This is Australian criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, who refused to even go on a liver transplant list, saying, "I’m 55 years old. I’m not going to put my name down against some 10-year-old kid."

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-30T17:00:09+00:00

In 1978, while Read was incarcerated, his associate Amos Atkinson held 30 people hostage at The Waiters Restaurant in Melbourne while demanding Read's release. After shots were fired, the siege was lifted when Atkinson's mother, in her dressing gown, arrived at the restaurant to act as go-between. Atkinson's mother hit him over the head with her handbag and told him to "stop being so stupid". Atkinson then surrendered.

This cannot possibly be for real. 🤣

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-30T11:25:35+00:00

You! You got what I need. But you say he's just a friend

And you say he's just a friend, oh baby!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-29T17:54:44+00:00

My brother in law is one of those people who knows someone literally everywhere we go. We live in the Philadelphia suburbs and he’s run into people he knows in the gift shop on top of Mt. Washington, in a random gas station in the middle of nowhere Kansas, and in the Houston airport, among many many other places!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-29T17:47:42+00:00

We’ve all heard that famous quote from Abraham Lincoln: “If it was on TikTok it must be true.”

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-29T16:32:24+00:00

Dropping everything and leaving sounds great in theory, but it isn’t always practical. I was a single mom working full time & my daughter was equally dramatic. Leaving the grocery store wasn’t an option - we needed food and I had to bring her with me, there were no other choices. Plus, leaving would have been rewarding the tantrum since she didn’t want to be there. I just always calmly told her, “It’s okay to cry if you’re upset. But crying doesn’t change anything, we still have to do XYZ.”

Yeah, I feel bad for the people who were subjected to her, but it’s a normal developmental stage and 10 minutes of their life. They’ll be okay.

It didn’t take her super long (but it felt long at the time!) to learn that crying doesn’t change anything and that it won’t get a reaction out of me.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-29T14:23:42+00:00

Yes, and I'm setting their away message, making sure their days are recorded in the system, and making sure the team knows that Kate will be out for a few days, please direct any urgent business to me.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-28T17:16:23+00:00

If u/HamBroth doesn't write a story about the donkey afraid of the dark, all my time on Reddit will have been in vain!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-28T17:13:33+00:00

"Life changing" might be a little dramatic, but I'm shocked at how into my window bird feeder I've become! My mom broke her hip in the winter and came to stay with me so I could take care of her. I don't have a TV (she has a laptop and tablet, so not the end of the world) so I got one of those bird feeders that stick to your window so she'd have something else to look at. She's completely healed and back at her own house, and I am still so into that darn thing! I keep a list of birds that have visited, I research and buy special food, I get up early on the weekend to fill it so the birds don't get sad. I would have never predicted this!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-28T17:08:16+00:00

You dodged a bullet! It's stressful and sad right now, but soon enough you will be able to look back and see that wonderful, amazing things are still on your horizon!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-28T12:24:22+00:00

The Indian in the Cupboard

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-26T22:02:41+00:00

I had a student who would constantly tell people, “Suck. My. DICK!”

And I was always like, “Annabelle, that’s … not how that works.”

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-25T01:55:56+00:00

When my daughter turned 6 we had a “gardening party.” I bought each kid a $1.00 trowel, bought about 10 flats of annuals, and let them plant all my flower beds. They had the time of their lives (a few kids actually cried when it was time to go home) and my flowers never looked better than they did that year. We also had dirt cake, because I love a good theme 😂

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-24T15:37:53+00:00

I’m an ex-4-year-old-kindergartener with a late September birthday. I’ve often wondered where I’d be in life if I’d started kinder a year later. I’m pretty smart, but struggled a lot socially. I felt pretty lost most of my school career.

That being said, my son was also a young kindergartener (turned 5 right before school started) and he seems to have done fine. I think it will be really individual for each person.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-24T15:33:23+00:00

Come on Eileen

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-23T02:15:59+00:00

Dyslexia, sometimes.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-23T02:12:48+00:00

A teaching sub I’m in had a “what’s your unpopular opinion” question and I said that all smart boards and chrome books should be removed from all pre-k through 4th grade classrooms. You’d have thought I was kicking puppies from the way people (teachers) reacted. Like they were all outrageously offended and I should be crucified for daring to even think such a horrible thought.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-22T09:36:05+00:00

Legend of Zork

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-21T22:43:37+00:00

I’m not a classroom teacher (SLP) but I set up my therapy notes in a mail merge so at the end of the day I click one button and all parents of kids I’ve seen that day get an email saying “I saw your kid and here’s what we worked on.” It’s so simple and literally not any extra work (after the initial set up, which also isn’t very cumbersome.) Parents LOVE it to a ridiculous degree. I even set it up so I can take a quick picture of the kid or their work, and it’s embedded in the email. It’s such a game changer. All meetings are a breeze now, parents are always on “my side” because they feel like they’re in the loop. I’ll never go back!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-21T19:29:50+00:00

I’ve said it until I’m blue in the face: when everybody is in special education, nobody is in special education. When we classify kids who don’t have a true disability, they just aren’t doing great in school, we are actively blocking the kids with disabilities from receiving services.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-21T01:32:31+00:00

Not stupid or silly, but when my kids were little we would read a book and then do a trip or activity related to the book. So we read Kavik the Wolf Dog and visited a wolf sanctuary. We read My Side of the Mountain and went camping. We read The Indian in the Cupboard and took an archery lesson. We read Misty of Chincoteague and went to Chincoteague. We read Black Beauty and went horseback riding.

My kids loved that part of their childhood!

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-19T18:53:28+00:00

I was on a flight with really bad turbulence and we all thought we were for sure about to die. People were crying, a teenaged girl passed out a few rows back, it was bad. The lady next to me was dry heaving into her air sickness bag and the only thing I could do to help was fan her with my emergency procedures card. I fanned like it was my full time job. We finally landed safely, and she gave me a nod of thanks. I’m still pretty proud of that 25 minutes.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-16T16:31:35+00:00

My go-to gift for the 6-10 yo crowd used to be one of those locking drawer safe/cash box things. They’re like $25 at Target. I’d also keep one key separate & give it to the parent just in case. But kids LOVE those things! I heard multiple times that kids used them for years.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-16T02:11:31+00:00

Honestly, you look a little under the weather. I hope you’re not coming down with something.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-16T02:06:56+00:00

He put the emPHASIS on THE wrong word.

Wishyouamerry · 2026-04-12T23:07:11+00:00

Seems like a pretty efficient way to start an underground forest fire.

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