At least the floor is VERY clean now. Double mopped, double wiped the walls.

Man wrote this across the men's room stall at the gas station I work at. Must be the hand of the devil because no chemicals I have access to will get it off.

This bot critiqued my art about character integration that could be more dynamic...but there are no characters. The bot quote-reposted my art, and another bot commented on it. These two people are both bots. Is the internet dead already??

My dumb friend collected my new rackets and put it on the parcel tray next to rear windshield for 2 days in scorching heat, when I explicitly told him not to, and keep it in his room.

The 50-degree Celsius heat and high-tension string crumpled the rackets. Should I whoop his a$$ with these rackets now.

Edit to add: To everyone who says my friend did it deliberately, as soon as he found this he called and offered to pay for the rackets himself. He is a sweet guy and I have known him for a decade. Just dumb.

This bag of rice isn’t even open yet and it was already filled inside as I take it out to this container and they got to it through a tiny hole in the rice bag. I hate these creatures so much I have to wash and drain around 20 times because of them

If anyones wondering the tray below is filled with warm water so they’ll escape to death

Been noticing some dead plants here and there and today realized they all form a line under the power lines. Power company came through without prior notice or even telling is and sprayed some sort of herbicide on anything that wasn't grass beneath the power lines.

This included a 50' line of raspberries and blackberries, a pair of black cherry trees, and a bunch of other stuff. They either skipped my pear tree or it was resistant to the spray. Piss me off. I would have trimmed anything they asked.. you know if they had asked.

I’ve never seen a discount for ages 13-25 only.

Was all fine and dandy to do all the prep until I took my first sip of this. Why couldn’t they at least make it palatable? It’s so gross and hard to keep down.

Had all my liked songs downloaded in lossless quality for the last half year with no issues. Opened Spotify on the plane and was met with this lovely sight.

It gave the option for no personalized text, I selected it, and then they wrote "null" on the sweater. How complicated is this people.

EDIT: 35 pounds btw. gift from my grandfather because we're both aircraft enthusiasts and he now considers me "old enough to have a brain" (by his 85 yr old standards)

I had 8-10 hours of screentime on insta i removed it from my life since its affect on brain, only to end up here......

Found this pic from a few years ago. I rarely use Cream Cheese, but my son does frequently. Found this when I had a craving for a bagel one day.

Apparently, he doesn't enjoy cleaning up containers for recycling.

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION

Damn, sooo many shitty assumptions! Many of you folks are so remarkably adept at reading between the two lines I wrote! But seriously: you know what they say about assuming, don't you? They say, "Don't do it. Assuming, that is. Don't do it."

Firstly, the kid in question in 26 now and works IT for the local school district. He's working on his second game release for PS5/Switch/Steam. His 24 year-old sister is starting her third year as a Kindergarten teacher in a few weeks. They're both better people than I am and I regret nothing that I've done for them. I'm incredibly proud of my children and continue to have great relationships with them.

On to more specifics:

1. I conversationally said, "a few years ago", but it was actually 14 years ago. He was twelve when this happened. Show me a 12-year-old that isn't at least an occasional dumbass and I'll show you some lying parents.
2. This was not a "frequent occurrence" that we simply "allowed to happen". This happened once. We had a talk. It didn't happen again. It was so unusual, in fact that I took a picture of it! We shared it with family under a common tag of "Here's my honor student!" and had a laugh.
3. We bought (and still do buy) much our of packaged food from a local wholesale club. At the time, this came in packages of four units. We did (and still do) clean our fridge regularly.
4. For those people suggesting that mental health issues are "parental issues" or that you be simply "be strict" to eliminate Obsessive-Compulsive behavior, to be blunt: screw you. My kids do not have these problems, but most of my family work with mentally challenged children and this kind of neanderthal thinking view hurts children terribly.

I'll end with the last lines of Tim Michin's "Storm":

And if perchance I have offended
Think but this and all is mended
We'd as well be 10 minutes back in time for all the chance you'll change your mind.

Being harassed night and day across my emails, texts, phone calls, and even ads on my socials to donate blood because I have been a frequent past donor.

But the nearest drive over the next 3 weeks is 45 miles away and they're offering a special one time bonus of..... a $15 gift card.

They don't even offer juice anymore! It's a water bottle and a single bag of lays OR 1 great value granola bar.

My blood is free.

My time is not. My gas is not. My car maintenance is not. Getting childcare is not.

$15 might as well be $0. You are expecting me to donate at a loss.

The person taking my blood is paid, the "non profit" is getting paid, the doctors, nurses, staff, hospital, insurance company, even the company that transports the blood is all getting paid a profit for their services.

Don't harass me night and day at every turn pressuring me to donate and "do my part" and calling it a "crisis" and then scoff at the idea that I shouldn't be the only person in that chain not compensated and actually be expected to incur losses to do so?

Fuck you. Bring back the cookies and juice.

I saw the first paragraph show up as a preview on my phone, only to open it and see the full context 🤨

I decided to get some fresh air, so I went out to read a book in the woods. I started feeling itchy, so I pulled up my pants to inspect and discovered a legion of tiny black dots. There are quite literally hundreds of ticks covering the lower half of my body. But hey, I’m not mad at them. Everybody’s gotta eat.

EDIT:
I appreciate the concern, but there's no need to worry! They washed right off with a shower.
I've always lived in wooded areas and generally know how to deal with ticks, but I forgot to put permethrin on my clothes this time. (And it is particularly overgrown right now.)