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Two weeks ago I decided to sell my 3-year old bedroom set (dresser, night tables and small desk) because it's too big for the room I moved into 4 months ago. My roommate was admiring it as I took photos to post for sale, and I said, "listen, if you want it, you can have it" thinking it would be easier to just give it to her, rather than spend time fielding inquiries and dealing with potential buyers. Basically I just needed to get it out of my room so I could buy something that would work better. She said no, she had no room either, and I should just sell it.

The bedroom set sold for $700 after about 11 days and all the hassle one deals with when selling stuff—folks who dont show up or call, offers that are then rescinded, people haggling for you to sell it for $50, that kind of thing.

Yesterday after the buyers picked up the furniture and gave me the payment, my room mate made some weird hrumph sound and walked out of the room. I gave it no mind until she sent me a text a couple hours later asking if I wanted to pay her through Venmo or PayPal. I called her on the phone because I was completely perplexed. It turns out she felt because I offered her the furniture for free that I intended to make a gift of it to her, and when she told me to "just sell it" it was with her understanding that I was selling it on behalf of her.

I'm no lawyer, but in law there is a stipulation that the parties have to come to a 'meeting of minds' when it comes to contracts (which is what she suggests this is) and that I breached the contract and therefore owe her the money.

AITA?

carry on then posted:

if it was a bottom tier android phone, maybe, but most mid tier and above phones can sense depth and aren't fooled by a photo

AceClown posted:

lmao hes a military guy working with some of the nastiest bio weapons ever developed, he'll be lucky if that's the worst of what happens

ghost emoji posted:

Glad you got out of that. It sounds like straight-up torture.

ghost emoji posted:

Wife [28F] won't let me [28M] sleep.[new] (self.relationships)

give me your sleep schedule

Mx. posted:

Mx. posted:

Neito posted:

with my love abus knuck tats,

AceClown posted:

CatFancier4393 commented on why "Women and Children first" ? in r/TooAfraidToAsk

CatFancier4393 -4 points · 15 days ago
So the men can have some peace and quiet while they think of a solution.

deety posted:

Dudes that get upset by this principle might feel better if they actually looked into it instead of just getting mad about some nearly mythical female privilege.

The first well publicized case of "women and children first" was in the 1850s, on a British naval ship. There weren't very many women and children there in the first place, and there were actually a couple of extra boats on board that failed to launch correctly. Some of the men managed to swim to shore and others survived by clinging to the wreckage, but both of those things would have been impossible for women in Ye Olde Time Clothes and little kids. Then Rudyard Kipling wrote a loving poem about it and everyone praised the men on the ship enough that the concept became something to aspire to.

It was always a more of an ideal than a thing that happened consistently in practice, and Titanic is the only other really well-known example (and after that ships were supposed to have enough lifeboats). So the women of 100+ years ago got maybe sixty years of being prioritized if the men on any particular sinking ship decided to handle things that way.

I've read enough accounts of age-of-sail wrecks to know that women in a more typical shipwreck/castaway situation dealt with some of the worst things that can happen when a traditional sense of order breaks down. And if you look into the survival statistics for that kind of wreck, they tend to break down into the people with the most power on a ship having the best chance to make it out alive. But some guys want to whine about the few high-profile exceptions as if those mean much in terms of the wider history of how women were treated both on the sea and off it.

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Our son(10M) is a very picky eater. There are a few foods that he loves to eat such as pizza, chicken, steak, and pasta. He is working with someone that is helping him try new foods. My wife(41F) wishes that he wasn't picky, but I(42M) don't see any problems. There have been concerns in the past from family members that son was underweight. My son is at a good weight according to his doctor.

We went to my in-law's house for a St. Patrick's party. I brought a small dish of Mac and Cheese for son to have for dinner as he didn't want to have the corned beef. I noticed my wife and her mother looking at son and having a private conversation. When it was time for dinner, I put son's meal on his plate and my wife grabbed the plate. She threw the food into the trash and put some corned beef and cabbage on the plate. Son starts to get upset and pushes the plate away. I looked at wife and say Are you serious? He didn't want any of the corned beef, that is why I brought the mac and cheese.

She looks back at me with a smile and says Well, he needs to try new things and he might like the corned beef. Son whispers to me that he felt sick and wanted to go home. I told wife that we were leaving and would see her at home. Her sister dropped her off at the house and she came storming inside, screaming at me that I am the one at fault for not wanting son to try new foods. We aren't speaking to one another right now and I have been receiving unpleasant texts from her family.



AITA for leaving without my wife after she tried making my son eat food he didn't want?

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for leaving without my wife after she tried making my son eat food he didn't want?

No indication if the kid has sensory issues but I am wondering what else the kid eats.

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One of my closest friends and I got officially together about a month ago and it's been amazing. I am so in love with him and the happiest I've been in a long time if not ever. This is my first anything with a man so it's been a coming out process.

So far all of our friends have been accepting and supportive of this news. On the family front I told my brother, well technically I confirmed it as he asked when he was over. I told my sister and she seemed supportive until she asked me to "not be public about it" at her up coming wedding.

She even took it a step further and asked me not to tell our parents till after her wedding which is almost 3 weeks away. I'd say she's worried about issues or something but I know our parents won't care cause our cousin is gay and they are completely supportive so this "request" is hurtful.

I had planned to tell them this weekend as we have dinner plans but now I don't know. I love my sister and I know her wedding is important to her but I also want to share this great news with our parents.

I feel selfish saying this but a part of me doesn't even want to go to her wedding if I have to hide this. It's been a very rough couple years and my boyfriend was by my side for all of it without question so i'm proud to be with him.

Do I still tell our parents? How should I handle the wedding situation? Advice?

TLDR Sister wants me to keep my relationship a secret at her wedding and to wait the 3 weeks till it's over to tell our parents and I don't know what to do, so advice?

Edit Given the amount of bigotry i'm getting i'll add i'm helping pay for it, despite her crap even if I don't go I still plan on helping pay for the wedding cause I told her I would.

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She texted me back, her fiancé would be uncomfortable with 2 men being affectionate and she's worried if that info comes out mom and dad will stop paying for the half of the wedding.

Mx. posted:

My(28m) sister(30f) asked me to keep my same sex relationship DL at her wedding and to not tell our parents till after

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I (18F) was recently informed by my family that due to money issues, I may need to give up my room and start sharing a room with my mom so they can rent out my room. Growing up, we use to live in a studio apartment and I use to share a bed with both me, my sister and my mom, so it wasn’t something I wouldn’t be use to.

I was a bit upset as we had the chance to change our living situation and were now able to rent a house and have separate rooms, and I’ll admit, I enjoyed the privacy of having my own room but I understood the situation. However the details later changed when my stepdad announced that my step-brother would sleep in my mom room and I sleep in his room. Immediately, I said no and refused to go along.

They say the reason why they made this change is because recently, my step-brother and step-father have been having severe argument and fight and that this would only be temporary. But later down the line, they changed their mind and said that this would be better as when I do move in, I won’t have to pay rent and only just have to pay for utilities bills.

I told my mom that I’m not comfortable sleeping in his room and ask if it has to be this way, why don’t she and him share one room and me and my step-brother share a room. But she refused.

My family is getting upset as they say that they already have someone ready to rent out my rooms and that I’m making the situation worse by delaying.

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I (19 M) had a job taking care of two kids (2M, 3F), a dog, and doing light housework 4 days a week for a single mom who got my contact info from a business card I had posted in my dad's pediatric therapy office.

Ever since the weather started getting warmer, the dog has been shedding like crazy. Like, I would vacuum the couch and the next day it would look like I hadn't, I would lightly tug on the dog's hair and would pull out huge tufts, the dog's been scratching all the time, etc. My dad's dog has a double coat like theirs, and one morning when I was leaving for work I packed his brushing tool in my bag. When the kids were napping, I spent a full hour outside brushing the dog.

The dog seemed to enjoy being brushed, and after an hour there was a huge pile of hair that had been brushed out. Before I vacuumed it up, I sent the mom what I thought would be a funny text saying, "Brushed a whole new dog out of [Dog]'s coat!"

Looking back, I realize that maybe I should have asked first, but at the time it seemed like something that was within the scope of caring for the dog. The mom went ballistic. She called me yelling, saying that by brushing the dog and not letting the hair fall out on its own I was causing harm to the dog. She said I was an idiot and she can't believe she trusted me with her kids, and that today was my last day. I was extremely upset because I had been with the family for 3 months and she had never yelled at me like that before. I left as soon as she got home because she was still fuming. I immediately lined up a job with another family and am supposed to start Monday.

The mom who yelled at me called me two days later saying that she was sorry about the "misunderstanding" and that firing me was an overreaction. I told her I was no longer available and she started crying about how hard it was to find a new sitter for "special needs" kids (her kids are autistic and have therapy at my dad's office). When I stood firm, she started texting my dad and asking him to do something. My dad is annoyed at being dragged into this, and while he respects my decision he wishes I would keep watching her kids for a short time to "keep the peace". I hate that I put anyone in an awkward position, but I also don't want to work for someone like that. AITA?

Edit because I don't want to have to keep clarifying: My dad is not an ABA therapist. He's a physical therapist.

ghost emoji posted:

Wife [28F] won't let me [28M] sleep.[new] (self.relationships)

give me your sleep schedule

ghost emoji posted:

Glad you got out of that. It sounds like straight-up torture.

Mx. posted:

AITA for not returning to my childcare job because the mother fired me over a mistake?

coronatae posted:

Regardless I think corned beef and cabbage is Not a good choice to try and break your kid's picky eating

Angrymog posted:

I think the reason I'm not a particularly picky eater is that my parents only ever asked that I try new foods, and accepted my answer if I said I didn't like it.

Or if it was very far from the norms make me a meal I would eat, and offer me a bit of the new food from their serving.

As a counterpoint I was on holiday with a friends family, and they served dahl (lentils) at one meal. I didn't like it, said so, and the fuckers wouldn't let me leave the table until I had finished. Took me years to eat lentils again.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

That dad can eat poo poo, too. Lady threw the fit, she's facing the consequences for her actions, there is no "keeping the peace" here.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

pentyne has a post on the first page of this thread that they update every time the thread title changes. I believe they did the same for the last thread as well.

Mx. posted:

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

Abolish ICE but before that we deport everyone who has identified themselves Italian-American to Long Island and nuke it until it’s a spicy cannoli.

teen witch posted:

Don’t punish long islanders any further (plus tbh it’s the Irish Americans that are more Weird about things)

teen witch posted:

Don’t punish long islanders any further (plus tbh it’s the Irish Americans that are more Weird about things)

teen witch posted:

Don’t punish long islanders any further (plus tbh it’s the Irish Americans that are more Weird about things)

therattle posted:

Hmm, I wonder if there’s a link to these two groups clinging on to an identity and historically being considered lesser by mainstream WASP American society? (It may be obvious but I’ve only just thought of it).

deety posted:

Dudes that get upset by this principle might feel better if they actually looked into it instead of just getting mad about some nearly mythical female privilege.