11.1 Spring/Summer 2013

Aaron Alford and Lauri Anderson Alford 32 Things We Really Should Apologize For

  1. Butt-dialing you five times yesterday.
  2. Touching the belly of a pregnant woman who was not pregnant.
  3. Playing that one good Lana Del Ray song over and over.
  4. Watching so many kitten videos onto YouTube.
  5. Starting the car when it was already started.
  6. Attending our neighbor’s We Killed Osama Bin Laden! barbecue just for the pie.
  7. Texting something mean about Liz and accidentally sending it to Liz.
  8. Blaming that toot noise on our chair.
  9. Recommending dinner at the combination Taco Bell/Pizza Hut.
  10. That Holocaust joke.
  11. Saying your new baby looks like Wolf Blitzer.
  12. Sweating so much.
  13. Hitting the gas instead of the brake.
  14. Getting really into The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
  15. Stealing your Wi-Fi.
  16. Giving Liz’s number to that guy with the neck tattoo.
  17. Spoiling the ending of last night’s The Walking Dead.
  18. Making a joke about tramp stamps to that girl with a tramp stamp. (It means “purity” in Chinese.)
  19. That time we got on WebMD and diagnosed you with six different diseases.
  20. Telling your kid there’s no such thing as Santa.
  21. Permanently borrowing your stapler.
  22. That time we were supposed to feed your goldfish.
  23. Telling Liz, “It’s fine. No one can tell you’re not wearing a bra.”
  24. Taking a nap at your dinner party.
  25. Passing you in the hallway and doing that whole I’ll go left . . . no YOU go left thing.
  26. Asking you to call us so we could find our phones.
  27. That time we tried to be cool and said, “You only YOLO once!”
  28. Using so many emoticons.  : /
  29. Standing too close in the supermarket and judging your groceries.
  30. All those Facebook statuses about our pets.
  31. When we said, “Please turn off your cell phones now,” and then our cell phone rang. Twice.
  32. Creating an eHarmony profile for Liz without telling her.