Why the hell is reddit tagged 12+ on play store, are you f**king serious rn bro?? The amount of predators that lurk on the teenagers sub is INSANE . There shouldn't be a sub for teenagers anyways, WHY IS THIS APP ALLOWED TO KIDS?. Many of the predators that lurk there could easily cause massive harm to their mental health.

Plus the access to NSFW content in reddit isn't very hard to do, even if you didn't search for something you are going to come across shit that is so vile and disturbing so it wouldn't take much for a kid to just "yes I'm 18+" just out of curiosity. This is different from Google because google dosen't recommend you NSFW in search.

What the f**k are the devs doing anyways? Like seriously DUDE WTFF.

Anyone and everyone who is even considering voting for that vengeful, narcissistic rapecist should watch the movie. It's illuminating to see how he built his tacky empire, and the unethical, corrupt rules that molded his approach, but they wont if it's not accessible! The acting was so spot on that it will probably gain traction going into Oscars season, BUT THAT WILL BE TOO LATE!

Yup. Everyone here knows which subreddit I'm talking about.

The last few days especially, have just been absolutely ridiculous. Literally parents AND teachers posting pictures they took of the tragic names of their students or their child's classmates. I think it's straight trashy behavior.

1: If you're a parent, you are there to support your child. I go to as many school events as I can, I'm 100% focused on my kid. I'm not going out of my way when I see a name that's weird and saying "OH a terrible name, I must show my reddit friends this!" It's weird behavior.

2: If you're a teacher doing this, that's absolutely tacky behavior and worse than a parent doing it. Those are your students. The child didn't choose that name, what if the parents see your post of the kid grows up and sees it? Also your post isn't that hard to recognize when you literally post ALL OF your students names. Any involved parent would recognize this and then what? Was it really worth it?

3: Too many of you in that sub aren't educated enough to call a name a tragedeigh. I can't tell you how many times I see names that aren't of English origin, and are very common names in other countries, and you call it a tragedeigh. So German names, Italian names, African names aren't allowed to exist because you can't pronounce them or you haven't actually met people of different backgrounds?

Last but not least, not every name that's modern is a tragedeigh. Seriously, it's like you guys have forgotten the meaning of it and totally lost it.

For example. Tragedeigh: Kayleigh. I agree, it's a tragedy because it's just Kaylee with extra steps and is going to commonly be misspelled by others.

Non tragic but what they call a tragedy: Grayson. Seriously? There's nothing wrong with the name. Easy to spell, easy to pronounce, not going to be a pain in the ass. Is it because they don't like that it rhymes with Mason? Or Jason? Idk you tell me.

Anyway that's my rant. That sub used to be decent years ago, but now it's just gotten ridiculous.

Takes me a dozen tries of flicking the lighter to get a flame IF IM LUCKY so next time I'm paying the premium for my boi BIC.

i would not post this if they were not COMPLETE SHIT never buy these shits!!

I know that this quote is supposed to be inspirational, but it just doesn't work. The worst thing sticks and stones cause is an injury.

Words cause millions of those.

Words are the most powerful killing machines. Everything you speak into the world will affect somebody, and if you're in power, words can be the most dangerous weapon of all.

This is probably edgy, but this is me trying to say that we need to leave this saying behind.

i wish that, for a day, you get to see a person's full name and address and their workplace (or school) next to their online handles. some people behave like actual ghouls online it's disgusting. i need a break from social media.

I’ve had the WORST cough of my life since yesterday! My whole family actually had it and I thought I was in the clear, but here I am writing from the trenches.

My throat is sore, but not from like a throat infection- just from coughing my brains out. 😭😭

Sometimes I’ve been coughing for like over 30 seconds at a time ( not fun )

Sleep has been nonexistent

Mucinex? Did nothing

Robitussin? Nada

NyQuil? Nope

Cough drops: no help

Throat coat tea with honey: burnt my tongue 🧍🏻

Evolution defense pressed juice mixed with coconut water: tastes good, maybe hydrating, but that’s about it

Honestly it’s not like THAT bad, but I feel miserable in the moment, and thank you for listening to my rant

Tips on how to get rid of cough from maybe RSV? = Appreciated

Just looked through some animated movie franchises aimed at children (Despicable me, Hotel Transylvania, Disney films, etc), and I noticed that the majority of these movies end with heterosexual romance, as if romance is always the necessecity for a good ending.

When I was a child, romance plot-lines were always the most boring parts of the movies for me, because I didn't understand romance. These stories can easily stay with themes that are more familiar to children, like friendships, family or dreams, but they just HAVE to squeeze in a romance in there, which often adds nothing to the story.

Not to mention that some of these plot-lines preach very bad messages about romance, notably the myth of "Love at first sight". I don't think children are learning the right lessons in these movies.

The worse message is the idea that "You need to be in a romantic relationship to be happy". As a teacher and a therapist, I see so many cases of young people feeling ashamed of not being in a relationship, or feeling the need to force themselves into a relationship they don't enjoy.

The whole heteronormative indoctrination is just icing on the cake. To quote the conservative parents: Don't push your sexuality on our children, you pervs.

(BTW, I'm straight and married, in case you think I'm somehow against romance.)

Warning: This post contains profanity and some mentions of sex. I'm not sure if the +18 tag is appropriate here, but just know that there is that kind of thing. I'll probably delete this later cuz I don't want to make my profile +18.

Okay, soo... I'm taking a risk posting this since I think my dad knows of my Reddit account, but you know what? Screw it. I need to vent a little.

Until recently I was completely fatherless. He abandoned me when I was a baby and didn't even speak to me for YEARS... So you can imagine that until then, the most important moments of my life were lived without him. Little things, like when I learned to read and write and learned to draw, even things that I love, like when I learned to sew and won the poetry fair. Without him, I kind of replaced the father figure with my uncle, who is an incredible man, and I grew up like that; he filled that father role that I was missing. I just... I don't need a father now, maybe before, but not anymore. Now suddenly he wants to step up and be the father he never was.

I appreciate it, I really do. I was even excited when I found out he was going to pick me up and bring me to his house. The problem is... He is annoying. Respect and trust are things that take time to build, but he demands that I respect and trust him completely just because he is my parent. Sir, we haven't seen each other for 10 years and we are practically strangers, GIVE ME SOME TIME! He has this thing in his head that there is a hierarchy... In his mind he is superior because he is a father, and I am below because I am a son. He always demands respect, that I should listen when he speaks, that I should obey everything he says without questioning when he tells me to... And he BOTHERS me when I show the slightest sign of boldness or "disobedience", which is pretty much just taking a few minutes to do what he told me to do. He says I can't be bold or anything, but pal, you ain't superior shit. Sticking a dick in a pussy doesn't make you amazing, it's not something that few people do or anything, so forget about it. He even brags all the time, saying how amazing and nice he is for not hitting me and taking me to cool places. This is ironic because he already slapped me in the head today for simply not listening and threatens to hit me ALL THE TIME. It's no joke, every little mistake I make he says he's going to solve it with a beating or something.

It probably sounds bratty, but... I wasn't raised that way. :(

I've always been very isolated. Just me and my maternal family, so it's VERY difficult to adapt to such a different environment. I always try, but I still find myself frustrated and crying over how fucking annoying he is. He says I can trust him, but how?! If I say something he doesn't like, he acts like a spoiled child. Take the day before yesterday as an example: he misinterpreted what I said, and when I explained his mistake he said "if you expressed yourself badly, that's your problem". If it were the opposite he would probably curse at me and say he was going to hit me. THIS IS THE HYPOCRISY THAT ANNOYS ME! He demands that I listen to him when he speaks, but sometimes when I speak I feel like I'm talking to walls. He wants me to understand him and adapt to him, but he doesn't want to understand me and adapt to me more than the minimum. Whenever I tell him that I have trouble with certain things, like not being able to take a shower without washing my hair, he acts like I'm stupid and it's the most obvious thing in the world. When I asked him to stop saying I didn't shower (a joke that turned into pretty much bullying), he made a big deal out of it and made ME feel guilty about it. He never apologized, he wants me to admit my mistakes but never admits his. And after all this, I'm the stupid one for not fully trusting him to ask for things and talk? My mother raised me completely different... She doesn't demand, she asks, but I respect her so genuinely that I do it even if there is no punishment if I don't. She always did everything for me, she always showed me unconditional support and never hit me, she was in need and when she managed to eat at work she would get stressed because she was eating and I wasn't. She has always loved me and I will love her forever, no matter how many flaws she has, because I can trust her and I know she will help me when I need it. She doesn't have this "I'm a mother and you're a son" thing, she treats me like a friend, and that's how children should be raised I suppose...? I have the intimacy with her to talk about everything, literally everything. I respect her not because she's my mother, but because she fucking deserves that respect. My father, on the other hand? He wants to put himself on the same level as her, to be able to punish me, educate me and even be superior to her. BUDDY, YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL! Like I said, putting your dick in a pussy didn't give you any privileges, if I have to disrespect you I will. I will prioritize my mother's word above all else and he may even get angry, but I will not allow him to ever stop me from communicating with her or want me to obey him over her.

Plus, he wants me to do everything his way. They're always such silly, futile things; the way I wash the dishes, the way I hold my fork, the way I put things in a pot... Damn, even the way I behave. They're small, but somehow he ALWAYS makes a fuss and makes me look like the one in wrong. Sometimes I think he doesn't want a child, he wants a mindless puppet who blindly obeys him and does everything like everyone else does, because this is getting kinda annoying. Sometimes I feel like he doesn't even like my personality.

He's a playful dad who's always joking around, and I think that's cool, but sometimes his jokes are pathetic. He always said I never shower when in fact I do every day, even before he did; he annoys my sister by calling her a unicorn, which made her hate her unicorn pajamas; Today he attended a lecture by a generic coach and started making SEXIST jokes and interrupting our stepmother. Man, this is no fun. He even acted like that coach was cool and inspiring, but the coach overworked himself and flipped a car... I wouldn't follow his advice. Plus, my dad doesn't play with me or my sister, he just irritates us with saturated jokes like a parrot and complains. I just find it stressful how a man like that demands respect, something I just can't give so easily.

Today was the last straw, because he woke us up early (before leaving the house and being out all day) and told us to stay awake until night. That's okay, my sister and I didn't complain and we did it... But then he came home and now he's got it into his head that we took a nap. He spent the whole day saying how bad it would get for us if we napped, and even though we didn't do it, he's accusing us of it now...?! I lost my temper and told him how annoying this was and how I did NOT sleep, and then he reminded me of my place as his son and asked for respect. FUCK YOU! I'm trying to adapt, I swear I am. I'm terrible with routines but I tried, I had totally different habits but I tried, I didn't even know him but I tried, and I never got any positive reinforcement!! I'm scared of how much I changed because of this man... I don't feel like myself anymore, I don't feel like CatSoup anymore, and do you know how much that keeps me up at night?! Give me respect if you want respect, like I said, fucking without protection doesn't put you at the top of a hierarchy or whatever your 1980's thoughts are.

I'm just at my limit. I feel kind of overwhelmed, I don't know... I just want my mom. Really. If she changes the way she treats me because of him, I swear I think I'm going to break.

Sorry, but 10 years of blindly supporting Trump absolutely blows any argument they have out the water. They will attempt to excuse or deflect or even gaslight you, DO NOT let them. Remind them every time they try their best”patriotism” bullshit how they supported a man who as president told the world that he believes a murderous tyrant and dictator over our own intelligence services. Remind them how this man STOLE our nations secrets, including our nuclear secrets, and repeatedly lied about it. Tell them there is a very real possibility copies of those documents are in the hands of our nations enemies, thanks to him.

If they ever come with that “I’m a Christian” BS remind them how they supported a proven liar, a bigot, an adulterer, a man known for his greed and one that literally ticks off all the boxes of the supposed anti christ they say they are against. Personal responsibility? Donald Trump has NEVER accepted responsibility for anything. Fiscal responsibility? He blew up the deficit to give rich people a tax break with no way to pay for it, for crying out loud!

My point is once this election is over and Trump is gone for good don’t EVER let any conservative talk down to you for your beliefs when they themselves screwed the pooch so bad.

My vape died today. I smoked cigarettes for 15 years, switched to vaping 5 years ago. I've always been a slave to nicotine. I was born addicted, as my mom smoked while pregnant. I had a break for the first 14 years of my life, but then found it again as a teen.

My partner is 7 months pregnant and CRANKY. I decided that I might as well try to quit, but I already snuck to the store to buy a pack of smokes because I couldn't handle the cravings, especially coupled with the crankyness. I'm two smokes deep now and just pretty fucking miserable because I had made it 9 hours and 30 minutes without nicotine, while awake. I haven't done that in years.

I'm fucking weak. How the fuck do I break free from this?! I'm so go damn sick of this stupid fucking addiction and how i always trick myself and manipulate myself into enabling it. I'm my own enabler. My partner doesn't use nicotine. The people around me don't use nicotine, I'm the only damn one. I'm my only excuse and I hate myself right now for that.

Fuck.

Legitimately how are these things legal? I feel like I’m driving towards someone with their brights on. It’s insane how I can’t drive at night at literally anytime without being blinded by one of these things. I thought that it was just a bunch of dumbasses with their brights on, but no, newer cars apparently just have headlights that are as bright as the sun. I just got home from driving at night from a friend’s house and I literally feel like I need to lie down and close my eyes for a few hours. Not even sleep, just close my eyes. My fucking head hurts. How did these lights even get past basic testing?

I’m so sick of end stage capitalism. I mean JFC, how much more do we have to take as a generation before we are all absolutely miserable.

My spouse and I clawed our way out of welfare childhoods as blue collar workers. We lucked out and I got rear ended by a rich person texting/driving and that paid for the down payment of our first tiny house pre-pandemic (so at a less ridiculous price)

We kept our heads just above water through the pandemic solely because we were considered “essential”. Then we sold that house because we couldn’t afford the huge looming replacements (roof, foundation, etc.) and by selling we could afford walk away with some money to pay down debt.

We are making money that child us could have never fathomed… and we still live on the edge.

Because we sold we had to buy in an overpriced market where daring to ask for a home inspection means your bid will be laughed out of the stack. But we struggled through and basically the debt we paid down was absorbed into a new doubled mortgage (still less than renting though).

Ok so back to square one, but at least a newer house that wasn’t crumbling, right?

Wrong. Surprise! We found out today that our ENTIRE sewer pipe is on the verge of collapse. So either we quickly come up with $14k or risk it crumbling at any point which would turn that bill into $30-40k or MORE.

Credit is wrecked from buying the house and paying down debt…. Which.. who the fuck convinced the masses that we should be ok with being punished for PAYING OFF DEBT. There is no money to be had.

In what world are we ok living like this? That one thing can implode 20 years of hard work. I’ve lifted my bootstraps. I’ve been lifting straight fucking up, breaking my body, for 20 FUCKING YEARS. And it’s never enough.

I’m back in school for something I have ZERO desire to do, because it pays better… but comes with even more unmanageable debt and expenses on both my time and workable hours.

WHY HAVE WE NOT FRENCH REVOLUTIONED IN THIS BITCH?!!

Millennials, are we so beaten down that we just had our spirits broken?

The republicans actively try to squash us, the democrats at least keep our bodily autonomy intact, but make promises of change and hope and we are still slaves to corporate greed that lines their pockets.

No one gives a fuck about the lower middle class, the poor, students… no one.

So why the fuck are we not standing up and saying we can’t take anymore? There are roughly 72 MILLION Millennials in this country and it’s very safe to assume at least half, if not more, make less than 120k a year. I don’t live in a major city, I don’t live where the cost of living is insane… and it’s still unattainable.

When will it be enough? I don’t get vacations, I don’t get to enjoy time with friends or peruse hobbies, or have a life. I’ll be lucky to retire around 85 and I have a 401k I’ve struggled to fund for years.

It’s not right and it’s not fair and I’m so sick of feeling like we aren’t doing anything about it.

Between us and Gen Z there are 141 Million of us to 70 Million b**mers.

I say we tell them if there aren’t big changes we will ground this economy to a crawl. Why are we not acknowledging our power? Hell, if we picked a few days a month to refuse to spend money, that alone would force a reckoning. We used to be full of tentative hopes and dreams.

We can’t keep living like this.

I beg of you all, we need to find a way to use our voice as the largest population block in this country.

The New York Times podcast the Daily just released a piece about election deniers and one of them said “If there’s any question of fraud then I think it is your duty to prove to us that there was no fraud.” It reminded me a lot of the Christian stance that it is an atheists burden to prove to them that there is no God rather than the other way around. And it seems like that mindset is such a runway to where we are now, where we have people believing in something they haven’t seen, and haven’t proven exists. And it’s been making me really really mad that these people are so entitled and narrow minded that they think their world view is the only one that does or should exist, and that they think that their votes should matter more than everybody else’s. And I realized that this entitlement, and this privilege, is just an extension of the Christian worldview. It seems to me that the lesson that most conservative Christians have taken away from the New Testament is not the idea of self sacrifice, or loving all people, or accepting society’s outcasts or anything that Jesus really did or taught, but that they’ve been excused of sin. Or rather the consequences of it. Their sins don’t count. That as long as they are Christian then they will not be held accountable for any of their actions. And that the only sin that exists now is not being Christian. Because they still believe that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell, and because Jesus was crucified all Christians go to heaven. So Christian = Good, and anything else = bad. Whether or not Jesus is actually the messiah, I think the world would be a more tolerant place if he wasn’t martyred.

Nobody voted for him. Nobody wants him in the White House. Instead, he's going to bypass the voters and brown-nose Trump to get appointed. He wants to sabotage infectious disease research and make vaccines unavailable for everyone, not just vaccine skeptics. He has zero qualifications to lead the Health Dept or USDA, not even a science-related bachelor's degree.

If you don't want to get vaccinated then fine, but don't endanger me or my family. RFK is a physical danger to everyone in the US.

This is dumb but I’m such an overthinker. One of my apartment mates made cookies and I thought I was the only person in the apartment that had cookies. I checked the freezer and I only saw mine. I didn’t have a problem with it but I thought to myself if it’s my cookie dough it wouldn’t be too bad if I took a cookie so I did. Well two. It turns out I was wrong and she did have cookie dough because she asked the group chat who took a cookie. I messaged her privately and said I did and that I was sorry and explained my dumb thought process. I offered to return the cookie that was untouched or make her some new ones but she declined. She said it was her dough bc she doesn’t touch other people’s food and she was just kinda upset bc she made them for her boss. I told her I understood and to let me know if there was any way to make up for it. Also would like it known I was a little inebriated. I was thinking of getting her some “I’m sorry” cookies tomorrow to make up for them. But ya I just wanted to rant to Reddit. I am an anxious overthinking cookie stealer who hopes her roommates don’t hate her.

I want to rip my hair out whenever there's a video with an obviously generated script they're reading. It sounds like a non native English speaker took a script in their own language, translated it to English, ran it through Google back to their language, then back to English.

The repetitive word use, the odd sentence structures, and just the general uncanny way these scripts come off is aggravating. Learn how to write or at the very least go through and edit the damn generated scripts to get rid of all the odd phrasing.

Everyone's mad over the comments being turned off from the election. But the fighting and drama is too much, too insane. I say we all just get along, as a treat. Pleaseeeeee? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Unless you support trump. If you support trump you're stinky

I have no idea what's going to happen on Tuesday, but whatever happens, the people are responsible for the outcome. Both candidates have demonstrated what sort of people they are and how they intend to govern. If Trump wins, it's not because Harris said or did this or that wrong thing on the campaign. It's because voters freely choose Trump, and those voters are responsible for that outcome. And the same goes both ways.

(Pocket Sand) When Donald Trump loses next week, you’re going to unlock the comment section and we are going to make such a huge rant about this !

It's not that fucking difficult. This is not dyslexia this is ignorance. I truly hate that I will see someone make a great point but I can not get fully onboard with them because they can't tell the difference.

Get your shit together. More annoying when people say "you know what I mean" or shout "grammar nazi". No, fuck you. You went to school, you learnt this shit, have some self respect and actually appear to have a modicum of intelligence, rather than passing it off as a simple mistake. Proofread your shit.

If you believe what you are writing, it warrants it being written correctly.

(I should preface (postface?) this by saying these mistakes are often accompanied by terrible takes))

I’m genuinely going insane. The majority of people advocating for abortion bans don’t know shit about the science behind abortion and women’s reproductive health. Our rights are in the hands of people who have literally no idea what they’re talking about. This issue should be up to doctors, not some 19 year old boy who doesn’t even know what a fucking IUD is.

*I received permission from Mods to post this*

My rant is about how certain companies allow easy access to customers’ private information but then don’t care and dismiss it when they misuse it.

Last year randomly I started receiving harassing phone calls from a number I didn't recognize. They called all hours day and night, rapid fire repeatedly even when I sent them to voicemail each time and would leave vile voicemails for me. Up to over 35 calls in an hour period one night. They doxed my information online as another way to continue the harassment. They even wished death upon my father when I was stupid one night and answered to tell them to leave me alone and don’t talk about him as I had found out around that time, he had cancer. Claiming “he deserved to die for having a (slur) for a daughter like me.”

Since they were calling from blocked numbers I couldn’t block them on my end. I was job hunting at the time and didn’t want to risk loosing out on an opportunity because I had changed my number. I felt stuck.

After weeks of the harassment the police discovered it, all stemmed back to an online order at a certain chain restaurant where you can “eat fresh” and “have a footlong”. Apparently, they had such easy access to customers information the employee was able to use my information to terrify me for weeks.
I reached out to the Executive Team for the company to make them aware of what happened, and they couldn’t have cared less. The gist of what I was told  was "We didn't do anything wrong, our locations are franchises, not our employees not our problem". I requested several times for someone from the executive team to speak to me and none of them would give me the time of day, they just sent me to a general customer service email box where I was "thanked for my feedback" and "they understood my concerns"

They showed zero concern for what I went through as if it wasn’t a big deal. I was talked down to, talked to condescendedly and wasn’t even given a sincere apology.  When I reached out, I didn’t want anything more than to speak to someone about what I went through and how their app could have been re-evaluated so this wouldn’t happen to anyone else again.   Then out of the blue 9 months after being brushed off I was contacted by an in-house attorney asking to hear my story and what happened, only to once again talk down to me, be condescending, and make me feel like what happened to me again was nothing.  

So this is to caution everyone when using online apps for places because you don’t know what information the employees have access to or how they may use it.

EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN POST is either "omg orgasms are so intense!" or "i ejaculate so much on hrt!" or "anyone else just horny all the time?" I realize the empowerment that can be found in sex, and the liberation gained, but JESUS CHRIST, EVERY conversation it seems needs to be focused on sex or masturbation. One day I would just wanna have an actual conversation about what it's like to be trans, what struggles people are dealing with, what joy they find now that they came out. But nah, its "what sex toys make you feel more feminine?"

but right now I just want reassurance

I just feel like if there's a god, I'm not loved at all because I'm a female. (18)

And all of the undermining and disrespect and humiliation and suffering and dehumanization this half goes through.

I hate how little girls are always sexualized and I hate how penis is seen as superior and dominant by default always because jts inserted and I hate the word "penetrating" and that we don't use something more like "devouring" cuz woman is always seen as passive object

And as passive secondary object all of the blame and burden of reproduction gets carried over to us. Girls are taught from a young age to be ashamed of their bodies while boys can still play xbox or whatever and then we deal with cramps, periods, bleeding, dizziness, throwing up, then pregnancy with having to take a break from your career, which to me as someone who wants to be an engineer is the one thing I would love the most, but I have to quit it because of the curse on my body, then to have menopause and brainfog and hotflashes and bone heallth problems, and being ignored and mocked by doctors, its not my fault I was born like this!!

I have a boyfriend and as much as I dont want to give in to all the heteronormative and misogynistic things like being a bottom or needing his care or relying on him so much, all of this just makes me feel like feminism isnt real and that I am built to just be a brainless lobotomized baby machine for my bf, especially because I love him so much. But I am the happiest when I do noob electronics and CAD projects and robotics. But I just think whats the point since im a female and im meant to be inferior. Ill always be half the person I was if I was a man.

I dont want this to be true :( but i cant find a good reason for it to be not true.

these thoughts have been in my mind for so many years and I even wanted to be transgender because I dont want to be a weak inferior female with a female body. Being a female makes me feel like a runt or like a cripple. And being friends with mostly guys sucks cuz i feel like theyll never see me like they see their guy friends.

i hate having boobs and I hate feeling like a pervert and a hypocrite cuz i watch porn with it. Idk im just rambling so much but I hate myself so much. As a female should I just give up and accept my place as a secondary human in the world?

I'm noticing an up ticking in stepparents calling themselves childfree.

As a childfree woman myself, I obviously have no issues with people being childfree. But if you are a stepparent, unless those kids were grown and moved out before you married their parent, you are not childfree.

Furthermore, I doubt how good of a stepparent you are. Imagine your stepkids hearing that you don't consider them part of your family. Did you even go to family counseling to try and blend your family when you got married?

Today I visited the police station to find out when I could regain my driver's license, which I had lost due to multiple DUIs. Beforehand, I had called them to inquire but was informed that such details couldn't be shared over the phone. Once there, I asked the woman at the desk if she needed identification to confirm my identity. She replied, "No, I know who you are," and I sensed a hint of disdain in her tone.

I accumulated five DUIs over four years, bringing my total to seven, which has evidently made me quite infamous among the police in my small city. I suppose you could say I'm a notorious local figure for all the wrong reasons.

A few years back, I sold drugs for a few months. Although I was never caught, I have a feeling the local police are aware of this, which might explain the disdain I detected in the woman's voice.

Honestly, I'm surprised I'm not behind bars, considering my criminal background. However, I haven't escaped without consequence, as I've had to perform community service and pay a substantial fine. I'm also certain that the authorities here are keeping an eye on me.

The reason I’m telling this story is, if anything, to be a cautionary tale for those who are still in the beginning stages af crafting their own criminal resumes. THIS is what your future will look like: in your 40’s, poor and can only qualify for menial jobs if your lucky.

Thanks for reading, and any and all comments are welcome!

I was taking the exit to my work today, when this stupid Malibu whatever cuts across three leans from the far right side. Including going across the shoulder where the exit splits from the highway, all because they were not paying attention and were going down the wrong exit. In which they literally came inches away from hitting my front end and causing a very severe wreck at the speed we were going.

The exit they were about to mistakenly go on literally fed back into the highway as well, given part of it was an on ramp for those getting on the highway z with another exit ramp to get off as it was two exits. All they had to do was just wait for me to pass, or slow down to get behind me, and then get back on the highway in less than half a mile.

It is not worth that extra few minutes you are trying.yo save BTW by doing what this driver did. This is quite literally how accidents start and happen, it is ALWAYS better to just simply take the exit and reroute back, the bulk of exits are in close proximity to each other or you can turn around somewhere.

Don't EVER do what this driver did, what they did was highly irresponsible and could have killed some someone.