Articles for category: Memoirs

Karla News

I Hate Fat Obnoxious Women

I hate fat obnoxious women. I decided this last night. After seeing the Queen with my roommate I was in the bathroom talking to her as she washed her hands and this fat bitch yells, Excuse me! as loud as possible in my ear. I was like woah, you could have asked politely. But before ...

Karla News

How to Get Those Telemarketers to Stop Calling You!

Well we all dislike the interruptions of telemarketer phone calls during dinner or right when your putting your child down for a nap. You know what I’m talking about. I’ve found away to make it funny for me and not so funny for the telemarketers when they call me. Lately they love to call me ...

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My Arab Friends

I was working for a printer writing ad copy, helping with layouts and learning the mechanics of the printing process. In other words, I was the lackey. One of my jobs was to make beer runs during the day. Next door to the print shop was Friendship Grocers, owned by a Mr. Musaad Habib. Everyone ...

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SUPER SISTER SLEEPOVER

It took my sisters and me over 40 years to overcome our sibling rivalry. From jealousy to humiliating comments to just about anything that could be construed as not conducive to nurturing a healthy relationship, we engaged in every emotional battle imaginable until we agreed – finally – to call a truce. And with that ...

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Confessions of a Cab Driver, Teresa’s Wild Ride

I take cab rides often as I don’t have a car, and when you take cabs as much as I do you get to know the drivers fairly well. Teresa is a newer driver and the only female driver right now for our small town. She and her husband brought their family to our little ...

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Slutty Dresses and Letting Friends Down

St. Patrick’s Day has never been a holiday that I have celebrated in an all-out, green beer slinging way. Part of the reason for this is that, while I have had many crazy drinking nights, I am not a huge drinker. More than two or three alcoholic beverages and I am gone for the night ...

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My Varicose Veins

It doesn’t seem like too long ago. I was 14 years old, standing in front of a full-length mirror, inspecting myself like many teenagers do. Summer was going on full blast outside, a sweltering 101 degrees in the hot Texas sun. Wearing a white skirt, I turned in the mirror to inspect my back side. ...

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I Have Syndactyly Affecting the Feet!

My mom noticed, several weeks after I was born, that as I was growing, two of my toes (the second and third toes from the big toe) of each foot were fused together. I had two toenails and two separate bones for each toe, but they were webbed below my toe nails. Of course, thinking ...

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Why Working in Retail Sucks

Most people have proper nightmares about being chased by monsters or falling out of an airplane. I have nightmares about my years of working in retail. These nightmares make me long for the good old days of my childhood when I dreamed of werewolves, plummeting from a cliff or aliens bursting out of my chest. ...

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OCD Has Ultimately Beat Me Down

Once again I’m feeling, “Could it get any worse that this?” I am so sick and tired of having OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and suffering with it. I’m feeling my life has been cursed with having OCD. I try over and over to fight it and I try over and over to enjoy life. ...