minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Bebpo]

Had a stall with my car on a freeway exit and car wouldn't start for minutes and waving everyone around me while they're honking at me. Was having starter issues a couple years ago getting worse and worse with my S2000 and no autoshop, even one that specializes in s2000s could ever figure it out. Replaced the starter about 1.5-2 years back and it seemed to fix it for a while and the car would instantly start instead of chugging and barely starting, but after a year or so it started getting worse and worse and now I end up in a situation like this where the car just won't start and I'm in a bad spot >_<

Definitely not a great day today.

Also I really should get a daily driver. My S2K's hitting 100k miles and is 11 years old at this point and runs into issues like once a year or two easy. Spent the last 2 hours reading car & driver and looking up cars but still can't figure out what I want. Might want to try out a Mercedes E450 when I have a chance. While my S2K is fun to drive and looks flashy, everyone complains at the comfort level for the passenger seat. For daily driver, I'm starting to think I should get something less flashy and more comfortable for wives & maybe kids kinda thing in the hopefully near future.

[bork]

My dad had an S2000 and I always hated riding in the passenger seat- so uncomfortable.  Was glad when he traded it in and got something else a couple of years ago.  If you do sell yours, you can probably get some good money or trade-in on it.  He said the people at the dealership were almost salivating when he told them he wanted to get rid of it and just get a Civic Sport instead.

[shosta]

My package was stolen! bork, what did you do??

[Kunai With Chain]

Some jackass hit my car and made a big dent on the door and ran off without leaving any contact detail. Went inside to ask if they got anything on the security cams and they said no. What really gets me about it is that it was practically an empty parking lot and this mofo just had to come hit me. 

[HardcoreRetro]

Trying to quit them benzos. Withdrawal symptoms are fucking me up.

[Huff]

officially i'd recommend a prolonged taper under the watch of a capable md

[Madrun Badrun]

Ate way too much soup rice.  Couldn't help myself. 

[TEEEPO]

eatings tums before i eat certain foods rather than after

[TVC15]

I’m out of painkillers and the world is back to normal. It’s a place of shit. But on the bright side my stomach will soon be able to tolerate communion from The Bell.

[bluemax]

A coworker at my last job told me they were likely gonna have to move out of their place because they can't afford the actual rent of it and the building owner was selling it. I offered my extra bedroom and said they could move in if it happened, but I think maybe I was hoping it never would, and of course now they need it. They would probably be a pretty good roommate, but I just sort of like living alone and I'm in a weird spot emotionally right now after my break up. But like, I also would feel bad having offered this up so many times and then turning them away when it comes time to make good.

Blech.

[Bebpo]

A coworker at my last job told me they were likely gonna have to move out of their place because they can't afford the actual rent of it and the building owner was selling it. I offered my extra bedroom and said they could move in if it happened, but I think maybe I was hoping it never would, and of course now they need it. They would probably be a pretty good roommate, but I just sort of like living alone and I'm in a weird spot emotionally right now after my break up. But like, I also would feel bad having offered this up so many times and then turning them away when it comes time to make good.

Blech.

I'd make it clear this is just a short term, get back on your feet kinda thing until you find a place. Give him like 3 months. Is he paying you rent? Because he should be and that extra $$ will be nice to have.
Might be a new and interesting/good experience for you. You never know what'll happen.

I mean you can just tell him no, but yeah it's kinda dick, but it's your living experience.

[TVC15]

This may be a budding struggle but I have a cold and I didn’t have one yesterday before surgery, so I caught it there. If I caught that Chinese Death they’re talking about on the radio at the fuckin’ dentist I’m going to be pretty pissed.

[bluemax]

A coworker at my last job told me they were likely gonna have to move out of their place because they can't afford the actual rent of it and the building owner was selling it. I offered my extra bedroom and said they could move in if it happened, but I think maybe I was hoping it never would, and of course now they need it. They would probably be a pretty good roommate, but I just sort of like living alone and I'm in a weird spot emotionally right now after my break up. But like, I also would feel bad having offered this up so many times and then turning them away when it comes time to make good.

Blech.

I'd make it clear this is just a short term, get back on your feet kinda thing until you find a place. Give him like 3 months. Is he paying you rent? Because he should be and that extra $$ will be nice to have.
Might be a new and interesting/good experience for you. You never know what'll happen.

I mean you can just tell him no, but yeah it's kinda dick, but it's your living experience.

She would be paying rent yes, and she's the kind of person who would keep some of the stuff clean that I tend to not take care of as often as I should. Plus she works a second job on weekends, so she wouldn't be around much except week nights.

So the benefits are basically:
Extra $
Extra help cleaning
Someone who could potentially watch my dog for a few hours on a week night if I have plans or work comes up etc.

The downsides are:
Slightly less alone time
Dealing with tandem parking

Also the place she works for is moving offices a significant distance in a few months, so there's the possibility she gets back on her feet and decides to move closer so her commute to her M-F job is less bad.

It's really not that bad and I was just feeling lame about it earlier. It's probably healthier for me overall to have a roommate, despite not wanting one.

[brawndolicious]

I did the empty gesture roommate offer once, it went for about two months before she moved. Like you, I was hoping I wouldn't have to actually follow through with it but it wasn't too bad. For some reason, women toss a lot of toilet paper in the trash can though.

[Madrun Badrun]

For some reason, women toss a lot of toilet paper in the trash can though.

[TVC15]

Day 2, still have a cold, feel like shit. It’s like water out of my nose. I’m going to be leaving a slug trail by the time I get to the office monday

[bluemax]

bluemax:  OOF.. been there.. with a friend who I did make it clear was supposed to be a temporary situation... just a "stay in our guest room for SUPER cheap to get back onto your feet."   Without going into details he immediately started making a huge impact on the house.. for instance, despite the entire point being him being able to save up money he threw out his bed from his apartment he was moving out of and had a brand new bed/mattress delivered day one... moving our futon into the garage without asking.. moving the dresser out of the guest room..  it gets worse from there.

And this is a guy I'd loaned fairly large amounts of money to in the past and then forgiven those loans out of kindness.   

He's been one of my best friends for a long time but he has this spoiled child attitude about everything.. my wife was incredibly pissed and I had to basically kick him out after 2 months.   He never even gave me the rent money he was going to pay me for the 2 months he was there lol

Well I juuuust had a roommate who didn't pay (and still has a couch here!), who was a friend and I had given the break thing too until he abused it. Basically he had been unemployed for awhile and was running low on funds so he asked to move in, with the understanding he would be paying. He paid for one, maybe two months and then asked one night if maybe he could pay less for awhile because had had a bunch of car related expenses and some other stuff, and while we were talking about he said "or... I could just pay nothing!" and I was not clear enough on how unacceptable that would be. Fast forward to July and on the weekend of the 4th I discover I had no money because apparently the IRS had come for some taxes I owed (being a 1099 is the worst), anywho I was in a bad mood from that and having fought with my stupid boss the day before, so I told my roommate my situation and said it had been several months and he needed to start paying something. I came home that night to a check for $200 and I didn't see him in person again until October and didn't talk to him in person again until December. He did get a job shortly after that conversation (he had gone back to school for a semester), he started paying me again each month (albeit not the amount we agreed upon) and then let me know he was moving out in December (which of course he didn't do on the timeline he said he was going to do). So... yeah.


This coworker knows about that situation and generally is more reliable of a human being than my last roommate. I think it was just sort of the suddenness, and me being just extra tired and out of sorts yesterday that lead me to being weird about it. I felt a lot more positive about the whole thing when I woke up this morning.

[Joe Molotov]

I tried to log in to my GameStop account from my phone to see if I had enough points for free stuff and it hit me with the old “looks like you’re logging in from a new device blah blah” okay whatever, text me a code. They texted me the code and have continued to text me the code every 15 minutes or so for the last 36 hours. I thought it would stop eventually, but now I’m not sure.

[nachobro]

it'll probably stop once the company goes bankrupt in two weeks

[TVC15]

Suzie on Curb Your Enthusiasm said she likes cupcakes and now I want a cupcake

[Stro]

I've been out of school about 14 years, and for years anytime I've had school dreams, I wouldn't be able to remember my schedule or locker combination because I had skipped so much I forgot. But now when I have them, I can't even remember where my locker is because I'm an old head.

In reality I can't remember shit about my high school. It was going through a remodel my senior year and I was lost most of my last semester. I couldn't tell you the lay out of pre or post remodel versions of my high school to save my life.

[Stro]

I got one of those pore sucker things because I got some Amazon refunds and I have a bad habit of spending an hour squeezing all the sebum out of my nose and t-zone and then having it be all red for the next 2 days and I thought maybe it would work better.

Instead it barely got any of the stuff out and my skin is significantly more red and tender everywhere I used it.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry about your red t-zone and your poor pore sucker. 

[Stro]

 

Unsolved Mysteries Update:

Now my face is all bruised up in the way that looks like I was in a minor fight 3-4 day ago.

[shosta]

I've got whatever toku's got... pray for me

[Joe Molotov]

I tried to log in to my GameStop account from my phone to see if I had enough points for free stuff and it hit me with the old “looks like you’re logging in from a new device blah blah” okay whatever, text me a code. They texted me the code and have continued to text me the code every 15 minutes or so for the last 36 hours. I thought it would stop eventually, but now I’m not sure.

I haven't gotten a Gamestop text since Sunday at noon, I think my long nightmare is finally over.

[Fifstar]

Had to cancel our reservation for our nursery school. We waited for a long time to actually cancel it and I felt shitty for making them wait so long, especially as lots of people are waiting for places in nursery school for their kids. Just dread to make phone calls like that. Hate to disappoint people like that, even if I don't really know them.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

We save about 2500 eurobucks on our different nursery school per year (which is just as good as the other nursery school we canceled) so this is actually a triumph of the day 

[close]

[team filler]

I've been back to the zionist coffee shop several times now  all the nazi's needed were some good coffee shops, who knew 

[Stro]

Wanted to play some kideo and just do some mindless carnage, but couldn't find my DS4, so I had to clean my entire room before I found it, but also a 3 year old kept asking me if a godzilla made the mess in my room for about 3 months now so I guess it was time anyway.

[BisMarckie]

My daughter brought home a nasty stomach bug from her daycare.
Drinking a sip of water causes me to throw up.
I am currently being quarantined at my parents.
Live with your parents again in your mid 30’s brehs

[toku]

I've got whatever toku's got... pray for me

bless up

[eleuin]

Tried to register to be a stem cell donor only to be told I already have an account

I don't remember doing the cheek swab but I guess I have

[bluemax]

Welp, the person who I offered to the room now doesn't want it because I made them feel unwanted as a roommate. I apologized but I dunno. I feel bad it is working out this way.

[benjipwns]

I spilled Triscuit Thin Crisps™ all over the place trying to open them.

[BisMarckie]

I spilled Triscuit Thin Crisps™ all over the place trying to open them.

gotta be honest, that would have been funnier if the "benji is a fatty" rumors were true.

[Crash Dummy]

trying to explain the difference between a credit card statement and an invoice at work, in response get sent a pdf with a virus =/

[OnlyRegret]

I spilled Triscuit Thin Crisps™ all over the place trying to open them.

gotta be honest, that would have been funnier if the "benji is a fatty" rumors were true.

"rumours"
I don't see any evidence he's skinny, do you?

[brawndolicious]

I spilled Triscuit Thin Crisps™ all over the place trying to open them.

gotta be honest, that would have been funnier if the "benji is a fatty" rumors were true.

"rumours"
I don't see any evidence he's skinny, do you?

Well he's an anarchist, isn't he?

[bork]

Got a new water heater installed yesterday.  They had to move out the washing machine and cut a hole in the wall to get to it, because the weird way whoever put the previous one in did the job- stuff from the furnace is in the way if you go in front the front of the closet this stuff is in.

Had a contractor and his guys do the job- he's going to be renovating our place and this was the first step.  Anyway, I'm working at home while this is all going on and can't really look at much.  My dad recommended this guy and also offered to pay for most of the reno stuff, so he was over here in case they needed anything. 

They pack up all their stuff and leave, and I find that the bathroom where the equipment was installed is dirty as hell- the floor, nasty shit in the bathtub, dirty sink, leftover parts, screws, etc. just left there.  The floor from the stairs leading to the bathroom and the stairs are also dirty.  The floor at the bottom of the stairs is fucking nasty.  The DOORKNOB is nasty and greasy as hell.    They took out a smoke detector because it went off when they started soldering stuff in and never put it back up- found it outside after it had been raining.  Fortunately it wasn't wet.  The front screen door is kinda fucked up now and the doors in front of the washing machine weren't put back on right.


Took me a good 1.5 hours to clean/fix everything up and get it back to normal.  The front screen door is still a bit 'off' but we're just going to have them fix it when they come back.  They did a great job with the water heater, but I'm kinda wary about letting them in here alone to do all the renovations if they can't clean up after themselves even a little.  The plan was to go on vacation and let them come in, but now I dunno, lol.

[TVC15]

nm

[team filler]

heat usually makes it harder for people to sleep, but not everyone is the same on that. just turn on the damn heater and get a big mexican blanket

if you move to LA, at some point you'll make a wrong turn and end up stranded in the middle of skid row. the filthy homeless will capture you and your pretty white buttcheeks will be getting smacked the entire night!

[TVC15]

Nm

[ToxicAdam]

I could never move to LA because of the traffic. I'm one of those people who becomes near suicidal if I get stuck in a traffic jam for more than an hour or I get instant dread if I see an off-ramp that is backed  onto the highway. I've been in/around Chicago enough to know I could never live like that.

[TVC15]

Nm

[team filler]

your pretty white buttcheeks belong to the homeless hoard!

[team filler]

oakland lost the warriors, raiders and now tvc 

[Ghoul]

I just overfilled my cup noodle and now my day is ruined.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry about your overfilled cup. 

[shosta]

His cup runneth over

[TEEEPO]

ghoul show us your hog you coward

[team filler]

I sleep in one that has my raidahs on it 

[TEEEPO]

against all logic dropped his new record today and it's not on spotify

[TEEEPO]

heat usually makes it harder for people to sleep, but not everyone is the same on that. just turn on the damn heater and get a big mexican blanket (Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

LOL

WE STILL ROCK THAT SHIT, GOT A LION ONE CURRENTLY ON OUR BED

[HardcoreRetro]

officially i'd recommend a prolonged taper under the watch of a capable md

On my 10th day without this shit. Feels like the worst is behind me. Day 2 to 5 were absolutely horrendous. Starting to feel a little better each day now. Also seem to have more energy.

[Fifstar]

against all logic dropped his new record today and it's not on spotify

Weren't his releases all vinyl only in the past? Didn't follow him since getting a baby a couple years ago, but I remember that I was 'forced' to play shady vinyl rips 5 years ago.

[Mr. Nobody]

This Note10+ might be a little too big for my hands

[TEEEPO]

against all logic dropped his new record today and it's not on spotify

Weren't his releases all vinyl only in the past? Didn't follow him since getting a baby a couple years ago, but I remember that I was 'forced' to play shady vinyl rips 5 years ago.

the few singles he dropped before 2012-2017 were all digital save for one but i'm not sure if they were on streaming services or not since i only started using spotify in the past year or so but i def downloaded them pretty easily from the usual torrent spots.

but let me use this opportunity to say that 2017-2019 is a fucking masterpiece

[Yeti]

Can you just do a chargeback through your credit card?

[team filler]

which router is it?

[TEEEPO]

one you can't afford