Aug 08, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Mein digitaler Garten Ich habe mir einen kleinen digitalen Garten angelegt.
Aug 08, 2026 from Roy Tang Forty-Eight When thinking about what to write for these posts, I often start by looking through the past birthday posts. I wrote the first one in 2002 when I was 24, literally half a lifetime ago! At the time ...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Cluck Around And Find Out Read Cluck Around And Find Out Today, I scolded a customer as if she were a child. I saw her putting her fingers inside a box of fried chicken. I was rushing over, calling out "EXCUSE MEEEE!" when ...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com A Civic Duty Read A Civic Duty A Cybertruck passes us. I don't know enough about cars to know if they're any good, but I do know they're weird-looking, and my child seems to agree. Ten-Year-Old: "That's so ugly...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Blinded By The Main Character Energy Read Blinded By The Main Character Energy There are few seats available, but I’m lucky to just get a seat. On these trains, you will end up sitting next to strangers as there is simply no space oth...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Pressed For Time Read Pressed For Time I'm working at a Tex-Mex fast food place. It's lunchtime, and we have a long line. Customer: "I want two tacos, no grease." Me: "So that's an empty corn tortilla? No fillings?...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I’ve had tropical fish tanks since I was a kid. Last year, my last and oldest fish passed after 5+ years. (My record was 9 1/2 years). I went to a Pet big box store. And thus began 4 months of...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Email Fail, Part 56 Read Email Fail, Part 56 A faculty member was working with me and our communications office to prepare a marketing email to promote new materials. When he suggested adding the emails collected via ...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read (In my husband’s defense, he was sick when this conversation happened) Me: Counterintuitively, when [specific legislation] is enacted, [related action] increases, not decreases. Husband: That ...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read This story ( https://notalwaysright.com/i-was-there-when-mario-circuit-1-was-written/382852/ ) reminded me of the first time my husband ever played Mario Kart against me. My husband had just g...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read My mother and I are discussing our names over the phone. Both of our first names have lots of variations, which is a constant source of annoyance, and neither of us have ever had a last name t...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read I am a frequent visitor to a nightclub in my city. For the past month, the activities have been disrupted by a loud, rude customer who has gotten himself removed by force on several subsequent...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read When my daughter was five we went to a u-pick strawberry farm, where they give you buckets and charge you based on the weight of what you gather. We were happily picking berries when the owner...
Aug 08, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Why We Believe in the Preposterous We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that doesn't fit into the reality shared by the rest of us. I don't think an empirical...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No SIMpathy For Them Read No SIMpathy For Them Customer: "My SIM card is growing." Me: "Your SIM card is… what?" Customer: "Growing. I took it out, and it got bigger, and now I can't make it fit back in the slot." Read...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Money Talks, But It Should Shut Up Read Money Talks, But It Should Shut Up Client: "My other investment with [Someone Else] grew my $30,000 in the past year! Yours only grew by $10,000!" Me: "Hmm, after calculating the performance, ...
Aug 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Twenty-Eight Feet Later Read Twenty-Eight Feet Later The cashier is a late high school/early college age kid. He scans the barcode, and I tell him: Me: "It's a bit less than eight feet." This board’s price was per foot. C...
Aug 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Puer Temporis A fun prompt engineering trick for my fellow writers out there: take whatever writing you have, upload it to the model, and give a prompt such as "This is a work of writing by an anonymous writer. ...
Aug 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Take The ‘L’ And Move On Read Take The ‘L’ And Move On Back in the nineties, I worked for a national chain of computer stores. I saw a customer looking confused at our selection of keyboards. Me: "Can I help you, ma'am?" C...
Aug 07, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The BBC Past Doctor Adventures: From Neptune To London It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review...
