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CharlestheHammer posted:Lol see perfect example So my math is wrong? I'm not sure where you're going here. I've definitely been in the position where spending that kind of money just on coffee/whatever of $100-150 a month would have made the difference between "living paycheck to paycheck" and having some moderate level of financial security. If you've never been in this position then good for you. But it's a thing.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Lol see perfect example It can be a real percentage of income close to minimum wage. Downgrading to Starbucks or Dunkins might save a few %.
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AITA for telling a woman in a packed coffee shop that I'd move "when her friend came"? So I've noticed this annoying and demeaning and rage inducing trend where a public place is packed (Starbucks, library, park, commuter rail), I sit at an empty seat and a lady sitting across says that seat is taken as she is waiting for her friend. Yes, even on a packed train where we're all going home after work, though this one starts off with their purse and bags taking up the seat. As you can probably feel from the vibe of my post, I feel this is incredibly selfish and uncalled for behavior. We live in a society (America), hoarding a public good (seats) like this leads to anarchy in the system (people must stand, sit on the ground, walk far away to find an alternative) as there is less for everyone else (2 seats for 1 person). The final straw that broke the camel's back was when I was at the university library, it was packed, the same "this seat is taken for a friend who is coming", and fortunately someone else was leaving and I took their spot, only to witness the woman 45 minutes later leave with no one ever arriving. After that whenever I ask if that seat is available and I hear the "I'm waiting for a friend" I say "alright well I'll leave when the friend arrives", and just sit down. And if the other person arrives, I get up and go. Which I think is a fair compromise. Though at this point it's exhausting trying to change everyone and so I see a girl telling people that open seat is taken and I don't even pick that battle anymore, going somewhere else totally.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:31
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AITA for publicly confronting my dad at our regular coffee shop after he “jokingly” shamed me for not paying our bill? I went for coffee with my dad at our usual spot. We meet at the same few coffee shops about twice a week. We take turns buying each time. When we got to the cash he said “of course you’re not paying!! What’s new” really loudly and looked at everyone working even though it was his turn to pay and I paid last time. He’s made this “joke” so many times before and I told him to stop because I think it’s disrespectful to me and embarrassing. He’ll say things like “are you pulling out your wallet? Yeah didn’t so...” etc. I’ve never been a freeloader ever and he does not support me financially in any way. I told him it’s wasn’t funny and I was really upset. I said that he would never say that to his mom or his girlfriend so why me? Then I put a $5 on his plate and said to not bother paying for me again. I did say it loudly enough that the people around us could hear. He got really mad at me and said I was making a scene. I said “it’s not nice to be publicly embarrassed is it?”. I asked him for an apology and he wouldn’t say sorry or promise he would stop doing it. I’m not sure if I overreacted or not. Am I being sensitive?
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Jun 30, 2019 20:32
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AITA for clarifying that an iced coffee is cold? The family and I stopped at Dunkin Donuts for some morning beverages. When placing her order my wife asked for an iced latte. The person taking our order then asked if she wanted that hot or cold. I interrupted the exchange to say "an iced latte is cold." I immediately got the death stare from my wife and I'm sure the employee saw it and I didn't say anything else. Afterward my wife yelled at me for being so rude. I defended my case by saying her job was to take your order. When someone orders an iced drink it isn't necessary to immediately ask if they want it hot or cold. So she must not have been paying attention. I also reminded her that I am a smart rear end by nature and I didn't really mean anything by it. But you could see a downshift in the employees upbeat attitude afterward. I think I could've diffused the situation at the time but my wife reacted so quickly that I didn't have a chance to follow up with the "I'm just messing with ya." And I think she certainly did deserve to be messed with but I wasn't trying to ruin her morning. So am I the rear end in a top hat?
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Jun 30, 2019 20:33
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for clarifying that an iced coffee is cold? I guarantee that employee has been screamed at by a customer pissed off that their iced latte wasn't hot. Probably on that exact same day. Possibly by that exact same rear end in a top hat.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:39
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Saying just messing with you isn’t the salve he thinks it is.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:42
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kimbo305 posted:It can be a real percentage of income close to minimum wage. Downgrading to Starbucks or Dunkins might save a few %. $130 dollars of coffee a month would eat about 21% of my monthly budget.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:49
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uhm. on purpose?
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Antivehicular posted:Like a jackpot at the nickel slots for five hours straight Wife start making Hogan's Heroes jokes how she's married to Colonel Klink.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:00
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not to brag, but I had a plantation wedding on the cheap for the amount of money some of you spend on iced coffees
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Jun 30, 2019 21:00
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gvibes posted:It’s pretty tough to describe to kids. We tried to explain that we are better off than most, and try to help others/donate/etc. to our kids, that was translated to “we have sooooo much money we just give it away all the time” lmfao i can only imagine how tough it is to explain money things to kids, but your kid is fuckin 
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Jun 30, 2019 21:02
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kimbo305 posted:It can be a real percentage of income close to minimum wage. Downgrading to Starbucks or Dunkins might save a few %. The real trick is to subsidize your food and coffee by getting the office to stock it.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:03
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Pinecone Sample posted:not to brag, but I had a plantation wedding on the cheap for the amount of money some of you spend on iced coffees 
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Jun 30, 2019 21:07
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Motronic posted:So my math is wrong? I'm not sure where you're going here. Your math is fine, Charles is alluding to boomers blaming widespread poverty among millenials on their love of coffee and avocado toast instead of the systemic problems that the boomer upper class created. While it's true that daily coffees add up, it's also true that boomers could more often afford similar habits. Talking about daily coffee is akin to victim blaming, essentially.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:15
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Jun 30, 2019 21:16
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Pinecone Sample posted:not to brag, but I had a plantation wedding on the cheap for the amount of money some of you spend on iced coffees
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Jun 30, 2019 21:17
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That makes sense, and I see the disconnect.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:18
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well i only had the one slave at the time
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WIBTA if I confronted my sister about how she is raising her child. I have lived with my sister for many months, and ofc been around her before that. Now that her kid is getting older, I have been getting concerned with how she's raising him. Context her only son is 7 almost 8 and she is a single mother. She still sleeps with him in her bed. He doesn't have his own bed or his own room, they completely share one. There is another room in the place, but she uses it as a guest bedroom instead. It has gotten to the point where he cant fall asleep unless someone else is in the room. There have been times where she will go; switch over laundry or take the trash out, and she doesnt tell her kid. When he looks around and can't find her he immediately panicks. "Wheres mom". The second she comes back he will run to her and hug her and say he misses her. There was a time where she was late coming come, while I was babysitting. She said she would be home at 12,and when 12 :30 hit her kid started throwing a fit about her being late and cried. Despite me telling him she said she would be late. She aids him in his panick by talking about her death. "If I die you can go live with nana and granpa". She speaks through her child when she doesnt want to do things like " I dont think insert childs name would like that" even though sometimes her kid will pipe up and say he wants to do it. She let's him do whatever, and helps him often. Sometimes when he cant find things he will literaly just stand wherever he is look around and go "can you find it for me" and she does, without fail everytime. I feel I should confront her. I may not be a doctor but this seems like textbook separation anxiety, and he is only 7. I have talked with my mom about it and she agrees that my sister may not see what's going on. I am just worried what this could do to a kid over time, because seeing a kid panick at such a young age about things that are not panick worthy is worrying.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:21
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AITA for ordering room service late at night? My flight was delayed and I arrived at my hotel at 10:45. Was supposed to land at 7 and didn’t land until 10 so I didn’t have dinner and was a bit hungry. While checking in, the guy behind the desk asks me if I’ve had dinner yet, then tells me the restaurant closes at 11 so I have 15 minutes left if I want to order room service. Get to my room and decide I just want to get a bowl of soup, nothing heavy. I call room service at 10:50 and the guy answering the phone sounds annoyed af ... sighing, asking if what I’m ordering is on the late night menu (it was) then tells me they’re closing soon and he’ll put the order in. I have worked in restaurants before and know how annoying it is when people come in and order food right before closing. But in this case all they had to do was bring me the food (which I assume was already made) and wouldn’t have to wait for me to finish eating because I’d be eating in my room. So I really wasn’t delaying their ability to get out of there on time. So AITA?
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Jun 30, 2019 21:22
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Welp
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for ordering room service late at night? amazing how someone can still be impervious to empathy when they loving worked the same exact job themselves
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Jun 30, 2019 21:32
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Yawgmoth posted:Did you tip the plantation owners? 10%, he called my girlfriend (my wife's maid of honor) fat when he accused her of clogging the toilet (I did it, but I wasn't going to own up to it)
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Jun 30, 2019 21:38
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Got a date but not a lot of money? Get some googly eyes and some glue for the best cheap date possible.quote:I've done this a couple of times when I really liked someone but I didn't have enough to take her out and wanted to make an impression. Idk where I heard of this but it's worked well for me.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:45
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My (15F) boyfriend (16M) gets aroused around me sometimesquote:He admitted to getting erections sometimes, especially during hugs. And then he admitted that yes he does feel some sexual feelings towards me, but is going to wait until he can legally have sex (only if I consent to it as well).
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Jun 30, 2019 21:46
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Teenagers are so loving stupid lol
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Pinecone Sample posted:My (15F) boyfriend (16M) gets aroused around me sometimes  this disgusting scum
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QuarkJets posted:Your math is fine, Charles is alluding to boomers blaming widespread poverty among millenials on their love of coffee and avocado toast instead of the systemic problems that the boomer upper class created. While it's true that daily coffees add up, it's also true that boomers could more often afford similar habits. Charles prolly hasnt had much of a struggle himself if he's never been in a position where he did feel guilty about snagging some fast food cause it was a big impact on the budget, otherwise he could spread a bit of that empathy to people who grew up poor and roll their eyes when they hear people who they see waste money everyday constantly complain about being broke.
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Jun 30, 2019 22:08
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Pinecone Sample posted:Got a date but not a lot of money? Get some googly eyes and some glue for the best cheap date possible.
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Freudian posted:AITA for logging into my mom and aunts Facebook accounts and stopping a ridiculous and deeply revealing and embarrassing flame war they had going on? I like the cut of this dude’s jib
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My girlfriend [22/F] is seriously considering breaking up with me [23/M] and I pulled a prank on her.quote:My girlfriend has astrophobia, which is basically a fear of outer space. Her fear stems from being afraid of any type of cosmic event that could end the world. She's afraid of asteroids, gamma ray bursts, black holes, etc. and I decided to have some fun with that. While she was sleeping at around 1:00 this morning, I woke her up and I started yelling at her that she needed to get up because an asteroid was heading for Earth. I told her that we needed to pack the essentials and drive towards our nearby Air Force base to seek shelter. She was scrambling around our apartment and trying to pack clothes and food while I was having a phone conversation with my mom, who was in on the prank. I had the phone on speaker and she was acting and saying stuff like "Me and your father are already at the base!" and "The news is saying that the asteroid will be here any minute!" This really added to the prank and my girlfriend was in complete panic mode. My girlfriend was at the door and urging me to hurry up and we got in her car and she began driving to the Air Force base. The user has over 20 posts of varying ages, stories and issues but I was just really surprised there was a search result for 'asteroids'. Let's move on to something different. Me [28F] with my [34m] boyfriend's son [15M] He factory reset my PS3, destroying gaming date from my late brother. I am heartbroken. quote:My brother died three years ago. He was 30 when it happened. It was a blood clot, which is not surprising as he had been on bed rest and was overweight. I know my brother had his issues, but Mark was my best friend. We were really close, despite being 5 years younger than him.
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Sorry Whatever should be grounds for them to round up all his game gear and sell it off, since he obviously doesn't think it matters. I was on the side of maybe cut him a little slack until then. I'm frankly surprised the other adults have their heads on straight about it.
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DeadMansSuspenders posted:My girlfriend [22/F] is seriously considering breaking up with me [23/M] and I pulled a prank on her. prank couple kind of deserves each other I had 3 or 4 dead PS2s, and every once in a while my PS3 spins up like it's ready for takeoff but enough about me, that teen is still a little poo poo who should lose all Gamer Privileges also made me think of this http://animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com/
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Jun 30, 2019 22:37
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ArbitraryC posted:I mean some people are just super bad with money and its not victim blaming to say the lady making 50k a year that blows a couple hundo each week on uber eats could just adjust their lifestyle a bit and completely afford a replacement to their beater van. I grew up poor you hack, I’ve had judgmental people act exactly as you have because they have never struggled and pretend their lower middle class was some struggle that they got out of so why don’t poor people just exist on rice and beans. Like that would really change things
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I had a fight with my boyfriend and ended up dropping him off at a farmquote:My boyfriend is a lot younger than I am so I am very forgiving to him when he does or says insensitive things to me. I usually attribute his insensitivity to ignorance. I generally don't think the hosed up poo poo he says to me is intentionally said to get a rise out of me, I think the hosed up poo poo he says to me is said because he does not realize it is insensitive. quote:I am 37 and he is 27 quote:Not really. An over reaction would have been crying or yelling or something. I calmly told him to get his stuff and get in the car. I drove 10 miles down the road and calmly told him to get out of the car and go sleep with the animals. quote:He spent the night at the farm and slept in a pasture. Walked home this morning and he said he was sorry and acted like nothing happened. quote:He knew he was bad and he was willing to accept his punishment. "you were pushing my buttons," the respite of the abusive partner Pinecone Sample fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jun 30, 2019 |
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Jun 30, 2019 22:53
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Pinecone Sample posted:I had a fight with my boyfriend and ended up dropping him off at a farm
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Pinecone Sample posted:10%, he called my girlfriend (my wife's maid of honor) fat when he accused her of clogging the toilet (I did it, but I wasn't going to own up to it) This is just the sort of moral cowardice that defines the Yankee.
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Pinecone Sample posted:I had a fight with my boyfriend and ended up dropping him off at a farm That was a somewhat insane line, but what the hell. Just gonna toss my BF into the pigsty at midnight because we had an argument!
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My [M 25] Future Father in Law [M 50+] is angry that I didn't invite him to my Bachelor Partyquote:We've know each other for 4 years now.
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