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: Update: He sets down his phone when a show comes on, and I immediately change the channel as if I'm "channel surfing." He STILL has not realized what is happening but just sighed profoundly Update update: I turn the volume up a little every time I have to ....


Comment preview: They were petty in the books, but they weren't stupid. Also, don't make her say, "I am OBARA SAND". Instead, have the guard say, "Obara, how could you? What would Doran say?" and she responds, "Doran is a fool." Even that would be better than what she said ....


Comment preview: I really don't like why this is posted to /r/bestof. It seems people like this for all the wrong reasons; not that it is a particularly insightful or moving post, or even a unique circumstances, but rather because a guy "got back" at a woman who mistreated ....


Comment preview: Wow, you are so fucking delusional to think that you took control instead of letting the situation take control of you. It's completely taken control over your life. Instead of moving on like a well adjusted person who doesn't need psychiatric help and fin ....


Comment preview: I'm not sure guilt counts as petty revenge but I'm gonna upvote you anyway cause you have to deal with a shitty mil. I have one of those myself. My bf's mother kicked me out of his life while he was in a coma after a very serious car accident. Kicked me an ....


Comment preview: With some companies, especially ones that record these interactions, this could result in YOU getting in trouble. Racist people are a blight on society, but she's paying for service not rendered, regardless of how she treats you (which was terrible). If ....


Comment preview: reformatted for free karma: This blonde, curly-haired, very tan woman walked through the gate with a full head of steam like she owned the place. She was stressed because she didn't have the time for anything making it everyone else's fault. She goes by th ....


Comment preview: It's not about revenge. It's about "at age thirteen, I would have required X dollars in medical care. Now I require 5x dollars of medical care. This is entirely the fault of the person who withheld that information from me, and they should be the one to pa ....


Comment preview: I regret knowing that we could have improved his plan, if only he'd included us in this a little more. If he'd disclosed his plan, we could have given him feedback. Through careful filtering of the advice he received, we could have made it better. We could ....


Comment preview: This. There might be ways, but you need legal advice. If you just "stop" him from going without preparing the ground first, you might get the kid into worse trouble. Edit: Usually, in the normal world, when children "don't want to meet their other parent", ....


Comment preview: This is an odd one, and it involves reddit. There was a post in a certain subreddit, in which someone was being quite rude in their telling me I was wrong. He was saying 'haha, I'm laughin at the absurdity of what you're saying.' What's more, the subreddit ....


Comment preview: Many people have said it in this thread, however, i feel, a more subtle method needs to be applied to telling you. She betrayed your trust, and now that shes had her fun and the consequences for it are relatively minor for her and much more detrimental to ....


Comment preview: I worked at a Bally Total Fitness in the 00's, some soft fat rich dude got crazy with me over some petty shit, started calling me names and yelling at me in front of everyone. I walked out from behind the desk and got in his face and told him to talk to me ....


Comment preview: So when I went over there to get married, I bought some beautiful evening gowns to wear at weddings there. Like an idiot, I left them there when came back to the States. I found out that last year my cunt of a SIL has been wearing them at weddings and gett ....


Comment preview: I'm a little late to the party, but I really feel like I need to chime in. Reddit is obsessed with 'justice porn' and this subreddit is especially into giving advises that are so ridiculous that they might as well be the plot of a tv show. This is what you ....


Comment preview: I'm not trying to be rude but how many times he has done this sort of thing (or you've seen him do it) is irrelevant. Break this situation down to the logic behind it and that's where it gets disturbing. Someone did something to your husband that made him ....


Comment preview: This girl that lived across the hall from me in my college dorms wanted to date me for the longest time, but I just wasnt that in to her. She had a boyfriend that was abusive to her, and my roommate and I had been trying to convince her to break up with th ....


Comment preview: It's not justification jesus christ dude. He's trying to say that you're a person who is capable of both amazing and terrible things just like each of us. If you walked away from this comment all like "Sweet, I feel better" fucking *don't*. He said to acce ....


Comment preview: This is more petty revenge but yeah. A few years back, my 15 year old cousin was staying over at my place which I shared with my boyfriend at the time. Her parents were on vacation in Cuba for a few weeks. While she was with us, we had to make ALL of her f ....


Comment preview: > Luckily I had a long career and made good money, Duncan said in the report, which was posted on Wednesday. This is a big chunk, but it s not going to change my life in any way. It s not going to make any decisions for me. > The bottom line is thi ....


Comment preview: Littlefinger is the male version of Sansa. This is a guy who believed in chivalry and romance and the world of the songs so strongly that he challenged a larger, older, stronger, more experienced swordsman to a duel for the hand of a daughter of a Great Ho ....


Comment preview: Elgar the Blasphemer: an ordinary human warrior who *hates* the gods. Not an atheist, mind you, because in a fantasy world it's ridiculous to *not believe* in gods. Just a guy who has had some bad experiences with prayers not being answered and has ended ....


Comment preview: My wife & I went to see 30 days of night when it came out. Theater was PACKED.. Right before the previews started, a group of about 8 or 9 teens took up the rest of the empty seats in the row next to us. Fine, not a big deal. Or at least not yet. Appar ....


Comment preview: You maybe feel like that because you feel like they've had "the last word". The most mature thing to say if you do respond is maybe something along the lines of good for them if they are happy, that you are also happy with and appreciative of your new boyf ....


Comment preview: If I was the OP I wouldn't want to take the risk. It would not be fun explaining to the judge why you just happened to have food laced with copious amounts of laxatives laying around. I'm sure any prosecuting attorney would be quick to build a case aroun ....