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What a Legal Substance That You’re Addicted To? Here’s What People Said.

Tacos. Chinese food. Pizza.

Those are my weaknesses.

And yes, I’m gonna go on the record today and say that I am 100% addicted to these legal substances.

I only eat them in moderation these days, but I can still dream about them as much as I want, right…?

Are you addicted to any LEGAL substances?

AskReddit users spoke up.

1. Recovering addict.

“Not so much anymore but I was very addicted to peanut butter.

It was somehow incorporated into every meal of the day for me for some time but one day I just stopped.”

2. Nasal spray.

“When I had a cold, I used this nasal spray that shrinks the blood vessels in the nose and makes it easier for you to breathe.

It is an over the counter drug store item and you dont need a prescription.

Once you stop using it, your nose clogs up or at least it feels like it because you used to breathe like a superhero for a week. The longer you use, the worse the withdrawals are.

I couldn’t properly breathe without it so I ended up using it for almost half a year.”

3. They are tasty.

“Doritos.

I was a massive addict. I used to buy a couple whole boxes of them. I used to drive to Frito Lays to buy them directly from the factory because was the only places where you could buy this much without people asking questions.

What makes me stop was in one occasion i went to a “Colmado”(Is pretty much a 7/11 or mini market here at Dom.Rep). Told the guy “give me this just on doritos”. Was around 800 DPO, which is 14 USD One bag personal bag of Doritos is 25 DPO here.

Around 30 something bags of Doritos. The guy looked at me and told me “D**n. You just wiped my whole shelf. Now i need to call Frito Lays to bring me a couple boxes”. I looked at the empty shelf i was so embarrassed and disgusted of myself.

On my way walking home i started to gift them away to people. I kept like 3 bags, ate them and since them I slowly were reducing my numbers of Doritos at weeks for the next couple months. I stil love them, but I don’t have the impulse anymore.”

4. Slow down!

“Oreos… I can knock down a sleeve before looking down.

It only stops when the stomach pain sets in and even if it subsides for a moment, that moment will be filled with an Oreo.”

5. What a story.

“Sweet Baby Ray’s honey chipotle BBQ sauce.

I had a bad accident as a kid from drinking what I thought was Koolade but nope, so a very good portion of my tongue and cheeks got scar tissue. Since then I haven’t been able to taste a lot of foods.

I literally can not taste most bread, crackers, light soup broths, a few juices, etc. The worst easily is that I can not taste most red meats…

But for some reason, I’m super sensitive to honey and Smokey flavors and that sauce was a godsend. I am no medical doctor, and I don’t know how to explain it(?) but when I use it on something I not only taste the sauce but can actually taste a lot of foods I couldn’t before. So I put it on everything like a weirdo.

In the same vein, I also keep a small bottle of ghost pepper hot sauce as well but mostly for pasta as chipotle bbq doesn’t seem to work with most red sauces but the ghost pepper does?”

6. The better choice.

“Chocolate.

I gave up sm**ing years ago and substituted it with an addiction to chocolate.”

7. Comforting.

“I’m not even addicted to caffeine, but to the idea of coffee, that larger than life promise of absolute comfort and solution to any imaginable problem that a cup of coffee holds.

Whether you’re getting irritated by politics, experiencing legal trouble, your boss pi**ed you off, your personal relationships are a mess, you’re pondering the pointlessness of existence or have a small practical task you just don’t feel like dealing with, a cup of coffee is the obligatory first step you have to take to figure it out.

You have to spread it out over 3 hours and have someone nodding their head in understanding too as a part of the ritual. Enlightenment should follow.”

8. So good.

“Thin Mints.

Lucky is the first Girl Scout I spot each season. I’ll tell them “stay right there, don’t go anywhere.” Then I’ll go home and get my van. Come back as quick as I can hoping the girl hasn’t left the area. I’ll pull up, throw a bunch of money on the table and just grab what I came for.

I’ll load my prize in the back of the van, secure it well and take off. I’ve got a special place in my home where nobody can find them, but it’s easy for me to get to when I want to treat myself. Usually they’ll last a few months. Then I start looking forward to spotting the next lucky Girl Scout.”

9. Insomnia cocktail.

“Benedryl.

A lifetime of adult insomnia led me to search for stronger sleep cocktails and I took a Benedryl with Meletonin.

It got so bad I was up to a few every night but happy to report now I am down to a half and going to go down to zero soon.”

10. FOOD.

“Food. This isn’t a joke. It is 100% a real addiction.

When when you’re almost 400 lbs and unhappy with yourself, your brain still convinced you unhealthy eating is the answer to happiness. That’s a fu**ing addiction…but an addiction you need to feed into in order to survive.

Imagine being addicted to m**h, but you needed to take “healthy” less potent meth 3x a day to live. It would be impossible to overcome. That’s how I feel about food.”

11. Might want to look into that.

“Unintentionally, Codeine. I’ve had to take it for around 7 years now for a chronic pain disorder.

I don’t like crave it in the way people crave a ci**rette for nicotine but if I have a good pain day and I don’t need to take as much I get itchy and really irritable and dizzy.

So that’s fun.”

Now it’s your turn.

In the comments, tell us what legal substances you’re addicted to.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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What Was Going to Be “The Next Big Thing”, but Flopped? Here’s What People Said.

I remember in Kansas in the 1990s, the town of Lawrence was referred to as “the next Seattle.”

This was the height of the grunge craze and Lawrence did (and always has) had a good music scene…but of course, that kind of recognition never came to Lawrence. So, no, it didn’t become “the next big thing.”

But that kind of stuff happens all the time.

What was supposed to be the next big thing, but it flopped?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. What’s the point?

“Amazon’s shopping buttons.

They pushed really hard for those and I never saw the point.”

2. Smaller = better?

For 20 years cell phones got smaller and smaller. Often being the main selling point of the phone.

Then all of sudden you could watch videos on your phone, and almost overnight the trend reversed to “larger is better”.”

3. Whoa.

“Soap Shoes.

These were like normal shoes, but you could grind on rails with them via an indent in the sole.”

4. Not working out?

“Not sure if this one has totally flopped yet, but I noticed while in Costco the other day that there are no longer any curved TVs.

If Costco is no longer carrying them then I think we can assume they’re going the way of the dodo.”

5. Do you remember?

“Google+ was supposed to be the answer to Facebook.

That was a lesson on how not to handle hype. There was so much hype around Google plus, it was infectious. But they refused to open it up to everyone and maintained a very hardline ‘invite only’ system.

Even once hype had peaked and there was a notable decline, still they maintained a small invite only system. I remember by the time they decided to open it up to everyone the hype was well and truly dead and no one bothered with it.

They should have cashed in when hype was high but they (I assume) got greedy, thinking the hype would just infinitely increase and people wouldn’t get bored waiting to get in.”

6. Moving on…

“3D TV.

Heard a stat from one of the 3D TV manufacturers that the average number of pairs of 3D glasses sold per 3D television was a number very much smaller than 1.

I think they were too embarrassed to actually tell everyone how tiny the attach rate was.”

7. Weird.

“SecondLife.

In the beginning, companies even bought real estate in there to allow people to visit them.

8. Didn’t work.

“Crystal Pepsi, New Coke, orange juice and toothpaste flavored Lays potato chips.”

9. Flop.

“The “Dark Universe” cinematic universe.

Starting with 2017’s THE MUMMY.”

10. History lesson.

“Quadraphonic entertainment systems in the early 1970s, were supposed to replace stereophonic systems.

Now they are chiefly remembered for inspiring the name of The Who’s second rock opera.”

11. The QB.

“Johnny Manziel.

I remember when he signed with CFL and everyone thought he was gonna absolutely dominate.

Meh…”

12. Ride the wave!

“Google Wave.

It was supposed to replace email with a more collaborative approach.

Essentially it was like a dynamically-created discussion board you’d share with select people and you could have a more readable discussion than one with a bunch of forwards and CCs and the like.

I thought it was a good idea, but it flopped big time and Google got rid of it after a few years.”

13. An obscure one.

“This one might be a bit obscure just because I’ve only ever met one other person familiar with it, but Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone was looking like it could’ve been the end all be all of smartphones.

Based off the Phonebloks idea of having a Lego-like hot-swappable module phone, the idea was that you could switch out any components of the phone on the fly. Camera, fingerprint scanner, even different quality screens.

Conceptually, it really looked like it could take over the phone market, as it would lead to people not having to buy whole new phones anymore, but rather replacement or upgraded parts to a phone they already liked, thereby reducing costs and increasing utility.

You don’t want a phone with 5 cameras that inflate the cost unnecessarily? Just buy a one camera module. You want a 1440P Super Amoled screen to replace your 720P regular screen? Buy one and swap it in.

However, like many Google projects, it d**d off for myriad reasons and the longstanding era of $1000 dollar smartphone slabs lived on.”

What are some more things that were supposed to be a big deal but flopped?

Talk to us in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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What Red Flag Do You Regret Ignoring Early in a Relationship? Women Shared Their Stories.

When you’re falling for someone or starting a new relationship, sometimes you ignore stuff.

You ignore things that you wouldn’t necessarily tolerate because you want it to work out so much…and sometimes that can come back to bite you in a major way.

Women, what red flags do you regret overlooking in the early days of a relationship?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Not good.

“The terrible s**.

Obviously in the beginning you’re still working things out but if it’s still terrible after a few months despite trying your hardest to show them what you enjoy then don’t pretend it’s not a big deal when s** is a very important aspect of a healthy relationship.

I pretended it was no biggie, because hey its just s** and now I’m married and our bedroom is completely dead.”

2. Can’t have that.

“He made me feel self conscious about silly things like singing badly in the car.

We were married for 16 years before I realized I’d changed too much for him and had lost who I really am as a person. I couldn’t be silly or goofy, and he thought I was stupid for liking to get little gifts for people when I’d see something that made me think of them.

After our divorce, I moved halfway across the country (TX to CA) to work on myself away from the same places I’ve always lived. I feel like me again and felt good about moving back to TX because of the healthier place I’m in now.

Along the way, I realized I was too young and inexperienced in the realm of relationships when I got married and gave up too much of myself. Never again.”

3. Foreshadowing.

“Him saying I was a “real woman” and “different/better than his exes”.

Those comments made me feel good at the time, but then I realized it was his way of saying that actually no woman was good enough for him.”

4. Messed up.

“Unable to deal with negative emotions, being desperate to avoid them at all cost.

This led to me neglecting my own needs, because he’d take it as personal criticism if I told him I needed something he didn’t already give me.

Equating s** with love.”

5. Sketchy.

“He didn’t like me telling mutual friends about our relationship because he was a private person.

Lots of other red flags but this was a big one.

Turned out he was living a double life but it took me 2 years and a mental breakdown to figure that out.”

6. Never a good thing.

“Anger issues/”having a temper”/explosive outbursts of anger when things didn’t go his way/lashing out physically and verbally when upset.

Just because it hasn’t been directed at you yet, doesn’t mean you are actually safe.”

7. Sums it up.

“If the friends he hangs out with the most are a**holes, he’s an a**hole too.

He’s just acting differently because you’re around.”

8. Disaster area.

“The absolute state of his house.

He blamed it on his ex and being too small and swore it wouldn’t be the same once we moved in together.

Guess what?”

9. Only got worse.

“In my abusive relationship: when he yelled at me when he found out I was a feminist.

He accused me about lying about who I was by not telling him.

I thought it was pretty obvious from having even one conversation with me and didn’t feel the need to say “I’m a feminist”. It only got worse from there.”

10. Boozin’.

“The amount of alcohol.

We were young, so everyone was still in that stage of going out and partying a lot, me included, so I didn’t think much of it.

But he seemed to do it just a little more than everyone else.”

11. All about image.

“He was an appearance guy. He wanted to appear so perfect in his social circle.

In fact, our first fight was because he invited his 2 friends to our night out without my consent (no problem) but those guys acted as if I did not exist. Then I got bored and I wanted to leave after like an hour, he took me home but he sulked like a baby!

Months to come, he would take me out and treat me like a queen in front of his friends while at home we were fighting almost every week. I got tired of the duplicity and had to finally leave him.

But if I had known, I would have left after that first fight.”

12. Groomed.

“He was 12 years older than me and we began talking as “friends” when I was 15 years old.

Looking back i think i was groomed but hey, he’s not in my life anymore so what does it matter?”

13. The jealous type.

“Extreme jealousy.

He was very romantic and charming at first, then started accusing me of infidelity and flirting with other man. Once he accompanied me to the vet because my dog was in an accident and needed surgery.

He accused me of flirting with the vet, even though the vet and I were discussing my dog’s care. He has a meltdown over it later in the evening. That is only one example. Fast forward a couple of months…I find out he was still married and I was “the other woman”. Ew.”

Do you remember some red flags you overlooked in relationships?

If so, tell us about them in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Talk About Outdated Advice That Is No Longer Applicable Today

It’s interesting how quickly things become outdated.

It seems like we’re moving at warp speed and, to be honest, it can be a little difficult to keep up. Especially when it comes to trying to give people advice.

So what advice is now outdated and doesn’t apply to folks anymore?

Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say.

1. Are you on the phone?

“If you want to use the internet, make sure no one is using the landline.”

2. Not these days.

“Show up at the office with a resume and don’t leave until you get an interview..”

3. Uh uh.

“To pay for college, just work part time at a restaurant waiting tables!

When my dad was in college in the 1970s, he paid for his tuition, expenses, car, and spending money for the entire year with a summer job at the meat packing plant that my grandpa got him.”

4. Can’t wait around for it.

“When people say “Just be patient and love will find a way” was said in a time when people were outside a lot more.

Nowadays someone can go to work and go home and sit at their computer every day for years without ever being even close to finding someone.

I think nowadays you have to go out of your way to find someone. Or at the very least go out of your bubble and be social.”

5. Might be the problem.

“If the baby won’t stop crying check to make sure the diaper pin is not sticking him.”

6. Now it’s history!

“You need to learn to write in cursive or nobody will take you seriously and you won’t get good grades on your assignments in college.

By 2010 when I went to college, virtually all of my assignments, including most tests, were digital, and even the few handwritten exams allowed regular print.”

7. Interesting.

“My Grandma: “Don’t drink water after eating fruit or you’ll get sick”

Apparently this comes from a time when people drank from wells. The sugar from the fruit would allow bacteria from the water to ferment in the stomach.

Not a problem with modern water supplies.”

8. Gramps was wrong.

“Grandpas are always like “I pestered her and followed her around for months and months even though she told me to go away until she finally went out with me, and we’ve been married 50 years this month”

Yeah, don’t do that.”

9. Ouch.

“I remember my teachers telling me “don’t study these new trendy subjects at university like media, video editing, tech etc. You should focus on traditional subjects like literature, History, and so on”.

15 years after graduating with my BA and MA in English lit, I now work minimum wage in a shop.”

10. It’s me again!

“If you want to show a company how interested you are in a position, keep checking back.

Don’t let them forget you.”

11. Times have changed.

“After I graduated with a degree in computer science, my 75 year old aunt told me to get a job at a factory sweeping the floor and work my way up to management.

I just said okay instead of explaining to her that it hasn’t worked that way since 1970.”

12. Bad behavior.

“Given to young girls: ‘that boy is being mean to you because he has a crush on you.’

Nope.

That boy is just being a d**khead and that behavior is not a good thing.”

13. You better eat all of it!

“Finish your plate.

I just teach my kids to stop eating when they feel enough.

No need to stuff their faces with more food just because of whatever.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us what advice you think is outdated these days?

Thanks in advance!

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When a Scammer Got Between a Woman and Her PS5, She Got Even

We are all looking for good internet deals, especially with things being so expensive or hard to get.

And we all know that if a deal seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

But sometimes people need a life-experience reminder to be cautious about what they buy over the internet.

It doesn’t usually work out as well as it did for artist Brittany Everette.

It all started when she couldn’t find a PS5 for sale–and she really wanted one.

So she decided to try an after-market deal she found through Twitter.

Everything seemed legit, so Brittany paid half of the price up front, and then waited anxiously for her new system to arrive.

There were red flags almost immediately.

They had agreed she would pay the rest on arrival, but he needed it sooner.

The sick kid angle seems like the oldest trick in the book, but Brittany has a good heart and decided to trust him.

He just had to send her concrete evidence that he’d mailed the gaming system.

He agreed, and again, it seemed legit, so she helped him out and paid the other half.

As soon as he had her money, though, he blocked her on Twitter and deleted her from his phone.

She was devastated and no one could help. Not her bank, not Apple Pay.

Brittany had made a terrible error in judgment, and she was down, but she wasn’t out.

Not yet.

She tried to contact him again, and this time she gave him an ultimatum.

Still, he ignored her.

So what could she do, but come up with a plan to torment him?

He even kept changing his username which seems like a lot of work, especially if you’re going to scam more than one person.

Clearly the guy wasn’t a professional.

Armed with that knowledge, Detective Brittany was on the case.

Remember the saying “Criminals are stupid”? Well, this fella didn’t cover his tracks very well.

Brittany even found his email address.

Then he really slipped up.

Whoops. Wrong move, buddy. Should’ve just gone dark.
Instead of filing a police report, she made up a law firm called PA & P Legal.

And then she contacted every email address she had found, including those belonging to his family members.

While Brittany will admit that her email was obviously fake, it’s a lot more official and professional sounding than the fraudulent voicemails I get these days.

Anyway, she turned off her phone and went to relax for awhile–until her scammer started trying to contact her husband.

Then the story takes quite a turn. The fiancée was not at all amused.

Mr. Con Man reached out, full of apologies and “woe is me.”

It seemed he was full of apologies, but not much else. He still “didn’t have” Brittany’s money.

So she tattled on him to his fiancée.

TL;DR: She warned him. And she got her money back.

Some commenters suggested she should have asked for MORE money, but she replied that then she would have been just as bad as he was, and although she still wanted a PS5, she was happy to just get her money back.

When asked what she learned from the experience, she said:

that ima just have to wait until 2025 for this gaming system bc I’m never buying from a reseller again ???

The first moral of the story is, don’t try to take advantage of people.

The second moral of the story is, don’t settle for being taken advantage of.

Can you believe this crazy story? Would you have had the patience to con the guy into giving you your money back? Tell us in the comments!

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People Who Have Started Over in a New City, What’s Your Advice? Here’s What Folks Said.

I’ve moved to new cities before, but never to anywhere where I didn’t at least know at least one person.

But a lot of people do that all time, whether it’s for work or just to try to start over.

And it’s good to learn from the folks who have already been there and done that.

What are your tips for starting over in a brand new city?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Takes getting used to.

“The one thing that really surprised me was the fact that I didn’t love the new city immediately. It was bigger than I was used to, more expensive, and the job had such higher expectations than my last, same exact job.

It all took some getting used to, and that took longer than I thought it would. But I loved exploring little hills and out of the way parks, and one day it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was so in love with this new place; I couldn’t imagine ever living anywhere else.

Well, of course, now I do, but my love affair lasted a long time. But I think it’s a place for younger people, a place to explore and find your way around the city and find yourself.

Others have made some really good suggestions, but I think I had to be more comfortable with me before I could be comfortable in a new place.”

2. Join groups.

“I moved to a new country, twice, and both times the key has been to join social groups.

The first time I moved I was still in college, so I joined a student program for internationals that I ended up being a “local” guide for later on for a while, and the second time I had colleagues who were a bit of a drinking group at the local pub.

It’s not really important how you put yourself out there, as long as you do. A big thing people forget about moving to a new place, if they haven’t done it before, is that you have just entirely removed yourself from your safety net, socially speaking.

Even if before you weren’t very social, you probably still had a handful of friends that filled your life. Now you have nothing. There’s a big gap between that and you will notice it in your mental health if you don’t get something to replace it.”

3. Trivia and activities.

“Trivia bars. Or activity night style bars.

As much as you might hate it, some of them will be like “Hey, we need a team over here. Any individuals?” and help you guys join almost like a project in school.

Keep coming back to the bars and you’ll either make friends with the team trivia members, or the people who host it/bartenders.

Find places you like and return to it and eventually you’ll meet regulars there who will recognize you.

It’s gonna take a bit of time.”

4. The neighborhood.

“Get to know your immediate neighborhood.

My family and I moved last year from the US south to the PNW. I went through a period of feeling very homesick and disconnected to my surroundings. I changed my mood by really making my neighborhood my own.

I started talking and becoming friendly with the people nearby that I come into contact with on a regular basis like my pharmacist, barista, crossing guard, etc. I get out everyday and go run in my local park and it helps me to feel connected to where I’m at.

I try to look around and remind myself that this is my home. I think this all sounds goofy but it helped a lot.”

5. Say YES!

“Try to be a yes person for the first 6-8 weeks. Any time someone asks you do do something or go somewhere (within safety and financial reason) say yes.

Even if you don’t really care for that activity or type of food or whatever, say yes and go. It will help you meet people outside of your immediate circle, and once you have seen people socially a couple of times, you can figure out who you are interested in spending more time with and asking them to hang out is less awkward.

Just remember, every event isn’t going to be the most fun you ever had. It’s okay to have just a nice time, because that’s laying the ground work for those really fun nights.”

6. And there’s that!

“I re-started 4 years ago in a new city, and, believe me or not, something that helped me was Pokémon Go

. Not only to have an excuse to explore the city, but to find out about landmarks, both famous and lesser known, that otherwise you’d probably never hear of.

And I was even able to make some friends with a handful of players. It’s funny, but it made the transition much easier!!”

7. The basics.

“I relocated from North America to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to start a business 9 years ago.

So, maybe a bit more extreme than intended by the question? Well, here goes anyway.

Get your finances in order before moving. Work out short term housing before committing to long term housing.

Integrate.

Stay out of trouble — do your paperwork and abide by the law.

Read up on the ways immigrants are vulnerable in your home country. Be prepared to face the same challenges regardless of how good you are at #2 and #3.

Choose your friends carefully — better to have fewer friends than the wrong friends. Maybe do some volunteer work to meet positive, productive people.

All boring, basic stuff.”

8. A fresh start.

“Nobody knows you, so you can try to change some habits.

I was too shy to talk to people and usually just waited for them to approach me, but when I moved I started talking to people first. It was hard but I’m glad I tried.

Changed my eating habits too. Think what kind of a person you wanna be and just try it, see how close you can get.”

9. From an old pro.

“I have moved many, many times. I know that I will hate my new environment for about 3 weeks, so I plan for that.

I stock up on food I will enjoy, have something I like to drink and arrange for entertainment – books, music, tv, whatever you enjoy. After 3 weeks I start to feel more comfortable and do lots of the following: I always find the library closest to home and get a card right away. Get a map and learn your way around the city. Explore.

Read the local newspaper, even a throw-away one – find the rummage sales, antique or car shows, free concerts, food fairs, etc. This is tougher during the pandemic, but will pay off in the long run. Pursue hobbies or start a new one. This should connect you with some like-minded people. Take a class, perhaps pertaining to your hobby. Join a professional organization or some other organizations that pertain to your interests, e.g., church groups, book clubs, music venues, science lectures, etc.

Find what the new city is known for and join in. If it’s art, go to the art shows, if it’s roses then learn where to see them, etc. As you learn your way around, invite others to join you, even if it’s just a trip to the farmer’s market, a stroll through a park, or shopping for wine.

When you invite someone, they’re more likely to reciprocate. Be generous with your smile, encouraging words, a friendly demeanor.”

10. Good tips.

“I started over in a new city in 2019.

If possible, visit the city first. I saved myself a lot of grief by visiting first and knowing the general area. If you can’t visit, check out google maps.

Find a job before you move if possible. I found a job with a chain that had a location in the new city. I didn’t need to be retrained, so that was one less thing to stress about. The job was the same. I set it up so I had two weeks before I had to start so I could unpack and get settled.

When you pack, get rid of a bunch of stuff. Have the essentials, like a change of clothes, toiletries, small appliances, and food ready to unpack the first day you arrive. You will be so tired and not want to dig for stuff. Bring a small pack of toilet paper and hand soap for the new place.

Try to have at least a pot and a pan, some rubber scrapers, and plates if you can. I’d also pack blankets someplace easy to get out so you can just curl up and sleep if you need. Moving is STRESSFUL, so you want all the stuff you need easy to get to before you unpack entirely.

LOCATE THE GROCERY STORE. Also find some local restaurants for those first few days.

Don’t forget to set up your utilities the first day. That’s a must.

Find a club if you didn’t move with a buddy. Get out your first weekend and go see the sights. Get used to your new environment. The first few weeks just kinda suck, so try to get some good stuff in there. If you can, try to find a club or two or activities/hobbies before you move. Something to look forward to and one less thing to stress about.

When you first get there, pick a landmark that’s visible from most of the city or your neighborhood. A building, monument, etc. When you’re learning to navigate that first month or two, that will help you. Make sure you can get home from and get to the landmark.

That way, if you ever get lost, just head toward it and then you can get home. Eliminates some panic and stress. This was one of the most helpful things I did when I moved.”

Now we want to hear from you.

If you’ve ever started over in a new city, please share your tips and advice with us in the comments.

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Is This Woman a Jerk for Not Caring About Dad’s Cancer Diagnosis? Here’s How People Responded.

Family dynamics can be tricky…and they’re all very different.

What one person thinks is normal can seem outrageous to another person and vice versa.

And people definitely develop strong feelings about their relatives based on how they were raised.

This woman shared her personal story on the “Am I the *sshole?” page on Reddit and asked the readers there for advice.

AITA for not caring about my dad’s cancer diagnosis?

“For context, I (30F) am a product of my dad’s infidelity.

He lied to my mom about being single, they dated, he got my mom pregnant, she was given a heads up about dad’s shadiness by one of her coworkers, my mom confronted him, and that was that. My mom took out a restraining order against my dad before I turned 1 because of his constant threatening to take me away, so I never met him and I’ve never been interested in doing so.

Jump forward to 2018 and my mom told me she’d found my dad on Facebook and that they’d started messaging each other. She said he was looking forward to meeting me and that she’d set up a date for us to have dinner without asking if I was even interested in meeting him.

I didn’t feel comfortable being alone with my dad, but to avoid any drama with my mom, who lives with me, I caved and had dinner with him. It went well at first, but then he started bragging about all his money and his perfect daughters. It made me shut down and feel awful about myself. After dinner, he complained to my mom that I was unresponsive and didn’t seem excited to meet him.

Knowing my mom and her tendency to side with everyone else but her kids, I was given the silent treatment until I apologized. Apparently, I ruined his dream of meeting me by not welcoming him into my life with open arms. It’s now 2021 and in the short time we’ve known each other, my dad has managed to make me feel like sh*t many times.

The last straw was when he tried to guilt me for not contacting him everyday when I’d explained that I sometimes go through low periods where I retreat and have very little contact with anyone. (I know there’s a name for it, but I’ve never been properly diagnosed because I was ridiculed at a young age by my mom for feeling depressed when I had no real problems.)

My dad refused to understand that it’s for the sake of my mental health and said I just don’t want to build a relationship with him. I cut contact with him after that because I don’t feel like I owe him anything and I was tired of all his snide remarks about me. I was fine before we met and I certainly didn’t need one more person in my life to please. I was done.

A few days ago, my mom came to me crying about how my dad had just been diagnosed with cancer. Obviously, I feel bad for him because no one deserves that disease. But my mom now thinks I’m a monster for not crumbling to my knees in sorrow at the thought of possibly losing my dad.

She’s grown very close to him again over the past couple years, so she thinks he’s this great person that was only trying to get close to his long-lost daughter, but she doesn’t know how manipulative he was trying to be with me.

My mom isn’t speaking to me anymore and probably won’t until I contact my dad. I don’t want to invite him back in though. I’m sorry he’s going through this difficult time, but that’s about it. Am I an *sshole for not caring the way I’m “supposed” to?”

Let’s see how folks on Reddit responded.

This person said that the woman is not an *sshole and that she might want to consider cutting off ties with both of her parents.

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Another Reddit user made it pretty clear: both of this woman’s parents really SUCK.

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This individual agreed that the woman’s mother is also a manipulative person. And the dad just seems downright selfish.

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This person said that the woman might want to consider building her own support circle outside of her family and that this really does seem like a nightmare situation.

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Finally, this reader argued that just because this is her biological father, it doesn’t mean the woman owes him anything.

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What do you think about how this woman is reacting to her father’s cancer diagnosis?

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Bartenders Discuss the Weirdest Things They’ve Seen on the Job

I worked as a bar back for a little while, and during my short tenure there, I saw some total weirdos doing weird stuff.

Hey, booze makes folks get crazy and it makes people who were already crazy EVEN CRAZIER.

You ready to get weird?

People who work as bartenders shared their stories of weirdness on AskReddit.

Let’s take a look.

1. I’ll take that to go!

“Worked a bar right downtown on a very main street in a very open and visible setting.

Middle aged wealthy looking guy comes in, orders a pint.

No problems.

Gets the pint, walks back out the door, probably gonna smoke / hang out outside.

Whatever.

Gets back into his car and immediately pulls it and drives off.

He did it so fast and with such confidence like it was a f**king Big Mac and we were McDonald’s. Full pint in a glass, it was hilarious and weird.”

2. A great combo.

“A lady came in and very casually asked for a pack of Camel Crush and a glass of milk.

I asked her if she wanted ice in it as it was a hot Texas summer day.

She said no then went out to the patio to smoke her cigs and drink her milk.”

3. Really bad.

“Bartender in a strip club here: Amateur night, random girl hops up on stage, crowd loooooves it.

She uses water to make stage slippery. Slides around, overshoots and flies off the stage, somehow straddling the arm of a broken metal chair, cuts her crack/bu**hole way wide open.

Needs to go to hospital. I was in nursing school so I assessed her injury…..bad. Bad bad bad.”

4. A drink for my friend.

“Bartending at a busy pub in London.

There must have been thousands of people crammed into this place. This man gets to the bar and orders himself a pint.

Then out of nowhere he pulls a live lobster from his jacket and asks if his mate could have a pint too.”

5. Time to go.

“Had a lady who p**sed herself sitting at the barstool.

She proceeded to reach into her purse to grab a pill bottle filled with god only knows what. Well, in her intoxicated state she dropped the pills…. Directly into her p**s puddle.

She picked them out of the puddle, swallowed them, and was pretty promptly kicked out after that.”

6. Good Lord.

“Crackhead bursting in with a chainsaw sure woke me up on the graveyard shift.

That or the couple who’d been hitting it off at the bar did a shot and the girl suddenly threw up in her hands.

The guy didn’t miss a beat, just assured her “no it’s ok” and sensually licked her fingers clean.”

7. The nice side of town.

“After getting out of the military, my well off cousin and her husband owned a plaza on the nicest side of town.

A bar had just went belly up in that plaza, so they decided to buy the liquor license and open one themselves. It was a very high end wine and spirits bar with a similar high end menu. On Friday and Saturday, jazz and blues musicians would play.

I was the only non-trained bartender, so I’d handle the easy drinks and run them to tables. We had this one table, they were a couple, that ordered everything on the menu, and drinks only a real bartender could make well. They had to have racked up a $500-$600 bill easy. They both got up to use the restroom at the same time, and they didn’t pay the tab.

In the confusion of chasing them out the door, another patron went to the bathroom and to his horror, there was p**p smeared on all four walls, the mirror, the toilet, the door, paper towel and soap dispensers, everywhere. It was mortifying.

Check the women’s bathroom, same thing. It was early in the night, and not one of us could could bring ourselves to clean it. We had to close and have a professional cleaning service come.”

8. Insane.

“This happened a few months ago at a college bar.

We were just opening and we’re still pretty empty when a guy in his mid 30s walked the exit door without a mask (Covid regulations mandated one door for entry and another for exit only). Our biggest and most direct bouncer immediately came up to the guy and told him he needed to go around and use the other door to come in and to put a mask on.

The guy starts arguing saying there were no signs about the rules blah blah blah. Eventually the guy starts postering strangely like he had a gun hidden in his waistband or something and wouldn’t back down from our bouncer that was at least twice his size which was putting me on alert a little. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to grab back up to kick this dude out so I grabbed another bouncer and they got rid of the guy.

All normal after that for the next few minutes until 15 minutes later I hear a loud bang out back. The guy apparently rolled up to the original bouncer in his pick up, rolled down the window and told the bouncer he had something for him then raised a shotgun and fired. Luckily the bouncer wasn’t hit but we closed for the night after that.

It was the weirdest thing I’ve seen in the sense of how little someone was willing to kill over. Literally using a different door and putting on a mask was enough to potentially ruin his life and end another…”

9. Cleared the place out.

“A guy comes in and orders a pint and then goes and sits at a table beside and elderly couple and a group of tourists. He then proceeds to s**t himself.

I had to drag him out because he refused to leave. He left kicking and screaming. The place pretty much clears out after that.”

10. Well, that worked out.

“Small town bar…guy rides his horse to town.

Proceeds to get drunk, goes out and rides the horse into the bar.

Horse knows where home is so the guy lets the horse take him home!”

11. Party time! Oh, wait…

“Worked a private party, supposedly 75-100 people are going to be arriving. Host family shows up, probably about a dozen or so extended family members, toting a cake.

Party start time comes and goes, no more guests are arriving. After about an hour I talk to my manager, all “WTF did you call me in for, this isn’t a party at all!” I end up talking to the host family, and the main mom starts crying that nobody wanted to celebrate with the birthday girl.

I got sad, and asked who the birthday girl was, so at least I could buy her a big drink on the house. Mom responds “She’s dead. She died a few months ago.” She then proceeds to weep uncontrollably for a very long, awkward time. I WORKED A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR A DEAD WOMAN.

Nobody else ever showed, and we made food for 50, and had food prepped for another 50. I made almost no money that night. My boss did allow me to get hammered in the house after they left, however.”

12. Who’s your friend?

“I had a guy that came in with a service cat which I didn’t know it was a thing. The cat had to be trained because we had a live band that night and he just chilled there.

The owner of the cat even got up to go to the bathroom and the cat just sat there in the barstool and didn’t freak out from the amount of people or the loud music.

And yes he got a shot of milk.”

13. Down in Mississippi.

“I am from backwoods Mississippi and was working in the city closest to my hometown at the time. Lots of forest areas that are super isolated.

I was bartending. Alone. Sunday morning at a brewery. I had one ornery regular that had come in, one random lady who wore headphones and had her back to me.

In this dude rolls from his SUV, illegally parked, wearing a plaid button up that had sleeves that were both different colors from the body. And on each shoulder… two huge big foot emblems. I told the man I liked his shirt because it was a cool shirt. He said, “I’ve seen it.”

Because I have a goofy old man for a dad, I laughed. And he said, “No seriously, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen the big foot.” The regular choked on his drink. This man proceeds to tell me all about the big foot he’s seen.

For like half an hour. It’s near my parents’ home, actually right near where my brother is buried, apparently. I ask him about what parts he saw it specifically, he has no details. Just assured me that his friend showed him, and also that he’d seen little ones, as well. No more than 3 feet tall.

Then he said he had more shirts to show me and went and got them from his car. This is where the regular chugged the rest of his beer, said, “Sorry kid, I can’t deal with him,” and left me there.

He comes back in, and tells me all about his plans. In the back of his SUV, some weird contraption. You could only see it when he opened the door. Turns out, it was A BIG FOOT CAGE.

His plan, and i swear to God this was verbatim, was to “catch it, and then call all the news stations and journalists and bloggers and media. Let them get their pictures and stories and videos. And then… and then let him go. Because he doesn’t belong in a cage.”

And then he asked me if he could buy concert tickets (we were not a concert venue) and left without purchasing anything at all.

I was so sad that no one had experienced it with me until the girl from the table turned around and was like, “I unplugged my headphones as soon as he walked in and listened to all of that and oh my God.””

How about you?

Have you ever seen any weird stuff go down in a bar, either as a worker or a patron?

Tell us your stories in the comments!

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People Shared Stories About Their Co-Workers From Hell

We’ve all been there at some point…

You have a co-worker (or maybe multiple people) who just makes every day on the job an absolute nightmare.

Is there anything worse than getting that pit in your stomach on the drive to work every morning because you know that certain someone is going to be there?

UGH!

Have you ever had a co-worker from Hell?

Here’s how AskReddit users responded.

1. Liar!

“I had a co-worker who was a one upper. Drove us all crazy. Around 2002 in an IT department. Here’s some of his claims:

Friends with George Lucas

Dated Kirstie Alley

Stephen Spielberg was going to produce one of his screen plays, but someone was jealous and claimed he plagiarized her work and Spielberg believed him but she had “connections” so he couldn’t do anything about it.

Had a degree in law and was a lawyer before he became a software developer and won every case. (dude was maybe 25 at the time, he sucked as a developer and I flat out told him once he should reenter the legal field – which he somehow took as a compliment).

Played golf with Bill Gates on more than one occasion.

There’s a lot more but these are the biggest lies.

2. Get rid of that one.

“I used to work part time at a shipping warehouse and at one point, we ended up hiring this sixteen year old kid.

He made a ton of mistakes that we ended up having to fix for him, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt at first just because he was new. But not only did he never learn from his f*ck-ups, but he was incredibly lazy and lacked any self-awareness.

There were instances where he was given a task, but then he’d either d*ck around on his phone most of the time, hide out in the bathroom for like forty-five minutes and then hoped we wouldn’t notice, or just whine to my supervisor that he didn’t want to do whatever he was assigned.

Because of that, he would often take half the day to do like thirty minutes of work and would then complain that he had too much work piled on top of him. It was ridiculous.

He lasted maybe a month before my supervisor let him go.”

3. Gossipy.

“Had a co-worker who always gossiped about others and would say horrible things about everyone in the office.

It created a super toxic culture and caused many people to leave, not because they didn’t like the work, they just hated the culture.”

4. Spoiled brat.

“The 50 something Turd that was the owners son.

Spoiled brat, reminded me constantly who he was if I stood up to him. Creepy as hell too, could never just tell any of the women they looked nice, actually told me one day that my legs looked nice…I was wearing a skirt. That was the last time I wore a skirt to work for a long time.

I immediately started looking for a new job within a month. There were so many other things that occurred I was turned off from working for a small family owned business since.”

5. Plotting.

“Had an assistant who plotted to get me fired and take my job.

Some of my workers let me know because he tried to get them onboard with him. Eventually, due to politics I was demoted but asked to be put on the shift relieving him (we would work 12 hour shifts on weekends). After being relieved by phone a couple of times (against the rules) I intentionally came in 4 hours early and he was no where on site.

I still got a call from him when he should have relieved me like he was still on site. I let the guards know and they videotaped him and I got him fired.”

6. Fired!

“I had the easiest gig ever once, on-call janitor on a university campus.

You had a few minor duties and could sit around shooting the breeze (doing homework, binging Netflix) for the rest of the shift. But you had to be ON SITE for the entire shift, and you definitely had to be there to lock up

Well, one semester the weekend shift comprised of one student and his new wife. Our boss kept getting complaints that they weren’t around to unlock doors, sick toilet paper, etc. There was always some excuse, along with a personal hand-to-God guarantee that they were on campus the whole shift.

Everything came crashing down around them when they got into a car accident driving back from Vegas (8-10 hours away) during a shift. And they told our boss all about the accident as the reason why they wouldn’t make it to their shift the next day.

Idiots. Obviously they were fired.”

7. Creep.

“She told our boss that she wanted to break into my apartment and touch all of my stuff because “I bet it’s all really cool”.

This was right after I found out she’d moved into the apartment next door.

She would send stuff to my apartment just so I would put it on her stoop and knock on her door.”

8. Not my fault!

“She was a lady in her 50s. We worked at a doctors office.

Nothing was EVER her fault, she could not take even the nicest constructive criticism, and constantly complained about EVERYTHING. One of my nicest co workers ever (who was around the same age so not an ageism thing) often was the recipient of her blame and because she never took responsibility, it was regularly the same issues she never learned to correct.

They bickered a lot after a couple years of this. One day the nice coworker went to the car to grab her anxiety med, and the obnoxious one went to the office manager and then HR saying she thought the nice one went to get a weapon to hurt her. Like what?! She didn’t even own a weapon? And the nice one GOT FIRED. I was absolutely SHOCKED.

Any lingering respect I had for her was gone. I’ve had a lot of jobs and met some sh*tty people but she was the most stressful nightmare who could boohoo her way into getting pity parties on cue.”

9. Horrendously inept.

“Canadian Air Force here.

The number of horrendously inept people I’ve dealt with over the past 10+ years is amazing.

One kid I worked with met a girl, got married and divorced within a year of joining. Refused to wash himself regularly. He walked around with GREASY glasses. Like, his everyday glasses were smeared with weeks worth of finger grease and dandruff and skin flakes form his dry dirty skin.

It wouldn’t have been so bad if he knew how to do his job (which a trained monkey could do), but this kid couldn’t. He also got his mother to move in with him in military housing to help him with house work and bills.

There are a lot of great people I’ve worked with/for. But the bad ones really make you question why you try so hard when you could be sh*t and still get by.”

10. That’s Fred!

“I briefly had a co-worker at my current job at a local grocery store. We’ll just call him “Fred”.

Fred is one of those people who’s always talking on his phone in the break room and that’s my personal pet peeve at work. More often than not, he’s usually arguing with his girlfriend and he doesn’t seem to care that anyone’s listening.

He’d do other annoying, gross things like chewing with his mouth wide open and wiping his boogers all over the place, but then there was one day when he tried to flush a hot pocket down the toilet.

Needless to say that it didn’t play out so well and that temporarily put an end to our closest employee restroom right by the break room. He surprisingly didn’t get fired over that, but he did get fired when one of his old high school teachers came in shopping and he threw a whole sack of potatoes at her. She was an elderly woman who got seriously injured and both the ambulance and the cops had to get involved.

I never did hear about what happened to his old teacher, but Fred on the other hand is currently in jail for not only assaulting his teacher, but he apparently also attacked his lawyer for reasons unkown.

That’s Fred.”

11. Yikes.

“Former Supervisor – A bully, gossip, and all around horrible person that picked 1 or 2 people to be her punching bag.

My introduction to her was when I was sitting at lunch and she came barreling at one of my coworkers and proceded to litteraly scream and curse in his face in the Break area. She also had a habit of gossiping in the the warehouse office in full hearing of other people which made me uncomfortable.

It’s one thing when a co-worked gossips to another, it’s an entirely different thing when a supervisor gossips about those under them to others.

I actually cassually mentioned to a different supervisor that it made me uneasy to be in the office while this was going on and she got wind of it, she then decided to make me her target. Over the span of 6 months she bullied me and behaved in some really disrespectful ways:

– She gossiped about me: How did I find out? She started doing it in front of me.

– She gave me a very unflattering nickname: I found out when she blurted it out one time when I came into the office after being paged

– She was passive agressive towards me in all respects – Growled at me in the ladies locker room, put papers to cover her face so I couldn’t “look” at her, sighed or scoffed when I tried to engage in conversation with other people (not her) Ignored me or outright walked away when I needed a supervisor override.

– She told me I needed “To step it up” with my work. I was the 2nd most productive with the the 2nd lowest fault rate of my department. To give you an Idea on a typical day 1st would do ~25 jobs, I would be at ~23, the other 5 people averaged ~15 jobs a piece.

I finally had a breakdown after she started doing it in front of other Supervisors and the Manager, this was a week after I told the manager, again, about her behavior. Nothing was being done about it. I was ready to just walk off the job and had a breakdown.

Someone told the Managers boss that I was having a break down and she called me directly to find out what was going on. I was walked through an official HR report that went to the front office. She was given one last chance. I told them she wouldn’t last a month. 3 weeks later she had a screaming match with another employee and was suspended and subsequently fired.

I later found out she was directly responsible for 3 people quitting and one person getting fired becasue they couldn’t take it anymore and threw gloves at her.”

How about you?

Who was (or is) your co-worker from Hell?

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What’s a Good Example of the Mandela Effect? Here’s What People Said.

Do you happen to remember the Bernstein Bears?

I do…and guess what? I was wrong. Dead wrong!

It’s actually spelled Berenstain, and I guess my entire childhood was a lie…

This is an example of the Mandela Effect, when people remember something differently than it actually happened.

AskReddit users shared interesting examples of the Mandela Effect.

Let’s take a look.

1. That’s interesting…

“In Denmark we have a very popular television show called “Matador” which takes place from 1929 to 1947.

There’s a very memorable scene where the town’s resident spinster has finally gotten married but when her husband wants to consummate their wedding, she locks him out on the balcony.

When the show re-aired for the first time in the early 1980’s there was a huge sh*tstorm because the broadcast company had removed the scene where he stands on the balcony, shouting to be let back in – only that scene never existed in the first place.

But everyone in Denmark who has watched “Matador” knows exactly how that scene looks.”

2. What happened?

“I do a fair amount of transcription work as a part of my job, logging specific statements that were made.

Two years ago, I was asked about a statement made by someone during a meeting. Five of us recalled the statement at issue the same way – and none of us were right.

When I logged the audio and sent it around, we were astonished by this lack of recall.”

3. Weird.

“Every Brit of a certain age remembers the double entendres in Captain Pugwash.

Characters included Seaman Staines, Roger The Cabin Boy and Master Bates. Except none of that actually happened. I have been told by many older people that this was on TV but it never actually happened.

Even The Guardian reported in 1991 that it was taken off air by the BBC due to the risque nature of the children’s cartoon.”

4. You’re wrong!

“Many people believe the Raisin Bran Sun wore sunglasses.

But this is not the case…”

5. Really?

“Mr. Rogers saying “it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”

What he actually said was “it’s a beautiful day in THIS neighborhood”.”

6. Have to double-check.

“The Fruit of the Loom logo.

I swear to god it had a cornucopia!”

7. Smile or no smile?

“The Mona Lisa having no smile on her face.

People claim that she’s always had it (how it is now), but others, including me, remember the Mona Lisa not smiling in the painting.”

8. Peanut butter problems.

“Jif peanut butter.

My father is convinced with 100% certainty that it used to be called Jiffy, and not gonna lie the amount of certainty he says it with kind of makes me question if it in fact was called Jiffy at some point in the past.”

9. The big ones.

“Coca Cola and the hyphen, Mickey Mouse and the overall straps, Nelson Mandela and when he died (hence why it’s called the Mandela Effect).”

10. A mystery.

“I remember the Monopoly man having a monocle but apparently he’s never had one.

How weird is that?

Does anyone else remember him having a monocle? I’m convinced he did.”

11. A hot debate.

“The famous line from Star Wars when Vader tells Luke he’s his father.

Many people think the line is “Luke I am your father”, when the actual line is “no I am your father”.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, please tell us about your own experiences with the Mandela Effect.

Thanks in advance!

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