I believe in a matriarchal future because one time my period showed up early on a long-haul flight, and I AirDropped a screenshotted note, “Does anyone have a tampon? Seat 6A,” and 7 women pulled up in less than 2 minutes, and when the flight attendants caught wind, they brought me a heating pad..
I work at a bank and this elderly woman comes in every Tuesday to deposit exactly $20 into her savings account. Sweet lady, always brings cookies. Today she hands me the deposit slip and it says $4,340. I'm like "Mrs. Chen is this right?" and she goes "Oh yes dear, I won the lottery!" Turns out she won $50,000 on a scratcher. I'm congratulating her, asking what she's gonna do, and she says "Well, I'm giving $20,000 to each of my children, and the rest I'm using to hire a man to dig up my ex-husband's grave and move it six feet to the left." Dead silence. She sees my face and goes "What? I bought the family plot. It's MY section. He was sleeping too close to where I'm gonna be." Then she took a cookie from her purse, handed it to me, and shuffled out. My coworker and I just stared at each other.
My son in-law asked me to teach him how to grill and I might have ruined him.
My daughter got married three years ago. Her husband, Kyle, is a good guy, works in IT, polite, laughs at my jokes even when they're not funny.
But the man cannot grill.
Last summer they hosted a Fourth of July BBQ. Kyle was in charge of the burgers, i watched him flip them eleven times in six minutes. They came out gray, dry, tragic.
I didn't say anything, my wife kicked me under the table twice as a reminder.
Two weeks ago Kyle calls me.
Kyle: Hey, Can I ask you something?
Me: Sure.
Kyle: Would you teach me how to grill? Like, actually grill?
I was honored, genuinely.
Me: Absolutely, come over Saturday.
He showed up at noon with a notebook, A notebook.
Me: You're not taking notes.
Kyle: I want to remember.
Me: It's grilling, not calculus.
I started with the basics, Charcoal vs gas, heat zones, when to flip, the importance of letting meat rest.
He's writing everything down.
Then I got to seasoning.
Me: Most people overthink it, salt, pepper, garlic powder. That's it. You don't need seventeen spices.
Kyle: What about marinades?
Me: Waste of time unless you're doing chicken.
Kyle: Really?
Me: You're adding moisture to something you're about to dry out with fire. Doesn't make sense.
He wrote that down.
Then I said, "And if anyone ever tells you to flip a steak more than once, you walk away from that person."
Kyle: Why?
Me: Because they don't respect the steak.
He stared at me.
Kyle: Are you serious?
Me: Completely.
I could see his brain trying to figure out if I was messing with him. I wasn't.
We grilled for three hours, burgers, steaks, brats. He did great, listened, didn't rush, the kid has potential.
At the end I sent him home with leftovers and a meat thermometer.
Me: Use this, don't guess.
Last weekend my daughter calls.
My daugther: What did you do to Kyle?
Me: What do you mean?
Her: He's obsessed, he bought a new grill, he's watching YouTube videos, he tried to explain 'heat zones' to his mom, she had no idea what he was talking about."
Me: That's good.
Her: He grilled chicken at 9pm last night because he wanted to 'practice his sear.'
Me: Sounds like he's taking it seriously.
Her: Dad, He told my coworker her husband was 'disrespecting the steak.'
I started laughing.
Her: That's not funny, she thought he was crazy.
Me: He's not wrong.
Her: You created a monster.
Me: I created a man who knows how to grill.
She hung up on me.
Yesterday Kyle sent me a picture of a ribeye with perfect grill marks.
The text said: "Flipped once."
I've never been prouder.
Brunson gets it, fires up a three
Shot, no good, the tip—IT’S GOOD
IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD
WITH 1.2 REMAINING
KNICKS TAKE THE LEAD
OG ANUNOBY AND ITS 107-106
> be zendaya
> be rejected by the biggest luxury
brands in the world (chanel, dior, gucci, saint laurent and valentino) at the beginning of your career
> hear the brands tell you that you are “inexperienced,” “green” and “just a simple disney actress”
> leave disney, audition for the movie that would change your entire career and meet the love of your life
> win 2 emmy’s and be named one of the 100 most influential people in the entire world at just 25 years old
> value the brands that ALWAYS believed in you
> receive an apology text and a MILLION-DOLLAR contract from valentino, taking back everything that was sai
> see the brands that rejected you one day now competing to dress you
> marry spider-man
> become one of the biggest names in world fashion, through the rejection that never made you stop
When the sheriff shows up in the middle of the neighbor’s firework show & says to shut the show down due to no permit and if they come back it’s a $650 fine. Your neighborhood pow-wows & agrees to split the fine & chance it. 😬 So, they let off the rest of the fireworks as fast as possible & hope the sheriff doesn’t come back. 😬😬😬
John Krasinski says his mom talked him out of quitting three weeks before he booked The Office, so she gets 10% of everything
"I said to my mom, 'I'm going to move to New York and be an actor'"
"She said, 'The only thing I ask is that in three years, if you haven't had a bite or a nibble, you have to pull yourself out of this, because as your mother, you can't ask me to tell my son to give up on his dreams'"
"Two and a half years later, I called her and said, 'I did it. I gave it a shot, and I haven't had any nibbles.' She said, 'It's September. Let's talk about it at Christmas. Just finish the year.' Three weeks later, I booked The Office, so I owe my mom 10% of everything"