Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No Power Trips During Power Outage Read No Power Trips During Power Outage Our store loses power, so I'm kindly asking the customers to leave and come back later. An older customer smirks. Customer: *Pointing at my powerless registe...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read (I’m an amateur sewist, and my husband is a software engineer who occasionally likes to mess with people.) Husband: My wife got three thread rippers for £3 the other day. Colleague: What? Thos...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Caught With Your Pants Gone Read Caught With Your Pants Gone Student: "Mr. [My Name], I've never seen you wear pants before!" Read Caught With Your Pants Gone
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Interrupting My Dose Read Interrupting My Dose Me: "Hey, yeah, I'm on ninety-one-day birth control for medical reasons, and my prescription's been filled with three packs of twenty-eight-day birth control." Pharmacist:...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read A funny little conversation I had with a friend when I habitually opened a private window on my laptop to search Google: Friend: “So why do you use private windows? You know that incognito doe...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I get a phone call in the middle of the work day. It’s my insurance agent. Agent: I noticed it’s your wife’s birthday today. I don’t have her number, so I just wanted to tell you to tell her h...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Explaining It In Black And White, And Red And Blue Read Explaining It In Black And White, And Red And Blue Customer: "Do not lie to me!" Me: "I'm not lying, I don't work here." Customer: *Yelling.* "You're wearing a f****** uniform. Of course you w...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read While searching for a new apartment, my one non-negotiable requirement was that I wanted to be able to have a cat. I finally found one, connected with a local rescue, and within a month of mov...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Whole-y Agree Read Whole-y Agree Barista: "Of course, skim okay?" My brain screeches to a halt. Me: "No, um, actually, can I have normal milk?" Barista: "Um..." Read Whole-y Agree
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I’m not going to pretend it isn’t an issue because he’s not aggressive, my dog is reactive. Specifically he’s the kind of reactive where he thinks everyone in the world is already his best fri...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I’m the same person from this story https://notalwaysright.com/our-condolences-for-the-loss-of-some-really-hip-jeans/325463/ Back when I was small it was not uncommon for only one parent to wo...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use...
Mar 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com And Then They Refused Her Service… Right? Read And Then They Refused Her Service… Right? A really old lady comes up to me in the produce section and asks me casually: Customer: "Where are the [n-word] toes?" Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, I must h...
Mar 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse How are John Waters movies like James Bond movies? A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to make a list. This I did as best I could. (It turned out to be around 700.) I found...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts Sheep Music & Wedding Bands On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome
Mar 09, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they can’t do I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they couldn’t do.
Mar 09, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Switch Over the last day or two, I've been dealing with an onset of fatigue. A few reasons for this: I ran out of my Mounjaro prescription, and despite seeing my provider to get a refill, it's been severa...
Mar 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31 Read No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31 Customer: "My order isn’t shipping! It says, 'processing Monday AM'!" Me: "Right, ma'am. The warehouse reopens tomorrow morning. Today is Sunday." Customer:...
Mar 08, 2026 from BEEW Dancing on the Head of a Needle For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless a...
