The Class Shuffle & The Budget Bastards
Three weeks into the school year I got an email saying my daughter was being switched to another class. So I went into that school like I was about to personally replace the Ministry of Education. No ...
28 Sep 11min
The Self-Checkout Cop
A woman writes in about a husband who has appointed himself Head of Loss Prevention for their marriage. He supervises her at the self-checkout. He audits the grocery bill. He announces to an entire re...
24 Sep 11min
The Chronic Canceller & The Red Heart Emoji
Priya has a best friend who has cancelled on her eleven times this year. Eleven. Not in a lifetime — since January. The text lands about ninety minutes before, and it always says the same thing: ugh, ...
21 Sep 11min
The Tech-Support Warden & The Concerned Committee
A friend texted Joseph in the middle of recording to say that getting old is a bitch. Not the knees. Not the back. The lecturing. Her kids are in their thirties. She is not old — she has just been rec...
17 Sep 11min
The Guilt-Trip Artist & The Family Martyr
Two performers, one family. The guilt-trip artist, who never asks for anything directly because a sigh does the work of a sentence. And the family martyr, who does everything for everyone and makes ab...
14 Sep 16min
Your Daughter Wouldn’t Enjoy It
Kelsey from Cleveland writes in because her seven-year-old daughter was the only child in her entire class not invited to a birthday party. The only one. When she asked the other mother what happened,...
10 Sep 15min
Oh, Is This White?
A bride writes in about a guest who arrived at her wedding in a floor-length white dress and then said, out loud, to her face: "oh, is this white?"Girl. You bought it. You tried it on. You zipped it u...
7 Sep 9min
