Quotes to put on boyfriend in jail letters

So this a super common occurrence for me personally and it’s driving me fucking nuts. Riders on the phone or FaceTime— literally fuck yourself, honestly.
It’s ridiculously annoying having to turn my music down to basically nothing, and putting my windows up on beautiful days so you can talk to your boyfriend/girlfriend you are literally 20 minutes AWAY FROM.
And we can hear EVERYTHING. Do you know how many times I’ve heard about affairs, really personal sexual information, personal info. in general, private MEDICAL information including social security numbers, credit card numbers, family drama, crimes (stupid and violent), and everything in between?
-Countless- times.
Business calls are one thing, and totally understandable if it’s work related. But anything else?
Save. It. For. Home. Nobody wants to fuckin’ hear that shit. Get off your phone. I would literally rather listen to your shit playlist at 100 volume through your headphones than how your god damn beagle swallowed a teaspoon.

( For context, Imago.tg is also a private clinic similar to GenderGP but better as far as I've heard. They could maybe be an alternative to those of y'all who are looking for somewhere else to go )
I emailed Imago last week and got a response today. I asked them a whole lot of questions and the owner Zofia responded to me. I'm gonna put my question and her response in a bit of a Q&A type layout. To start with here's what I emailed, then below that the questions i asked and her answers are:
"Hello there! I'm emailing for a friend and also partially all the other folks in the Nordics/UK struggling right now. You may have heard about GenderGP. I myself was previously signed up with their services but quit partially due to how limited their care was.
Merely contacting them is now paywalled, and many are struggling to even get their prescription. I've heard good things about you and maybe you coukd be a good option to the people who are also quitting GenderGP and are looking for alternatives. so I wanted to ask a few questions about your services."
Q: How much does it cost? Both in terms of the startup prices as well as long term what's generally considered the expected costs?
A: €250 initial fee, €20 monthly subscription (additional medical visits at your request NOT included).
Q: How many sessions do you need before starting hormones assuming you haven't been on HRT before? And how many does it take to continue care if someone are on HRT but looking to switch ( for example from GenderGP to you)
A: It's individual, every case is different. We aim at shortening the process but staying within WPATH8 guidelines.
Q: Are there mandatory follow-ups? And if so how much do they cost and how often are they due?
A: In the great majority of cases, no. We may only require a follow-up visit if there is a serious health concern/hazard revealed by blood test results. Blood tests are mandatory, though. Currently, we don't provide those.
Q: How do you go about blood tests? Do you send a request to the patients GP or do you have a testing kit of some kind? ( and if yes how much does it cost?)
A: We typically provide the patient with a reminder and a list. If there is a cooperative GP we are happy to send the request to them.
Q: How does your services work in Sweden? I know many struggle to even get their prescription and have to drive to Denmark to get it from pharmacies
A: We are aware of those problems. We have a matrix of what works where but it still happens, not very often but still, that our patients encounter problems. Sometimes we call pharmacy or send a legal letter, sometimes we just provide a new prescription.
Q: Can you give hormone blockers under 16? I read on your site that you can't give HRT under 16 but does that apply to hormone blockers as well? And what about countries where you can legally make medical decisions for yourself at 15 like Denmark for example, do the same rules still apply or is it different from country to country?
A: Unfortunately, no. :( We didn't have such a case so far but I would be delighted to extend our service to more trans people in need, especially those most vulnerable. It would, however, require solid legal research as we cannot risk exposing whole project to risk of lawsuits.
Q: How long does it take to recieve a prescription (both on paper as well as digital)?
A: Currently, it takes approx. 5 weeks from the moment we get everything from you (intake forms, blood tests) to the appointment with a doctor. Then, we send prescriptions within a few days from receiving consent forms. Paper ones, obviously, take longer, it depends on the postal service. We are sending priority registered letters.
Q: Do you have any options for therapy sessions or similar? If yes how much does it cost?
A: There are some and we are slowly expanding them. The costs differ but you should expect €80-120/1h. We want to introduce packages by June.
Q: Do you require any kind of proof (documents or otherwise) that someone has gender dysphoria and if not is that something you can provide? ( for example GenderGP could give a gender dysphoria diagnosis)
A: No, never! We strongly stand against this harmful practice. But we do accept any relevant medical record, especially past blood results, prescriptions, etc. - it will speed up process.
Q: Can you give surgery referrals? (For either top or bottom surgery) and if yes how much does it cost?
A: Yes, although please be aware those are rarely accepted by public healthcare systems. They are sufficient for privat clinics, though.
Q: In terms of the startup price, would someone need to pay it all at once or are there options for split-up payment?
A: For now, only at-once
Hope this is helpful to y'all!

I'm building a house as owner builder in Miami FL. The shell, exterior and spray foam are done. I'm starting to quote ductwork and framing. It's a rather large home (~5900sqft) the architect specified 3 units (one 5 tons and two 3 tons) I'm partial to daikin as I installed two in the past on other projects and am happy with them (a DX9 at my brothers and Fit at my dads) My question is regarding copper line sets and how they relate/change with incoming R-32 refrigerant. I have enough $ to be able to run ductwork and line sets now before framing but and holding off for actual units until we are finished due to finances. I was talking to a local HVAC guy which l've used in the past but have moved away from to due to EXCESSIVE pricing. He is a certified diakin installer. He was telling me that incoming R32 units require different copper lines (he mentioned a different type of connections and you can no longer braise etc) that makes the line-sets cost 3-4x as much as traditional.He also said the new units will be about 40% more expensive to buy them now. Is this true or is he taking me for a ride?
He did also mention that the upcoming changes uses 1/3 the amount of refrigerant but it cost about 3x more so it's a wash. As well that they will be much better able to handle LONG distance lineset runs?
Since I'm putting in the line sets now before Framing, I need to be able to put the correct ones in since I won't be able to install units until R-32 is official. I know r32 is slightly flammable but I can't see how this changes much other then possibly a few more sensors etc. I mean I have propane piped to the stove location and it is less complicated than this.
Any guidance on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

Buckle up dear potatoes and our T-rex Leader, I got so much tea that you'll need a truck full of cumpets !
TW : there's mention of bullying and other bad stuff.
Jesus in a bikini, where to start. Well, let's go that way, I used to be bullied in school, because I was large, not fat back then, just very squary because I always have been pretty muscular around the shoulder area (thank to years of swimming everyday of the week during vacations) I'm the shape of a wardrobe that did caused me some mockery about me not being feminine enough and when I met a friend a year younger than me, I had already chased away my bullies by kicking their buttsies (and never got in trouble for doing so, yey for me ! :D) and that poor child ? I knew she was going to have it hard :
She is a red head. Wearing glasses. Fairly little. With asthma so bad she had to go every lunch break in the director's office to breath in a machine.
That made her the perfect target for bullies of all ages and I wasn't going to let that happen. I stepped in, kicked some asses and kept her by my side like if she was my little sister. She said once that I was like her guard dog, and I felt flattered, cause I was happy to serve a purpose and prevent that girl to go through the same stuff as I did.
Time pass and I graduate, we lose contact for a moment because at the time, neither one of us had cellphones and I was forbiden by my toxic mother to meet any friends. That's a story for later.
She eventually joins me in high school a year later and we are both overjoyed to get to spend some time together as well. We both have our group of friend in our classes but since we are both staying in boarding school all week, we spend the rest of the evening together, every evenings. Since I grew older, my dad convinced my mom to let me spend time out with my friend every week end here and there and our friendship grows even stronger. I see her as my sister and I tell her that, she tells me the same.
But in about ten years of friendship, there is a LOT of things that I had let slide because I didn't saw it piled up and saw how bad it was. It had been set little by little. I was very protective of her, so she grew a huge sense of entlitement saying I would always come back to her if we fought because we're family. She was controlling a LOT of things in my life, using always the same leverage : if she get scared or stressed, she will "hyperventilate and may die". You will see later why this is between finger quotes.
There's this game, Undertale, that I like a lot, if you're in the fandom, you know there's lot of fan art and fan made song and stuff.
I couldn't have fan art of Sans the skeleton on my phone, laptop or in my bedroom : because it scares her.
I couldn't listen to music coming from the fandom : because that scares her.
I couldn't wear a t-shirt on which the friendly face of the skeleton was printed : because it scared her.
I couldn't talk a certain way, because she knew the language habit I had, I had caught it by writing a fanfic on the fandom, so i cannot do it either because it scares her.
Couldn't play some video games with her next to me because it scares her (it was tomb raider, very scary) she's a high schooler at that time mind you.
And later I found out she was playing zombie games with her boyfriend. I still fail to see the logic in that.
You name it, I had to change basicly everything and hide stuff cause it scared her. Meanwhile, since we seen each others in high school, we had started to write fanfics together, on DBZ. I had offered and she was so hyped by it. We were basicly doing the same kind of stories on repeat cause we were huge fan of the franchise. She was playing Piccolo and I was playing an OC I had created YEARS ago when I first started writing by the age of 11. But as the time passed, the characters she was playing HAD to always come on top of mine : they had to be the cleverest, strongest, most beautiful, most everything.
Mines just HAD to be inferior.
And when I pointed out certain things, like I had created my OC species to be very fertile and easily have baby to compensate the high risk of mortality among them (yeah it made sense to me back then) she got mad at me because she wanted her characters to have their babies the easiest ! So I had to basicly betray everything my character was to fit her tantrum and she would tell me "it's for the dramaaa come on i know you love it too !" and I was like "y-yeah..; sure"
She would usually demand often that I write lemons on my own, starring her character. (lemons are spicy scenes between characters) She didn't wanted to write them because she was too lazy and would say "but you write them so goooood~" and get whiny so I give in. But when I gave in she would yell at me I didn't respect her character because he placed his hand on a back instead of on a cheek, kissed with the tongue instead of with the lips, you name it. She wanted stuff writted for her, fitting her every demand to the T, but not paying for the comission....
Also she would mock one of my male characters by calling him a f*g because... He didn't want to fight. He's a pacifist, so to her, he's less than a man and a f*g.... She hated the plotwist in my original story that he saved the day because he refused to fight. Hated it.
She once said that she had all the ideas and that I was just good enough to write them.
Her "ideas" were direct plagia of the anime/book/movie she would watch. Like emerald knights, bleach, one piece, fairy tail, etc... And I couldn't call that out first cause I didn't read/watched those !
At the time, I had created many fanfictions and one over 600 pages along with the entire set of lore for my OC, I had wrote the language and how it was spoke, I had wrote it's history, basicly everything about it ! And I was proud of myself.
But I was just good enough to write HER ideas and betray my own characters so she could get a high vicariously through her's.
She had a weird sense of snobbism. Once, she was unhappy about a relationship she had, so I had drove two hours to pick her up and invite her to a Pataterie !
(All potatoes lover sit down for this one : it's a huge french franchise of restaurant FILLED on every dish by : potatoes. all kind of potatoes, mashed, fried, fries, into patties ALL is potatoe. Yes it's true, we can have an amen XD)
So I invite her to this Potatoe magic world to have a good dinner and talk, I pay for both of us. A few months later she want to go to a restaurant, but she doesn't want to pay for me, fair enough I pay for myself and it's a sort of sushi restaurant. She then says "You introduced me to redneck's food, I introduce you to elite high class food !"
... It was a sushi bar. And I won't lie, it was good, but it wasn't "elite". I rolled my eyes at least as hard as when she started bashing my phone for having shitty sound when she was used to better and clearer sound thanks to her gramophone and that I must have bad ears for tolerating such butchery...
And every fricking day, when I was telling that I was a bit unhappy, or sad, or just you know, grumpy, cause life happen. She would always turn it into a tear filled competition about who's life is the saddest, because she would undoutbly be the winner, mostly cause i refused to play. I don't like those unhealthy kind of game and I don't want a pity contest. Once I voiced this to her and she said "Heh, you don't play just because you know you're going to LOSE !"
I stopped and I dead stared at her "Your parents never abused you. You never were a victim of SA. You got health issue, of course it's bad and tragic, but stop thinking you're the only one that suffer. I was bullied as well but I had no one to protect me. The worst bullying you got was verbal, and it's bad, I got beaten up unconscious and got thrown ice in the face that splitted it open, among with the verbal ab*se. And you know what my mother said when i came home from school with spit and gums in my hair ? She said that I always bought her troubles and was such a disapointment to her."
And then again, I had to be the one conforting her because what I said hurted her. I didn't meant to hurt her, I wanted her to see my point that just because her suffering is more visible doesn't mean she's the only one that does.
She got a boyfriend for the first time in her life and she became UNBEARABLE, would throw dark stares at me when I would wave at her when her boyfriend is here. Would avoid me because she doesn't want me to "ashame her" by just... existing. They were together for a month when he suddenly ghosted her and stopped talking to her. And I was there when she called me every evening to complain about how sad she was and how terrible the situation was etc. It's at that time I got her to the Pataterie, to lift her spirits up. He came back from the ghosting and she wanted him back, I warned her that it MAY be a bad idea, cause he betrayed her trust and that she want it back very bad because he left. But she should give herself some time before taking him back cause she may not have forgave him and there is still trust that need to be rebuilt. I tell her that cause I made that mistake myself and I ended being the toxic beach of the relationship because I had not forgave my boyfriend for similar sh*t he pulled on me, didn't want that to happen to her. She told me :
"You relationship isn't as strong as ours."
I had been with my boyfriend for three years. She had been for a month. And even if it wasn't already a more matured relationship, what kind of c*nt says that ? I told her I was going back home because what she said was not okay and that I didn't wanted to talk to her for a moment, I had to process that BS. She came back crashing at my house demanding hugs because she couldn't bear me to be mad at her. And when I told her to give me space and get out, she told me "who do you think you are to throw me out ?!"
Yeah, in my own house.
But I didn't pilled up all of those hints before because they came gradually, little by little through the years. We had been "friends" for a dozen of years now and I loved her so dearly I was unconsciously spoiling her. But then, one evening, she told me something that made it all crash down.
She had faked the very first asthma crisis that got her tied to the machine when we met at school.
All this time she had been blaming a sickness and leveraging a sickness that had never been THAT bad. Now I don't know how bad it is, but the fact that she had lied about something so serious crushed me and every sense of love I had for her. I FINALLY picked every hint and red flag I told you about in this VERY LONG thread (sorry for the rant lol) and I cutted ties with her.
She told me she knew I would come back crawling at her because I was her "big sister" and I would always forgive her. When I was mad at her she would often use the "but you're my big sister" tactic to butter me up and make me forgive her.
I didn't do that.
Instead, I've erased everything we wrote from the google docs that I had the sole responsability of because she was too lazy to put in the effort to copy paste it from our phones. And I replaced all of the pages and removed her acces so she could only see it but not modify or regain access to what we had wrote. I then typed :
"I took all of my writings back since I don't do plagia and I don't want Tite Kubo (Bleach's creator) to sue me for "your ideas". I'll name a character after you in my next story but it won't have enough importance to be dealed with by the hero. Just like you don't have enough importance to me anymore to be dealed with. I will try to get it published, thanks for giving me so much matter to write about absolutly terrible people that do shitty things. I'll bring a toast to you when I reach success. Ciao"
And ended it with a nice middle finger emoji. And I intend to keep my promise if I ever get published, that will be the finale of my petty revenge. But I already know I live rent free in her head because she tried to contact me a few times since I cutted ties with her many years ago. I probably forgot a lot of stuff, but like I said, it was years ago ! Hope you enjoyed and the tea was matching your taste ! Billions of hugs everyone, living a good life is always the best petty revenge ! But I'd say, doing it with the middle finger lifted is a bonus.

Boyfriend and I are living together four years and I used to consider us both very tidy people. We both grew up with extremely overbearingly house proud mothers who expected the house to look like a show room at all times- for this reason, I have held back from “nagging” or bringing this up in fear of lookng like my mother.
We work the same hours and come home at the same time, we actually work together but I find myself being the only one prepping meals and tidying up. So while he kicks back after a long day, I am still going until 9pm most nights (up at 6).
It has gotten to the point where he will leave plates on the counter ABOVE the dishwasher or sometimes he will check if its empty and if it needs to be emptied, he will put his dirty stuff in and run it AGAIN.
I tidied the apartment today so that it was fresh for the week and he came in from the gym and has just dumped crap everywhere- 3 empty water bottles on the dining table, various vitamins/supplements sprawled all over the counter (after I cleared a shelf for them), half eaten dinner beside the sink . I put all his cosmetics away in the bathroom and theyre dumped all over the sink again, there is fitness bands on the sofa, his gym bag is emptied in the living room … just junk everywhere..
Am I being a “nagging housewife” or am I justified?
I have tried not picking up after him but the place just looks so crummy and not how I want to live- there was once a glass of juice that I refused to tidy away and it eventually grew mold.. right now there is a half eaten cupcake on the sofa since yesterday
Anybody else experienced this?

TLDR; feel like breaking up with my boyfriend bc I can’t grow with him, and I feel conflicted on what to do. I feel exhausted after hanging out with him
Hi guys, my boyfriend and I have been together for 5 months, and I truly adore him. He’s kind, caring, and he always makes it a point to look out for others.
I’m not sure if you can tell, but that’s really all I can say about him. It wasn’t until I started pushing him to want more for himself that he finally started getting his life together. I’m so proud of him and all that he’s accomplishing right now, and I’m definitely not fully to credit for all of the changes he’s making, however…recently I took stock of our relationship.
I’ve been feeling super exhausted every time I finish hanging out with him, and I’ve been anxious these past few weeks for reasons I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
I finally figured it out (I think). I’m not learning anything from him. A lot of the time if there’s conflict, I bring it to the table, I try my best to help him want more out of life, I validate his emotions.
But I don’t feel like I’m gaining the same in return. Whenever people ask me about what I like about him, I always draw a blank bc I /dont/ know what I like about him. Usually what I look for in a partner is someone who can challenge my perspectives, who’s willing to engage in healthy conflict, someone I can admire. Mutual admiration. Someone who can push me to do better, and I, them.
I don’t admire my boyfriend. He can be conflict avoidant (though I’ve talked to him about it and he’s working on it), and he’s not very ambitious. If I don’t catch myself, he’d let me walk all over him bc he doesn’t say anything.
I’m tired of being the one that brings up conflict. I’m starting to feel resentment. And it sucks bc a lot of the time, he doesn’t think about these things, so I feel like I’m crazy or dramatic for bringing these things up.
He’s sweet—he buys me things, he’s patient with me, he is absolutely affectionate and consistent in that aspect. But I don’t want all the things that I like about him to be things that he does for me.
Is this a valid reason to want to break up with someone?

my friend asked me if i can draw something to her phone case and i did it took me so much time to pick what would i paint for her and when i decided that i wanna draw her beautiful face , i spent 40 min sketching in and making the size fits with her phone case when all that was done , i sat for two days of painting with water colors and correcting it to be perfect and for her to like it , waiting parts to dry so i can add lore details and doing this and that , when i was finished i kept it in a dark place cuz i didnt want the sun to change the colors and a dry place away from the dust and wind and the hands of my siblings , after all that , i delivered it to her , she likes it and she used it for couple months and always telling people that i made her that , i liked that she liked it and loved it , but now , she isnt using it , at lest 3 months never saw it , but she always wears the bracelet her boyfriend bought it two days before valentines, i mean im not hating or something im actually a big fan of their rs and i love it , but it just made me think that it doesn’t matters what you put or how much love you put on something if the other person doesn’t share the same thoughts of it like you , for them it could be replaceable

Hi all, I've recently decided to open up a fun Tiktok/Etsy combo shop -- I will be selling "Roll for Dice" kits with dice sets, dice trays, and dice bags, as well as add-on extras that support gameplay (like leather pen bags, dice jails, dragon statues, miniatures, and other fun dnd-adjacent items like keychains, etc.).
I just put the finishing touches on my Etsy page, and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to give me feedback? Does it all make sense the way it's laid out? Do you know where to go to see the order videos?
Send me any thoughts/feedback you have! Thank you in advance.
https://theritualspace.etsy.com

I (F22) moved in with my friend (F22) of over 8 years off and on 6 months ago. I have helped her through some rough times with alcoholism, toxic relationships and personal tragedy. She has stated that I am her favorite person and that these actions mean more to her than I know. When we moved in together, I was moving from my upper middle class father’s house and she was moving from a less fortunate situation as she has been on her own for years just getting by. After her live-in toxic relationship, I moved her out and into another house. She begged to live with me but I didn’t think moving out was a good idea, however, I ended up deciding I was ready. My family and I, and her and my boyfriend were the only ones present for the move in. They moved both of our stuff in and put our things together. She told me this meant a lot to her.
I say all of this to show that I have objectively been a good friend. Throughout the winter we were both depressed, we didn’t do very much but I felt like we enjoyed each others company and had a good time living together. We had some big fights, but nothing that we couldn’t get over after knowing each other so long. Then a couple months ago she got pregnant with a guy she didn’t know very well, the month before that was the closest we had been since living together and we did so many things. She decided not to keep the baby and I drove her to the appointment and supported her through the situation.
Almost immediately after, she starting seeing a new guy, bringing him to our home, and telling me more about him. I was troubled by what I was hearing, he had gone through our text messages and read about the abortion, had basically forced her to pee in front of him, and had asked her to move into his dads house to live with him among other weird things. He started coming over all the time and I started seeing less and less of her. She always seemed tired and stressed or obsessed and anxious, and she started only ever hanging out with me when she was upset with this man. I was uncomfortable with him, but stayed quiet until she found out that he was talking to other girls and lying.
From that point, I encouraged her to confront him and when she did, he continued to lie. She then ended up softly ending things and he threatened to show up at our home to get his things which once again made me extremely uncomfortable. It hurt to see her so upset by him, she has had an extremely difficult life and seems to always end up in toxic situations. I ended up hanging out with her all day and during this time she got drunk and basically told me that I had been so boring all winter because I was “like depressed or something” and she’s surprised to hear that I actually was planning for us to do fun stuff this summer… as we are literally downtown doing fun stuff. That stung.
Fast forward to an important family event of mine that we went to together, she started talking to a family member of mine about this guy and it spiraled into her getting drunk, crying at the dinner table, and cussing him out literally all night. It was so extremely embarrassing for me and felt like her putting this situation above the celebration of my family that she had said she was so excited to attend. The entire night was spent consoling her because she had picked a fight with him out of nowhere and he had responded with a horrible comment about her abortion. I ended up telling her at the end of the night in privacy that I was honestly very hurt by this and that it felt disrespectful to turn the night into what it had turned into. She got way too drunk, made a scene, worried several people and almost caused a fight throughout the night.
In the morning when we woke up she cried and apologized and I forgave her and we moved on. She started making promises about never letting someone treat her like this again and breaking the cycle. I was so happy it was finally over and I was looking forward to being able to have our friendship be the way it was before.
Fast forward to last weekend, I had been at an event with my boyfriend and a minute before I came home she texted me and said that she was thinking about having this guy over, and that she was sad. I came home and went to knock on her door, she opened it and he was in her bed. He had clearly been in our home for hours. Since then, we have not spoken. I feel like she is someone who is constantly choosing the wrong thing, playing the victim, getting attention for it, and then going right back to it. Being used as a placeholder and therapist instead of a friend feels so hollow to me. I feel like she told me what I wanted to hear and then only texted me to tell me that he was in our home because she knew I was coming home, and wouldn’t have told me otherwise. I can’t trust her. She doesn’t have the capability to be there for me like I am for her.
I know she is mad at me because I haven’t spoken to her. We have been avoiding each other and not speaking since then. We both know something is wrong but throughout our friendship she has not apologized to me unprompted once, I feel like I deserve a conversation and apology and should not have to beg for it. I can go on like this for a long time, even though I miss her because I’m tired of the cycle, I want things to change but I don’t want to ruin my living situation either.

"If one man in a sea of fools is just a little smarter than the rest of them, can you really say he's clever? No, you can't! The fact he didn't see it himself proves he wasn't such a genius!"

Immortal Demon King Badigadi is like the walking embodiment of what is probably the single most famous quote in western philosophy, "I know that I know nothing." And all it took for him to figure it out was his thousands of years of life experience, a war of total annihilation, and coming back from the dead. Okay, so he was a bit slow on the uptake. He'd be the first to admit the Immortal Demon tribe can be a tad too patient when it comes to figuring things out and getting things done. Socrates thought really hard for a few years and figured out an approach to life that has remained a functional part of human culture for thousands of years, surviving even the collapse of his own civilization. Badigadi just needed a little push... in the form of a continent annihilating explosion to help that same message penetrate the thickness of his skull.
That's not to say Badi is as much of an idiot as he claims (quite the opposite in fact!), only that he must be a tad foolish that he requires life-altering paradigm shifts to piece together obvious solutions to personal issues that most people intuit naturally or otherwise don't worry about in the first place. Kishirika might be a tad lax about her own self-preservation, but she intuitively understands how to enjoy life. Meanwhile, Badi toils away, stuck in his own head, ruminating endlessly, playing back the difficult choices and mistakes he's made in the past over and over until he becomes paralyzed with indecision and self-doubt. I'm sure it goes without saying that this endless cycle of rumination is a struggle many of us identify with all too often.
Whilst retrieving the Fighting God Armor, Badigadi enters one such cycle of rumination and uses the process of breaking him from it as a test for Geese. He ruminates on the loss of culture and knowledge, of heroes and legends eroded by the sands of time, of landscapes and terrain that no longer exist yet live on solely within the memory of his tribe. He feels the tremendous weight of that loss and the burden of being one of the sole remaining people carrying the legacy of what was. It's the equivalent of being personal friends with Socrates himself and living long enough to not only witness his death and the implosion of his civilization, but the memory of his very existence fade away with the passage of time such that a quote as foundational to civilization as "I know that I know nothing" is not even esoteric knowledge amongst modern civilization. Try as we might, the concept of existence beyond our own lifespans is difficult and alien to us. How does one reckon with the weight of eternity?
Yet, despite Geese' deeply flawed perspective on life, he passes the test with flying colors. While his vocabulary is ineloquent and his mannerisms uncouth, his words carry weight precisely because of his intent rather than the intelligence with which he conveys it. He effectively points out that living memory and perspectives are relative. All one has to do to witness the erasure of one's history and culture is travel a few miles in any direction. If you were go to any country in Asia and ask someone to recite the most famous quote in philosophy, odds are Socrates would not even be in the top 100, instead defaulting to one of the many famous Confucius sayings such as, "He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Such a quote would also perfectly meld with Badigadi's philosophical nature! Then again, one doesn't even need to travel that far to receive a similar level of culture shock. Just go down to a local frat house and attempt to engage in a philosophical debate to receive a myriad of blank stares from kids who've never even heard of these "Sock-rats" or "Confusion" guys. Yet you'd be hard pressed to find a group more joyful and bursting with life! Say what you will about fools, they know how to find happiness with such little effort!
It's paradoxical to those of us for whom rumination is the norm. To solve problems and find solutions through logical means and to take preventative measures to ensure we are prepared for the worst. Yet it leaves us unsatisfied and deeply unhappy most of the time. Certainly, compared to a fool we're more productive, proactive, and conscientious in applying lessons learned from the past to our plans for the future. Yet we are the least prepared when plans go awry.
Certainly the trauma of his own misguided actions during the Second Great Human Demon War lives on in his heart. To this day he can recall with perfect clarity the feeling of his blade piercing his beloved Kishirika, the sound of her comforting laughter as she chides his stubborn, humorless demeanor, and his humiliating, impotent rage and anguish towards the so-called God of Humans who manipulated him. But time has a way of putting things into perspective.

"There are some battles you can't win just by manipulating things from the safety of the shadows. Sometimes you gotta put your life on the line, to gamble on your chance at victory. I know it." said Badigadi. "There was a time I didn't, which is why I ended up losing everything. So, I learned, I've honed my body, chugged all kinds of alcohol, and made battalions of friends! FWAHAHAHA! I wish I could show you the puny nobody I used to be!"

Indeed, Badigadi was once a self-conscious, neurotic introvert with a bad habit of shutting himself away from social contact. Remind you of anyone? Yes, much like a certain man awkwardly fumbling through his marriage nuptials, I suppose I should follow Lord Badi's advice and simply cut to the heart of the matter this time, FWAHAHA! Just like nearly everyone else in the cast, Badigadi is yet another foil to Rudeus!
More specifically, Pre-Fighting God Badigadi most closely resembles Eartheus. Actually, "resembles" might not be a strong enough description. If you ignore his 6 arms, obsidian black skin, enormous stature, or the very concept of physical appearance in general and you could scarcely tell them apart! Or so Kishirika might say given her ability to perceive the "shape of their soul" when she describes the "boring man" Badi used to be:

"You are too serious for your own good... Too sour faced. Always holing up in your room... never drinking any ale... never sleeping...! What's so fun about that?"

In fact, the similarities only become more pronounced the more you look at their history. As youths they were naturally more gifted in intelligence than their peers, took their intelligence for granted, and became so lax in accumulating knowledge (instead resting on the laurels of their natural talent) they found themselves hopelessly unprepared to keep pace with the demands of their changing environment culminating in a beating (by bullies/Aldebaran respectively) so vicious it left their confidence shattered.
Similarly, they have both "reincarnated" (or regenerated in Badi's case) once after making the worst mistake of their life (not attending parent's funeral/donning the Fighting God Armor). Using this fresh start they hone their body, drink some good ale, make battalions of friends, and sleep with some women. Certainly there are some nasty bumps along the road, but they eventually find their happiness with the people they love leading to the pair of satisfied, contented men we find at the end of Volume 26. I realize that's a fairly... erm, \reductive\** description for the events that encompass the entirety of the Mushoku Tensei series, but to be fair that's pretty much how Badigadi himself would describe their lives up to this point.
Indeed, in their final few conversations with the Man-God, Rudy and Badigadi's reaction to his tantrums are identical. Despite the acknowledgement of his misdeeds and petulant, infantile behavior, they express their gratitude to him. That's not to say they FORGIVE him for his past malfeasance and betrayal, but a few decades/millennia spent living a satisfying, productive, happy life to the absolute fullest provides them with perspective. They come to understand that the trials in life are what gave those fleeting, mundane moments meaning. Without the paradigm shift that the Man-God (unintentionally) provided them, they would have remained shut away in their own heads even during periods of rest, fretting about the next life problem they must deal with, incapable of truly relishing those lulling, humdrum moments sandwiched between the tribulations.
Badigadi serves as an example of how to lead a life well lived. When reflecting back on the time most precious to us, it's not the outcomes of those hard times that come to mind... it's those quiet moments spent with friends and family that give us the most joy precisely because they were so fleeting.

"The shorter-lived races always wanted to cut down on wasted time. Even though wasting time is what made that time so special..."

Hiiiiii >:3 ( so I WAS going to post this in AITAH … BUTT I couldn’t because of the number of “words”, and when I did I got my FIRST hate comment 😋✌️)
(These are all the people involved : D,J,me, K and MD) Also NOTE: I will be using the mic for most of this, because if I just type it out, I’ll forget most things I wanna say … so sorry if that sounds weird (also I’m lazy 💀) AND this is like a couple weeks old, so there are SMALL (SMAL) updates… 😅ENJOY 😭(👹spicy part😈)
Soo this is a dumb and stupid “fight” that is going on rn … it started on Monday today is Wednesday. So on Monday morning (breakfast in the classroom) D told us that she was she was FINALLY dropping J (by 2nd period they were best friends again🙄)so basically… J has done a lot of things like be rude, mean and disrespectful to D … me, K and MD (basically all of her friends told her to stop being friends with J as they’re just hurting each other and they’re not good friends YK 😭⁉️) …. anyways, I sat down with them to eat my breakfast, and K told me that D was finally dropping J and she confirmed this and I asked why (I understand why DUUUU 😅 but I wanted her version of the story😌) and she said that J had been disrespectful and she had enough… (I mean she has always been disrespectful and rude so I was just happy that they weren’t friends no more 😭) J came into the class, and she sat next to us but she wasn’t facing us like she was facing the wall which for me was kind of funny because it seemed like she was the one giving us the silent treatment 😭🤣⁉️ also because we have different specials (PE, art, Spanish ,music) I don’t know what happened but they were laughing and just being happy …. Me and K were confused about what was happening so we were talking about it (to each other) and we were just like oh well we’ve been trying to help her this whole time get away from J but she doesn’t listen so basically at the end of the day, we were just planning to tell D that we didn’t care about J anymore… (basically what I’m trying to say is that we’re friends with the D not J and J knows that… ) at recess when we wanted to ask her about what was going on with J 😭⁉️ she was like “I never asked for your help” and “OK!” That really made me mad like really really mad!!! because I have been friends with D for the whole year and I helped her through 3 friend break up(I won’t go into that, but basically the same thing happened that is happening right now she got mad at them. They got mad at her and they’re not friends no more)D has asked us to get her away from J multiple times saying “ help give me away from Her she’s so annoying” “ help she’s so rude This is this “ YK 💀 ALSO I have multiple texts of her, telling me and ranting to me about J sooo ….(we have 4 semesters every school year; every semester she would drop a different person … we are in our last semester and now she’s dropping us?!) anyways, we didn’t touch that subject until the last period of the day and K decided to tell her basically what I said at the beginning that when they came to J we weren’t gonna put our opinion anymore… (because he doesn’t listen 🤦‍♀️) soo (at the end of the day) … K hands were on the table, facing flat, and D tryed to reach for them to be like …Oh no I….. K pulled her hands back and was like don’t touch me(by the way, K is that type of person that if she disrespects her she doesn’t take that so ya ) D gave K a dirty look and turned around and to her desk D and J were sitting next to each other, and they started whispering each other. They clearly looked mad and upset… (by the way they’re sitting at the front of the class we’re saying a row behind them) i’m sitting next to K and I hear everything and I’m in shock 🫢 K clearly looks “offended” and kind of frustrated …. And I was just there shock like what just happened… ( by the way, the whole day were trying to talk to D as respectfully as we could and she was just being disrespectful when we brought up J ) I would understand this if she had an asked for her help multiple times!!!! Anyways the next day (Tuesday) we told MD about what happened and she told us that maybe we were being so harsh and mean to D … I understand where she’s coming from but at the same time it’s not like we’re forcing D to stop being friends with J we’re just giving her our opinion! ( which she asked for all the time🤦‍♀️) I started to explain to MD that D and J are just hurting each other by being friends…. She wouldn’t listen she was just being annoying, but whatever🙄 the whole day, we didn’t talk, but J did give us dirty looks ( which I was like what the heck🫠) 😭 (I’m sorry, but it’s true) she told Jay that’s why she liked her more than us because we were judgmental to her … girl we’re just being rude with you like I get it’s OK to be delusional sometimes but the way that she’s delusional all the time ⁉️ERMMM⁉️in another occasion she liked this one boy and he didn’t like her. He told her like 10 times he didn’t like her and when she found out he was dating a girl she started crying and saying I should’ve never liked him. I was so dumb like girl he told you more than 10 times he didn’t like you and you’re out here crying 🤦‍♀️⁉️(I did comfort for her though) so yeah, basically in the text, she was just saying how she was mad at us because we were fake and she was mad at us because she never asked us for our help … she said that she was mad at me because I was giving her dirty looks LIKE⁉️ WHAT… The funny thing is that K sits behind D and like every class so if I ever wanna talk to K or look at her, I have to turn back and sometimes I accidentally make i Contact with D and every time I would just slightly turn to look at K … D would quickly look away ( imagine you’re looking at somebody, and then they suddenly look at you and you quickly look away ya…) in the text D told J That if she catches “ do you know who staring again she’s going to tell her something because she doesn’t want problems” exact words 🤦‍♀️ K and me suspect it’s K…. But yeah, nobody likes J she only has like two friends…. Because everybody else dropped her because of what B she is 💀… anyways today we didn’t talk the whole day… but I kept catching D looking at me …. This is where N comes in (she hasn’t said anything by the way, she’s Jay’s other best friend) D HATES HER … but because she’s not talking to our group she’s “lonely” and because J wasn’t here today she was hanging out with N and Js boyfriend 💀 but yeah, funny thing, though is that supposedly she also has beef with J’s boyfriend💀🤣 so yeah, she was delayed the whole day except for recess … I felt so bad before we went to recess because I wanted to talk to her(we went to the library and she was sitting all alone) sometime later, though one of the girls that was at her table, asked her why she wasn’t hanging out with us… AN O M G 🤦‍♀️ girly says that is because we don’t like her WHAT … I told K and we were like what the flip😭 so yeah also I don’t know if I said this, but in the text between D and J they’re talking bad about us, but she (D) is saying that she’s sooo lonely… 😔 HAHAH ya… she’s talking bad about us and saying how she’s so lonely OK 🤦‍♀️⁉️ also she was like I’m not talking bad i’m just saying (something like that …) YA…. It has been a week since that has happened and Maddy didn’t even talk to us on Thursday we didn’t have school on Friday(Good Friday). Today is Sunday (Easter) and she did text me about a game we both like(project like about this one character she wanted to get or whatever) she just texted like nothing happened. I suspect it’s because even though her and. D have something in common. They don’t have everything in common.(like game and music preference (examples) she does a 360 and suddenly were her best friends again like what 😭🫣⁉️ yeah I told my whole group about “the situation” guess what everybody is on our side me and Ks they’re saying how D AND MD are taking it too far and exaggerated and other things but I won’t get into it so yeah it just proves that right but I just sad because I know gonna D He’s going to be tray empty any day now and she’s gonna come back crawling to us …. Sad but what can you do?… also if they want to start anything, I promise I’m gonna end it..… ( last thing K told me that before this whole fight started since her and D live in the same area, they used to go to each other’s houses and D told her that she scared of me funny, huh?) long story short they were still the assholes anyways is now lonely and they just barely go up to her at DNND basically only hang out at recess nothing else and is always lonely and she’s always looking at us making eye contact with us like look away.💀( J still wears a mask! And she does have curtain bangs, but you can still see her staring because of how tiny her pupils are 💀🤦‍♀️)
✨🫶But ya that’s alll HELP I’m sorry if I didn’t make sense I really tried. 😭 any ways thank you for reading 🫶✨ ✨👏#kill them with kindness 👏✨
“Update 1)” they haven’t talked 2 us BUTTT MD had made small talk.. (was where playing a competitive game against another class and (because she’s good and she was playing) she would talk to us … I would make small talk 2 tho BUTTT not like that DONT WORRY 🙏😭 but I would tell her it was her turn (YK … ) and I would SHORTLY respond like “yes” “no” “ya right” “ sure” like that’s nothing long … basically the whole time I was just acting like I didn’t care 😋✌️D and J looked mad tho which made me kind of happy 2 be real 😌 (I think they were mad because MD was talking to us and they wanted to stay petty) (ALSO I also believe they were mad because I was “unbothered”).. OHHH YAAA … karma is a 🏝️😋 (#jojo🫢😳) because they are all sooooo depressed (LITERALLY THO) MD Always sits by herself on her phone D to .. they only walk together, but barely talk.. at recess MD and D (SOMETIMES) sit together (at lunch and recess) but there usually on their phones/barely talk .. J and D hang out a lot to since there “BFFs” but I promise when I tell you that every time we come back from recess, D is always mad at J/ upset … Don’t get me wrong there “happy” … BUT when talk/laugh as soon as they stop talking(or looking at each other) their faces just drop and become so depressed… and lately the eye contact has become too much … K Sits behind D in like most of our classes so whenever I want to talk to her or tell her to look at her phone, I sometimes make contact with D (which OK whatever 🙄) but at this point, I just been looking around and then I just she her, J and MD INTENSELY staring (like 😳)💀 …. so ya that’s all 😚🫶 love yalll .. remember… ✨👏#kill them with kindness 👏✨

I came out to my sister yesterday, and was hoping for a positive reaction, since we are pretty close, and I've always considered her my best friend. Her initial reaction was shock, but she quickly became supportive. I was planning to come out to my ex-wife today, because we have a rare opportunity to talk, and keeping it in is killing me. I need to tell my daughter soon, and her mother needs to know first, with enough time to process it. Tomorrow I was going to say something to a couple of co-workers I work closely with, but not so much that it gives away anything I'm not ready for.
So this morning, as I was preparing myself for the intense and difficult conversation ahead, my sister texted to re-affirm her support. Then she called me a few minutes later, and talked for two hours about how everyone in her life is having some kind of situation, and it's too much, and went on about her new boyfriend, and their relationship, and then talked about her complicated relationship with our Mother, and second-guessed my wanting to tell my daughter, as well as my ability to do so without it having a negative impact on her.
Is everyone going to make this about them? When do I get to live my life? I was having enough trouble facing so many difficult conversations in rapid succession, but now I feel like I can't tell anyone, and telling my sister was a mistake. She's only the third person I've told, and now I'm questioning whether transitioning is something I can handle. I feel sabotaged, hopeless, and alone.
I guess this is just what it's like to be trans, and you can't expect anything from people, but I'm really feeling like I can't trust anyone. My sister's reaction isn't exactly unexpected, but it hurts, and now I'm putting the brakes on everything.
If anyone has any advice or perspective to share, I could really use it right now. I feel like I have nowhere to turn.

Long story short…
We been talking on-and-off (longest off was 3 weeks) since August 2023. I had life issues (health and work related) that delayed us meeting. At some point, when I reached out to him again after off-time in January, we got to talking and I was certain he wasn’t interested in anything with me anymore.
He told me he wanted to start as friends first because he didn’t want to rush into anything because he worked so much and had a lot going on. I tried to be understanding but that statement is widely known as BS so I didn’t want to be naive. He started taking forever to reply even when we talked everyday, I never complained tho. I took that as the best closure I’d get and backed off.
I finally gave up and reactivated my dating profile. Hours later after doing so, he asks me out. I accept. He flakes and explains in detail how work got hectic, promised to make it up to me and did. First meeting he was sweet and seemed almost scared to touch me. But it ended well, him saying we should do it more often and whatnot.
We continued talking for another 3 weeks. Sharing details about each others lives, names of his coworkers, an injury he got and flirtatiously asking me to kiss it better lol. However, no indication of asking me out, so I asked him out on the second date. Second outing went well and I gave him a kiss on the cheek at the end. He texted saying he would’ve rather I kissed him on the lips but he didn’t want to cross a “boundary”. Kinda confused me because honestly we didn’t have that conversation about what we’re doing and I am not the type to let a guy use me while he figures out what he wants. I just knew the last conversation we had after I confessed feelings for him (before we met inrl) that he said he wanted to start as friends and get to know me more.
Another few weeks pass and we’re talking talking talking over text and voice notes.. we end up flirting R-ratedly which causes him to ask since I’ve never been in a relationship, if I am a virgin. We have a serious convo (more so me speaking) about how I won’t do it until me and the person I do it with has a genuine connection and how I’d prefer it be with someone I have gotten to know and be close enough with to be boyfriend and girlfriend. I also didn’t give a yes or no answer to “you want a relationship first?” Because I don’t wanna give answers to a test and ultimately lead myself into a situation with someone playing the long game. So I said it feels like manipulation to give a yes or no answer to that, and just see it as I will do what I want when I’m ready. He said he respects it multiple times and understands where I’m coming from and he was just being “nosy”.
As I expected, he backs off a little in response times. I randomly run a test and find out he takes the bait in talking to other girls on the dating app. As a stranger, I get a clarification of his intentions, which is that he is open to something serious if he and the person feel mutual. However that he hasn’t made any promises or commitments to the women he is speaking to and that if he doesn’t feel it, he will ghost them.
Immediately I try to work on detaching emotionally but failed miserably as I took some space and ignored him for a full day. I deleted the “stranger” after I got my answer. He triple texted me later on, asking some random ass question so I just entertained it and we started talking in normal response times again. Probably because the “stranger” disappeared on him.
Eventually, I decided after asking for advice that I need to meet him in person and try to have a serious conversation about US so I can move on or not, so there I was asking him out on a 3rd outing. However, we had been talking virtually for months but only met 2 times, the 2nd and 3rd being times I initiated and him agreeing. He stepped up to help plan and suggested things of course. And we’re going to meet sometime during the week for it.
I know texting isn’t real connection / intimacy, so I am almost certain he feels nothing for me. But the constant flirting after asking him out, and then recently having him tell me he enjoys being around me and that I have good energy, it flatters me and confuses me and I need to calm this overthinking! Don’t get me wrong I enjoy being around him too but I’m almost always in a state of fear that he doesn’t mean what he says to me.
My friends tell me to remember to just have fun and don’t overthink it. Others tell me to put my foot down and set boundaries if he happens to still want to kiss me on the date.
What would you do? Male or female. I’m not asking to hold my hand, just a different perspective to help clear my mind before that. Ask questions if you’re confused or need clarification.

So, I have a theory that we're basically experiencing the Book of Revelation right now because someone in particular was awarded a "Prince of Peace" Menorah in Israel:
https://twitter.com/AK_Truckngal/status/1779220428046967293?t=CofKErTXLfTOr1srWRaf7w&s=19
It also quotes Isaiah 9:6 - "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
It's the same guy that announced that the "seal" is broken, a few months ago, almost like he was announcing himself as being the Antichrist:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CtaKes0v6F7/
Lastly, if you subtract the date on which the Abraham Accords were first signed, from the date on which they were commemorated at Mar-A-Lago - by the Israel Heritage Foundation - you get 1260 days (i.e., a foreshadowing to the Antichrist breaking the Covenant with Many, after 1260 days).
I could probably write an entire book over how he's the AC, just as Albert Pike wrote that a war between Zionists and "Moslems" would precede introducing the True Doctrine of Lucifer (I e., Mark of the Beast):
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/letter-written-by-albert-pike-in-1871-reveals-the-illuminati-plan-for-world-war-3/
That all being said, anyone who has read the Old Testament knows that it's riddled with child sacrifice to Yahweh - such as when Abraham had to create an altar to YHWH to sacrifice Isaac.
Anyone who has researched beyond the Old Testament knows that YHWH is basically Anu from the Sumerian Pantheon, which could warrant its own post:
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.1*#
https://archive.org/details/sumeriantabletsf00bedauoft/page/xiii/mode/1up
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEF46697CFC133577&si=gMzC8ohtme-qNhyN
Upon learning that giants apparently were real, as well: https://yandex.com/images/touch/search?source=tabbar&text=Giants%20archeology ....
....you eventually conclude that what we were told about our history is missing a few pieces, and perhaps we should be taking the Sumerian Tablets more seriously.
Anyway, yeah, I'm pretty sure that YHWH is a Reptilian - or Reptilian ally (in the event that Anunnaki and Reptilians aren't the same entities) - and I'm wondering if anyone has any info about them orchestrating the Book of Revelation?
I currently theorize that, obviously, the Reptilians are very real. And I theorize that the war over Gaza marks the beginning of their ending the world as we know it. However, YHWH is evil beyond comprehension, as far as I'm concerned, and Jesus doesn't always help his case very much: https://www.biblestudytools.com/mark/7-10.html#:~:text=Mark%207%3A10%20in%20Other%20Translations&text=10%20For%20Moses%20said%2C%20'Honor%20your%20father%20and%20your%20mother,' (Jesus is upset with the Pharisees for not stoning children.)
So, is it possible that the fucking Reptilians are behind the Abrahamic religions and are using them to sow discord? Because if we just take the Book of Revelation at face value, Jesus would be going to the Seven Churches and condemning some of them.
There are only three groups of Christianity, for the most part, not 7: Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical. Moreover, the Lake of Fire that he'd be throwing people into is essentially Hades.
He's throwing Churches into Hades for being Paganized, in some instances, yet Hades itself is Pagan (from Ancient Greek mythology). So, I simultaneously think that we're nearing the end of the world - but the deities who are ending it aren't even ending it by the book.

Do you guys remember when Kyra stated that she gets worried/doesn’t like when the kids go to Oscars because he was the “fun” parent and she was the one that had to make sure things got done and had to be the one to discipline them.
I was thinking earlier today that Oscar maybe the fun parent but he also disciplines the kids. When the kids are at Oscars you see the healthy, homemade meals, the fun activities (that involve all the kids) the kids are dressed in clothes that fit and go together, their hair is taken care of and not just tossed in a messy ponytail.
But they go out and do activities all together and actually leave the house outside of school and sports. Plus Oscar doesn’t complain about the kids at all.
Kyra makes gross food or weird combinations that are not healthy, the kids look like they are wearing random clothes that are too small, the girls hair is never put together, Kyra complains about the kids and makes fun of them, she doesn’t take them places unless they have to be there. She doesn’t listen to the kids and their wants.
Maybe she is actually worried that their kids will want to be with Oscar because he actually listens and provides them with love and care that they like. Plus they get to have fun and be kids there.
I also just remember when they use to vlog that Oscar would discipline the kids but he did it gently and not like Kyra who would raise her voice at them. I mean he was also the parent that spent the most time with them so Kyra could sleep in, go on trips, spend time with her friends and run a business to the ground. I still remember watching their vlogs and seeing her sitting on the couch on her phone while Oscar was on the floor playing with the kids I use to always think that he was a very involved dad and that she was lucky to have a boyfriend that was a really good dad so she could “take breaks from the kids” but now I think she just didn’t like playing with her kids.

Unauthorized HVAC Repair
Ok...asked for a quote and second opinion from HVAC company for my daughter's house. Young guy comes out and says, "You want a 2nd opinion and quote." I said yes. Quote from first company was $700. I returned 3 hours later and kid hands me a bill for $2900. The AC unit is 26 years old and no one authorized those repairs. The original quote was replacement of the fan motor. This kid shotgunned the unit and replaced a bunch of parts before he apparently got it to work when he replaced the fan motor. He also put 3lbs of freon in the unit at a cost of $875 which was included in the $2900. Reputable company not giving any ground on the money. We offered to pay half the repair bill. What should I and my daughter do? Tell the company to take us to small claims court?
I did sign the invoice with the notation " under duress" as I was angered, bewildered and shocked by the invoice.
Should I just tell the company to sue?
UPDATE: I just read the invoice again. The tech wrote that system still had a leak after he charged $875 for freon. I'm really pissed now.

Me (32m) and my partner (35f) have been together for 7 months. We’ve had our ups and downs within the relationship but only recently have I found a man call her claiming that they’ve been together for 5 years!
When I addressed this to her. She told me that they were dating years before but complications happened between them, I asked her why he’s still in her life and she claimed that she only used him for the benefit that he’s got money. He would pay for her rent etc. she told me that she found some sort of financial stability with this man. He’s also told me that they haven’t slept with each other or anything like that. He would just go to her house, she would go to his and they would also go out to eat at restaurants. All this behind my back and for the door purpose of collecting money off of him. He’s admitted to giving her money and paying for her essentials.
She’s told me that he’s blocked her and he even told me that he’s not going near her again. When I confronted her. She told him that I’m her boyfriend and that she’s serious with me whiles he was on the call. There was also an occasion where she put a picture of the both of us on her display picture and he asked her who is that. She responded that I was only a friend. She told me that she had to say that otherwise he would stop giving her money.
I’m in such a complicated situation right now. And I don’t really have anyone to talk to. She’s told me she would fix things between us but nothing seems to be happening. She tries to say that I’m emotionally terrorising her because I’m asking for her whereabouts as I’ve lost trust in her. She laughs when I talk about my feelings and when I tell her that I feel disrespected she just ignored me and brushes it off. I really did see something in us and I’m just stuck.

I have been hopelessly in love with my best friend for 6 years. (Took me a few to realize it) We’ve always been pretty close intimately yet neither of us ever addressed it. She’s in the closet and bisexual and I’ve been out for a few years as an Ace Lesbian. I really struggle making close connections with people which I think is part of the reason I fell so hard. And when I say intimate we would kiss eachother with a hand between our lips jokingly; she has kissed me on the cheek on numerous occasions with the goal of leaving a lipstick mark; we hold hands and link arms everywhere; we share beds, chairs, food, drinks, literally everything; she lets me hug her (I’m very clingy) and enjoys it even though she dislikes physical touch and has told me I’m one of the only people she likes hugs from; we’ve made a pact to get married when we’re 35 if we are both single (we’re both younger); we tell each other almost everything. About 6 months ago I told a lot of my friends how I felt about her and I felt like suddenly we got a lot closer and more intimate then normal and neither of us said anything still. I thought she for sure knew and I was waiting for the courage to say something. Our school allows us to send flowers on Valentine’s Day so I sent her an anonymous flower that said “I’m in love with you” as well as another one with my name and a silly message. (In hindsight probably an aggressive thing to send anonymously but I’m very bad with social cues) On the day we received them, she didn’t message me anything like I expected her to. Not even a “look at the flower I got”. I feel like since then the dynamic has shifted. About a month or two ago my other friend seemed really reluctant to tell me something and I finally asked enough and they told me they joked about us dating and she said “well she’s a really good friend…” I’ve been utterly heartbroken and trying to play it off since then. I know it’s very irrational to say this but I just feel sort of unlovable? I’ve never dated anyone or even had my first kiss. I feel like I’ve got a lot of complications with every aspect of my life. I’m a plus sized, neurodivergent, genderqueer-ace lesbian with a pretty bad immune system. I’m clingy, insecure with my personality, and overall I need a lot of reassurance. I’m worried that it’s impossible for someone to want me. I’m a very empathetic emotional person so I tend to love with all my heart and it just hurts to put in all that energy to not even feel cared for platonically anymore. She’s been distant with no good explanation, it’s unusual for her so I’ve been especially worried about her. I wrote her a letter saying how much I cared about her and how I’m here for her and she didn’t every respond. I feel like I’m the problem. Thanks if you read all of this but I really wrote it all to ask if anyone’s every felt like this and found someone who helped them feel differently. I want to be optimist about my future but it’s rather hard. :/ ❤️

Company A has hire me on Contract to hire C2H role for Company B.
My payroll company is Company A.
Now I have put down my papers 10 days back in Company A. Till now I have not received my LWD (last working day) from Company A. They are saying it is dependent on Company B.
Now only 5 days left in notice peri2d under Company A.
As per offer letter of Company A it is mentioned that notice is of 15 days, no where it is mentioned that LWD is dependent on Company B and until LWD is provided by Company B, they can't release me.
Now I will relocate to a different city and join a new company called Company C on 6th May.
Please share ideas on what can an employee do in this situation.
As proof I have

1. Offer letter from Company A.
2. Payslips from Company A
3. EPFO statement that PF was deposited every month from Company A.
4. EPFO service history where it lists from the date I have started working in Company A
5. Bank statement where salary credited from Company A mentioned
6. Resignation email and HR's reply to it agreeing that notice period is of 15 days.
7. Entire email chain where I have asked for LWD since Day 1 of notice period and the response I received waiting for LWD from Company B
8. Photo of Id card from Company A and Company B.

As proof I have already submitted Offer letter and salary slips to Company C for BGV.
Now how can they lie in BGV saying I didn't wotk? I have proof of employment and secondly they might say he didn't serve notice period or absconded, that also I can contest with the resignation email and email chain that I have served notice period of 15 days.
Hopefully Company C can understand I have not lied and also served full notice period but it's Company A who is doing a fraud and a scam.
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