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I worked at a bakery that only sold bundt cakes. One of our flavors is "Pecan Praline." Somehow, on more than one occasion, someone has asked me whether there were nuts in it.

"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic" --Albus Dumbledore. This essentially made me decide to become an English major. There's something especially beautiful about this quote coming from one of the most powerful figures in the story/someone… Read More

"You took my only food...now I'm gonna starve."

What bothers me about this article are not the factual retellings (yes, I've read these stories, and most of the the descriptions are pretty accurate), but the inserted opinions expressed as facts. For example, the author states that God turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for… Read More

A student teacher with a man-bun was teaching English across the hall from my classroom. When I first noticed, I became so distracted while walking down the hallway that as I turned to go into class, I smacked into the wall/doorframe of the room...

A few weeks ago, a bunch of our friends all went swing dancing together. After, we wanted to grab some food, and I invited a couple of guys who aren't normally in our friend group but whom half of the group knows pretty well. I had one of the guys in my car with two other friends… Read More

I once dropped my pencil in math class during a test, stared at it for a couple minutes, and proceeded to cry silently in the back corner.

I asked my date, Sam, to prom because we both knew we wanted to go together, but he had given his friend his word that he wouldn't. (His friend has had a crush on me for awhile, but Sam and I have been friends for quite a bit, and we've grown really comfortable with each other.) The… Read More

Please please PLEASE do a Rochester ranking!

"No more rhyming. I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?"-The Princess Bride