Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read Let’s say my MIL’s name is Jennifer Smith. My husband and I bought a house that (MIL) used to rent out but wanted to sell because no one was interested in renting. A few weeks after moving in,...
Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com You Ruined His Designs Read You Ruined His Designs We knew [Student #2] from classes we attended together; he seemed a bit of an oddball (sort of a Sheldon Cooper way before Sheldon Cooper was a thing), but not disruptiv...
Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read [My paternal grandparents were Russian immigrants, and only spoke Russian when my dad was young. He didn’t learn English until he was school age. My siblings and I never learned Russian, only ...
Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read Following a recent hurricane, our local area was impacted with power outages and some limited damage. Client day after the hurricane: It’s like sales just flew away the past two days. Any thou...
Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read This coffee shop has seen more of my life than my own apartment. It’s small, cozy, with that dim lighting that makes everyone look ten years younger, which is why I keep coming back. Plus, the...
Mar 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read On the Saturday before this story takes place, our factory had an open house for employee’s families. In front of the paint department (which is across from my department) — there were a few s...
Mar 15, 2026 from The Autodidacts Bothering to understand First it makes you slow, then it makes you fast (maybe)
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...
