Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: Alright. 1. He drove The Eagles and said they were total dicks. They asked him "Hey, do you mind if we smoke?" he said "sure, no problem". Then they said "No, do you mind if we SMOKE?" with a wink-wink tone to their voice. He said "sure as long as I can pu ....


Comment preview: I went to tiffanies with my wife when first shopping for a wedding ring and no bullshit we were looking at a ring and asked the girl how much? She said 35 hundred. I was like "wow this is no where near as bad as I expected" so I whipped out the card and sa ....


Comment preview: Lived in a 'suicide apartment' in Japan. Was looking to move to another apartment in my building cause my next door neighbor was a psycho racist and they offered me one for full price and another for half price. I was like why is it half price? She said sh ....


Comment preview: >he went for the lips and I said 'no'. Then he said 'no?' and I said 'no'. And he said 'ok' Uhh.. I think on that score, it's done. You said no, everything stopped, you both went home. I wouldn't worry specifically about him coming onto you or being ina ....


Comment preview: They tried to make me stop rehab but I said, 'No, no, no.' Yes, I've been fine but when I get playing time you'll know, know, know I got all the time and even my agent thinks I'm fine He's tried to make me go play but I won't go, go, go . I'd rather be at ....


Comment preview: "I know some new tricks," said the Cat in the Hat. "A lot of good tricks. I will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at all if I do." Then Sally and I did not know what to say. Our mother was out of the house for the day. But the fish said, "No! No ....


Comment preview: Several years ago in a meeting at work. CEO has entire department in his conference room. Says I should do something concerning our status reports. I said, "**NO.**". He said, "Yes." I repeated, "No." Others began saying, "yes" as well. I said, "It ....


Comment preview: I was teaching English at a kindergarten (hakwon) in South Korea. It was my first teaching gig and I didn't really know what I was doing. The kids were very young and were getting bored with my lesson. They were leaving their chairs and started singing ....


Comment preview: I really don't understand why so many Manchester United fans are still in denial about this. No matter what, how often this Barca board or management says No, you guys keep repeating the same thing, the same interpretation that you *hope* they mean. Cesc s ....


Comment preview: >[Wesley Clark] >...About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of t ....


Comment preview: Well: A duck walked up to a lemonade stand and he said to the man running the stand Hey. got any grapes? The man said no we just sell lemonade. It s cold and its fresh and it s all home made. Can I sell you glass? The duck said I ll pass . Then he waddl ....


Comment preview: I once had a customer come in and ask for a christmas tree. Told her we didnt have it in stock. She flips and says 'but the other store said you had it in stock!' I asked 'oh, they called and put it on hold?' she said 'no. They checked the computer' (big n ....


Comment preview: Which makes it difficult for people with strange allergies. I'm deathly allergic to pork. Epi-pen and all. I've had to pull out my Epi-pen at food establishments before to prove it. I might die if you go ahead and put that bacon on my sandwich! But so m ....


Comment preview: "Honest opinion". I do not think that phrase means what you think it means. A female friend asked me for my honest opinion of her boyfriend, who had attended a party at my house the night before and ruined it for everyone with his boorish behaviour. I said ....


Comment preview: My son came to me when he was almost 16 and said he had a hard time talking to people. He actually cried and said when he tried to think of things to say he found he just couldn't get the words out. This gave him anxiety. I asked him if he was depressed ....


Comment preview: What the hell? That's not what I said! No it was the Big Bang! I said Big Bang! Goddammit. Okay he got the don't kill or rape part. That's the most important. No I said evolution! What no I said I liked ribs not...dammit. Who's this boat guy? How does he e ....


Comment preview: I worked as a waitress at a hotel restaurant. There was me, and three other white, female students and everyone else, including management, was Indian. There was one guy from Pakistan. The culture differences were sometimes huge. My manager was talking abo ....


Comment preview: I called a woman to buy a heavy bag from her. She said "the price today is $35.00." I said sounds good, but I don't think I can get there today. Can I come get it tomorrow? She said, yes. I get there the next morning, and offer her the $35.00 (two twen ....


Comment preview: Similar thing happened to me. At a football game in high school this girl who was crazy about me sat next to me. We sat in the far section so kinda isolated from the crowd. Anyways I told her to go away ect and she keeps leaning against me and rubbing my l ....


Comment preview: NO this is NOT what Deep Dream is. The Deep Dream images that were published a few weeks ago (not the filters that people are making now to resemble it) work fundamentally differently than this. A computer was trained to recognize images. It was fed an ima ....


Comment preview: Simplified story, but: Girl messaged me on Skout like four or so days ago. No picture, no profile description, says "Looking for Chat" and nothing else. Now, a note about Skout here in Japan, no one knows how to use it. 90% of the girls think it's twitter ....


Comment preview: In my sophomore year at college, I decided to just say "no" instead of giving excuses. I thought guys would take "no" for an answer because every guy I knew complained about not getting a "no". Guy 1: Asked me "Why not??" in a whiny voice and followed me a ....


Comment preview: The kinderg rtners were now in the first grade. Their teacher wanted them to be more grown up since they were no longer in kindergarten. She told them to use grown up words instead of baby words. She then asked them to tell her what they did during the sum ....


Comment preview: A few years ago I had a bit of a crush of this girl who sat behind me in a few classes. I noticed she wasn't in school in the morning but came to the last period of the day and she sat behind me. I turned around and asked her, "Hey, you're back! Where were ....


Comment preview: Not to mention, faith itself. Believing in something with no evidenciary support is illogical, and yet faith is considered one of the highest virtues (second only to obedience, IMO). I once tried to explain to a nevermo (but xtian) friend why I don't consi ....