Wednesday Web site: My Life is Average

November 11, 3:12 PMGeneration Y ExaminerSharalyn Hartwell

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Every Wednesday the National Generation Y column features a Web site with appeal to Gen Y’ers. These sites will range from the very practical and very useful to the very ridiculous and very big time waster. Share your favorite sites by emailing me or tweeting me.

Today’s Web site: My Life is Average

My Life is Average is a Web site full of stories from an 
average day, which should help brighten yours. 
(Image:  Ivan Petrov)

It starts off as a ho-hum average Wednesday. You get up, shower, brush your teeth, grab breakfast and head to work as normal. But every once in awhile, throughout the course of an average day, something small, something funny will happen, reassuring that you are not in fact having Bill Murray’s "Groundhog Day" experience in real life. 

My Life is Average, MLIA, is a Web site devoted to those little moments in your average day because “for every fail story, or good story, there are about a million normal stories…because everyone’s lives are unexciting and insignificant at some time or another” (taken from the about section of the site). 

Much like Dumbemployed, MLIA features story snippets starting off with “Today” and ending in “MLIA.” Jot down your most average moments and submit to the site. Users vote on submissions and the best ones get featured links.  

Some of the gems you’ll find:

“Today I realized the word bed actually looks like a bed. MLIA.”

“Today I wore Axe body spray. I wasn’t tackled by any women. MLIA."

“Yesterday, my friend and I were the only people in the computer lab at school so we changed all the internet homepages on my school's computers from Google to Mystery Google. Today we watched as kids got frustrated when they tried to search for things using Google. Because everyone thought Google was broken my science teacher postponed the date of our research paper. Time well spent. MLIA.”

“Today, I went to Starbucks with my friend to get us a couple of white chocolate mochas. When the barista asked my friend for his name to be written on his drink, my friend confidently said, ‘Free.’ It wasn't until the barista announced ‘Hot white chocolate mocha for FREE!’ that I realized that I am, indeed, friends with an evil genius. MLIA.”

“Today, I went to the store to buy several things. At the checkout, my box of tampons did not have a price tag on it. The checker got on the intercom and boomed, ‘PRICE CHECK ON AISLE 7, TAMPAX’" The employee checking the price misheard the checker, mistaking the word 'tampax' for the word 'thumbtacks.' He came back on the intercom with: ‘DO YOU WANT THE KIND YOU PUSH IN WITH YOUR THUMB OR THE KIND YOU POUND IN WITH A HAMMER?’ I laughed for ten minutes. MLIA.”

Not sure I can compete with any of those, but my MLIA moment:

“Today I missed a call from my brother. The voice mail wasn’t from him, but rather my 3-year-old nephew. He didn’t quite understand the concept of voice mail. He kept saying ‘Sharalyn? Sharalyn? Why won’t you talk to me?’ until my brother took the phone away. I laughed and saved that voice mail. MLIA.”

Reader Feedback: What's your average day moment?  And, a shout out to reader, Heinrich for suggesting this site--great find!