12 Problems Only People Dating a Coworker Understand

1. The devastating awkwardness of figuring out if you should kiss each other good-bye. As your relationship begins to blossom like two flowers in the same garden that are dating each other, you have to start making choices that will affect you the rest of your lives (or until you break up and/or one of you quits). Do you kiss each other good-bye every day and risk the glares, murmurs, and gossip of your coworkers? Or do you just suck it up and bolt out of there, sending a "thinking of you" text on the way out? This is about to set the foundation for the rest of the relationship.

2. Debating whether or not to send that inappropriate email. You've hovered over the "send" button, wondering if you should send a sexy email to your work beau so you can reap the benefits later. Then you thought better of it when you realized his boss could be looking over his shoulder at this very moment.

3. Negotiating a quickie during lunch. You crunched the numbers over sushi and realized that you could spend 15 minutes in a car together in a nearby empty lot before anyone noticed both of you were out on a long lunch. Steamy, passionate, forbidden, afternoon delight was expected. Awkward, fumbling sex and cramping ensued.

4. Feeling obligated to take lunch with them every. Single. Day. Depending on the kind of person you are, that sentence either gave you butterflies or filled you with intense dread. May God have mercy on your souls if the two of you disagree about just how much time you should spend together.

5. And if you live together, being together nonstop. Jim and Pam made the whole office romance thing seem perfect, but sometimes you just want some space.

6. If you're not working a 9-to-5, just hoping you wind up on the same schedule. You're always bummed out when your schedules don't overlap, but you're pretty sure your manager does it on purpose. And getting home when he's just leaving for work means no sex ever.

7. Fighting over interoffice politics. You know you shouldn't bring your work home, but dates have been ruined because his department really screwed over your department on some big project.

8. Your coworkers acting really awkward when they walk in on the two of you. You might have been discussing budget reports, but everyone always acts like they just interrupted something steamy. "Ohhh, I'm so sorry, you guys," they say with a wink and leave before you can explain yourselves.

9. Overcompensating with professionalism. When you have to interact in a professional setting, you fidget and act like you're complete strangers, successfully making things even more awkward for everyone involved. As a result, you are never invited to client meetings together.

10. The grand debate over whether to leave the office separately for date night. You know if you walk out together, everyone is going to "Ooooh" like they're the studio audience on Saved by the Bell.

11. Seeing each other at work when you're having a big fight at home. You might be able to storm out of the house but you're not going to get a break from each other when you have that big PowerPoint presentation the next day. Good luck going through the quarterly results when the person you're currently irrationally mad at because of how they make pasta is stewing only feet away.

12. Hating him momentarily when you're up for the same promotion. You sat down and had a long talk about how you'll be happy no matter who gets it. But secretly, you're hoping to stroll in there and crush your significant other.

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16 Things Only People Obsessed With Fall Understand

1. Costume parties and haunted houses always beat Christmas dinner. And do you think summer could have a holiday where you dress up and eat candy? Hell no. All your candy would've melted. But in the fall, you can toss a fishbowl on your head, say you're an astronaut, go to a party, and four hours later you're throwing up a weird mixture of candy corn, caramel apples, and hard cider. *High five*.

2. Freshly picked apples taste better than store-bought ones. For nine months out of the year, the only way you'll find yourself yanking fruit off trees is if you're a fruit thief. And frankly, that seems like a terrible career path. Apple-picking lets you feel like a ranch hand without all the crippling, dust-bowl era depression that comes along with it. The secret to their deliciousness is love (and manual labor).

3. The ecstasy of ordering six things for lunch and having them all be pumpkin-flavored. The second the calendar gets flipped to September, it's like the world becomes that room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where the wallpaper is flavored, except everything is all pumpkins. Coffee, doughnuts, lollipops, the sidewalk, your mailman. It's a pumpkin world out there, friends. You better get used to it.

4. You must seize the few brief months where you can pretty much wear any item of clothing you own. Fall weather is full of possibility. It's not too warm, but it's not too cold. This is the closest to room temperature you're going to get outside all year.

5. A cool breeze at your back and a fire in front of you is one of the best feelings in the world. The only reason you'll find yourself huddled around a fire in winter is because your plane crashed in the Alps and you're trying to stay alive. Fall weather means everything fire-related is on the table: bonfires, fire pits, fireplaces, chimneys. Go crazy.

6. It's beer o'clock, 24/7. You missed Sam Adam's Octoberfest, didn't you?

7. It is now, finally, socially acceptable to post scenic nature photos to Instagram. Trees explode into color against breathtaking autumn sunsets, creating a dazzling kaleidoscope of color, or whatever. Any other time of year, nature shots are boring.

8. The peacefulness of being able to walk five feet without having a frazzled mother apologize to you while her brood runs around wrecking everything around them. Now that school's back in session, the parks are relaxing again. There are a few warm days left to enjoy the beach without getting sand kicked on you. And Starbucks is no longer a living hell.

9. The love/hate relationship all fall-lovers have with pumpkin spice lattes. The first leaf touching the ground summons the kraken of bastardized coffee drinks: the pumpkin spiced latte (PSL). Who am I to judge? Some people love these things (see No. 3). They're drinking PSLs constantly, double-fisting PSLs on their morning commute. Pouring PSLs on their cereal. Filling their pools with pumpkin spice latte. Baptizing their children in it.

10. Thanksgiving is a dark horse for "Best Holiday." Let's be honest, Thanksgiving is one of those half-assed holidays that gets shoehorned in right before the "real" holiday season starts. But that's what makes it so perfect. You get two days off from work, you only have to show up and eat, and (unless you're hosting) it's pretty much worry-free. Also: pie. That makes for a pretty damn good holiday, in my opinion.

11. Nature is a Yankee Candle. I'll preface this with the fact that it's illegal to burn leaves, but your neighbors are probably going to do it anyway, and it smells amazing. Even if there's no law-breaking involved, though, the scents of autumn will fill your nostrils with delicious earthiness and cinnamon.

12. The pleasure of getting drunk off spiced apple cider. Cider is a pretty versatile drink. You can have it hot or cold, with or without alcohol. But who would have it without?

13. You can eat all the pie you want and no one can be a dick about it. If you're eating a slice of hot apple pie in the middle of summer, you are a crazy person. Fall means it's socially acceptable to enjoy a slice of pie with slowly melting cinnamon ice cream.

14. Sleeping rules more than usual. You can control just how warm you are without fiddling with your thermostat: Just add blankets as needed. If you get too hot in the middle of the night, just kick them off and bask in the cool fall breeze.

15. Thanks to fall TV premieres, you finally have something to look forward to after work every night. You can stop catching up on Netflix and using summer programing as a crutch. A-level fall programming is back with all your favorite shows. Who needs plans when you have primetime?

16. Exposed feet and gross summer fashions are a thing of the past. Mandals, fake tans, Crocs, and wardrobe malfunctions waiting to happen are no longer everywhere. You can thank the forced-conservatism of a cool-weather wardrobe for that.

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18 Problems Only People With Contacts Understand

1. When it slides up under your upper eyelid and you have to execute all kinds of **Flawless mauevers to get it out. While trying not to look up “damage from contact lens in your brain” on WebMD.

2. When they start drying up during a late, drunk night out. And people think you’re drunker than you are, because you’re squinting like a moron.

3. When you have to keep them in overnight during a one-night stand. Although I once put mine in two two-liter Coke can tops. And then back in my eyes. Sick. (College!)

4. When you’re at the beach. Owwwww, that miniscule grain of sand in my eye.

5. When you get a rip in your contact at school or work and wind up leaking from your eye for the whole day.

6. When you’ve flipped your contact inside-out at some point but spend the whole day wearing it like that. It feels slightly wrong, but not wrong enough to notice until you’ve spent the whole day poking it and inflaming your eye. (Pro tip: When it’s inside-out, and you are looking at it on your finger, it’ll look a little more like a flying saucer and less like a cup.)

7. When you drop a brand-new contact on the floor. GAAOOAOAOAOOAODOAODOADNOOOOOOO.

8. When you drop a brand-new contact on the floor and then realize that it was the last one for that eye that you have. The biggest First World Problem.

9. When you run out of contact solution at an inopportune moment. More accurately, when you go a full week meaning to buy more contact solution but forget every single day, and by the time you get home, you’re tired and it’s freezing out and you just re-use the old solution. Yuck.

10. 10:45 P.M. scare stories on the news are immensely effective and memorable. One time I heard one about a girl who put her contact lens in water, and then the parasites in the water moved into her contact lens and she went blind, forever. Welcome to not sleeping for the rest of your life.

11. Constantly forgetting which contact case is yours and which is your siblings’/roommates’/parents’/whoever. The good news is that you’ll notice the prescription’s wrong as soon as you look up and feel like you are on LSD.

12. Putting in your contacts after you put your eye makeup on and smudging everything. There goes your perfect smokey eye.

13. They’re expensive! Especially considering they are flimsy little tiny discs you can blow away like a dandelion seed.

14. Engaging in the just-before-bedtime TV watching routine is impossible in the event that you can’t find your glasses. Which is 99 percent of the time. (They’re on top of the toilet, under the magazine, partially blocked by that candle.)

15. During morning sex, you are functionally blind. That’s a penis, right? I can see… beige?

16. Ruining foreplay by announcing that you have to take your contacts out. I guess you can try whispering it all sexy, like, "I need to take these contacts out... of my eyes... because they're so deep and hard. In my eyes."

17. That thing where you lose a contact and everyone searches for it on the floor and accidentally picks up garbage. "Is this it?" "No, that's... I don't know what that is. A biohazard?"

18. The eternal debate about whether to get Lasik. On the one hand, convenience forever. On the other hand, flipping up half of your eyeball is #no.

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22 Problems Only Vegetarians Understand

1. Your carnivore friends are more likely than you to loudly announce your vegetarian status to the waiter/person handing out free samples at Costco. A simple “no thank you” will get the job done. Plus, my face won’t turn bright red!

2. You get tired of being lectured about protein and iron by people who have half their arm inside a family-size bag of Doritos. Seriously? Do you even know what a vegetable looks like?

3. Coworkers that you eat lunch with feel the need to defend themselves. That's cool that you only eat chicken on Mondays, Wednesdays, and on federal holidays. Can we get back to dissecting every detail of Beyonce's Grammy performance?

4. Everyone assumes that you love yoga, kale, and accent braids. OK, GUILTY. But I also love whiskey and binge watching The Sopranos.

5. People you just met harass you about your reason for being vegetarian.  Do you really want to have a GROSS debate in the middle of Zara?   

6. Every time you groom yourself, there is an internal battle about switching to all animal-cruelty-free products. Those poor little bunnies — damn, my hair is SO SOFT. OK, I will change after this bottle runs out.

7. Your S.O. will make a big deal about picking out a restaurant every time. The consideration is heartwarming, but you inform them that you would rather not be treated like a freak. Besides, you always manage to find something on the menu. "I'm, like, super chill."

8. After making that self-rightous claim, you will ultimately end up at a restaurant that has NOTHING you can eat. Um, can we get some more bread over here?

9. You will be confronted by your carnivore friends about wearing leather.  Explaining that it's not real leather, or that you purchased it second hand, doesn't seem to satisfy them.

10. Everyone under the sun has an opinion about your body type.  Oh, you thought vegetarians were all ballerina-type waifs? Sorry to disappoint you, new boyfriend of my friend from college who I only saw on the street by chance. I happen to like what I have goin' on here.

11. All family gatherings, especially Thanksgiving, are a nightmare. No celebrating for you, young lady! You will experience most items on this list on rotate for the entire day.

12. Being the only one who responds to the post-script on a dinner party invitation asking if anyone has food restrictions. Token Pain in the Ass.

13. Vegetarian cookbooks rarely have color photographs.  Zzzzz. Whatever, I'll just go to tastespotting.com. Drooling now.

14. On Jan. 1, at least one of your friends will “go-veg” to lose weight or "just to see if I can do it."

15. Other vegetarians are miffed to find out that you are dating a carnivore.  Oh he's handsome and funny and treats you like the goddess that you are, but he eats meat? You poor thing.

16. Loser dudes will take it as a challenge to be the one to break you. Is this a male primal instinct thing? It's super creepy!

17. Vegetarian guys think you automatically want to date them. Thanks for the drink. No, it's OK, I'll call YOU. So soon. Miss you already.

18. When an ASPC ad comes on, everyone in the room looks at you like it's all your fault. "In the arms of an angellll" *crying*

19. You get asked about what you will feed your children, regardless of whether you have expressed interest in having kids. Yes, I plan on letting Hans make his own choice at age 12, when I finally let him out of his plastic bubble. I've also picked out his outfit for his first day of school.

20. You eventually learn the truth about Jello and marshmallows. But what will I put in my hot cocoa? :(

21. You get confused with vegans and pescatarians constantly. Cheese? Honey? Fish? Ice cream?

22. People will ask you about your feelings towards the smell of bacon. Yes, it smells delicious to me too, okay?

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