"Layaway: You brought your purchase to the counter, they wrapped it with your contact info attached, then put it on a shelf in storage."
Whether it's been about weight, blood sugar, PCOS, food noise, or something else entirely, we want to hear.
We want to hear your honest experience, however it turned out.
"My dad just used my mom's ticket. No ID. Wrong name. It didn't matter."
"I have never, in my 40 years of life, walked to a grocery store."
"Obesity will become a disease of poverty."
"My house has a built-in milk box near the back door. The milkman used to drop off deliveries."
"It was a memorable meal, in the way you never forget a time you almost died."
"It scared me so much I didn't finish it. I left it in the lobby of my building."
"My mom bought me Champion from Walmart in 2004, and I got roasted so badly that I hid the logo with a Sharpie. Now my nephew wears the same shirt unironically and gets compliments. I want reparations."
"My mom bought me Champion from Walmart in 2004, and I got roasted so badly that I hid the logo with a Sharpie. Now my nephew wears the same shirt unironically and gets compliments. I want reparations."
"My child-free aunt. We were taught that she was cold and unfriendly. I got older and realized she just didn't want kids and wanted a phone call before you showed up at her house. Same, girl."
"Obesity will become a disease of poverty."
"My house has a built-in milk box near the back door. The milkman used to drop off deliveries."
From families in Vietnam ordered to dig up ancestral graves for a Trump-branded golf resort, to France breeding millions of sterilized mosquitoes, to the week Washington abruptly locked the rest of the world out of America's most powerful AI, here's what the rest of the world has been watching while it barely registered in US headlines.
Interestingly, almost none of these are about willpower.
"Many American parents have stopped parenting. Being lazy, rude, and entitled is annoying when you're 16. When you're 26, it's lethal."
"I have never, in my 40 years of life, walked to a grocery store."
"It was a memorable meal, in the way you never forget a time you almost died."
"My dad just used my mom's ticket. No ID. Wrong name. It didn't matter."