I wonder how hard it is for news reporters to locate the folks with bad judgment for interviews.
Note to inexperienced coaches: Parents are not the enemy. Players are not questioning your authority at every opportunity, they just know more about the building than you do. Respect cannot be gained through punishment, it is earned by showing good judgement. Your lack of self-confidence is showing in your overreaction to things.
Ack! Paying Texas football coaches a lot DOES NOT TAKE AWAY MONEY from kids! The football program MAKES money for the school!!
You don’t want to get married …I see the signs
Dear H would you please stop buying so much meat online? I know it’s ‘fun’ and economical but really, 20 lbs of beef, 10 lbs of chicken and 10 lbs of ground turkey is over the top. Our son almost broke a toe opening up the freezer 
How many times do I have to tell you, NO CANDLES. Sorry if you went out and used your own money to buy something that smells pretty.
If you can spill a full jar of olive juice on your bed, you can knock over a candle and all that trash on your floor will go up in flames.
Why do we have to go through this again and again and again? I wish my NYC fireman grandfather was still here and could talk to you.
Time to get a safe, nice smelling alternative like those sticks in a jar of fragrant liquid.
You are nice and lovely people who I find so boring I want to escape.
I hope we always live 3,000 miles apart.
I really need you to understand that I do not want to host you nor do I want you to host me.
BORING people who I will be nice enough to the rest of my life…groan.
And, by the way, I have not seen a single pair of nylons on a woman in at least a decade.
I knew you would and I found it fascinating. I have not owned a pair in longer than that.
Such very different lives we lead. Thanks! I will keep my own.
Hit 210lbs. Ten more pounds to go, then 30 from there again.
I came to your future DIL’s bridal shower. I had to park four blocks away and carry a large, heavy gift. Who invites thirty people to a shower where there is no parking available? I was only able to stay for lunch, a shower game, and gift opening (2-1/2 hours). I couldn’t stay to play the other three (!) games. Now you are ‘disappointed’ I didn’t stay longer? You need to get over it!
Phew! Now I feel better.
You finally evacuated. Many thanks for seeing the peril.
I posted this on 9/1:
Or Florida.
Now, it turns out the front door is kaput. Won’t close. When we force it closed, it won’t open. My wonderful contractor says we need a new door, new door frame, yada yada. I have a fancy ladies’ lunch here this Thursday, and my door doesn’t close. I have a post-wedding brunch for 50 here in four weeks, and the door might not be fixed by then.
Again – first-world problems. It’s OK. We have the money to fix these things. But jeez. Enough already!!
I must never, ever say a word. I must keep my mouth shut. I cannot ever say it. I must keep my thoughts to myself.
I’m really proud that you didn’t take the easy way out, even though it may have cost you a lifelong dream.
Please don’t ask for opinions if you’re going to be insulted when they don’t match yours.
Congratulations on your new job. Of course, as your mom, I want to remind you that you almost gave up and settled for the one you really didn’t want. You need to thank your dad for his advice.
Oh, my gosh, what’s so hard to understand about the fact that we sent you two invoices that happened to be for the same amount? It doesn’t mean you have to pay only one of them! I already explained it once. We need that second invoice paid so we can make a college tuition payment, grr…
I suppose when you said that maybe mom should think of moving after she gets electricity back from the hurricane, you meant she should move to YOUR city, right? So YOU can deal with her? That must be what you meant
Too young. Too soon. I am so sorry.
I am really dreading this conversation but I have to do it.
Going back to school at age 69 is very challenging! I graduated from college in 1971 when there was no Internet and we typed all our papers manual typewriters. But good! (fingers crossed! MSW at age 71, a month before 72!)