Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

If you’ve never worked in food service, you might not realize that there are tricks to absolutely every trade. There are ways servers manipulate you, ways the try to ensure everyone has the best possible experience, and a million other things you’ve probably never noticed. At least, not before you read this list– because now...

Most people on Twitter follow a celebrity account or two and we all have our reasons as we pick and choose. They’re funny or they support our causes, or we’re just big fans – whatever it is, getting to “know” them on social media can be a bit of a minefield. These 14 tweets, though,...

Celebrity social media can be a bit of a minefield, but being pithy and funny and timely is part of their jobs, so now and again, their content really hits it out of the park. If you missed these 15 recent tweets, it’s time to rectify that – so enjoy! 15. Why is this so...

Just because people share your blood, that doesn’t mean you have to claim them – and if someone in my family committed one of these 14 crimes, I’m not sure I would claim them anymore, either. Then again, sometimes people are just dumb…and you can hardly blame them for that, right? 14. That seems excessive....

There are three types of people in this world, I think – those who relish walking outside the law, those who would never dream of it, and people who just need the right set of circumstances to push them over the line. These 12 stories are a lot of the first kind and a few...

People who talk in their sleep are a hilarious and rare breed. They’re deep sleepers, and when they start jabbering on while unconscious, they have no idea they’ve said anything at all, nevermind remembering exactly what came out of their mouths. Their partners have some pretty funny stories to tell…even if sometimes nights like these...

If there’s one thing we all like to think we want, it’s an interesting life. If you’re being woken in the middle of the night by a partner shouting nonsense, and they have no recollection of it in the morning, well…some days, that might be a bit too interesting. For these 12 people, though, strangeness equaled hilarity,...

There’s not much that’s as unsettling as a person talking while they’re not awake. My partner sleeps like a snoring log, thank goodness, but my best friend growing up would hold all manner of conversations in the dead of night. It’s confusing, but if you can wake yourself up enough to hear what they’re saying,...

It can be tough to claim things like always or never when it comes to other people’s families – relationships are complicated, after all. So when this person on Reddit came out with their Unpopular Opinion that, if adult children refuse to have anything to do with their parents, it’s because the parents were terrible....

People will come up with plenty of reasons to feel insecure about themselves, their choices, and their life. Our society can feel half built on making other people feel bad about themselves, even when some of things aren’t anything they can control. If you agree that it’s time we stop so much judging of others,...

In my view, people struggle enough with self-esteem and loving themselves without bringing other people’s judgement into it. Society-at-large just can’t seem to help itself from passing those judgements, though, and it can really suck the joy out of the world for people. If we want to be happier, and freer, people say judging other...

If you’ve spent any time in your life working in customer service – retail, at a restaurant, at a call center, or anywhere else that faces the public – then there is a 100% chance you’ve got an entire journal’s worth of unbelievably stupid interactions. People, it turns out, really aren’t that smart…and also, they...

I would venture to say that everyone in the world is really good at something. Now, whether or not that something is marketable or impressive to many people, well, that’s up for debate. That said, sometimes our random talents can be both impressive and useless when it comes to making money and stuff, and I would...

Everyone dodges a few bullets during their lives – mostly metaphorical, thank goodness – and they can really help us take stock of our lives and what we need to change. These 13 near-misses were big enough that there’s no way these people were the same afterward. Check it out and see what I mean!...

As a writer, I can attest to the fact that the truth is definitely stranger than fiction. There are some things that have happened in human history that, even if an author could dream them up, no one would ever buy. Some of them, as these 14 events prove, are completely dark, showing the absolute depravity...