Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I’m visiting my parents for a few days. We’ve had our afternoon coffee and Dad turns on the tv to watch the tennis match (we’re very much a “everyone doing their own thing in the same room is ...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Self-Check Yourself Before You Securely Wreck Yourself Read Self-Check Yourself Before You Securely Wreck Yourself The swearing I could tolerate. The bad attitude I could tolerate. Calling me an ableist slur? Nope, not happening. I literally dropped th...
Mar 14, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Who’s On Your Crew? Someday all of the posts to Once We Were Browncoats will get imported here as part of the ongoing blog restoration project to have all of my blogging over the years in one place. For now, though, I...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Express Yourself At The Express Checkout, Part 3 Read Express Yourself At The Express Checkout, Part 3 Customer: "Can't you go any faster?!" Me: *Talking as slow as an Ent.* "No, sir, I have to make sure I don't do more than fifteen per transacti...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Wait… What?! Read Wait… What?! Salesman: "Hi, can I speak to the head of the household?" Wife: "Oh, we don't use our head for that." Read Wait… What?!
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Attempting A Daring Rescue Read Attempting A Daring Rescue Customer: "How dare you! No one else gets served until I get served! If that upsets you, get your manager over here faster!" Read Attempting A Daring Rescue
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Kid, Don’t Mess With The Muffin Man Read Kid, Don’t Mess With The Muffin Man I normally ask the guests which doughnuts or muffins they want so that I can grab them with gloves on. There was a regular guest who had a four-year-old who...
Mar 14, 2026 from Peter's Path Pelgrims Path part 02 Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see the Urbanus Church of Amstelveen. Urban is venerated as the patron saint of wine...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Looking Bookish At A Bookstore Read Looking Bookish At A Bookstore Customer: "Point me toward the romance section." I have no idea where the romance section went, but I don’t see an employee to send her to, and it really isn’t t...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Eventually Read Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Eventually Me: "[Son], why are there dirty dishes on the counter?" Son: "Thermal shock." Me: *Not expecting that.* "...I'm sorry, what?" Read Thermodynam...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Aisle Take That Seat, Thanks Read Aisle Take That Seat, Thanks My mother is overweight, just enough to make your average public transportation uncomfortable. We booked a flight together and purchased all three seats in one row...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Storm In A Light Bulb Read Storm In A Light Bulb When Kiera got to the store, somebody was outside trying to get in. Kiera tried to tell the man that they were closed, but he insisted that he just needed one thing, that...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read This was overheard by me at a library. A tutor is helping a small child with a math lesson, using a sheet of paper that they can see but the child can’t. The tutor is being very loud. Tutor: S...
Mar 14, 2026 from Galaxy Garden Officially Entered Advanced Stage of Retinitis Pigmentosa I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote a post about living with RP in December. On 12 March 2026, 15 months after my i...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read This story reminded me of an incident from my school days. In the front hall of our private school was a large, evidently somewhat old oscar fish (a kind of cichlid), aptly named “Oscar”. The ...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read This happened when we were much younger and was the greatest version of a Reverse Uno event that I ever experienced. My brother had been a pain in the butt all day, driving me nuts to the poin...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read (I need to go to the pharmacy to get my flu and covid vaccines. I am really not looking forward to the side effects, especially since my wife wants to go out to dinner for her birthday and I w...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read When I was a woman in my 20s, I really seemed to emit some kind of friendly/ approachable vibe so a lot of strangers would chat with me in public and I’d go with it. I like talking! As you can...
Mar 14, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read So i work with a guy who sometimes I wonder about. Well not just me but several other co workers. He seems to have difficulty in finding anything, even if it’s throughly explained where it is....