Erica, who writes Philadelphia Weekly's Style blog, went to Target this past Saturday to purchase some new tank tops. She and her boyfriend filled their cart with a lot of other stuff too—"Ready to stimulate the economy?" she joked to him on their way to the register—and they agreed to s...

After accidentally scribbling nonsense on a verification screen and seeing that it didn't trigger any alerts, Kingpin at DrunkRepublic decided to start goofing around with his signature when using his credit card. It led to some fun times for a while. Then it backfired. (Warning: the image after the...

Show up on time and everything's fine 12-16-08   I thought when I finished my military service that I had met damn near every "type" of person/personality there is out there. You really do meet "all kinds" of people in the Army.   But I haven't, I'm not even close. As I rapidly age, ...

Is it normal to be given a discount off of your groceries at the checkout if you don't have enough money? I went to a huge chain supermarket in the UK earlier today to buy some groceries. When I got to pay, it came to £27 altogether. I checked my wallet and I had £26.15 and I said to the cashier, ...

Look at me -- I'm a mini-Canada! The little toy I'm holding is my very own Nielsen purchase scanner. In their quest to quantify the typical Canadian household, the fine folks at Nielsen gather purchase data from 1100 "homescanners" countrywide. It basically amounts to me scanning the barco...