laura in los angeles spotted this note at a tropical-themed family restaurant in rosemead, california, where aquariums figure heavily into the decor. the biggest fish, laura says, occupies his (her?) own tank at the front of the restaurant.
piscine body image issues aside, as a former casual-dining restaurant hostess  — a job that generally means bearing [...]

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this oh-so-subtle note was posted by mary’s former boss, “a pathetic professor in a backwater institution” where 90% of the graduate students happened to be korean, japanese, or chinese.
“nevermind that he doused himself with great lashings of brut in an attempt to jazz up the bald-up-top-ponytail-in-back look he had going on,” mary says. “there were [...]

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cate in columbus went out of town for a night, and sadly, her absence was enough to provoke her betta fish (pope shaivo the third) to jump out of his bowl and end it all. but cate says her roommates, apparently unwise to the suicidal tendencies of bettas, “thought i had placed it on my [...]

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