I was abused in the same hospital — “The average cost of nursing school can vary widely,” reports SoFi. “The cost for a Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN) can be comparable to any other four-year degree. According to U.S. News, the average cost of tuition for the 2020–2021 school year was $9,687 for a four-year public school and $35,087…

It was like a garland made of panties, and it took my father and a ladder to get it down — You never know what a gust of wind will blow into your yard. Personally, the most unusual thing I’ve found in my backyard after a gust of wind was a neighbor’s trampoline. Unfortunately, I never found out which neighbor was its rightful owner. So what constitutes a high wind gust…

Every Sunday like clockwork — How can anyone be afraid of a tiny bird? Just ask my aunt. As a teen, she was terrified by the family parakeet. “Ornithophobia is a fear of birds. A scary experience with birds may make you fearful of them,” according to Cleveland Clinic. “A person with ornithophobia may be…

It wasn’t an ultimatum; it was a choice — If your partner didn’t brush their teeth, would it be a deal-breaker? It was for me. When my first boyfriend refused to brush his teeth, I thought it was quirky. As we got to know each other better, his refusal to brush his teeth moved from a harmless quirk to…

No one was losing their underpants on her watch — When my mother and her siblings were growing up, my grandmother was obsessed with the thought that their underwear might fall down in public. The poor woman feared having her children’s underpants fall down so much that she did everything she could to tighten their elastic waistbands and thus prevent…

He wears red nail polish on one fingernail to honor his mother — Many people have noticed magician Penn Jillette wears red nail polish on one single fingernail, the nail on the ring finger of his left hand. He can be seen sporting a single red fingernail in photos going back to at least 1986. My mother was curious about Jillette’s red fingernail…

The minute I started getting the hang of it, I quit — My mother and I learned how to ride bicycles when I was thirty years old, and she was a bit older. Tired of being the last kids on the block to master a two-wheeled bike, we rolled a couple of antique bicycles out of storage from our garage and set…

Woman discovers her husband’s affair when she receives photographic evidence by mistake — When I was a senior in high school, I worked for a large retail chain that offered film developing services. We didn’t have cellphones back then. So unless you bought a Polaroid instant camera or had your own darkroom, you had to drop off your rolls of film to be…

I may be a slob, but this goes too far in the opposite direction — My friend and I were supposed to go grocery shopping together. I waited for her, and she didn’t show up. Since she lived in the same house, it wasn’t hard to track her down. I went upstairs to see what was taking her so long, and I found her sitting…