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Just needed a place to ask why my best friend (ex-best friend now) hates me so bad.
My best friend and I met each other when we were in high school and have been best friends for almost 10 years. She started to ignore my texts starting 1 year ago and when I asked her to go out she always said "I'm busy. No time to go out." I didn't want to lose my friendship with her so I texted her regularly asking how she had been or just sharing about myself.
Today, I just texted her again about something that happened in my life, and replied to me "I don't care" and unfollowed/blocked me from social media that we were connected. I was just confused and shocked as to why she started to act so rude to me and decided to cut me off.
I always celebrate her birthday, give her a present, and go to the parties she invites me to. I always showed how much I love her and how important in my life she is and she was always tells me that she cares about me too. I just don't know why she started to hate me and decided to cut me off. I know there is some reason but I cannot even think.
If you had the same experience as me, please feel free to share about it and give me some advice on why she started to act like that.
Thank you for reading my post and have a nice day yall!

Hello. This is gonna be a long one but if you can offer any advice for my family please do. My Uncle is trying to take the house that my Grandmother helped pay for and lives at. It’s really all she has.
I’m a Nineteen year old female and my grandfather passed somewhat unexpectedly from lung cancer when he was in his 60’s. He hadn’t drawn out a will yet. Back in 2012 my great grandmother passed and she willed her house to her 3 sons and my grandfather bought his two brothers out of the house. The living situation with that side of the family had always been very weird. When he was alive, my uncle lived at the house and paid rent to him. My Grandfather also owned a business and my Uncle worked there. When we found out my Grandfather had cancer, my Uncle started taking care of the business for him. By the time we found out the cancer had spread to his brain so he couldn’t make clear decisions and neither could any of my adult family. No one ever mentioned a will. We were all focused on taking care of him.
Then when he passed, my Uncle just took over the business and continued to live at my Grandfather’s house. My Granny has always been mentally unstable (I don’t mean to sound rude) but she has never been able to make clear decisions and now that my Grandfather has passed he’s not there to stand up for her. From what I know, my Uncle started begging my Granny to put the house in his name for whatever reason. I was against this but being a middle schooler I wasn’t allowed to say anything and my parents didn’t say anything either.
When the time came to pay taxes on the house, no one did. My mom got a call saying the house was still in my Grandfather’s name and someone could be in trouble. Somehow the taxes got paid on the house and no one got into trouble but the house to this day is in my Grandfather’s name.
Flash forward to now, my Uncle is 40 with a wife and a 3 year old child living in the house along side my Granny who they treat like trash. I think they want to take the house and put her in a nursing home. As for the business, it closed this year. My Uncle does not pay rent to my Granny and she pays all the bills and the taxes as far as I know. He did pay the taxes a few times that I know of and uses that to say he has claim to take the house. My Granny doesn’t have the mental capacity to fight against or even really know where to start sorting out ownership of the house. She also can’t drive. No one is doing anything because they want to have a relationship with my baby cousin and my Uncle and Aunt. But I fear that this really needs to be sorted out soon because I don’t think it’s legal to have the house in a dead person’s name. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)
I’m pretty sure in my state (Georgia) if there is no will all property gets split 50% to my granny then split evenly between the kids in the other 50%. How can I help my Granny get full ownership of the house and what steps do I help her take? I hate seeing her be used like this especially since this man has been living with my grandmother non-stop for 40 years and he hasn’t been paying rent for 6. He thinks he deserves everything my Grandfather owned. He has no intention of moving out or paying anyone for anything. The house is worth 300,000 on zillow btw but that’s probably a bit off since it’s a very old house built in like the 60’s I think.
I know for a fact my Grandfather is rolling in his grave and is ashamed of this crap. There is so much more to this fuckery that isn’t worth putting in this post.
Oh and I don’t know if this is worth saying but I’m the oldest grandchild and me and my sibling are the only adult grand children. But we were 13 and 12 at the time of his passing. He now has 6 grandchildren.
I will appreciate any advice or knowledge anyone can share with me as I am young and still need to do more research and get a plan on how to go about this.
Edit: I can’t edit the title but I meant HIS name. So sorry. It was midnight when I published this. I reread the post but somehow skipped over that till posting.
Also, I did check again online, the house is 100% in my Grandfather’s name.

The community has progressively gotten more toxic and toxic over time. Today was the worst experience i've had in game. I was minding my own business, someone told me to ''gtfo my way dumb*ss''. I asked them why they're being so rude and they replied with threats and death threats. This happened on EU server.
Decided to switch to USA server. Minding my own business, doing mercenary missions, accidental friendly fire, decided to go to prison instead. Went down to the mines but never past the no-comm-array zone. Got strangled to death, ''Get f*cked b*tch'' said the guy.
Switched to EU server again. Go down to mines, never past no-comm-array zone. Strangled to death, get called a slur.
This all happened in within 1 hour. All in voice.
I love this game, but the toxic community just kills the fun for me. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, who knows. I can't be the only one, right?

I’m want to make something abundantly clear: most of the people in this Reddit are rational and clear headed when making statements or challenging other viewpoints so this post isn’t directed at or criticizing you. This post is meant for the types that have an attacking mindset when dealing with religious people; you know who you are. The number of these types of people are in the minority when it comes to comment sections, posts and even in real life but it’s very disturbing to see these people claim that they have a rational mindset and then berate and disrespect religious people. I agree that religious people need to start evaluating empirical evidence when making decisions and that a lot of their religious views are irrational but that does not mean you can just be disrespectful or rude towards them. I understand that you have a right to free speech and how you talk with people is your business, I’m not opposing that. But what I am saying is that most atheists and humanists like me want people to make rational decisions devoid of religious beliefs but when you act extremely mean towards the people we oppose while carrying the title of atheist, it makes it way more difficult for us to get through to them. I’m making this post as a form of constructive criticism to help these people I’m talking about choose a better way to deal with religious people so that we can move towards a society that values science, critical thinking and respectful discourse. Here’s a few ways why your attitude harms atheism and other related movements and what alternative way can work better:

1. Your form of debating religious people doesn’t work. Plain and simple. Most of the Reddit and rational human beings on this planet would agree with me that being disrespectful, rude and down bullying people who disagree with you is an extremely ineffective tactic that accomplishes nothing except making the opposition bolster their views since they now view you as nothing more than irrational and mean. A better to way would be to have a clear mind, respectful attitude while having the ability to listen to the other side so that they feel more comfortable conversing with you. Not to mention the fact that there very unique circumstances in each case that led to a person to hold those religious views, so it doesn’t make sense to act mean towards them. Here’s a video that gives an idea of what in talking about:

https://youtu.be/AvMNaDDfrN0?si=TqdifO9Otcu8XYaR

1. Your attitude acts as a tool for their religion to use for their influence. Christian’s, Islamists and many other religions use persecution and disrespect as fuel. They think of themselves as martyrs taking the beatings and insults in the name of their god which brings them sympathy. When you disrespect them, attack them or do anything to harm them, they subconsciously imagine themselves like Jesus or their hero being persecuted. Stop giving them that dynamic. Be kind, and have a loving attitude so that they will be much more likely to listen to and consider what you have to say.
   
2. You end up hurting the rest of atheists. This is pretty self explanatory. Every time you make a bad impression towards a religious person, you make the rest of us look bad and make it a lot harder to change their views since they will see us as mean or arrogant.
   

Ultimately how you conduct yourselves is up to you. But please think hard on what effect your actions have. There’s no need to hate the people we oppose. Like us they are human being as well. Treat people kindly, respect their views, listen to them and use rational arguments and empirical evidence to push them towards a better way of thinking. For anyone who wants to call me a tone troll for this, just a bit of truth: tone troll is a word for those who won’t put up with your tribalism. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Not only they are all RUDE!! they do the bare minimum to help everyone, their update times are long, their whole staff is horrible!! they treat everyone bad, with short and lame answers, they actually think we are slaves, and we need to beg for their mercy, when we as customers are the ones bringing life to the business. And because of us they have a job!!!
I had 3 LIFETIME KEYS for WZ3, and ended up getting banned for speaking out the TRUTH!!! They decided to discontinue the product. I paid $255 for each of the keys. When I created a ticket for the 2nd time asking what they were going to do about it for those customers who got those Lifetime subscriptions, they just closed my ticket without any response at all.
After that I sent a very serious message back by opening another ticket, demanding an answer for my paid subs. Them LOSERS/DORKS Banned me from their site leaving me with 3 unused LIFETIME subscriptions. The only weapon they can use against real men, only to show how coward and pussies they are hiding behind a computer!! I probably spent over $1000.00 on their site in under a year, and because I spoke the TRUTH!! You they banned me, this is NOT NAZY GERMANY!! You fuking Tyrant DORKS!!
You give a squirrel a button to kill foxes, and they are just going to keep pressing the button. LOL!! So pathetic. I am long GONE from ever doing any business with any of them. There are plenty of other BETTER providers out there who DO know how to treat customers. They are going to go out of business soon! I promise you! GUYS DONT BUY FROM THEM!!. Search up other providers, they are way better!!

My last drink was an entire bottle of wine (and probably more) on Valentine's Day. I quit February 15th, 2024. It's been 90 days since then. Here's the changes I've noticed:

• No more hangovers
• Better sleep. SO much better.
• I'm suddenly a morning person. Weekend mornings are simply my favorite time of the week now.
• Friday, Saturday, Sunday afternoons are very tough
• Thought I had IBS, apparently not
• No more worrying about moderating
• No more hiding drinks (taking bottles of wine to the trash room daily) before people come over
• My eyes have lost their dark circles
• My runs are better, but not as good as I thought they'd be.
• I feel incredibly bored all the time.
• My cooking is on point. I'm eating much healthier and doing less takeout.
• No weight loss yet, probably because I've been craving food more.
• Kombucha, spindrift, Coke zero
• Decided to quit weed as well a couple weeks back, wasn't doing me any favors.
• Less grouchy and rude at work
• I feel much more sharp and alert
• Bad sweat smell in the mornings is gone
• Savings of $500 or so monthly (booze, restaurants, ubers)
• House is cleaner than ever
• I still think about alcohol a lot. Not necessarily always cravings, but I notice it EVERYWHERE
• Mocktails and NA Beers are good, but just one or two.
• Don't think AA is for me
• I'm definitely an introvert. I used to go out all the time. Now I'm a homebody.
• I'm spending more time with people I care about vs people I don't (just to drink)
• I'm pretty focused on the day to day right now. I don't have the energy to think about the future given this large change.
• This subreddit has been awesome in my recovery - reading your stories daily helps a ton.
• It's been 90 days, but it feels much longer.
• ran my first half marathon

I have a business trip coming up, usually I'd bring drink the entire time. I'm nervous I might slip up.
IWNDWYT

So about a month or two ago I was at a fast food restaurant, on my own, that I stopped by. Soon as I was sitting at the table I saw a guy, Jacob in the distance that was or about to sit at another table.
Anyway, he seemed nice and attractive. So I checked him out left and right lol. Then went about my business. He then got up and came around me at which point we started talking. Next thing you know he sat with me, though still gave me a little space. Great move on his part! Til a little later that I invited him to sit closer, I offered him to eat with me. Because he wasn't eating anything at the time and I tend to offer others if I'm eating something, I feel it's kinda rude not to. Though despite my best efforts lol he said no. So I offered him a hot sauce to take.
We chatted a little though we just didn't quite click, which I'd think was more on my part. We had a language barrier too, so that wasn't helping! He speaks a language that I doubt I know a word in and I'm not really interested in learning, which didn't allow for much bonding over it either. I also found out he 99.99 to the power of 10 multiplied by 842567 lied about something... anyway!
I'm glad we got to talk, the connection just didn't lead to a contact exchange. We parted ways and then about 2 months later I ran into him on the bus. This is where things get nuts!
I was on it first and didn't see him until it was like too late. When he boarded the bus, I was checking out a guy, who seemed quite my type, outside the bus who was also breaking his neck looking at who knows what!
Then the moment I turned back from him I saw Jacob. Not only was I surprised to see him, though I'm almost certain he was there long enough to watch me going boy crazy over the other guy and smiling away like nobody's business. Not that I owe him anything, and I'm free to exercise my singledom. Though that was still funny and made me feel caught red handed! I think I kept it together, though I was freaking out for a little while at what just happened. 😂 😭

AITA: Family
My husband has been away from home for almost 2 weeks working in the city he is from (6hrs away).
He has 7 siblings (all over 50 so we aren’t taking young families). When he called his family a month ago to say that he was coming into town and would like to see everybody his family members all offered to have him stay with them and told him it would be silly to get a hotel. Therefore, we didn’t book a hotel.
He planned to do a rotation of about two nights at a few sibling’s homes.
My husband is a recovering alcoholic and they are all well aware of that. He has had some serious health concerns due to his previous drinking so it is crucial that he remains sober. He has been attending AA while out of town and doing well. It is literally life and death for him.
He arrived on a Thursday and on Friday night the sister that he was staying with planned to get together barbecue at her home. Everyone was drinking to the point of drunkenness and it made my husband uncomfortable so he went up to bed after a few hours. He did not expect them to not drink in front of him but enough is enough after a while.
After that, his family decided that that was so incredibly rude of him and said that they wouldn’t be changing their lifestyle to accommodate him. After he finished two nights at that sister‘s home (morning after the bbq) all of the other family members said that they didn’t feel comfortable with him staying with them. We’ve spent about $3000 in hotel rooms thus far.
My husband owns his own business so it is not like he can apply for corporate lodging reimbursement.
ONE sister called (who was out of town at the time) me at work and when I couldn’t answer texted me I needed to call her ASAP and scared me half to death until my staff meeting was over. Turns out she was mad my husband went to bed after a few hours (like 9pm) even though she was not there to even witness it.
Once I returned her call and realized that it was not an emergency. My blood began to boil. I told her how rude and inconsiderate. Their family wants to sit around and drink bottles and bottles of wine at an event that was supposed to be celebrating a visit from their brother who lives out of town and only visits once or twice per year.
I also said that it was a really asshole move for everyone to say that he made them uncomfortable and they no longer wanted him to stay at their house. I said I’m sorry that my husband sobriety cramps everyone’s wine drinking, beer chugging style.
Having been a part of this family for a number of years I know that every event in the family involves drinking to the point of drunkenness, this was not just a once in a while, Friday night barbecue kind of a thing.
Needless to say they think IATA for calling out their ridiculous behavior toward their own brother. Prior to this trip nothing was wrong and he talked to each of them about once per week and there is a sibling group text.

A sibling that I have never had a close relationship with tried calling me but it was just showing up as missed call because of my service area. I was working an important, time sensitive job in a service area with very little phone service. I walked around until I had enough service to text and ask what was up because we never ever spoke. They said something happened and that I should call when I could. I managed to text back asking them to just text me because I wouldn't be in a service area to call for hours. I knew of an estranged family member that had been ill and assumed they had passed but I was worried that it might be one of my parents instead and started panicking. I texted my wife and asked her to call and ask what was wrong. They flipped out on my wife of 15 years saying that she had no business calling and that it would be better for me to hear it from them instead of her. The news was indeed that the estranged family member had passed. She gave my sibling her condolences and texted me with the news. My sibling was so rude to my wife she feels like she did something wrong by calling for me but I wouldn't have been able to focus with my mind racing to the worst possible scenarios of what could have happened. I would find more comfort in any method of communication from my wife than I would a call from an estranged sibling that I don't like. Was I wrong to have my wife call instead of waiting hours to call them back?

I wanted to share something positive and wholesome that recently happened to me. I have a friend who has been very patient and gracious with me, despite the fact that I was being anti-social, pushing them away and being overly cautious. They still reached out, invited me and made the effort to build community together because of their inner value I also felt valued. You see in a city where needing money rules nearly everything, I believe it is easy to get lost and distracted from your inner value. As I reflected on the past year, I caught myself being hurt from past experiences and not letting it go and projecting it onto the present day. I was so cautious and afraid of being hurt I became critical and jaded, just assuming the worst in people and therefore not valuing others and also starting to devalue myself. This is a real problem I believe a lot of us are experiencing.
The way this friend had continued to persue a genuine friendship and look out for me really changed my view and I realized the power of personal value and making decisions that come from within, and being a faithful and trustworthy person. I knew deep down this is not me to be this depressed, and closed off from the world… and only thinking about money and work… the more I was protecting myself from getting hurt, I realized I hadn’t processed the pain of being lonely post-pandemic and only able to get social interactions except at work. My friend really proved to me the value of staying there beside your friends and caring about their well-being even if it looks like you have it all together.
I want to encourage someone who is fighting the good fight of balancing life-work-family while healing and trying to be different than the norm. I wanna say thank you to those who do things for others that don’t have a monetary value attached.
For a long time people have said B.C. Bring Cash, and while that may be true, while I live here I’m going to be committed to building community. Building community is different than just doing activities with safe people that you know. It is the little things that go a long way. And having recently been working on forgiving and forgetting bad experiences I’ve had in Kelowna I’m realizing the part I played in it as well.
The reason I’m posting this is because everyday I see people who look depressed, worn out, tired and lonely. Walking… on the bus… in their cars even. I wonder who is reading these posts and wanted to shine some light on the subject of not giving up on ourselves, and taking each day as a new day and a new experience.
Yes, there is a Bring Cash culture here, there is a class war declared on the middle and lower class, there is an attitude of not needing anyone and wanting to be left alone… but I also see a lot of people who are very kind, and not cliquey or rude. I would say the majority of people I encountered are like that. And maybe I had missed it because of a few bad experiences and bad apples.
I really believe we have a community in Kelowna and this is as good a place to heal, as it is to do business. And taking responsibility for your own healing and paying it forward is part of the process.
Anyone who is building community over just bringing cash, I salute you and you are one of the heroes of this community. Keeping hope alive and building bridges of love and selflessly giving rather than simply taking.
Don’t lose hope on the potential within you to be the change you want to see in the world and in your day to day life. Thank you!

we understand you’re frustrated and from the outside looking in we don’t look busy, but please believe me we are EXTREMELY BUSY. half of us are running on stress and energy drinks. most of us are busting ass in a dept that’s not even our hiring dept and busting ass from being shorthanded. STOP BEING RUDE TO WORKERS. no one wants to even deal with you after you’ve been rude, just take it to management if it’s that big of a deal. from customer to customer and worker to worker (because i am a customer when im not working) please have some patience and respect ESPECIALLY when you have no clue what we have done all day. it makes our job a hell of a lot harder.

Hi there, looking for some insight. Might not act on any of it but interested to hear from others who have maybe gone thru similar situations. It's pretty long, a little confusing but if u stick around that'd be great.
A few months back my friend group broke up. I think I was the only one who 'officially' broke up but I was kind of the glue that held it together in a lot of ways. For context were an all girl group that were childhood friends (now we are in are early 20s 23-24 f). I wanted to provide more context but I'm worried it will get too specific, so if someone wants more context I'll answer in the replies. Last summer I started distancing myself from 2 of the girls in the group (Let's call them A & B). Although they were once like sisters, I started seeing more of the actions they were doing and didn't agree with them so I started slowly distancing myself so I could have time to think. Some examples of things they were doing was purposefully excluding the other 2 girls in the group (C & D), B especially kept making super back handed comments about one of the other girls (girl D, who was honestly my day 1 we went wayyy back and she's the sweetest most giving, kind, respectful person), A & B would make really condescending remarks to the rest of us regarding our goals, schooling, relationships etc. etc etc..... the list goes on. And honestly I had to come to terms with the fact that I was contributing to this by not properly standing up for C & D when I was with A&B and they were saying shady shit.. I would make remarks like 'lets invite C & D' and I wouldn't ever contribute to the stuff they were saying BUT looking back, the fact that I wasn't clearly putting a stop to it and calling them out.... I was part of the problem. THIS is one of the reasons I started distancing myself because I realized I wasnt being the woman I wanted to be, I was acting on some childish BS and I loved/respected C & D wayyyy too much to contribute to that stuff.
Anyways, fast forward a bit and I was talking with D about what was going on, and I opened up to her and apologized for everything. She also shared how she had been feeling about A & B for a long time but didn't want to say anything. So we had a really good, important long talk about our friendship and it was really healthy. After that conversation I realized wow I cannot continue to associate with A & B because clearly they're making my OG Best friend (who has been by my side forever) feel like garbage.
So fast forward a few months and I haven't really been talking at all to A & B. The 'distancing' worked because I was always the main person suggesting to hangout and checking in with everyone about what's new, how've you been, etc. and so once i stopped putting in the effort it quickly started fizzling. They hmu maybe 2 or 3 times over a few months but I was also INCREDIBLY busy finishing my uni degree & had 2 jobs, so I had valid excuses that helped me politely decline the invites.
FAST FORWARD ANOTHER FEW MONTHS I finally get to meet with friend C. She was also very busy and it was tougher to plan meet ups but we met up for coffee, and low and behold A & B have been talking shit about me behind my back. We shared what's been happening, because similar to with D I apologized for not checking in more, and for not being a good friend or sticking up for her and C more etc etc. AGAIn it was a very cathartic, loving, healthy conversation where we both got a lot of clarity. She similarly shared BS about how she had been feeling, and also about shit that went down between her and A&B before....we spent a few hours connecting the dots about stories/stretched truths A&B had been telling both of us about each other. So it was honestly much needed. Since then me, c & D have all gotten together and had a wonderful time together because there was no weird vibes of shady competitive side-eyeing behavior. Just love.
ANYWAYS some more stuff came to light, time moved on, the holidays passed. And I decided I was gonna remove A&B from my socials. I found out they (before my hangout with C) had been telling C all these lies about me, and making it seem like I was suicdl, like my relationship was falling apart, like I was depressed etc. and so they were telling C to 'let them know if she got any info' ON ME?! like they wanted the tea about my life?? When meanwhile I'm over here perfectly content, just very busy on the grind, but overall very happy and healthy. And instead of them being 'friends' and hmu to ask how I'm doing, they were just lying to C making it seem as if they'd been trying to contact me and I was 'going through it' or something? So I removed them from my socials, I never confronted them. Which looking back now that it's been almost half a year, I wish I did confront them properly and just lay it all out there. But i was too concerned about 'making it a thing's because C & D are also very non-confrontational that I was worried if I told A & B about why I'm not interested in being their friends anymore that they might drag C & D in and make their lives more stressful.
After i removed them (I didn't block them, I didn't delete their numbers, I just didn't want them seeing me post photos of my life on Instagram because I thought they don't deserve to 'spy' on me).
B never hit me up, but C called me almost immediately after i removed B from my socials saying that B texted her asking why I removed her... At which point C told her to just ask me herself? Because why TF would she do that - especially because she framed it from a POV of 'Is she okay? Is something happening with her' so likeeee girl if u really gaf why wouldn't u just ask me urself? Friend A hmu that evening with this big text message just essentially gaslighting me saying that I owed her an explanation and that I owed her communication etc. I can see her point now TO AN EXTENT however if she was sitting back thinking I'm depressed and wanting to self harm and that's why I haven't been communicating, you would think her reaction would be to check in and ask what's happening instead of immediately becoming defensive. I kept the reply short and tried to be as 'kind' as I had the capacity for. Let her know I appreciated the time together but that the relationship wasn't what I needed anymore to be the best version of myself. She never answered again.
This was very long - but idk I've had some dreams where friend A was in them and we reconciled and so when I wake up it brings back old emotions/memories. The real issues were mostly centered around B being rude and toxic and unaware of how her actions were impacting people. Whereas A was just a long for the ride. HOWEVER I've talked w my mom even about this, and she pointed out the A hadn't been there for me the way I was for her. I dropped everything when she was going thru rough times, would drive to her house whenever she needed me, supported her through rlly dark times. Whereas when shit hit the fan for me when we were young she was there, but once we were adults, she became really condescending and self absorbed. I think maybe I'm still holding on to the young version of our friendship and those good times?
I've been thinking about reaching out to A to apologize for how I left things and let her know if she wants to talk about it we can. I realize from her POV the hard stop/cold shoulder was probably rough, But I'm also conflicted because of the shitty things she had done to me, and I was operating with all the capacity I could at the time while trying to protect my peace as much as possible (my friendship with A wasn't as long as with D, however it was still about a decade long). I've definitely grown a lot, I'm sure she has too, but idk.... She's probably gotten wayyy closer with B since the friend group fell apart, and given her response when I unfollowed heremoved her from my IG following, I feel like it might go badly?.... Should I hit up A and open the door for possible to communication? Or should i just work to heal and move on from the friendship breakup?... Part of me misses times with B however there was so much pain & toxicity I could never go back into that, especially because of how she treated C & D, whereas A was more just there letting it all happen and going along with it.
If u stuck around thru the confusion of reading this and can share any thoughts/insight that'd be great. Thank you!

This happened many years ago when my now grown kids were 5 and 6 years old. I had a very old but reliable van. The problem is while my van had ac it didn't have it in the back. Since it was summer, hotter than hell and humid being Florida and I had a full day of errands, I put an old cooler in the van. My first stop was the CVS store where I bought 2 bags of ice, a 24 bottle water pack, bottles of juice and because my kids spotted it at the same time I did, 3 tumblers that resembled large soda cans but with different pictures on them. One had a beach scene, another an ocean theme and mine had a lighthouse. I like it so much and it was for sale a buy one get one for free. So I also got one for my mom her's had a lovely garden.
Anyways my boys wanted to hold their "cans". And thats where we encountered a Karen. As were headed outside with our purchases. Karen and her 2 kids around the same age as my kids spotted what my kids were holding and started bugging the shit out of their mom for the same thing. Instead of being a mom, she blew up at me. She started demanding that I return the soda cans. So that her kids would stop bugging her. First I turned around to make sure it was me she was going off on. Then I asked in a disbelieving tone, "Me? You're talking to me? Who the fuck do you think you are? You ain't my mom, dad or my boss and even if you were I would still tell you to fuck off!" My kids quickly backed up and my demon child brought out a towel. I heard my demon child whisper to my angel kid, "This is in case mom sets her off. Remember what happened the last time?"
The last time they were referring to was way back before they were born. But greatly enjoyed that story wanted me to tell them over and over.
Karen had the nerve to scream at me that her kids would pestered her until I returned the soda cans. "That sounds like a "you" problem." Then just to bug her but let my kids know I didn't mean it and it wouldn't actually happen, I turned around and winked at before telling them, " You know I think we should go to Dairy Queen, the candy store, oh and we should also go to Toy R Us!"
Good lord the racket that went up was absolutely amazing and her anger turned her skin interesting shades of reds and purples with a vein sticking out across her forehead. And while that was going on, I was getting my kids into the van. I brought the cooler near to the door and poured all the ice in before putting juice and some water bottles in. Then I took out one water bottle and opened one of the tumblers that my kids had and rinsed it out in front of Karen. I heard her incredulous tone when she said, "They aren't soda cans? They were empty? Why didn't you tell me?" " Because you were rude and assumed you could demand stupid shit from me!"
I added ice and filled it up with water before doing the same thing to the other and mine. I screwed the lids back on and surprisingly her hadn't noticed instead they were still screaming their heads off about soda, candy and toys. She turned around and started screaming at her kids to stop screaming while walking away. Halfway to the store she fianlly screamed that if they shut up she would take them to all those places. Instant silence. I did end up buy ice cream for my kids after dinner. Since they had been so good that day.
If she had kept her mouth shut, minded her own business and been a good mom, she wouldn't have had to go to all the places I mentioned.

I came home from work and my wife (we're both in our early thirties if this helps at all?) was wanting to tell me about a bad experience she had at the store (a large membership-based bulk buying type of place). Giving her my full attention she begins:
My wife's friend is having a housewarming/post-divorce celebration and my wife agreed to bring a cake. This friend suggested this particular store for custom worded cakes and my wife set off to place an order. When my wife arrives at the bakery, she is met with a sign that reads "Place cake orders online! Scan Here." She opens her phone, scans the QR code, and makes her way through the site's options for the cake; until she gets to the font which is only allowing/showing a very boring and bold type font.
Throughout this first part of the story I'm nodding my head and adding in my own thoughts as well without interrupting. "Oh that should be fun." "Yea those can be annoying." Stuff like that.
My wife finds a worker (Early 20s maybe? My wife was also using a stereotypical "valley girl" voice when quoting them and I tried my best to ignore as I know eventually this person was about to upset her) nearby stocking bakery items, and asks them about the cake customization. Questions like: "I there a place to set a pick-up time?" and "I can only get it to show a bold font, is there a way to change this?" The worker explains the date appears towards the end of the customization and the font depends on who ever is working that day, to which my wife responds "Well I'm not going to pay for something if I don't know what it looks like." At this moment the worker turns without another word and walks away from my wife. As the worker is walking away my wife doesn't yell, but says within this worker's earshot, "Are you fucking kidding me?" "This is fucking ridiculous." From here my wife leaves the store.
I tell the wife, "Yes that seems a bit rude of the worker, but honestly had that been me and I heard her reaction as I was walking away, I probably wouldn't have helped you either."
From here my wife becomes upset with me, and begins accusing me of invalidating her actions not just on this interaction but other times she has butt heads with family members or strangers. This got me thinking, have I really been invalidating her or have I not have her back like I should in these instances? AITA for critiquing her reaction to the worker walking away?
I truly think both of them could have been better to each other in this situation and I tried and failed to convey this in a way to deescalate tensions. The worker could have easily deferred to another baker if they were too busy stocking and the wife could maybe could not feel entitled to immediate resolution to the closest available staff member.

Context: Ive been feeling like I don’t love him anymore for a while but Ive only started to accept it recently. I don’t want to talk or hang out with him anymore. Why do I feel this way? To put it simply, for the past year or so he has let me down emotionally many times, for example he hasn’t been here for me when I needed him the most. At the worst times, he has been unnecessarily rude to me, calling me offensive names just because I was upset on a matter unrelated to him. I’m not trying to vilify him, I believe he is a good person but not with me. He makes me feel like I’m a burden, and like a last option. I’ve tried to speak to him about this many times and how he is making me feel but he just gets angry with me which starts an unnecessary argument, hence why I don’t bring things like this up to him anymore. We’ve been together for almost 2 years but it’s completely different now than it was at the beginning. He used to send me long messages every night but now I hardly ever get even a goodnight. He is not busy, he spends more time with his friends than with me, which is fine, but he also ignores me in the process of doing so. It just feels like I am and have been the only one trying for a while now, to the point that I feel it is making me lose my feelings for him. Anyone else going through/ have been through the same thing? What can I do?
PS. I check up on him all the time because I care about him and there isn’t anything going on in his life that could make him act in this way.

I've found that almost EVERY time I get a user who works for a church, they are incredibly rude, idiotic people who treat customer service like absolute trash. They are horrible. The worst insults I've gotten at this job have been from people who work at churches or realtors. Anyway, here's the transcript of our conversation today.

(03:43:30 PM) me: Hello! Thanks so much for contacting WEBSITE Support. My name is BLANK and I will be very happy to help you. Please allow me a few moments to access your account.
(03:44:16 PM) ID10T: BLANK--I'm thinking about switching PROJECT platforms because I cannot stand every single frickin time I want to access & make changes to my PROJECT , I have to go through 2 factor identification.
(03:44:24 PM) ID10T: I'm getting sick of it!
(03:44:36 PM) ID10T: And then it says, skip for 2 weeks--nope that doesn't work either!!!!!
(03:44:55 PM) ID10T: Get someone to shut down that security measure on our account.
(03:45:15 PM) ID10T: If someone wants to hack out account, I'm o.k. with that. Let them.
(03:45:55 PM) me: We can't turn that off, but there may be some reason the login cookie is getting deleted on your machine. WEBSITE uses a login cookie that expires after 2 weeks. If you clear this cookie, you will be required to login the next time you visit WEBSITE. If you have any kind of browser extension or anti-virus that clears cookies on an active basis, that could be clearing the login cookie for WEBSITE and causing you to be logged out. I suggest checking into that. This could be a behavior of the browser itself, an addon/extension of the browser, anti-virus on your computer or even apps/processes being run on your machine by your business (if you are not on a personal device). Also are you running AVG? In most cases, that is the anti-virus which is causing issues with the login cookie.
(03:46:43 PM) ID10T: I do not have this problem with ANY OTHER PLATFORM except WEBSITE
(03:46:48 PM) ID10T: and it's super annoying
(03:46:55 PM) ID10T: I don't even know what AVG is
(03:47:11 PM) me: It is anti-virus software. Are you on a personal machine?
(03:47:17 PM) me: Or is it managed by your organization?
(03:47:19 PM) ID10T: Just have one of your IT guys go into our account & deactivate all this crap
(03:47:37 PM) ID10T: my machine is managed by my organization
(03:47:44 PM) me: That's not how it works I'm sorry. The login is maintained by a cookie which gets saved to the device. If it's deleted, the login is not maintained.
(03:47:51 PM) ID10T: Actually, no, I think you would classify it as personal
(03:48:16 PM) ID10T: They why do I not have this problem with any other platform. Sometimes it logs me out within minutes
(03:48:24 PM) ID10T: then I have to get another code all over again.
(03:48:33 PM) ID10T: Can you not appreciate how annoying this is????????????
(03:48:37 PM) me: I do
(03:48:45 PM) me: I understand it's frustrating and I am talking you through the solution.
(03:48:56 PM) ID10T: It is super annoying. Annoying enough that I'm looking at Constant Contact just to be free from your stupid security
(03:49:00 PM) me: Are you running any privacy extensions in your browser?
(03:49:17 PM) ID10T: I have no idea about privacy extentions in my brows
(03:49:26 PM) ID10T: I'm not a computer scientist
(03:49:36 PM) ID10T: I just want to work on my fricken campaign!!!
(03:50:25 PM) ID10T: Turn it off! Get your IT guys to turn it off on our account. We don't care
(03:50:47 PM) me: That isn't an option. Are you running any anti-virus on your computer?
(03:50:50 PM) ID10T: Am I the only person who's frustrated as hell with this annoying blip in your system?
(03:51:07 PM) me: No, it has come up before which is why I know what causes the issue. I know it is frustrating. I am trying to help you.
(03:51:28 PM) ID10T: I have no idea if I have anti-virus software on my machine.
(03:51:51 PM) me: Are you working for a company that has IT available that could find out?
(03:52:16 PM) ID10T: Yes, but then I have to pay him $90/hour. Are you going to give me 6 months free to get this problem resolved?
(03:52:50 PM) ID10T: That feels like a good solution. Give me 6 months or even a year for free and you won't hear from me again. I'll pay to get your platform fixed!!!
(03:53:25 PM) ID10T: You know, it used work perfectly fine. We have been long, long customers of yours. And then, no...someone had to "FIX" the platform & now it sucks!
(03:54:44 PM) me: This is not an appropriate reason to provide credit, I'm sorry. Let's try this. Can you go to the profile icon in your account, click it, and at the bottom, it says Cookie Preferences. Click that and make sure all cookies are enabled. Let me know when that is complete.
(03:54:47 PM) ID10T: Sometimes i have to enter a code like 4 or 5 times a day
(03:55:24 PM) ID10T: well, it's stuck behind this chat window...
(03:55:35 PM) me: You can open WEBSITE in a new tab
(03:55:37 PM) ID10T: I'm not able to move the chat window? or am I
(03:56:52 PM) ID10T: I'm trying to find cookie preferences
(03:56:57 PM) ID10T: it's not jumping out at me...
(03:57:18 PM) me: It's at the bottom, here is a screenshot: [image]
(03:58:45 PM) ID10T: Essential Website Cookies Always Active
(03:58:53 PM) me: All of them are enabled?
(03:59:32 PM) me: Especially we want Performance and Functionality Cookies enabled
(03:59:36 PM) me: The little slider should be green
(03:59:50 PM) ID10T: Performance and Functionality Cookies I had to hit the slider on this one
(04:00:03 PM) ID10T: same with analytics & customization
(04:00:08 PM) me: Ok they were off?
(04:00:18 PM) ID10T: yes
(04:00:27 PM) ID10T: 2 of the were off... analytics & performance
(04:00:28 PM) me: The performance one is most important. That should fix it.
(04:00:49 PM) me: It MAY require you to verify one more time, but it should work for 2 weeks after that.
(04:01:16 PM) ID10T: OK BLANK. I guess I can't test it while I'm logged in here but I hopeyou are right.
(04:01:26 PM) me: I hope you have a wonderful day :)
(04:01:31 PM) ID10T: You too!
(04:01:32 PM) me: Thanks for contacting WEBSITE support. Have a great day.

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Isn't it amazing how childish boomers are? Why do they think that being rude is the best option? They actively make the world worse with everything they do.

So I work in a fairly upscale restaurant ($28-38 entrees) where Mother’s Day is a one of the busiest days of the year. After we opened, I wasn’t overly busy as I was waiting for my the reservations in my section, so I grabbed a water pitcher to take a lap and re-water the dining room.
As I’m scanning the dining room I’m kind of furrowing my brow looking around and the husband at the table closest to me (couple in their 50s with a mother in their 70s) says “hey, where’s your smile??” I reply, “oh, uh I’m just focused right now haha”.
The wife (50s) the proceeds to say, “yeah! Where’s your smile!” And then poke me in the stomach (not exactly softly) and twist her finger like I was the freaking Pillsbury Doughboy.
I was kind of shocked and didn’t really do anything in the moment, but goddamn….WTF is wrong with people????
A) I’ve worked with enough FOH people with (self admitted) resting bitch face to know that “where’s your smile??” is super annoying and kind of rude to say to anyone.
2) I normally let small stuff roll off my back, but I’m not exactly slim and I own a mirror so I know as much, but I don’t know what possessed this woman to poke me like Winnie the Pooh, and what if I was** super self conscious or didn’t let that invasion of my space slide.
And d) What if the rolls were reversed? If it was a 50s guy touching a 30s woman like that, things would abso-fucking-lutley be different
WTF is wrong with some people man….

me and my now ex dated off and on. i broke up with her after a month of us dating but went back to her some days later, thankfully she took me back. after that we were together till she left me four months later when i wasn't responding for a couple days cause i was busy with work and hanging out with friends? she had me blocked till late November when we got back together and it was magical, but i fumbled again and told her i couldn't do it. cancelled our plans to meet and went on with my life. now she has a new boyfriend and they've been together for three months. She used to post about how much she missed me on Tiktok and other stuff but she took down all those posts, her page is filled with her new boyfriend and its disgusting. She gave me everything, she was patient with me even when i would ghost her for weeks at a time. she always forgave me and always treated me well. She took me back all those other times so why not now? i even tried texting her through multiple Tiktok and discord accounts but she keeps blocking me, and her boyfriend is so rude to me. i don't understand, AITAH?

I was unemployed for 4 years. eventually after hard work and grinding I finally have a job at a daycare and in the process of getting my CPR certification. I used to post asking for help on how I can find employment and people just told me I was a good for nothing government leech, a delusional entrepreneur ( in the past I've tried to start several failed businesses) and a embarrassment to my family. I eventually got some messages from people claiming to help but they were a bit rude and one of them had a superiority complex. So, now that I have a job am I supposed to be worth some now? Why whenever I talk about my struggles or obviously don't have money I'm treated like this?
When I do have money people just try to extract everything I have and suck me dry. It never fails.
Can anybody else relate or am I the only one? I hope I'm the only one

Hello, I’m a Female (18). Me and my mother (40f) have always been in a rocky spot with our relationship. This really all started when I had my seizures back in 2022. I can’t drive for six months and just recently had one in April.
Today, I told my mom that I was getting ready for work. Now, I know this is some what inconvenient for both parties seeing as she also has things to do. However this morning after I came downstairs to start the day, she started to bombard me with complaints about me not doing enough and how I slept in late and need to find a new job. She knows that I have been feeling guilty about not looking for a job because I am moving in less than a month.
I told her that I can find a job right now because it isn’t the best time and she has been telling me that she’s too busy to take me anywhere else other than appointments and work. She got very upset and told me that I was accusing her of not being a good mother, which I never said. Eventually she left the house to get groceries from the store, when she came home I saw her carrying in the bags and asked her if there were anymore other than the few she had with her. She looked at me with a snotty look and snapped yes there is more. Of course I kept quiet about it because I didn’t think it was that big of a deal to ask. Until in the after noon when I told her I was getting ready for work.
She knows that I would normally work at around three but today I planned on going in earlier. When I came downstairs I couldn’t find her so I knocked on her door. She answered with a rude tone and said what do you want now? This made me upset and I said I have everything for work are you ready? She scoffed and said I’m trying to get ready for the day. Mind you this is at 1:30 in the afternoon. I asked her why she didn’t do it this morning when she knew I was busy cleaning the house. She told me that it was non of my business and to leave her alone about it. But, she knew I had work today and was allowed to go in at anytime (I just finished high school and I work as their janitor but today is my last day so I planned on doing a deep clean).
I got very upset because she knew what my plan was before hand and then proceeded to wait until I needed to go into work to finally shower. I said that I didn’t do anything to her today and that she was acting like a toddler w because things weren’t going her way as she had planned them. She came back at me with the normal “I do everything around here” act and I got frustrated telling her how I was doing my laundry , the dishes, carding for the dogs, and the fact my brother (20m) is always being lazy. She said that she was done with the conversation so that’s where we leave off.
AITAH and apologize to my mom for calling her a toddler or should I stand my ground? Please let me know

I (21M) have worked in retail and the restaurant business fir almost 6 years now and have noticed a striking percentage of irrate customers tending to be of a certain generation. Don't get me wrong there are still a lot of nice people I interact with and keep in contact with of this generation but it seems that most of the rude customers I get are "Boomers". I don't believe I do anything to escalate situations nor start them. I have heard the stories and have too many to tell. My question is why do individuals from the Baby Boomer era get so defensive so easily? Is there a logical explanation to why this occurs? Any psychologists that can answer my question?