For context:
I’m getting married to my fiancée in April. My mom and dad have not been on speaking terms since early 2020 so this will make my wedding a little more tense than I’d like it to be. My parents were never married and did not raise me or my sister. Both of my parents (and my older sister) have asked me for money in the past. My father has stopped after several times of me telling him to and my sister hasn’t asked in a long time. My mother is the only one that still consistently asks for money, even after many times of telling her to stop. As recently as two days before receiving this text. This whole situation makes me feel very cold towards her. Whenever she reaches out after a long time of not reaching out, I know what comes next. She has had a boyfriend for a long time, probably longer than my parents have been separated because she cheated on my dad with this man. I recently asked her not to bring him to my wedding as this will only cause more tension between my sides of the family. This text is from said boyfriend. I feel no obligation to make my mother feel better about our relationship, in fact, she’s lucky to be invited at all. My grandmother will be there in the mother-of-the-bride position because she raised me. Letting her bring this boyfriend would have been quite the accommodation; one that I don’t feel I have to make.

Thankfully I took pictures, I had cleaned out my gallery a week earlier thinking I was in the clear, thankfully I was able to recover the photos. Salesman was being super pushy on the extra insurance, guess they try to get there money by any means.

i feel like i’m going crazy. i tried looking up what exactly a trapezoid is & i’m even more confused now! one website said rectangles are trapezoids, but another said they’re not.

*edit: my child selected rectangles. the teacher corrected it to trapezoids.

A) Nice typo.

B) The political junk mail is beyond out of control this election season.

C) Is there even a regulation mandating this?!

Feel bad for anyone who has trouble getting through tight spaces to go potty, and for anyone who can't climb if there's a fire.

Charging 2 rupees more in name of a discount and calling it a Wednesday special offer

Inflation so bad even discounts cost extra 😭

riding the train in China and the girl next to me gets up, grabs her bags, and just... leaves her cup of water sitting on the tray table. not empty either, like half full. it takes two seconds to grab your cup. it's not even about being tidy, it's just that the seat isn't yours anymore.

this after using my account normally for like a few years

I'm not okay with uploading my selfie (followed by my ID) to an already data hungry company like Meta

I guess Alaskan politicians are getting really anxious about elections 😬

Sorted in the background is actual mail lol

She's a massage therapist, came back from walking her guest out and noticed it's more of a business card. Bunch of QR codes and persons name.

This is actually a mild week for spam calls. But I just have gotten so used to it being nothing but spam that my phone is perpetually on silent and unless it’s someone I know and is already in my contacts, I assume it’s spam. Hard being on the job market like that though. I wish we could throw these stupid phones in dump and never look back.

Ordered from First Club India (Bangalore). Assume this is a metal manufacturing part or something. Fortunately I pour content into a plate to eat usually and don’t directly empty into mouth.

But now for no reason given, it's releasing and arriving NEXT YEAR.

I spent 18 horrible years with this company. It felt so good to cancel almost 2 years ago at my home and get fiber.

Outages every day almost that affected the entire neighborhood for the past 18 years. Even had a few city wide outages 10,000+ customers that would last weeks. Once the entire city was down, call support they'd want to send a tech to MY house to "fix it" They'd do this to everyone that called for the first 2 days before acknowledging the outage. It was out for 2 weeks for every customer until it was fixed.

Moving foward to a few months ago, fiber finally rolled around to my parents business was paying $79 a month for 300/20 with constant outages (keep in mind this location is in another town) Switched to AT&T Fiber 300/300 for $65 a month.

Paid what I thought was the FINAL bill.... NOPE. The cable co sends the final bill for business to a 3rd party debt collection company which tacks on their own fees bringing to $79 to $115. So the debt collection is legit, its just the company gives you no option to pay your actual final bill before sending it off.

Is that legal for a company to do this? Apparently this is how they handle final bills for businesses.

First of all, I ordered a large because my wife and I just share them, they gave me the order in the "regular" size container.

When I confronted the manager she said we only have regular containers, so I said at least fill it up, I paid $5 for like 11 fries?? Wtf, she ended up giving me a second little regular box because I wasnt quiet anout paying $5 for a ridiculous product, when I checked it in the car, I swear to you, it had 5 fries in it... bro FUCK YOU Firehouse subs in Aiken SC.

For the record, three weeks ago I ordered us large fries to split and they did it then too, but I didnt cause a fuss, I just dealt with my wife complaining about my stupid decision...I swear I think its intentional and they just claim they dont have large fries containers. Ughhh

I rent. The place comes with a large yard, and I want it to be green with life, so I buy the hoses and spray nozzles to do it.

Large yard, large hose. Hoses are expensive, and the nozzles are constantly wearing out and needing to be replaced.

Why do they need to be replaced so often? Well...

Maintenance. Painters. Concrete guys. Guys being paid by the landlord to do who knows what. About eight years, completely different people, but in the end they're all the same: they just can't help themselves from throwing the nozzle straight down to the concrete when they're done using it, and CAN'T STOP LOSING THE FUCKING GASKETS.

This year has been particularly bad. Landlord is renovating units so tons of people have been coming through. I started the season with two new nozzles. I'm ended the season with two busted-ass nozzles that leak uncontrollably and look like they've been dragged behind a truck. When I was home I'd hear it; the solid 'clink!' of weighted metal smacking the concrete.

You can always tell it's been used, because what was once a neat roll is either half-assed back or just left in a pile.

I gave up saying anything. These rude bastards don't want to be corrected; say anything, and they'll just drop it from even higher when you're out of sight. "Normal wear", riiiight. We can all enjoy the leaky nozzles together I guess.

But the gaskets. The FUCK-ING GASKETS. Why is it so FUCKING hard to keep track of the gaskets when they decide to link hoses or switch out the nozzle or whatever the fak. I can't even tell you how many times I've turned the water on to discover it gushing out at the connection and - surprise! No gasket. Poof, gone. Sorry sucker.

I have more gaskets, I could easily put in another one. But it's the end of the season. Tonight I unscrewed the last bedraggled nozzle and put it away. They still have work for the rest of the week, and it involves water.

But now, no nozzle for you, my guys. Hope you brought your own.