You know that awkward feeling when you think you see your friend, but as you get closer, you realize that it’s just a random stranger who happened to remind you of your friend? So yes, mixing up people happens to almost everybody. There are also quite a few stories about teachers mixing up students; well, … Read more
There are two kinds of people (of course more, but now let’s imagine these 2) – ones who really like to study. Their favorite time was in university or school and they wish they could always just study, prepare for lectures, take exams and then have holidays. But also there is another type of people … Read more
You can look at life as an unending chain of lessons. Some of them we learn incredibly quickly. Others might take dozens of mistakes for us to finally grasp their significance. Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s often hard not to blame your past self for not foreseeing all the consequences of your actions. But that’s … Read more
People are remarkably effective at twisting events, circumstances, and even words to their own self-interest. We hear what we want to hear, as the saying goes. One man described a time from the past when a manager, perhaps mistakenly, said that he would approve any and all overtime, across all departments for multiple days. Likely … Read more
Parking is a fine art. There are a lot of things that you can mess up and if you’ve ever been in a road scuffle, you know the horrible sinking feeling when you hear that disproportionately loud bumper-on-bumper bang. But sometimes, people are far too quick to judge the parking skills of others. Because, you … Read more
Whether you get sinus infections every three months like clockwork or your immune system deserves a gold medal for keeping you healthy for years, nobody likes being sick. So for the vast majority of us, we won’t take a day off due to illness unless we know we’re incapable of doing our job (or contagious … Read more
Parenting is a full-time job, and everyone knows that to work well, one needs to find and use a variety of tricks. A clever worker knows to learn from others, since experience is good, but can take a lot of time. So It’s no surprise that some forward-thinking internet users seek out others’ advice on … Read more
In September 2011, basketball player Ron Artest officially changed his name to Metta World Peace, and about a decade later, publicly announced that from now on he should be addressed as Metta Sandiford-Artest. Well, celebs are sometimes subject to desires to change their name, and insistently demand that they be called in a new way, … Read more
This may surprise some readers, but most kids will find weddings exceedingly dull. So parents need to find ways to keep them entertained and prevent them from wanton destructive behavior. Unfortunately, not all parents see this as an issue. A wedding photographer shared one of the more unhinged experiences they had with unruly kids and, … Read more
While traveling is mainly seen as an enriching and eye-opening experience, it can go both ways. The journey of your dreams can either turn out to be the best time of your life or it can leave a traumatic scar you will never forget. As much as I love traveling, I believe that at one … Read more