blugu64 posted:

I mean even if she has cancer and it’s a legitimate offer there’s no way it works out. That money will be hanging over his every breath.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for reporting my son’s terrible school bus driver?

My son is 14 years old and severely autistic. The school that he goes to does not provide school busses just for special needs children, so he rides the same bus as the rest of the other kids in our neighborhood. The school year started two weeks ago and this is the first time he’s been riding the bus. In the years past, I drove him to and from school, but with my schedule this year, just dropping off and picking him up from the bus stop is much more convenient.

Two weeks ago, on the first day of school, I introduced myself to the bus driver and asked that he keep the bus as quiet as possible, since loud noises lead to my son getting upset or having meltdowns. He said he would “try his best”.

That afternoon, my son became agitated during the bus ride home and refused to get off the bus at his stop. I had to get on the bus and calm him down in order to get him off. The bus driver glared at me as we were getting off the bus, and I said “if you’re going to be mad at anybody, it should be yourself. I told you to keep the bus quiet.”

After that, every morning and afternoon the bus driver glares/frowns at me. In contrast, he greets all the other kids and their parents in a very cheerful and friendly way.

I called the school and told them about the bus driver being so rude, and they said they would “look into it.” After a couple more days, he hadn’t stopped with the dirty looks, so I called a few more times and they said that “nobody has ever had any problems with that bus driver and many people say that he’s the best one at the school” (Which I sincerely doubt).

I mentioned the issue to my neighbor, who has two children that ride the same bus as my son, and she said that I am completely unreasonable, that the bus driver is “the nicest guy you’ll ever meet“ and that her children say my son is “extremely disruptive” on the bus and that she thinks he shouldn’t be riding the bus. Obviously this made me angry, because my son has just as much of a right to ride the bus as her kids.

AITA?

quote:

My birthday was this past Monday, and my parents got me a cake for it, naturally. I'm originally from Michigan but go to school in Texas, and as a surprise my parents mailed me something called a 'bumpy cake'. They were like my favorite thing when I was little and I'm not sure if they're ONLY available in Michigan but I definitely can't get them in Texas.

My boyfriend and I each had a slice of the cake, and then put it in the fridge. When I got back from work the next day I was super excited to eat more of it, only to find that not only was pretty much all of it gone, but it was butchered in a way that suggested it had just been eaten out of the box with a fork.

I went into the bedroom where my boyfriend was and showed him the cake box. He laughed and said something along the lines of "I couldn't help it!" I called him a selfish rear end in a top hat and told him I couldn't believe he felt so entitled to something that didn't belong to him.

He seemed really shocked and upset and said he didn't think it would be such a big deal. He started apologizing profusely and said he'd get me another cake but I was so upset with him I just left. I came back a little while later and he had gone from sympathetic to angry. He said he couldn't believe I was so mad at him over a "stupid loving cake" and he ended up storming out.

I realize it seems stupid and I might have overreacted, but I still think it was completely out of line for him to do that. I've told some friends about the situation and they similarly thought I was being ridiculous and that I shouldn't have been so mad over cake.

Am I the rear end in a top hat?

Such Fun posted:

I’m a sad lonely person, and if I had 2-3 million lying around, I’d certainly spend it to ruin a family and buy the affection of the one that got away.

Like what, spend those last years in dignified solitude? Already spent enough years in solitude, and none of them were dignified. Go get that bang life-companion lady!

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for reporting my son’s terrible school bus driver?

My son is 14 years old and severely autistic. The school that he goes to does not provide school busses just for special needs children, so he rides the same bus as the rest of the other kids in our neighborhood. The school year started two weeks ago and this is the first time he’s been riding the bus. In the years past, I drove him to and from school, but with my schedule this year, just dropping off and picking him up from the bus stop is much more convenient.

Two weeks ago, on the first day of school, I introduced myself to the bus driver and asked that he keep the bus as quiet as possible, since loud noises lead to my son getting upset or having meltdowns. He said he would “try his best”.

That afternoon, my son became agitated during the bus ride home and refused to get off the bus at his stop. I had to get on the bus and calm him down in order to get him off. The bus driver glared at me as we were getting off the bus, and I said “if you’re going to be mad at anybody, it should be yourself. I told you to keep the bus quiet.”

After that, every morning and afternoon the bus driver glares/frowns at me. In contrast, he greets all the other kids and their parents in a very cheerful and friendly way.

I called the school and told them about the bus driver being so rude, and they said they would “look into it.” After a couple more days, he hadn’t stopped with the dirty looks, so I called a few more times and they said that “nobody has ever had any problems with that bus driver and many people say that he’s the best one at the school” (Which I sincerely doubt).

I mentioned the issue to my neighbor, who has two children that ride the same bus as my son, and she said that I am completely unreasonable, that the bus driver is “the nicest guy you’ll ever meet“ and that her children say my son is “extremely disruptive” on the bus and that she thinks he shouldn’t be riding the bus. Obviously this made me angry, because my son has just as much of a right to ride the bus as her kids.

AITA?

sexpig by night posted:

AITA for flipping out on my boyfriend for eating my cake?


Always a cool sign when your partner says sorry, then instantly gets angry at you if 'sorry' doesn't make you instantly forgive them

object-a posted:

i was created by a computer system and lived with a foster family for 12 years (?) then raised by robots

DeadMansSuspenders posted:

my special needs son isn't getting the attention or environment he needs, this must be the bus driver's fault. Also the driver sneers at me so he is a bad person.

sexpig by night posted:

AITA for flipping out on my boyfriend for eating my cake?


Always a cool sign when your partner says sorry, then instantly gets angry at you if 'sorry' doesn't make you instantly forgive them

Such Fun posted:

Please doxx me, because this is just rubbish

ScentOfAnOtaku posted:

I couldn't help it. I only wanted to eat one little bite, with a fork, right out of the box, from your birthday cake, how does that make me selfish?

sexpig by night posted:

yea in the grand scheme yea the driver maybe shouldn't glare at someone trying to work as best they can with an autistic kid in a district that isn't helping at all, but lol at turning this into 'clearly the problem here is the driver who can't promise me a bus full of teens will be stone silent for an entire bus ride, not the fact my district doesn't even have a special needs bus'.

Straight White Shark posted:

dude's an amateur, everyone knows you take the knife and make a clean cut when you're done eating to cover up evidence of the crime

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So all my friends have girlfriends and they are always making fun of me and calling gay because I don’t have one. I really like my neighbor and we’ve been best friends since I was   7 and she was   4. When we were kids we always played together at recess and during the summer but last year I started middle school and she was in third grade and we didn’t hang out as much. We’ve reconnected this summer and play video games everyday together and I even went to her family cabin for a week. Now that summer is wrapping up I want to make her my girlfriend so that we can hangout still during the school year. She is also the girl I have kissed granted I was   7 at the time and we were playing house together lol. But can a 7th grader date a 4th grader? All my friends are dating in the same grade but my friends say that they are having sex and getting to third base but I don’t want that. Anyway I guess I’m more scared we won’t be with each other all year and I really liked hanging out with her all summer.

LadyPictureShow posted:

Is this cheating?

Elderbean posted:

A lot of RPG horror stories are relationship horror stories.

My DM Was So Obsessed With my PC, He Became A Stalker

welcome to hell posted:

Can my (13/m) neighbor (10/f) be my girlfriend?

welcome to hell posted:

Can my (13/m) neighbor (10/f) be my girlfriend?

ZombieLenin posted:

My one experience playing in a D&D game with strangers I had met through a game store cork board posting (20 or so years ago) involved 4 strangers meeting at the GMs house to roll characters.

I never went back because the GM in question had male characters roll for their penis size and female characters roll to determine when, and how heavy, their menstrual cycle was.

UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:

TheScott2K posted:

I swear to God, middle school boys...

goethe.cx posted:

It’s weird but it sounds like the kid is just socially awkward/stunted and wants to be able to say he has a gf. What he doesn’t seem to realize is that dating a 4th grader will, uh, not make his friends stop teasing him

Subjunctive posted:

As the parent of a middle-schooler, the girls aren’t any less obsessed with “dating” and relationships and crushes and the social scorekeeping that goes along with it.

Rubellavator posted:

I think the shittiest part is really the schoolyard homophobia.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

The school bus driver one made me instantly angry because it reminded me of some poo poo my mother-in-law pulled years ago.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

made me instantly angry

Subjunctive posted:

Also not restricted to boys, unfortunately.

Aramoro posted:

Wait a second


Did the post then get you in a headlock before landing a series of punches and kicks to your head?

welcome to hell posted:

Can my (13/m) neighbor (10/f) be my girlfriend?

Pick posted:

*jack skelmingtao voice* at what I do I am the best 🎵

quote:

Let me start by saying this. I have never won a fight. I’ve been in probably 30 or 40 in my life. I’m very weak. I am 5’10 and 106 pounds at the moment. I am 20. Every fight i have been in has been with a completely different type of person. I’ve fought men who completely overpowered me. I’ve fought woman who probably could’ve overpowered me but also outskilled me. Today is an example.

Firstly. Why do woman always go for some kind of choke when they fight a guy? Anytime I have ever fought a woman I end up getting choked out. Today. I was chilling in my house and this girl knocked on my door and said that she was friends with one of my friends who is a girl (her friend she is referring to actually got paid to set me up to be robbed) and she was worried about me so she wanted to check up on me. I told this girl to go away and that the other girl isn’t in my life anymore so I don’t care if she wants to know if I’m okay or not.

She then asks if she can just come in for a second. I was instantly angry. I grabbed her and pulled her into the house slammed her against the wall and screamed at her to get the hell out. She then kneed me in the balls and turned me around and put me into a rear naked choke against the wall. She then slid down the wall and was kinda sitting with her back against it and her legs were wrapped around me. I tapped and tried to get out but eventually I passed out. I woke up to her gone.

I’m just curious why girls always choke in fights against guys? And as I said there are so many factors that affect fighting so no one is right or wrong.

Such Fun posted:

When I was about 7 or 8 I went on holiday with my family, staying at some camping-site somewhere in Europe. There was a German family also staying at this site who had a daughter with Down’s, who was a few years older than me, probably 12 or older. This girl took a liking to me, and fancied to be my girlfriend - something which was translated to me by adults. They all thought it was very cute and endearing, and how good of me to not care that she was ‘different’.

Then the kissing started, and when I wanted to get away I was tutted at for treating her differently just because she was ‘different’. So my parents, and her parents, kept setting up play dates. My parents proud at their succes as progressive parents, hers no doubtly glad their daughter had made a friend, and me getting molested in plain sight.
Anyway, she really liked soft-boiled eggs and made me eat them. I’m almost 36 now and soft boiled eggs still make me gag.

So parents, please keep pubescent kids away from pre-pubescent kids, thnx.