DamnitGannet posted:

So does blood aversion brother just leave the house completely for the week or what? Is she supposed to throw her tampons out in a trash can in another building? Not sure how the logistics of this works.

Barudak posted:

Maybe major city prices are better but out in more rural areas or suburbs even, an ambulance can run you 4-5 thousand by itself, 10 grand isnt unheard of.

If you want to mull on how messed up america is a not insubstantial number of people use Uber/Lyft as their hospital conveyance method

Larry Parrish posted:

maybe I'm crazy but at a wedding you should stick to stuff everyone knows. i really like post punk but not everyone wants to listen to 4 minute tracks about being heartbroken as much as I do.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

[IN] 4 days ago I accidentally almost got into the wrong car, causing the elderly woman inside the car to try to flee and she fell. Today I was told I’d be sued if I didn’t pay ambulance & ER bills.

Redditor posted:

NAL EX-LEO

You have a lot of good advice so far. However I am more concerned about how they were able to find out where you live. Most likely they have a cop friend that looked up your plate for them. This is a huge no no and may cost that cop friend his job.

Call your local Police Dept. As them the number for their Internal Affairs Bureau. File the complaint there stating someone ran your plate to find your location and they showed up to try to harrass you into paying them money ($3500). Every plate look up gets logged. They can look up your plate and find out exactly when and where that plate was run.

An investigation will occur and they will question the officer. It will all do down here from there. Plate lookup for family is a form of corruption and the officer should be sanctioned for that.

Give IAB all the info you can gather. If it happens to be a family member (the last names match of the cop and the harassers) then its an open and shut case.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My little sister (18) is dating a weeb (16)

Pinecone Sample posted:

AITA for telling my sister I don't want to be around her when she's on her period?

quote:

[–]0nem0ref0rther0ad

31 points 11 hours ago
how do you go out in public when there's a near 100% chance you're encountering at least one menstruating woman a day?

[–]LithuanianJesus

[S] -21 points 11 hours ago
I never touch or go too close to a woman unless I am sure they are not menstruating. However, this is usually not an issue since in every day life I am not touching strangers in public. But sharing a room with my sister is different

Admiral Ray posted:

when i touch a menstruating person i feel as if my skin is being skewered by 1000 bloody needles. my liver explodes and my tongue turns to a rubbery balloon in my mouth. this is my curse.

cumshitter posted:

Admiral Ray posted:

when i touch a menstruating person i feel as if my skin is being skewered by 1000 bloody needles. my liver explodes and my tongue turns to a rubbery balloon in my mouth. this is my curse.

Chunderbucket posted:

He's the bad guy


Duh

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

AITA for wanting a natural labor so I can experience the “panicked, rushing to the hospital” situation?

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITAA For encouraging my alcoholic friend to be a deadbeat parent?

My friend, Eve has been a pretty awful friend as a whole for several years now. She’s an alcoholic which surprisingly isn’t the highlight of this story. She was a party girl who never wanted children. Then she moved to a new state and went on a bender, met a religious hard working man who had a ‘real’ job and he seemed willing to handle her. She got pregnant. I’d helped her pay for abortions before, but she was happy to have a baby with a small business owner because it made her feel secure and stable. She was ready to start a new life.

She came by my parents house to announce her pregnancy (about 5 months in, she came from out of state) and proceeded to drink a few glasses of wine. Got drunk, called an ex boyfriend to ‘say goodbye’ and got picked up by him. My family was really concerned but we don’t have a close enough relationship to stop an adult from doing what she wants. Her family is pretty indifferent to her drunk antics because I’ve called them before on her behalf and was told “leave her by the garage” so they’re involved but this is not their first rodeo.

Lately, she’s been having a custody dispute with the father. She’s been on/off binge drinking and Is currently violating her custody agreement by cohabitating with a fellow alcoholic she met in AA, a felon who has a warrant for a dui (the details here are cloudy and sound like lies but it’s what she’s told me) She’s gotten a 3rd dui since having her baby and I’m so frustrated and upset with her refusing to be responsible that I called her out on her story inconsistencies, told her she should just give in to the dad and give him parental rights. He would be much better off with the father. I told her she’s being selfish and should look out for herself instead of trying to prove her ex wrong (her words). I said if revenge is her priority then her child isn’t her priority, and she should just try to reconnect with her baby after she gets her life together. I told her if I were her, I’d accept defeat, move somewhere that makes her happy, and gently caress expectations to be a good mom if it’s killing her ability to deal with herself. She suddenly had to ‘go back to work’ and I’m feeling guilty for being honest.

I know she has good intentions and she loves her child, but she is absolutely clueless about everyday things and is, in my opinion, not fit to raise a child alone. I wouldn’t leave her with a pie in the oven if that gives you reference. She was upset she didn’t get updates about the baby’s checkups from her ex, but she is the one providing insurance. I told her that if she can’t be bothered to call/log in and get her kid’s info, she’s not invested enough because that’s in her control, she responded “his gf goes with him to appointments and i just don’t have the fight left in me”. I know she’s depressed and I have been helping her get through it for years, i just don’t feel ok excusing her mistakes with no judgment when there’s an innocent person involved.

MarcusSA posted:

Why in the ever loving gently caress are you friends with this person?

That should be the real question.

Power Khan posted:

spacial awareness.

Power Khan posted:

My mom (61) thinks I'm (31) legitimately and literally retarded.
I don't know where to start. I'm so pissed. I'm just going to make this short and sweet via bulletpoints to make this a quick read:

My mom has recently told me that she worries that I'll get lost when I go out. She thinks I have no spacial awareness and it's one of her deepest fears that I'll lose sight of where I am at any point in time and end up lost.

She doesn't think I'm capable of working at McDonald's. (I don't want to work there, she brought it up). She said it'd be too fast-paced for me and I wouldn't be able to keep up. She thinks with my brain I'd be more suited to a slow-paced cashier position.

Today she was telling me about a film she watched about a debate team. But she went in-depth as to what "debate" means. ie. "It's about these two classes that debate; so they read up on a particular topic and try to argue against the other -- even if they don't necessarily believe in what they're saying. So..." and I was like "Right." with a lifted eyebrow, wondering why she's going so in-depth, but also without cutting her off as to let her finish her thought. She then said "Oh... You know what that is?" And I was like.... uh yeah?

About a month ago she came into my room and went on about this strange rant about "Kids these days think they're so much smarter than their parents. Everyone thinks they're so smart because they know how to use computers, but really, it doesn't mean they're smart -- it's just repetition. Doing it over and over. That's it. It doesn't mean they're smart. Anybody can do it." ANd I was just like...... ok? lol?

This just loving sucks and I'm so upset. So many parents go on and on about how smart their kids are. Yet my mom seems to think I have an IQ of 4. This whole thing is new to me, I wasn't aware she thought this until maybe 2 months ago. Which surprises me, because I used to manage a loving Golf & Country club (the games, the finances, the inventory, accounting, employee scheduling, etc... everything.) so how the gently caress does she think I was able to do that? Idk I don't know what to do.

So now I have this constant feeling, like I have to prove my intelligence to her constantly. But nothing ever seems to be good enough.

BTW, I'm 31 and she's 60. I know. I'm a loving loser for being at home. I had to move back with my parents and brother (20) 2 years ago because I lost everything when my SO left me and I had to move back from across the country. I lost my managerial position, my car, my apartment, my SO of 8.5 years, and I'm super loving depressed and I don't go out or do anything and I'm unemployed. I know, I'm a loser sand I know I need a job. I feel horrible enough as it is. Also I'm sure on top of my depression/anxiety I'm also pretty loving lazy now. Anyway, I just wanted to be upfront about that if it means anything.

QuarkJets posted:

There's something haunting about this post

So like... how did you go from managing a country club to working at mcdonalds?

In my head canon OP was working at the country club and a big crate of golf balls fell on their head, and they became so impaired that their SO left and they were no longer able to run the golf club so they had to move back home with their mom. And now they're living with brain damage and aren't really able to grasp that they have diminished mental faculties, and their mom doesn't really understand what their limitations are yet. Maybe they've had some recent incidents with getting lost?

QuarkJets posted:

There's something haunting about this post

So like... how did you go from managing a country club to working at mcdonalds?

In my head canon OP was working at the country club and a big crate of golf balls fell on their head, and they became so impaired that their SO left and they were no longer able to run the golf club so they had to move back home with their mom. And now they're living with brain damage and aren't really able to grasp that they have diminished mental faculties, and their mom doesn't really understand what their limitations are yet. Maybe they've had some recent incidents with getting lost?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Read the post.

Anne Whateley posted:

If only there were a paragraph that explained exactly what happened. Maybe it could be placed directly above your post

QuarkJets posted:

Yeah I read that part, but it just says that a bunch of bad things happened, not why. Why did they lose their SO and nice job, leading to a depression spiral? It's a mystery.

ulex minor posted:

i think you might be the one who is legitimately and literally retarded

QuarkJets posted:

Yeah I read that part, but it just says that a bunch of bad things happened, not why. Why did they lose their SO and nice job, leading to a depression spiral? It's a mystery.

quote:

My boyfriend(lets call him J) and I have been together for a year and me and my best friend(lets call her G) have been friends since grade school. J and G are both varsity players and are addicted to watching sports. They would follow hockey, baseball, soccer, football, basketball, like almost any game they love. However, i'm not really a sports person but still I would make the effort to attend their games. I would also make an effort to learn and understand their games. J plays football and G plays soccer.

J was using my laptop and forgot to logout his facebook account. I know its wrong to snoop but I couldn't help it. Some his teammates were messaging him and I clicked on the message icon and saw that he was messaging G. I got curious and scrolled through it and saw that he invited G out to multiple games, saying that he will buy 2 tickets for this game or that game. G would decline and tell him that he should invite me. J then said that I wouldn't understand and that I was not fun to be with in these kinds of things. G said that he is being unfair to me. J still sends multiple messages to G about wanting to talk and wanting to go out with her.

This has been going on for months. G has said nothing to me about this and the only thing that she did to kinda allude to the situation is to text me list of games that I should watch because those are J's favorite teams.

I kinda feel betrayed by both of them. Although I feel more betrayed by J than G.

What should I do? How should I approach this?

UPDATE: Thank you everyone for your advice. I approached G first and told her that I've seen the messages. She was relieved that I came to her and talked to her about it. She explained that she didn't know what to do because she didn't want to do anything that would destroy our friendship. She also assured me that next time she will tell me if anything shady like this happens again and that she will always have my back. We both apologized to each other and hugged it out.

I also have to admit that snooping through J's messages are wrong. The reason I did that because there are some rumours that he hits on other girls at away games and I was feeling insecure and worried about it. But it still does not justify the way I went about it.

As for J, we will meet up later tonight. I honestly think it is over between us. He also has a lot of guys friends to go with him to games and he also would never invite me. I would rather salvage my relationship with my friend, than continue my relationship with him and stay feeling insecure.

Thank you people of reddit for the advice.

UPDATE 2: G told me that I should start by saying "Hey, G told me that you were inviting her out to games" and I did exactly that. J became defensive and told me that he never invited her. I told him that I saw the messages and he asked if G showed me the messages. I told him the truth that I saw it through his fb and he was furious at me. He told me that I violated his privacy and I apologized for it. Then he told me that he was asking out G because his friends felt that G was a lesbian. He was trying to get proof by asking her out and that her not reciprocating is proof that she is one. At this point I'm like "WHAAAAAT?!". He said that he was doing that to protect me and I'm like WHAT?. He then left and told me that he needed space and that I should text him after I got my head cleared up. I texted him "stay away from me and G". That was honestly a wild ride.

Joe Bogan posted:

Just go to dinner dressed in a "Taiwan number one" T-shirt and put your baby in a "Hong Kong independence now" onesie.

Miserable Maid posted:

My (20F) boyfriend (20M) invites my best friend (20F) out to games, just the two of them.




Ah.... And nothing of value was lost! I love a happy ending

Miserable Maid posted:

My (20F) boyfriend (20M) invites my best friend (20F) out to games, just the two of them.

Then he told me that he was asking out G because his friends felt that G was a lesbian. He was trying to get proof by asking her out and that her not reciprocating is proof that she is one. At this point I'm like "WHAAAAAT?!".

MagusofStars posted:

In other words his defense was basically: I'm an arrogant rear end in a top hat who thinks that any woman who doesn't immediately try to gently caress me must be a lesbian...but don't worry, I was purely asking her out for science!

Can't believe that didn't work.

MagusofStars posted:

In other words his defense was basically: I'm an arrogant rear end in a top hat who thinks that any woman who doesn't immediately try to gently caress me must be a lesbian...but don't worry, I was purely asking her out for science!

Can't believe that didn't work.