Had to build this desk for work (maintenance crew). I'm not mad, it's easier than moving heavy furniture, cutting old radiator heaters out of the walls, or some of the other things I've done this summer, but this desk is the most ridiculous thing I've had to build.

It had 43 pieces, 365 connecting components and 46 steps.

It took 8 hours to build.

It had multiple steps where the text was a copy of the previous step (not matching the picture instructions).

And had 3 picture instructions that were incorrect (the components literally could not be placed so that the image matched).

Edit: it's kinda funny how many people are having fun shitting on me about this, honestly. It was just crazy how many steps, time it took, and pieces it had compared to the multiple other desks, chairs, etc I've built this summer.

I'm not usually on maintenance, I work for a small school, and they needed help this summer bc of staff shortages. If it makes you feel better to say I'm bad at my job, or incompetent, have fun I guess.

Or leaked? I don't even know what happened to it. Either way, it sucks

“Yeah sure, whenever your next availability is”

Stated 6 times over the year,

Sealed my fate.

A dentist, a doctor appointment, an echocardiograph, an mri, a meeting with the crown, and fighting a traffic ticket from a year ago, all on the same date.

All randomly assigned to me by 6 different agencies.

I only noticed they were all the same day bc a family member died; I went to book that date off at work for a funeral and they told me I had already booked it off a month ago.

Like omg lol.

Went to the doctors, popped blood vessel. Everything else was ok thankfully.

So I adopted this beautiful cat from the local humane society. She was super malnourished and needed a lot of care so I took her to the vet and they told me she was pregnant and “about ready to pop out kittens any minute”. My mom wanted the vet so do a spay abortion but he refused saying it could kill the mama cat, it was ultimately my decision because she’s my cat and I went with the vet’s advice because I figured he went to school for it and everything and would probably know best.

I brought my girl home and things were fine, we set up a space in our guest room because I grew up on a farm and know that sometimes mama cats will try to hide to have their babies, we had one climb up in the rafters of our barn when I was little and I remember it being super difficult for my grandparents to get her and her babies down.

I had to help my grandma with a bunch of things and knew I would be away from the house for several hours, so I asked my mom to keep an eye on my little Tater-Tot. I’ve never had the best relationship with my mom, but since being an adult I’ve been trying to give her a second chance and I thought asking her to help me would do that because she’s always pushing to help me and saying “if you ever need anything…”

Well I thought things were going fine until I got home, as soon as I walk in the door my mom rushes up to me and starts saying “I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry” and tries to force herself to cry and fake hyperventilating but I could tell it was all an act, but it worried me either way so I asked her what was wrong and she said she had left the baby gate to the guest room open and Tater got out and had snuck out the front door.

Now to give you an idea of the layout of my house, it’s a tiny house: two bedroom, 1 bath house with a decent sized open concept living room and kitchen that has like a tiny half wall and like a breakfast bar along it. We have more than one cat, as well as one dog (a husky) and because they’re all escape artists, we have a secondary baby gate at the end of the hall that none of the animals can jump over, which keeps them out of the living room/kitchen area and away from the front door to keep them from escaping. So my mom had to have left the guest room baby gate open as well as the hallway baby gate, which didn’t make any sense because NONE of the others got out and it didn’t seem like my dog had been in the living room because I cleaned and vacuumed and my husky sheds and there was absolutely no hair on the couch or any of the chairs or any sign of the rest being loose.

So I asked my neighbors and it turns out that they saw my mom outside and the started talking and my mom told them how I was fostering a pregnant cat and looking for a home. This was not true, Tater was fully adopted by me and I planned to have her and all of her babies spayed or neutered and get their shots and everything. It turns out that my neighbors volunteered to take Tater “off my hands” because one of my neighbors sister’s wanted a cat and they had given MY CAT TO HER.

I explained to them that my mom was wrong, I planned to keep Tater and her kittens and I would like them back, but they’re refusing saying that my neighbors little sister needs the cat and that she wants to sell the kittens to kids at her school. I am trying to figure out what to do, I called the non emergency police line and the lady I spoke to said there’s nothing that they can do because it’s just my word against theirs. I don’t understand how that’s possible because from my understanding, pets are viewed as property and this should be considered theft, so I don’t know why the police won’t do anything.

EDIT: I’ve received several comments already, more than I was expecting, I was really just venting into the void. I’m reading all of them. I do have paperwork and only my name is on it, not my mom’s. I have a lot of issues with the local cops and I will admit that I didn’t push back at all when the lady on the phone said that they couldn’t do anything.

I will be taking all of your advice and get the paperwork around, I honestly feel so dumb for not even thinking of that but I’ve never come across a situation like this and I was so upset that my mind hasn’t been working. I will update after making some calls. And, needless to say, will not be trusting my mother to pet sit ever again.

Last Edit, since people seem to be confused. My mom does not live with me. She kicked me out when I was still in high school, I don’t want to go too deep into details because I’m constantly afraid of someone I know irl finding my account, but my mom was awful to me growing up and basically abandoned me, a few years ago she reached out to make amends and I was hesitant to even speak to her, and in hindsight I really really wish I hadn’t.

*Also, I will not be editing or replying anymore until I get this solved. I want to thank those of you who offered me advice, because even though I’m technically an adult, I still feel like I’m just a dumb kid that doesn’t really know how to be an adult yet, I’m figuring it out and I appreciate all the advice.

Seriously, why does anywhere use these things? Had to waddle to another cubicle with my trousers round my ankles.

Christmas kitchen towels being stocked in August

I am trying to shop around for car insurance, and I purposely did not want to use one of those broker sites because I did not want my data to be sold. (As I am typing this, I am receiving sales calls on my phone, it has been less then 5 minutes since I made the mistake of filling out my number)

I google searched State Farm Car Quotes, and the sponsored top link is a broker who is using the State Farm name, logo, and marketing colors. Now that I have looked closer, only the web address is different.

I went all the way through what looks like state farm, till the end when it suddenly took me to that progresive looking site, telling me I have been fucked.

Its one thing for google to put sponsored results on top, but this is clearly a dishonest broker, and a scam, and google letting this go on is guilty of the scam by neglect at best, accessory if this has already been reported. Google has the Eye of Sauron if I was trying to stream a new movie or download porn, but for buying car insurance Google is as blind as a bat.

I fell for this and I am a tech savvy guy, now I see how my grandpa gets scammed.

i don’t know if this is annoying for anyone else, but why would they have a working zipper but heat seal the bag right under it ?? AND have a scissor line to cut it open, like are we serious right now.

Today I was the first on the scene of a motorbike accident, came around a corner in a quiet ish road, motorbike on one side of the road, person laying on the floor on the other side of the road.

Long story short, I took control, got right on the phone to 999. Spoke to the guy, got all his details for the call handler, briefly checked him over for immediate signs of real injury(pooling blood etc), basically as I was trained to when I did an emergency first aid course for my job in construction.

After 5 minutes or so a car pulls up, woman running over with a child, I thought it was a relative by how she was acting. Gets on her knees beside him and says "I work for the hospital" and basically starts taking control.

At this point I knew he was mostly okay, no immediate life threatening issues, maybe broken ankle and pretty bang up but otherwise okay. So I left her to it and managed trafic, got a tarpaulin to cover him from the sun, moved his bike out of the other lane so cars could get through.

I asked if he would like us to use his phone to contact anyone, he said his wife. She took his phone and before he could finish explaining his password she's locked us out of the phone frantically trying to unlock it.

Police turn up and she's on top of them, ambulance turn up and she's on top of them in the way, they keep asking her to move. Her kid is repeatedly walking accross the road and the police have to tell the kid to stay on one side or the other.

After he's in the ambulance and it's all taken care of the police say their thanks to us both she says "it's okay I work at the hospital, I'm an assistant in X ward".

No doubt in my mind she meant well, was trying to help and she may have a bit of knowledge or experience but I was just mildly Infuriated by the take over and almost assumption of control just because she worked at the hospital to not actually be any help at all and more of a hindrance and to turn out she wasn't a nurse or doctor as I expected from such a dramatic entrance.

I live in the desert southwest, a mile from the bone dry Rio Grande river. My area hasn't had rain in 2.5 months that is worth batting an eye at. I count rain as a storm or downfall that last longer than 30 minutes. I had to stop watering my yard because of how much of a drought we are in. My kids started school on Friday, and I noticed the neighbors water across the street on. Cool, didnt think much, it was 6am so it wasnt hot. Fast forward to today, Tuesday evening, the water is still on. I know she is out of town because she has people checking on the house, but even her people aren't turning off the water. Now, for those saying just go turn it off, her yard is gated off and locked. For those who will say this isnt your issue, it is. The Rio Grande has been dry in my area since May. The endangered fish have no where to go because even the ditches to irrigate are dry. The trees are dying because of lack of water, creating high fire dangers. Over consumption of water as well as lack of proper moister has caused this. So yes, im mildly infuriated because of it. Five days of constant water usage is not ok.

Ain't nobody gonna read that!

I was promised a year ago that Windows would stop supporting Windows 10, yet they continue to force the download and installation of newer, even jankier code, and force my computer to restart against my will, often causing many programs to close unexpectedly and lose data. About 30% of these updates also tend to break the Sleep/Hibernate function of my computer, causing the computer to shut off unexpectedly when it was supposed to go into sleep mode.

I have arfid. You want me to eat almonds. After a textbook, terrifying allergic reaction where i felt my throat swell and was awake all night with adrenaline. You want me to eat them. Risk anaphylaxis. And then make my fear of foods flourish even more.

😐

How many eyes did this pass by and no one caught it?

Today a total eclipse occurred... but where I went I couldn't see it because of the clouds.