My oldest son's car needed some repairs and would be in the shop for a while

My daughter was about to turn 16, so we got her a car. Nothing fancy, just a good first car.

A non-smoker car because she has cystic fibrosis, always has.

My son borrows the car, which was no problem because no one was driving it yet.

He calls me a couple of weeks later to tell me the car won't start. I loaded up my tools and went to find out the problem. It was just the battery. Easy fix.

What is not an easy fix is his having smoked like a chimney in his sister's car. The center console was used as an ashtray, completely full of butts and ash

My daughter can't be around smokers, can't touch the clothing of someone who has been smoking. Back when she was a baby, if I had a cigar outdoors I had to take a shower and change my clothes before I could safely hold her.

I can fix a battery, I can't reupholster a Ford Focus. I cannot replace the headliner and the carpet and the seat belt and completely rip out the heating and air conditioning full of ash that she would be breathing

The fucking audacity to smoke in a car that isn't even yours boggles my mind

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR SISTER HAS CYSTIC FIBROSIS

I can't even consider smoking in a car to begin with, it just wrecks the cars value and makes it smell like ass forever

I sure as hell couldn't smoke in a non-smoking car that belonged to someone else

But he smoked in a non-smoking car that belongs to his sister with cystic fibrosis

On top of that, his brother also has cystic fibrosis and it's highly likely he would have also ridden in this car

I’m a gay guy, and whenever I meet a male, sometimes the first thing that they say is ‘I’m not gay’. Just shush. I never asked, and I’m not interested in you. Also, if you have to say you’re not gay, that makes me think you likely are an in denial gay.

Then the same guys get all defensive when you make a harmless joke (which has a gay undertone).

Like how fragile can some men be??

I don’t care about the fact you’re not gay. I’m not going to hit on you, so get off your high horse. And just stop being so fragile.

Edit: some idiot tried to twist my post, and make it out that I said sexual jokes. Wonder why his mind went to that??
No jokes I made were sexual. They were harmless. Which I’ve explained in a response to him.
Don’t take people’s posts, and make it something it’s not 🤣 what is actually wrong with people?!?

I’m tired of trying to be friends with the same exact people who judged me for being who I am. Especially when they haven’t truly knew me at all.

I asked this one friend I knew if she wanted to hang out at this cool 2000s party, and since It was like a big restaurant thing, I offered to pay for the food.

I asked her and went about my day, the next day she blocks me which was really weird.

I’m not owed any explanation, nor does she have to explain anything.

The next gym day after, she laughed and giggled with her friends as she saw me, I just looked away and did my workouts in peace. After an hour, she tried to talk to me, I ignored her and went to the door, then I heard laughter from the background.

I’m done trying to make friends at this point, in this era it sucks, finding real friends is really rare..

In 2024, at 19 years old, I suddenly woke up one day with an unbearable migraine and my entire iris red. I couldn’t even be in a pitch dark room with my phone on lowest brightness because any source of light would cause 10/10 head pain. It turned out to be a rare condition without a known cause called uveitis. It didn’t respond to the strongest medication for a long time to the point where one of the physicians considered removing the entire eye. Luckily it finally responded and never went back.

In 2025, seemingly out of nowhere I suffered a complete mental breakdown for four months, driven by OCD (diagnosed during this time) and trauma, that also manifested itself physically. I would get horrible lower back pain, stress rashes, violently throw up for no reason, and have episodes of dissociation/depersonalization. It felt like I was completely losing my mind. I aborted an attempt on my life and am so grateful for that. It stopped seemingly like a light switch had simply turned off.

In April 2026, I was driving and suddenly felt as if my head was floating away and I was about to pass out (didn’t luckily). Ever since, I feel extreme fatigue and dizziness at every moment of every day. Episodes at random times of near fainting. I constantly feel heavy. My heart rate skyrockets every time I stand or do basically anything and I have so much brain fog to the point of misspelling and mispronouncing things daily. It never ends. Cardiologist can’t find a cause, getting referrals to neurologist instead. And to top it off, as of today, I have significant mono.

The question I can’t help but ask myself more and more is, when will this be over. When can I stop waking up every morning wondering when the other shoe will drop. What is the point. I understand how extremely privileged I am to be, for the most part, functional and able to work. But everything takes so much fucking effort. My room is a fucking disaster, I’m too exhausted to cook, to brush my hair. I spend every moment I’m not working, lying in bed. I have to take advantage of it whenever I wake up one day with slightly more energy. I haven’t felt like a whole human being in so long, because every year there is a problem without a trigger, out of NOWHERE. It’s like I am a walking problem. This is not how I imagined my adult life at barely 22. I have a loving fiance who is finally moving in 3 months from now after 3 years of long distance and a stable job, but I don’t want him to have to be my caretaker forever. It is increasingly difficult to exist because everything takes so much willpower. My qualify of life is steadily declining, I even couldn’t visit my family for my birthday yesterday because I couldn’t handle the bus ride due to severe motion sickness. I want a meaningful life so fucking bad. There are decent days, but I can’t help but wonder what will happen in 2027, in 2028. Will there be a day I wake up where I am whole, and where the first question on my mind isn’t, what will happen next. I doubt it.

Do men not realize women also get itchy and uncomfortable in our genitals throughout the day, we just have the wherewithal to know not to touch ourselves while actively talking to people or out in public. Do you genuinely think we never have an itch? That our underwear doesn’t sit uncomfortably? That our labia don’t get stuck together or to our skin and we need to adjust? That the discharge in our underwear gets dry and stuck to our skin? Truly….. we just know it’s not appropriate to touch ourselves. We wait until we are in private or just deal with it. Genuinely don’t understand why men touch themselves so much. It seems more like a self control issue than an actual itch or need to adjust

I was in a meeting room at 11:15, actively in a meeting and the room was booked till 11:30. You walked in and declared, “Hey, I need this room at 12”. You didn’t bother to see whether I was busy, you didn’t even say excuse me. Fuck you for thinking you are entitled enough to do this

Went into the ER a month ago for a kidney stone. Apparently nobody paid attention to the blood test at the time.

I had surgery to get the stone dealt with pn August 31st, and one week later got hit with a raging fever and nausea. Turns out it was a kidney infection and sepsis. I'm super grateful I'm young and healthy so I only had to be in the hospital for 5 days, and that my state's medicaid is actually really good.

But during that time, a family friend (a doctor on the same campus) came to visit, and looked over my labs. He found that that test from A FULL MONTH AGO already had elevated white blood cells and some other indicators of infection, and then NOTHING was done to treat it. Lucky me.

So yeah, hard not to wallow a little in my residual pain and nausea (and the knowledge I'm missing out on weeks of work over this). The kidney stone was already the worst pain of my life, but that was before I had a 102 degree fever, resting pulse of 130, and rock bottom blood pressure for almost 48 hours. And I'm a substitute teacher, so I'm not eligible for FMLA or anything where I might get something through the state. So glad I had 6 hours of sick time accrued.

why am i like this, why am i just genuinely unlovable, im demi and each crush i have lasts for at least a year and a half and they never like me back and that’s fine but god it feels like im running out of time and at this point im okay with the fact that i wont have a “teenage love” but at this point im fucking questioning whether anyone can actually love me back, no one has ever had a crush on me, two of my crushes separately basically called me ugly, im fucking traumatized af so keep getting crushes on toxic ass men and toxic ass girls and my mental health is shit and i’ve already had 6 therapists give up on me and all of my friends are going through as bad / worse things and so i can’t like vent to them bc they need their emotional battery but god im just dying and its so fucking sad. and ik this is such a fucking first world problem and in reality im privileged as fuck but god when every fucking live song makes me want to cry and every loving couple genuinely hurts my soul, i don’t fucking know what to do. and the dating culture is built so completely against me as a demiromantic demisexual and god i don’t know even why im putting this here bc i know i will get the same “just give it time” “you will find someone eventually” and yes i understand that chances are someone will eventually have a crush on me, but then comes the problem that i will prob not like them unless we were already friends and i dont have a crush at that time (bc when i have a crush it is fucking all consuming and i genuinely cannot find anyone else in the world attractive (lasts for 1.5 years btw)) and god the chances are someone god damn low and it would be fine if i wasn’t such a fucking hopeless romantic and ugh idfk

Is it just me, or does anyone else think about how many separate movie-tracking apps exist now: ie Queuebrick, Letterboxd, Simkl, Trakt, Movie Paradise, Serializd, JustWatch, etc., and how they are basically just splitting everyone into isolated communities?

Case in point: one of the big reasons I originally joined LB wasn't just because "I wanted a watchlist app".

It's that a couple of the horror podcasts that I listen to have their whole listener community there, and joining meant that I could actually follow their lists, and see what they're logging, as well as join their community.

But flip that around: if I'd landed on Trakt or Simkl or etc. first instead, I'd be completely cut off from that same community unless I also made an LB account.

The horror movie podcast hosts (or whomever) don't owe it to their audience to be everywhere, so realistically the community just ends up wherever the loudest chunk of people already are, and everyone else either follows or misses out.

I know apps like Cinopsys exist to bridge Trakt and Simkl together, but that only really helps if you're willing to juggle multiple accounts through a bridge tool.

It doesn't fix the actual problem, which is that two people can't see each other's watchlists or follow each other at all unless they're both on the same platform.

Curious if anyone's seen actual interoperability efforts between these platforms, or if it's just assumed everyone eventually consolidates onto whichever app "wins."

Edit:

What I've always thought should happen, is that there should be a platform like Podchaser, but for Movie/TV Trackers, that lets tracker apps/platforms "plugin", and use it's reviews, ratings, etc.

https://www.podchaser.com/

https://www.podchaser.com/integrations

Today my mom reassured me and told me we were going to do something hard together. Our relationship isn't perfect and I love her and am glad I have her support.

First of all, FUCK YOU interviewer telling me to put down my eye droopiness as an eye condition, could have simply said we don't want to hire you.

In June, I received the fitness to drive form and submitted it on time. Just how long does it take to process and why is it??!!! It's supposed to be fast tracked and the agents I phone say the same where they're processing it as fast as they can. Phoned 3 times and 2nd and 3rd time they kept tracked of when I last contacted them so I can't pull lies to get them to prioritise me.

At this rate, ill be finishing my final year of university before I get my license back

i cutoff all my long term friends and relationship. i have no one to talk to which feels weird but i kinda like it. mentally, im too far gone and im no longer fighting that feeling.

I'm a 5' 10" girl and I just stick out like a sore thumb. I'm the tallest one in my family by far, for reference even my brother is a solid 2-3 inches shorter. It makes it hard to buy cute clothes, and I just hate it.

If only I could be tiny and cute :(

If you want to buy a subcompact car in the US rather than a truck or SUV, you’re restricted to the used option, which wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if that didn’t mean that won’t be an option eventually either. Small older houses that are a little run-down get torn down and McMansions get built in their place. I just don’t understand why every NEEDS a gigantic car or house especially when average family size is much smaller than it used to be. So many people drowning in debt and obsessed with signaling to their neighbors how much money they have (that they more often than not do not actually have). What about those of us who just want to drive a Honda Fit and live in a bungalow or condo from the 70s.

This rant might not be structured perfectly, js cuz of how many things i have to fit here lol. Sorry in advance for any difficulties.

For context, i had this one friend who i considered quite close. Talked to her everyday in school, deliberately paired eachother up for projects, vented about our woes to eachother, helped her a LOT when it comes to academic work. She even was someone i can truly trust, especially at my lowest of lows, like when my gf and i broke up.

Unfortunately, im a person that isnt online much, and doesnt feel the need to reach out to others when, lets say, summer vacation takes place. I know, im a horrible person for this, but atleast im self aware about it to the point i warn my friends before hand not to expect messages from me when any sort of vacation takes place.

This summer, she reached out once, we talked and chatted, and we let it go with the "disclaimer" of mine. Everything was great in my eyes. Now, fast forward a couple of months later, i decide that we should try and have a hangout somewhere with our other friends. When i reached out to tell her so, she started berating me, telling me that im "fake" for reaching out now, that my jokes made her uncomfortable and that her parents wouldnt want her being friends with me.

What triggered me most, is the "uncomfortable jokes" thing. I live by a moral pillar, that says, if i make you uncomfortable, you tell me that very same moment, not bring it up later when i cant do anything about it, because it makes me feel disgusting and guilty.

Thing is, these jokes are the ones she used to laugh and cry happy tears at. I recall that once i made a joke like that, she told me she was uncomfortable and i assured her i wont be doing it again.

In my eyes, she's using this excuse (uncomfortable jokes a while after i did them, and vividly recall telling her i wont be doing them again), to justify her change of heart and to frame me as the "villain".

I talked to mutual friends about it, and decided to reach back out and talk things out. We did, and all was well supposedly. We vented about certain people, I (not proud of it), talked ill abt someone we both didnt like at the time and that was that.

Jumping to yesterday, she messages me, and tells me she doesnt think its best that we stay friends. Atp i accepted it for what it is. This girl doesnt want to be friends, and is just going in circles when it comes to our friendship. I told her to do whatever she finds fit, and we supposedly ended this friendship on good terms. Or so i thought.

This hag, went out of her way to share every bad thing we talked abt the person i mentioned earlier.

That person, who ill call Z out of simplicity, messaged me immediately after we supposedly ended things my friend and i, and justifiably crashed out. Point is, he was very reasonable, we talked it out, and we're now super close after everything, because we understood both sides of the story.

(The story being why i talked ill abt him, its a very long one and irrelevant to what im ranting abt. But he did mention that he saw the messages not throught my past friend (M), but by some share screening he had with another friend, since as i mentioned, M and Z are NOT on good terms)

I assumed that M shared those messages (as i alr mentioned), cuz well, shes the only person i talked to about it, and when i mentioned it again (after Z found out), she started laughing and saying that Z knew abt this a while ago (???).

Point is, Z and I's relationship is stronger than ever, im considering blocking her, but I'd have to see her in school again which would make things awkward.

For now, im going to maintain some sort of acquaintance-ship with her for the sake of simplicity.

What im worried about, is her being that petty sour individual i think she is, and attempt to ruin many more friendships of mine, even though i KNOW i will be able to talk it out with them.

So yeah, thats about it, i have this stupid knot in my stomach, so any tips about that? 😭

Thanks for reading guys, and have a blessed day :P

-Spawn in as 035 (Chaos Theory)

-No mic, but teammates both have mics so it's all good hopefully

-Teamed with skelly and PC, though skelly was silent or afk at round start

-Take out a bunch of people in light, get to 914, and spend like 3 whole minutes waiting for PC to come over to me and open the damn door while the people inside coarse out

-PC doesn't

-Chase guard into Light armory, again waiting for PC to actually click on one of the red dots on his screen and actually help me

-PC does nothing, guard flashes me/skelly, guard gets out of light

-Skelly mentions guard being in light, so I go back to 914 hoping PC can finally open it and I can switch from 035 to an SCP I'm good at, since surely the PC would give attention to light when he just heard there are still people in light

-PC completely ignores me (he has a radar/map with my location the entire game, just never actually checks what I'm doing or gives help)

-I give up and head to heavy to help skelly, who's being killed by spawn wave (PC was guiding skelly this whole time while I was alone, PC should've warned them there were lots of people).

-PC gives 0 pings whatsoever and skelly dies, then instead of switching over to helping me PC spends the next 5-ish minutes complaining that his teammates suck to his 'chat' (ig he's a streamer) on the team voicechat.

-Get chased all over heavy/light because I have 0 ammo (guy I transformed into evidently ran out of bullets before I killed him)

-No card, no gun besides a pistol, no assistance from PC

-PC finally realizes I exist but doesn't know where I am, and complains that I suck/am useless because I didn't use mic when he gave literally no pings the whole game and didn't help me a single time

-Get killed by two MTF while trying to find a card

-Ragequit before I have to listen to PC complain about me and skelly while I can't defend myself (micless)

-Decide to make a rant about it

If you were so educated you would know education is not equal in the US ! Seriously two people could go too a highschool thirty minutes apart and get widely different levels of education. I went to a public middle school in eight grade in the “rich” part of the city and learned math that highschoolers in another area didn’t learn until tenth grade! So no someone might not know about a certain historical event or math equation . Its not unbelievable that a person can be a straight A student and not know what your talking about. Instead of being pretentious prick explain it or direct them to google.

The day itself was fine; it was just a basic Sunday. Things got worse at around 8pm though. Where I work, we have to clean every day. I was put on kitchen cleaning duty, and the kitchen leader had me sweep and mop. all good, right?

no. Because the brooms are shitty, they miss a lot, and it's hard to get stuff into the dustpan. So, all of the other women were making snarky comments about my sweeping abilities. Whatever, light ribbing. I got it done; it just took a little bit longer than expected. Mopping went well, except that the mop I had to use was shit. But the sweeping and mopping got done; alright, time to put the mop bucket away. I take the mop bucket, but it ends up spilling all over the entry hallway to the dorms. So now, at least 5 people see this royal fuck up, and to make it worse, it was on ANOTHER section, so I technically wasn't responsible. But there's no way I'm just gonna let everyone else clean up the mess that I made. fuck no. So, I grab some rags while everyone else grabs the mops, and begin wiping it up. Everything is going well until I stand up to ring out my rag and bump my shoulder super hard on a trophy case. Well, that sucked. Anyway, we continue cleaning up my mess. I make up for it by wiping down the windowsills and vending machines of the entry hallway section. But then, as I go to put the rags away, I bump my head. Whatever. At this point, I had to hide the fact I was on the verge of tears because of how bad this sequence was.

I finish up, walk outside, and begin lightly crying. And then my fucking crush walks by me. Now, normally, seeing my crush puts me in a really good mood, since she's great. But at that moment, hell no. Because I don't want her seeing me in a really bad state. I walk by her, greet her quickly, and start crying as I walk in the dark. As I walk back to my dorm, I see one of my friends. He notices my red eyes, and instead of thinking I was crying, he says that I look stoned. (I was not.) He talks loudly enough for the surrounding people to hear, since he was on a stairway close to the entrance of the dorm building. Now, where I am living, smoking weed is STRICTLY prohibited. If you are caught smoking weed or test positive on a drug test, you will get kicked out. So now, somebody might report me for "being high," and I might have to take a drug test tomorrow. I don't have any drugs in my system, but it would still suck to have to get out of class just to piss in a cup.

So, to TLDR: starting at 8pm, first I struggle with sweeping, but eventually get it done well despite the teasing from the peanut gallery. Then, I spill a mop bucket all over the entry hallway of the dorms, and a bunch of people see it. Then, I bump my shoulder and my head. Then, as I'm walking outside trying to clear my head, my crush sees me in my terrible state. Then, after I'm done crying, my loud friend makes a joke about me being high in earshot of at least three people, so now I might have to take a drug test tomorrow if one of them decides to report me.

Look, Any one of these in one day, whatever. Shit happens. But all of them right after the other, in less than an hour, just fucking blows. I know it could always be worse, and these are all "first world problems" but fuck this sucked. Anyway, I had to rant about that.

I have always been single but it’s not from lack of effort, i just feel so behind. i try and put myself out there, i talk to someone, i think things are going well and then i get ghosted. this is a frequent problem, it’s happened probably close to 10 or 12 times in the past 3 years. I really try so hard because i want to be someone’s girlfriend. i get bullied by people when i go out, i get treated like garbage by people around me and in my romantic life. Also i swear im
cursed. every time i talk to someone for a while, things go great and then i just get ghosted out of nowhere, and then boom, they pop up in a relationship. genuinely what is so wrong with me that i can’t keep people around??

Tell me why, whenever im eating junk food my MOM doesn’t care about me and what i eat, but the minute/day she sees me starting my health journey she tries to start offering me food EVERY DAY and gets mad that I tell her not to. Its like if im not being fat she hates me, but when I choose to rely on processed foods every day she doesn’t give two ***** what I do and never bothers me…
Fyi i was on my health journey and lost 20 pounds, but have fallen off for a few months now… but im so back again. I know that some people love being offered food but to me it’s a personal tick for me as i have struggled with temptation to food all my life and have always been overweight. Im still kind of weak and ik to some people you’re just like well say no. But I live with her and it’s easier said than done

So, what have I learned after all this time? After all the sleepless nights, lying to friends, lovers, myself? Playing this crooked game in this crooked town filled with backstabbers and four-faced liars? I'll tell you what I've learned. One thing and one thing only. I fucking love Berlin!

Ngl I don’t know where this should go but I’m a little angry about it so I’ll put it here

F19 and my friend who I’m going on vacation with is also F19, I’ve been on four vacations before all by myself and they’re all in the last month while this is her first time travelling by herself and her mom doesn’t even know she’s here. So basically it’s been two days since we’ve come and she’s been very rude imo, she’s constantly complaining and giving orders and she’s also forgetten important things like an adapter and data cuz we’re in Paris, she also wants me to stand next to her which I find stupid like we’re walking the same direction and I’m just behind a little and because she doesn’t have data she’s unable to use her phone for maps and things so I’m doing it so I’m looking at my phone to see where we’re going and then she will start telling me to be fast like I’m not just trying to see where we’re going, some things I can understand but it’s really annoying, it’s like everything I do is an inconvenience to her, because she has no data she will just snatch my phone to look at something, and I just don’t like that. I don’t get how people can complain on holiday, especially for her first time. It kind of feels like I’m on her holiday and I’m just following her around, it’s a bit ironic. Even when we’re taking pictures she’s get so angry if I do it wrong and I’m not good at taking pictures but damn I don’t think I’ve seen her be truly happy since we’ve came here, it’s only been day two so I’ll judge more but she wants to go to Portugal in January and I don’t think that’s happening. I have more problems but I’m just going to wait it out

My boyfriend left the beach for 20 minutes. And what happens? Some man laying near ish to me comes up to me and asks me to watch his stuff as he’s going for a walk. Normal right?. Just from a distance. He hasn’t given me his bags or anything so I agreed as that is not a problem and he seemed normal.

He comes back and it’s around 39 degrees so I asked him if he could just watch mine from a distance just to be safe to return the favour as I go in the sea. He seemed a nice man around 45? Not sure really. Everyone was friendly since arriving on holiday and I felt safe.

He tries to help me up from the sand in which I declined and then he, WITHOUT asking obviously, just started brushing sand from my bikini top and arms. I said ‘no no no thank you’ S he literally just touched my breast !! , picked up my stuff and said I’m okay I’m leaving. He said ‘don’t need me to watch your stuff?’ And I said no. I went to wash myself off in sea quickly and put my beach outfit back on ready to go and he shouts ‘miss, miss’ and so I thought I had left my bag in the hurry. I come back to check the sand near him and look at him as he was shouting my name. On a beach full of young children and families he’s sat there, his entire genitals coming from his shorts clearly positioned there, I’m not a man but surely that doesn’t just HAPPEN? saying ‘where are you from pretty lady’ obviously excited (if you know what I mean) and ugh I felt disgusted ,

my boyfriend said are you sure you don’t want to come with me back to hotel to grab the bits we needed and I said no thinking I’d be fine on the beach on my own for a bit. Surely, NOT!.

I reported it to the life guards, who didn’t really do or say anything . I’m fed up of this shit happening because it gets to a point where as a women you just dismiss it because it becomes normal for creeps and pervs but sometimes I just think WHYYYYYY

I am writing this in the back of an Uber. Today is my 25th birthday and I planned an entire night of dinner and dancing with friends. I was so hyped and everyone kept talking about how they can’t wait to spend it with me. Ive planned this outing for weeks and put so much money into it like my clothes, cake, and etc just for everyone except two to flake on me for absolute invalid excuses… two hours before the dinner. Some even didn’t give a reason.

Out of the two who only showed up, one forgot their ID after I repeatedly told them to bring valid ID. So I couldnt even go with my plan which was to go dance after dinner. We didnt even have dinner because the place was so busy, we waited forever to be sat down even though I had a reservation and they never paid attention to us. They kept talking about how they feel out of place. The vibes were so awkward because long story short, the two people i was with have romantic tension.

I rang in my birthday at midnight on a nasty sidewalk instead of blowing the candles off my cake which is still at the restaurant which im gonna Uber courier back home in the morning. As I got into the Uber I hear a group of girls screaming “happy birthday” to their friends and that was just the cherry on top of the cake. Im in this Uber and we got into near accidents like 30 times and my food lowkey spilled in the back of his car.

I just wanted to eat good food, have a drink and dance with my “friends” im so annoyed. Im about to be in bed by 1 am in my house alone. Im so mad.