"It’s a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography - but if you write your biography, it’s equally assumed you’re lying your head off ( Read more... )

My dad was forced to get a new phone number (this isn't as good a story as it sounds) recently. And there was the typical wrong numbers that come with that. I swear our whole family gets more wrong number then is normal. He would get calls for John*. Apparently John was kind of a jerk, and my dad gets angry calls/texts occasionally from John's ( Read more... )