Overheard

Girl 1: "I said 'Ew!' Like 'Oh!' with an accent." Girl 2: "Oh." Girl 1: "Yeah, but 'ew'." [slight pause as they look at boy on street] Girl 1: "So I lost my panties at Jane's but I bought some new ones. So it's OK." Girl 2: "You did?" Girl 1: "OK, so super cute. Yellow with blue. Like string bikinis. But…" Girl 1: "Oh fuck, I left those at Jane's too." Girl 2: "Aw." Girl 1: "Yeah." Both: "Ew!" Also:

How to Perplex Waitstaff

Last night, Chris Brogan, Amber Naslund, Lizz and myself were at one of those social media speaker suck-up dinners. We found the following ways to amuse ourselves during an otherwise stiff uneventful dinner party. After they remove the salad plates, hide all flatware, placemats and napkins. Look longingly at the other place settings. After receiving a new place setting, add all of your previous settings to this one or, as we did, give them all to one person and let them determine which of nine forks to use. When we did this, our waiter's head literally did a loop like…

No drunk texting, please

Everyone has that drunk friend. You know the one. Great person until alcohol has been imbibed. And everyone has a different reaction to alcohol. I'm Irish. I hate to stereotype my ancestors, but goddamn can we put it away! I never believed I could drink a lot until I started noticing that all my friends would hit the floor when I was just feeling a mild buzz. I don't slur when I'm drunk. I don't stagger, nor do I drunk dial, drunk text or make statements I need to apologize for the next day. But there's one thing that happens…