Muda muda muda , mwaahahahaha.

I knocked it over and was about to freak out but then I paused for a minute and told myself “okay, don’t just randomly try to fix it. Don’t touch it and think about how to fix it with the least damage” and it’s basically a tray with small carton indents much like those you buy eggs in. So I figured I could lift the whole tray and just quickly flip it over and use the bottom it fell on as a cover. Some dirt was scattered but it worked and none of the seedlings were damaged and I felt good about myself for not reacting without planning. I do think I was a little lucky that they were bean seedlings since they’re pretty tough and hardy. They have been relocated to have more space to grow now and are doing well <3

The argument was absolutely meaningless but after several long paragraphs full of arguments my dear opponent just replied "fair enough"

I know this is absolutely meaningless but somehow it makes me happy

Context: I've started some woodworking at home and altho I had a pair of workpants from my old job, I didn't have any kneepads. So I thought I'd get some.

So I go to that workwear place nearby, and have a look at the kneepads. They had 2 types, and the one that felt better in quality apparently doesn't fit in the pants I had at home.

Thought 'guess I'll get some new pants as well then'. They had several, and the guy who helped me said he'd wear this one kind himself and thought they are good. I didn't quite like em so I take another kind.

Said, done. New kneepads and pants. Come home and try on the new pants, and they're to small. And they're slim fit, which I hate. So I go back to switch them to another pair.

After explaining the problem the guy says it's no problem, and also shows me to a toilet where I can try on the pants this time. I take the kind the guy recommended this time, and they're great.

When it goes to checking out the guy fiddles a bit and asks some co-workers as I'm guessing it isn't as usual for them to have people come back cause pants don't fit. After some time he finds what he's looking for, and also comments that the new pair is quite a lot more expensive (first pair was ca 90 bucks, second pair ca 160 bucks). Anyway, he fiddles some more and after a minute or two says "I'll give you a bit off because these are so much more expensive". Naturally I thank him for it and when I get to pay I see that I just have to pay 20 bucks, the guy gave me 50 bucks off on those pants.

Totally made my day.

TL;DR: Paid 90 bucks for work pants, found out they were to small, and when I went and changed them to another type that cost 160 bucks the cashier gave me 50 bucks off on the new pair.

I'll try to not explain in full details, as they are a lot. I work, or used to technically, for a support department for one of the worlds tech giants. Due to moving to a different department with much less volume I decided to also join the products forum and help out with what I know, where I ran into another user, he is important.

I'll be the first to admit that I am sort of proud of the knowledge I gathered over the passed 2 years, so when this specific user, with a higher forum rank than me, started arguing my answers with useless arguments, I did reply quite sharply, though passive-agressive to at least keep some face as a rep. This has been going on for about a week and today when I arrived at work my manager informed me that I was escalated for violating my nda and posting "internal information" in public forums.

Only reason that I am quoting it is because according to the nda, all department names are considered internal information, regardless that when you contact them the welcome message reads "Thanks for contacting department's name I am agent's name and I'll help you today". There was a provided screenshot by a Agent that showed my comment, referring to the specific department by name when providing steps to contact them, which are publically available. I noticed however that the escalation came from a agent, whos name literally matches the username of the person from the forum or is the coincidence of the century that so manny letters fall into place. Considering the Report came from that person I consider it petty af, and tbh I am kinda sad to leave the company like this, as more or less this has caused some inconvenience for my management, who are honestly great people.

Here comes the awesome part. What that person was not aware of, and the initial reason I moved to that department, was that I have been on my leave notice for the passed couple of weeks and I have quite a few more to go. Not sure about other countries, but with our laws they are not allowed to legally terminate my contract during my notice, except using a disciplinary dismissal, which they refused to do, to ensure I can continue working in this field without having to provide contacts each time for a technicallity. By that law I am now provided a paid leave until my notice expires and, since the paid leave is determined by the already posted schedule, I will get 3x my sallery for 3 days around christmas without even going to the office, leaving me with all the time and money during the hollidays.

I truly hope that by some chance of fate this reaches that person so I can honestly say to him - Thank you for the free time I can spend during the hollidays with my familiy bro, I really appreciate it.

Today Richie won $24.20 for the punters club

Sorry for the formatting im on mobile but anyway

Today i won by raising an army of children... Against my dad. We were playing in Pups of War (an arena where you get to shoot nerf guns at each other for as long as you payed. we paid for an hour) and the man have me an empty gun to reload before we started and my dad a loaded gun, and he started blasting me the whole time im reloading. so i started slowly telling kids to shoot the adults and follow me when i got about 6 kids and one had a big machine gun type nerf gun and we just started destroying him and all the other parents and teenagers for the rest of the hour it was beautiful

First of all this is on mobile so I apologize for any mess ups

Anyways my best friend, I'll call him "ben", has been talking to this certain girl for over a year now and she has been living with a female roommate who has been single for a long time. Well I just recently got out of a pretty bad relationship and have been trying to get back on the horse, so Ben said that we should do a double date. I am not a big fan of double dates, and both "Ben" and his girl have said they're not exactly sure how fun her roomie is so I was very hesitant. This conversation has been going on for weeks now but tonight I finally agreed and holy cow was it amazing. She ended up being super cool, we connected over music and a mutual love for motorcycles, and we have a second date lined up for next weekend!

TLDR; went on a blind date that nobody expected to go well, but went very well and sweet hallelujah I've made a connection with a female!

I never answer unrecognized #'s, unless it comes in the middle of a bad day & I need to scream at someone or fuck with them for a bit.

Today the IRS called to inform me about my unpaid taxes and the police currently on their way to my home to arrest me. Luckily, thanks to the deeply accented man with only the most basic grasp of English I found I could advert arrest by paying now over the phone. To assist me with this he asked for my name to pull my tax records. I told him it's Vincent, Vincent Vangofuckyourself. He kindly asked if I could spell my last name for him. After the second spelling request I couldn't keep it straight anymore and just 😂

My spouse and I aren't very physical, hand holding is even rare and usually I'd be miffed but my doctor thinks it's why I didn't catch Hep a from him.

I don't know if this sort of stuff counts on this community (I apologize if it's not a 'win') but for me, it's a huge victory. We broke up a month ago but her instagram was still logged in on my phone and I would go torture myself by checking on her posts and messages (which is awful, I know, but I couldn't stop myself.) I saw her friends exchange hurtful messages about me (which is my own fault for being an idiot and clinging to her account without her consent) and today after barely a month, she messaged someone new she'd met from tinder and was making plans to meet next week and the pain blindsided me because I can't even think about dating anyone ever again. Plus, she'd even deleted our pictures together for the new person. I recognize I'm an ass for invading her privacy and I hated myself for it but today after watching her talk horribly about me to this replacement person when I never spoke an unkind word about her to my friends or family blindsided me with so much pain that I forced myself (and it was so hard. it was like Steve Rogers trying to push Thanos's fist back while Thanos goes ??? at him) but I did it and I feel relieved. I knew I was poisoning myself by hanging onto her in the worst way possible and it used to fuck me up but I'd continue to do it and now that I've yeeted myself out of her account, I feel so much lighter. I'm sorry if this isn't a TIW qualified post, I just wanted to tell someone I did a good thing after being a fool and an idiot for a month straight because I can finally start healing properly now instead of making ragged progress which is promptly undone whenever I read something unkind about myself.

Context:
So I'm 24 and I have had my driving license for about 4 or 5 years now. I didn't own a car and was using my dad's lease car whenever I needed to go somewhere. It started out with being lazy, but laziness turned into stress and anxiety. I see driving as one big game of "operation" (the board game where you have to skillfully remove parts from a patient). For the last few months I try to force myself to drive more often by putting myself on the spot (if someone else out of nowhere asks for a lift it's more difficult). I'm doing better and better though the past two months.

Since I usually carpool with a colleague, or take the PT (since it's fully covered) I didn't have a reason to buy a car. My colleague is moving though and with summer approaching I didn't particularly looked forward to walk 2x 35 minutes per day in the blazing sun. I put my foot down and said to my dad that I wanted to buy a car and if he could help me.

And I did! I bought a (almost) second hand Mazda, which the garage used as a show model. That's why it has almost all options on it (including hill-start assist which is the invention of a century for me). I took it for a ride when we were looking at it and drove care-free for about half an hour.

It's been a long time since I've been so excited to drive and I really hope my anxiety will be under control soon because so far it's been a massive confidence boost.

TLDR: I've been practicing my driving skills and bought a really nice car. I can't wait until I have it

The salad bar charges per pound. I predicted the price of lunch to the correct cent value and they handed my box for free!

Just a little background about me. I'm an Indian guy working in the US and got married a few years back. Why that's relevant, I'll tell you shortly.

One of my former coworkers was depressed and got dumped by his gf after he found out she cheated on him with 3 guys. I was trying to console him with my other coworkers and wanted him to get out of his rut before it affected his job negatively. My own belief was that I knew that the woman I would marry would have to be a virgin if I wanted to share the rest of my life with her. I wanted to be her only lover. I explained this to him in the most polite way I could. He asked me how I knew my wife was a virgin. I couldn't believe he asked me something like that, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and explained it to him. My family had her undergo a virginity test. My mother, grandmother and aunt who have experience in this took turns checking her hymen to see if it was intact.

He asked what would happen if it wasn't. In India, the custom is that the bride's family would have to pay the groom's family for accepting a tainted bride. But the groom could still decline the offer.

While I was explaining this, I knew I hit a nerve because everyone stared at me wide eyed with their jaws dropped. A few days later I got a call from HR. I went to meet the person and my manager was with her. Some people had gathered and explained what a barbaric practice I was involved in and how I discussed very inappropriate material in the office. They terminated me that day after I tried to defend myself.

I don't see how it is appropriate that when I try to console a guy whining about getting cheated on for everyone to hear, it's me who's been labelled as the one who discussed inappropriate/offensive material. It's a cultural practice and it's my right to practice it if I want. My wife didn't protest and was not forced. She's an app developer and I'm a banker and we knew the steps and their implications.

Anyways, I was told I had a good case by a friend who practiced law. I proceeded to find a lawyer who'd represent me and found myself in capable hands. After 3 and a half months, I finally got my job back and guess what? I quit today and took my severance package. Going to book a trip today for me and the wife and start my new job next month. It's been an amazing day. I hope this is some uplifting news that corporations can't screw people over for their cultural and personal beliefs.

So, I'm out and about accompanying my friend meeting up with buyer for his xbox, and once we finished it's right about the busy hour and traffic was bad. We happen to drove by the rich Area of Melbourne and saw a Pagani Huayra on one of the Zagame window. Since I am new in Melbourne and about to relocate again for work, my friend ask me if we wanna stop by and look at the cars at Zagame while waiting for the traffic to get better (it doesn't).

So we park on the street and walk over to where the Pagani was shown, immediately I noticed this old dude wearing orange pagani poloshirt and I recognized him as Horacio Pagani right away, decided to google the guy just to make sure and that's the guy!

I was shaking, for a middle class car enthusiasts like me it's like sighting a unicorn in the wild, I want to approach him and ask for a picture but I wasn't 100% sure. And this guy from the showroom appeared and I asked him immediately if the guy in the orange shirt is Horacio, and he gave me the affirmation.

I'm filled with joy I asked the guy if it's a good idea if I ask Horacio for a picture because I know that he doesn't like things like that and the guy told me it's probably not a good idea.

So by this time Horacio is in another room, and we are separated with glass walls. So I continue taking pictures of the car, and suddenly when I was looking at Horacio we lock eyes so I decided to give him a tip of the head gesture and he responded back to me with the same gesture, damn at this point I felt like the unicorn has given me his blessing I was so ecstatic my whole body shakes.

TL;DR I stumbled upon Horacio Pagani, lock eyes and exchange gesture and get his blessing from the automotive valhalla

So my division at work recently moved to a new location and we all got new phone numbers. The voicemail codes have to be eight digits long. I forgot mine and have had clients calling me all morning and leaving voicemails. While texting my spouse and trying for the fifteenth time to type in a guess for my voicemail password I fat fingered a number that happened to be right one.

TL; DR: Forgot my voicemail password, accidentally got it right on the 15th try.

In typical fashion, this didn't happen today but a year ago or so. I just now discovered this Anti-TIFU subreddit. Anyway:

About a year ago I was walking to catch my bus out of town after a particularly bad day at college. To shave some time, I cut through a rougher part of town that was frequented by vagrants. About halfway through, I heard "Hey man, can you spare some change?". I look over to see a rather rough individual we'll call Hayman (As everything he said started with "Hey Man"). I gave him a look and asked him point blank "Do you need something to eat or are you just looking to try and score some booze?". He shrugs and tells me "Hey Man, I won't lie I could use a drink more than anything." I look at him, and I looked at the corner store close by, and I said "You know what. Me too. Give me 5 minutes." I turned and walked into said corner store, and bought a few 40's of Mickey's Malt Liquor. I came back and handed him one of the 40's, much to his surprise. "Whoah hey man thanks!" He said. I sat down next to him, and cracked open one of the others, and we sat there, drinking and sharing stories for about a hour or so. I looked at my watch, realized I was gonna miss the last bus, so I told him goodbye and gave him the rest of the booze and an extra tenner I had in my pocket. "Hey man, god bless you, I hope your day got better!" he said as I stumbled to the bus station to get home.

That wasn't the real win. The real win happened about a week later. Same deal, I was cutting through the same area to catch the bus. All of a sudden I hear someone yell "HEY!!!" and I turn just in time to see a pickpocket had taken my money clip and was about to run. Who was it that yelled? It was Hayman! Hayman saw what was going on and charged this pickpocket, tackling him HARD. The pickpocket gave up the money clip and fled as soon as he got his senses back. Hayman handed me back my money clip, and in my stupor I asked him why he did that. He looked me in the eye, and said "Hey man, you were one of the few people out on the street who didn't bullshit me, and who treated me like a actual human instead of some piece of filth to be picked up by the police. I remember things like that." So what did I do? Bought another couple of 40's and shared them with him. I continued to do so, sometimes just leaving him some cash or some essentials he may need, but I always at the least said hello until I moved away.

TL;DR: Shared some booze with a hobo, received protection from pickpockets and friendship in return.

Thank you Kim&Go rewards! Getting points for buying the same things I would any where else. Was able to stack 6 10c off rewards today. Got 16.139 gallons for $25.00. #win

I make YouTube videos for a living so I have quite a few SD card horror stories. When creating content constantly, it's not uncommon to hit a wall or run into a day where you just can't bring yourself to record a video. I live with chronic depression and so sometimes the best I can do is just force myself to do it. Usually I end up feeling better by the end. I decided to film something I was excited about so I filmed a review of the Pixel 2XL.

It took me until about 3 p.m. to push past my internal walls and set up the camera and get going. It wasn't my best work but damn it I did it and that was something I could be proud of. As I was removing the card from the camera I snapped off the edge of the plastic. Noticing that the card was still intact and the camera could still read it I assumed everything would be fine however when I went to put it in my computer it did not work.

I stared at the SD card long and hard and decided f*** it. I'm going to use a different broken card and fix this goddamn thing if it's the last thing I do. So I snapped a part a different card and use tweezers and super glue to attach the missing plastic bit. It worked. I want to cross post this into r/TodayIWon but right now I have to finish editing that video...

Here is a pic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQe408GUEAEyXXN.jpg

(Obligatory "this was yesterday" note)

So I was in the cigarette lane in Wal-mart, and this woman comes through my line. The rules for our store are if they look under 40, we have to card them. I ask for her ID, and she's like, "Really? You want to see my ID?", and I explained to her the rules. She said, "Oh my god, you think I look under 40???", and when she handed me her card, her birthdate was in 1959. She looked like she was 35 or so! She said that I made her day.

TIW by convincing my wife that the stink of my fart was from her. This should be a dream from every newlywed husband.

This win actually belongs to my mom but I had to report in on her behalf. My mom is a teacher at an elementary school in California. Like 99% of North America, all of the kids were very excited to see the eclipse. The school decided to order pairs of eclipse glasses for all 2,000 students and teachers. They arrived last week and the school was all set to have the kids come out to the soccer fields and watch the eclipse. They passed the glasses out to the teachers in advance and got ready for Monday morning.

My mom saw tons of stories in the meantime about fake solar glasses being very dangerous and how to check if the glasses are fake. She used one of the pairs she had been handed and saw it passed none of the tests. Sure enough, the glasses were fake! She quickly told the school principal and the solar viewing was canceled.

The kids are all very disappointed but they all get to keep their vision!

TL;DR: My mom spotted that the solar glasses for an entire school were fake and stopped them from being used.

For about 3 days, I was staying at that temporary house. It is close to the sea and there was mosquitoes at first I did not take seriously. Then I could not sleep because of mosquitoe sound and bites. And he/they were very intelligent and mutated as they did not allow me to catch them. I tried mosquitoe repeller liquid heater thing, and he was flying above it near my head. Soon I learned there is just not one or two but they were coming from open windows just to suck my blood out.

I've taken a lot of bites, from feet especially.

Then I spread some garlic cloves around rooms with hope that they will leave. Leaved house for one day or two and returned this night.

When I returned I entered the kitchen and saw the rotten bananas. I picked one up and children mosquitoes flied all over. It was their spawns. I could not catch many small ones. But the bigger ones were all there in the kitchen. I immediately locked the kitchen door and window. I found a surface cleaner spray and without that spray, I would not have neutralized them.

It was hard but I managed to kill all bigger mosquitoes in kitchen (about 5 of them) with the spray. I've hit some smaller ones too but they are still some hanging in the kitchens hidden spots.

I leaved the kitchen by closing the door and dumping the trash, went into my room. They were seemingly one or two mosqs waiting for me. I have had bought a window net, so I've installed it. It was 6pm and finally I killed the two mosqs hanging around the room with the surface cleaner spray.

Now, I know they are some children in kitchen but I did not leave anything for them to feed or any standing water. I have opened the window, also the living room window because they were one giant mosq too.

So I got my revenge. But I did not sleep at all and I feel like a serial killer after killing so much pests one by one. Some I crushed with my hands and I had them on my hand with blood.

What do you guys recommend as my next move? My room is fine now with the net but they were 4 attackers to net of course they could not broke in.

My boyfriend and I decided to eat at a Japanese hot pot restaurant which happens to be on a popular street with lots of other restaurants. Anyways, we look for parking for a while and after 15 minutes get lucky as someone is pulling out from their parking space. We then proceed to walk to the restaurant and notice a long line of people standing outside. I write my name on the sheet of paper and notice 10+ names with groups or 2-4 people above mine. Looking around, we see quite a few anxious & angry looking people waiting around for their name to be called. The hostess, a super nice guy, is doing his best to answer all of the people after they constantly ask "how much longer?". We hear him answer a few people 30-40 minutes, but he is more or less giving everyone a generic answer since so many people are asking. While most people are waiting inside of the cramped restaurant my boyfriend and I decide to wait outside. Approximately 15 minutes after I had signed my name the hostess guy comes outside and says "Jason?". All three of us look around and I (like i usually do) jokingly say "I can be Jason" and then laugh considering I am a chick. He then smiles, looks around and gives us a wink and says "come on this way". My boyfriend and I could not believe he let us go ahead of so many people! Felt like VIP! Goes to show it helps to be kind and patient, especially to those who are on the job and working hard to accommodate a lot of people. I also learned, after so many attempts of that joke, that it can actually work. XD

TL;DR: On a waitlist for restaurant, hostess called out the name Jason, I said “I could be Jason”, got seated without having to wait long

We had to switch to Anthem on 7.1.17 due to job change. With said change came their pharmacy benefits manager express scripts/acreedo for specialty meds I take for RA. I've had to get every other med I take prequalified with them due to quantity limits, step therapy, you name it. Since 7.1.17 I've had 47 phone calls to get things figured out. That's probably 8 hours of time in the last month. Biggest problem is getting my copay assistance card applied for Humira. Card reduces the copay from $60 to $5.

7 different calls to different departments and a different bulllshit story each time why they haven't been able to apply it. I've been hesitant to place my refill this week until I can get this resolved since I don't want to incur more fees with them that I'll never get reimbursed for.

Well, I found that the issues are rampant nationwide with other patients having same problems or even far worse with express scripts/accredo. Thousands of angry reviews on BBB, Consumer Reports, Yelp , Reddit, Facebook groups, petitions, you name it. Anywhere a public platform exists you'll find people screwed over by one of the nations largest pharmacy benefits managers.

In my searching I found a phone number for their presidential escalation department and got a hold of someone there who got an earful from me with details of every single person I spoke to, time and date and the info they gave me. I quoted an express scripts blog post where they condemn the use of copay cards because they drive down profits. I essentially demanded an explanation as to why I couldn't get a straight answer from a single employee and wanted resolution. He hadn't gotten a word in edgewise at this point except to ask for my member id and name to look me up. He promised to get back to me within 24 hours. I wasn't hopeful and planned to call again to pester.

This morning at 8:30 am, he called me. My account had been credited. I only owe them $5.

Just felt like such a win and I know it's a small amount of money in the grand scheme of medical bills saddling people out there. But after what I've been through in the last few years I'm not about to let these jerks win. I had to try and fight the battle.

For what it's worth if you're not up on this issue. Anthem BCBS is actually dropping express scripts in 2019 after a lawsuit and their stock took a huge dive after this news hit. Karma is bitch.

Actually this was yesterday, but meh, who cares.

Bit of context: Because of extremely uncomfortable financial issues, I'm living with my parents and she's living with hers, despite both of us being in our early 30s.

On to the story:

My SO is nuts with the Game Of Thrones series, and a friend of ours invited us over to her place yesterday to watch the first episode of the 7th season because she has HBO in her cable package. Me and the missus were running errands in the early afternoon and when we finished, we called our friend to ask if we could swing by already. She said that she was not home yet and was picking up some stuff for the night, but in about an hour we could drop by and she'd be waiting for us. So since we were in the neighborhood, we decided to kill some time at my place.

When we arrived, only my brother was there, and he left like 10 minutes after that. Me and the missus are just cuddling on the living room couch, and I blurted out, "y'know, now that we're alone, we can get dirty... I really want to eat you out right now". She giggled and said "dude, really?" "Yeah... You know what, come here, I'm going to eat you out right now on my parents' bed, 'cause it's the biggest and most comfortable one and their room has an AC."

Her eyes went super wide as I pulled her hand and walked her to my folks' room, took her pants and underwear off and buried my face between her legs. Needless to say, I ended up getting rock hard and penetrated her right then and there (we made extra sure not to make a mess even though I came inside). When we were done, we stepped into the bathroom to clean up a bit and get decent again, and decided to ring our friend to see if she was ready. Our friend said yes, so we got in the car to leave...

...right as my folks' car was rolling in.

They waved at us when they saw us leaving.

They have no clue.

So, little info for those who wonder. My mom is super religious, and she doesn't even know I'm not virgin anymore, so I hide my condoms because she went crazy when she found out my sister had lost her virginity. I'm just trying to keep her sane :D!

Ok, when I was in my trip to Spain, I decided to buy a pack of condoms because, you see, it may come in handy....

Since I knew I wouldn't use all of them, I tried to think of a place to hide that package. The thing is, my room doesn't have any drawers and I have little to no privacy at all. I play bass, and so my little smart brain had this brilliant idea: I'll put the condoms in my bass bag, since it's probably the one thing people don't keep sniffing (yeah, like dogs do).

A few weeks later, I had a party and so, because I knew I was gonna get drunk, I decided to pick up the last 2 condoms I had in that package and put them in my wallet, because, you see, drunk me is kind of a perv, and better be safe ehn? It maybe would come in handy!

It appeared that my cats decided to take a dump in my bass bag (it's laying around on the floor, still not my fault they don't want to use the litterbox) and it was my mom who found that. She sms'd me, saying the cats had taken a giant poop on my bass bag and she had taken everything that was inside (I had a concert a few weeks ago and so I had replacement strings etc in there) and put the bag in the laundry room.

Well, sober me laughed a lot because fate was in my side and god damnit did I dodged a bullet!

TLDR: Hid my condoms in my bass bag, where no one would suspect a thing, decided to save them in my wallet before party. Apparently cats pooped on the bag after I left home and mom found out, taking the bag to the laundry room. Fate was in my side and I sure dodged a bullet!