@doschicos --I was just going to post that one–a perennial favorite! 
“According to our research, 90 percent of all transactions at independently owned shops throughout the nation—be they bakeries, used bookstores, or one of those places that just sells unusual gifts and knickknacks—are motivated solely by intense pangs of guilt experienced after making eye contact with the owner and realizing you’ll have to walk past her at the register before you leave,” < This is so me.
A classic on college athletics:
http://www.theonion.com/article/florida-state-university-to-phase-out-academic-ope-5425
And if anyone hasn’t seen this classic Onion video, you should do so immediately if not sooner: http://www.theonion.com/video/facebook-twitter-revolutionizing-how-parents-stalk-14364
Anyone else personally relate to this one? Happy 4th!
years of beach vacations! yes, I read that earlier today and laughed. Now that the kids are grown, and we live all summer near the beach, it’s a new round of the entire world wanting to visit. Endless changing of beds and washing of sheets. I have gotten in the habit of “there’s your room, here’s some sheets” but I still will be the one washing and folding them, bath towels, beach towels, all the rest of the linens. The good thing is it does force us to keep the place clean, ready for drop-ins at any time. And reminds us how lucky to be here.
I thought the Onion only published parodies.
http://www.theonion.com/article/mom-spends-beach-vacation-assuming-all-household-d-33431
@CIEE83 - That one still makes me laugh so hard that tears roll down my cheeks.
Make fun all you want but my Strayer Univ. graduate is very successful. This is a young man who would have dropped out of traditional college after one semester of mind-numbing (to him) subjects. At Strayer, he started computer courses the first semester and was able to scatter the “mind-numbing” subjects out over his whole four years. He knows the flack the school gets but he says he learned a ton at Strayer and yes, people flunked out along the way. Do I wish he could have gone traditional, well of course we all do, including him but not everyone is cut out to do that.
Love the Onion. What cracks me up more is when folks take the articles seriously and don’t realize they are satire.>>>>>>>
Hey, my very first time seeing it, I was stunned and …then I realized. And I’m a person who loves sarcasm, satires,parodies etc.
if you’re looking for an Onion with a military bent, check: http://www.duffelblog.com/
I had to read this in my Donald voice - Trump not Duck
I’ve always liked “Area Baby Doesn’t Have Any Friends.”
Also, this is SO what it’s like when H is driving:
http://www.theonion.com/article/mood-in-car-takes-grim-turn-after-dad-misses-exit-30175
Another education related gem: Online University Allows Students to Amass Crippling Debt at Own Pace
ROFL… I’m late reading the article, but that was hilarious
http://www.theonion.com/article/parents-dedicate-new-college-safe-space-honor-daug-50851
“I’ll never forget the morning my daughter called and told me in a trembling voice, ‘Mom, my professor said some stuff today I didn’t like,’” recounted an emotional Cassie Stigmore, who also remarked that Alexis was left further traumatized upon looking at the course syllabus and finding it contained a book she did not want to read because it was written by an author whose politics she opposed. “As a parent, I’ll always wish I could have been there for her in that lecture hall, protecting her from those unwelcome concepts.”
After pausing to regain her composure, she continued, “If this safe space had been here then, my Alexis would have been able to surround herself immediately with people who would have reiterated and reinforced all the views she had when we first sent her to college—but sadly, it wasn’t, and she was left to deal with that new, unwanted idea on her own.”
Seems PERFECT for this time of year!
http://www.theonion.com/article/moms-fears-about-daughter-leaving-college-channele-51060
Susan Vernon directs her crushing sadness that her daughter will no longer live just steps down the hallway into an argument over whether to purchase a single-piece drawered storage unit or separate stackable bins.
LOL. Can we make some of these required reading in the Parent Forum?
The storage bin one hits close to home - we had a big family fight over storage bins about a week before my daughter was off to college!