, dark, brutal realism at its best; a Holocaust movie that Gene Siskel said will “simply and forcefully place us there”. Totally what you want in an afternoon spent with your Italian, Catholic grandmother. I can only assume it’s what…