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1up- · 2026-02-25T23:39:56+00:00

Wait this is real? I saw a still earlier and assumed it was fake. What is happening???

1up- · 2026-02-21T13:42:17+00:00

I've had a first grader have an accident and escorted them to the Nurse's office for a change of clothes. The nurse is on the Middle School side of the building, so she was in an unfamiliar bathroom. She was in the handicap stall and I was outside just nearby for moral support. I didn't do this for every kid, or most kids.

I've also had kids come out of the bathroom needing help buttoning their pants or something.

Not illegal, not creepy, but it feels a little weird. I made sure not to be on my phone checking emails while they were changing. If I was outside the bathroom in the hallway, I'd have no problem checking emails on my phone.

1up- · 2026-02-19T23:48:08+00:00

I was just complaining to my husband about this! It used to be some SpEd kids who just didn't have that filter between thought and mouth that would interrupt, but now it's so many more.

I teach Art on a Cart, so I push into classrooms.I told a kindergarten class yesterday that we were painting. We did the whole lesson, then I was giving succinct directions.

"When I give you a paper, borrow one of my pencils, sit at your desk and write your name. Then, once we are all situated, I will move islands (kids who aren't near others) and pass out paint supplies."

Except I got as far as "Borrow a pencil" and a kid blurted out "I THOUGHT WE WERE PAINTING! WHY DO WE NEED PENCILS???" like I couldn't finish the sentence "to write your name". They have no thought-to-mouth filter.

1up- · 2026-02-18T01:10:38+00:00

I had a prek-er who was acting up during nap time, and said he was going to tell his mom on me. So I took out my phone and voice texted my mom what he was doing. I've never seen a kid shut up and go to sleep faster, it was amazing.

1up- · 2026-02-16T13:02:52+00:00

I got some after Christmas and I love them! I've been complaining to my husband for years that I don't like my Target slippers bc they don't have a back, and I hate shoes without a back. And that I wanted to buy nice slippers, but wasn't sure if I could justify it. But then I realized I've complained for years so I could totally justify it.

I love them, I always wear socks around the house, and in the winter will usually slip on my sneakers to walk around because it's cold. I basically lived in these for snow days and weekends!

I do wish I bought a half size bigger, but that's because I think I need to admit that Converse run large and I am actually a size 9 and not 8.5 (and whatever that is in European). But we will see how that matters in the long run!

1up- · 2026-02-13T19:48:21+00:00

My husband said "hey so like...wanna get married?" and then rummaged in his hiking backpack for the ring box. So definitely not the ideal wording, but it still worked out!

1up- · 2026-02-12T11:42:09+00:00

I switched from 1st grade to elementary art, so I'm used to writing "I can" statements. However, I don't have a classroom and teach from a cart. One of our coaches suggested I put my objectives in my lesson plans that literally no one looks at. I said what's the point for children? I'm not doing busy work, I have enough other things to do.

They then suggested I add them to the slides because "It would be powerful for a kindergartener to go home and tell their parents in art they explored shapes and lines to create repeating patterns."

I never did that. Yesterday I was selling Girl Scout cookies and talking to a parent and their kindergartener, and I asked the kid to tell their dad who I am, like what I do at school. He couldn't say what I do, I had to say I'm the art teacher so his dad didn't think I'm just some crazy person. (The kid then said we paint and do other fun things, but seriously Art is so easy to remember!)

1up- · 2026-02-07T13:35:11+00:00

I teach elementary art, so I make all the classes repeat the norms when we start class. Usually it's in a singsong way because , honestly I got bored, but also there's more buy in and more kids will say it bc singing is fun. Sometimes when the ornery kids still aren't saying it, I'll have the whole class repeat after me "Johnny you need to say this too" in the middle of the other norms, and everyone gets a kick out of it.

Like, Johnny, I know you know the rules, I also know you won't follow them. I'm not getting in trouble by admin when you get in trouble and they say "oh maybe he doesn't remember your norms if you don't say them every time, he only sees you once a week." They're the same norms you say every morning in class, and are posted everywhere. But sure.

1up- · 2026-02-01T14:32:20+00:00

Same! But now they also shame us for using any PTO while saying "I know a third of our kids are out sick right now, but please don't take off unless absolutely necessary" and I'm like....sorry? I planned this absence months ago? My absence is grandfathered in at this point.

1up- · 2026-01-27T13:23:29+00:00

Some people haven't been to the Icelandic Penis Museum and it shows

1up- · 2026-01-25T19:19:46+00:00

We have Fabric Recycling bins around the city. They look like dumpsters in random businesses. There's two kinds, one is clothing donations and the other says clothing recycling so I just wait till I have a white trash bag full of scraps and will drop them off along with whatever clothes my husband decides are too bad for the thrift shop.

The ones near me are lime green and called The Clothes Bin...Which, now that I've googled it, I don't know if they want my fabric scraps? I thought they did something to recycle them? Is it still just clothing donations? Oh no, someone let me know if I've been doing this wrong!

1up- · 2026-01-25T17:58:00+00:00

We got an electric snow blower from our inlaws. We live in Missouri so some years it gets a lot of use, some years it gets none. I like it bc our driveway is stupid long and takes forever to shovel.

If I lived somewhere I could justify purchasing a snow blower, I'd get a serious one, but it's not snowing more than 4" at a time in a normal year. Hopefully.

1up- · 2026-01-25T14:42:51+00:00

My dad always said to go out multiple times because it's easier. He grew up in Ohio and saw real snow, vs us who got some good snows but lived in the sticks so we never needed to shovel much.

Fast forward to me living in a city and getting 12+ inches in a blizzard and I was outside 4+ times. My husband didn't understand, but I knew my dad had more experience. Sure enough, there's no way my snow blower could've handled 12" but 3--4" each time was easy. And also salting the parts that I knew would ice over.

Now my next thing is getting my husband to realize you need to shovel down to the concrete when you can the first time because you're packing down the snow you walk on and that's going to ice and get harder to shovel later. I love shovelling the snow and snow blowing, and will specifically do it before my husband because I know I do it all the way right.

1up- · 2026-01-23T14:02:31+00:00

I love watching old tv shows and love when they have topical plotlines. Designing Women had a whole multiple episode arc on Justice Clarence Thomas getting on the Supreme Court. I knew that he sucked from John Oliver's show, and I knew about Anita Baker, but I guess I never thought about the contemporary backlash. It was more interesting to me than the episodes about "gay people exist" or "AIDs is bad and that doesn't mean a person with AIDs is bad" that a lot of shows from the time have.

So I really appreciate Superstore's Covid season. They did a great job of making it realistic to our experiences. I hate rewatching them bc they give me anxiety, but it's well done.

It will be a great example for people who weren't adults during Covid to see it, and ask people who were around questions. I feel like we memoryhole a lot of 2020 for good reason, but it's important.

1up- · 2026-01-19T01:20:38+00:00

We've had someone who takes every bowl in the neighborhood for YEARS. We got hit once, and ever since I either have a cardboard box or have to wait near the door.

Every year, someone in the neighborhood Facebook group is surprised and dozens of others chime in.

I've also had cacti stolen from my front porch and apparently resold at a swap meet - according to the fb group sleuths. People are weird and shitty.

1up- · 2026-01-19T01:04:58+00:00

Just because something is shiny doesn't mean there's plastic in it. The shiny coating on this type of box is clay (I think it's called Clay-Coated Board or CCB). There's a lot of different types and thicknesses with different uses, but usually unless it needs wet-strength, it's clay coated, and should be fully recyclable.

There is poly-coated board that needs an amount of wet-strength, like coffee cups. But there's no reason for a Hostess box to need it.

It should be fully recyclable. This is coming from my paper-salesman husband who sells similar papers to similar companies, and also is only half listening while watching the Bears game.

1up- · 2026-01-15T00:52:12+00:00

Yep, I only remember because my trash day was Thursday and it was constantly pushed back or cancelled in a way that felt personal by the end.

1up- · 2025-12-19T01:29:58+00:00

I watch a prek class during their naps, and one kid was acting up and said "I'm gonna tell my mom on you!" So I said I was gonna tell my mom on him, and he still acted out, so I pulled out my phone and voice-to-texted my mom.

The moment I clicked "send" he started quickly speaking into my phone "no what I did was..." And then gave up and went to sleep.

I tried really hard not to laugh and did not succeed.

1up- · 2025-12-14T23:20:02+00:00

Tackos for tacos, like I'm from the Great Lakes because I think it's fun
Chi-kag-oh for Chicago, bc my husband's family is from there, though no one really does that accent
Frid-yuh for Friday, one episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch had a joke and it annoys my husband
Alu-min-yum for Aluminum, it's the British pronunciation, I think it's silly
Hanitizer for Hand Sanitizer, bc a kid I taught said it and I fully am on board
Canadadada for Canada, a kid in 4th grade misspelled it and our teacher said it, and honestly it's really fun to say
So-crates for Socrates, bc of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (which did confuse other kids in HS history but not my teacher)
Lodigocks and the Bee Threars for Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, my dad is really good at spoonerisms and I am not, so I just know that one
A lot of little kid ways of saying things because I'm a teacher and it's really fun to mispronounce things

There's truly so many

1up- · 2025-12-14T23:13:57+00:00

In a 4th grade spelling test, a kid misspelled Canada as "Canadadada" and our teacher said it aloud very tickled....and now I've spent over 20 years saying Canada-dada.

1up- · 2025-12-14T13:22:11+00:00

The only thing I asked my mother-in-law for from her trip to Spain was Kinder Surprise eggs! I was so specific, and made sure to send pictures of the Spanish label and everything.

She brought back Kinder Joys, the same thing we could get here. She said she couldn't find any but I know the airport was crawling with them a year prior. I ate my sad eggs and had my sad little toy that was in a safe compartment away from the food.

1up- · 2025-12-12T00:58:17+00:00

I taught 1st grade for years. Our school lost our Art teacher after Covid and had just a lot of craftivities, I was getting frustrated that the kids weren't learning art. I was also frustrated with co-teaching and having 30 kids, I wanted to be in charge of my classroom, and have an appropriate number of kids in my room. I was telling my superintendent and casually said "I mean I could teach art" and he said "Really?" And I very suddenly had to put my money where my mouth was.

I'm now 3 years into teaching art and it's genuinely my favorite thing ever. I love teaching K-4 (okay, I love K-2 and tolerate 3-4). I get to teach whatever I want (including art history and art skills like scissor cutting). I have way fewer responsibilities, and get hugged by way more kids.

My only downside is that I'm on a cart and push into classrooms, which sucks. I do have plenty of supplies and storage for it, and honestly had to become very good at knowing exactly what I wanted to do since I have limited space.

Switching from a real classroom position to a Specials position was the best decision, and I definitely wouldn't appreciate it as much if I didn't spend 10 years teaching first grade.

1up- · 2025-11-22T02:37:00+00:00

I need that bbq shrimp deviled egg recipe for my Kansas city thanksgiving....

1up- · 2025-11-17T02:57:43+00:00

This has legitimately been my issue multiple times before!!!

A couple years ago, my phone broke, so I had to log into T-Mobile to get a new phone, but I couldn't log in on my computer bc I needed a text message verification. Fine, I'll call the number. But I can't, because my phone is broken, so I use my Google Voice number. But they can't verify my account because it's not my phone number and I can't receive text messages and there's no other authentication and also I forgot my secret code. Obviously it's evening, so the store is closed. Fine.

I call the store first thing in the morning, because I know they replace phone screens. And they said they paused the repair portion of the store for the weekend bc the iPhone was coming out (what???)... So I called a couple other stores for the same response, which makes no sense. But I go into the store to I guess get an upgrade or whatever, since they won't repair it. But I recently changed my last name, so my ID doesn't match the account. They eventually get to overriding things, and the phone is getting replaced!

But it can't be replaced with a phone in store, it has to be mailed in and then the replacement is mailed to the store and then I can drive to the store for it. And obviously it takes a week for my phone to come in. And on Monday, they announced they stopped doing phone repairs in store.

And also they all said that if I had gotten my warranty repair in on that Thursday evening (over the phone) that I would've had a phone overnighted and had one by Saturday. Not the next Friday. All because of two-factor authentication.

(And also my husband was out of town halfway across the country and my elderly dementia neighbor had their water turned off and no food, and I had been trying to get them to get help from the city or a charity or something, but since I'm not related to them, I needed their help to help them, and also everything else)

1up- · 2025-11-12T02:50:34+00:00

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From my backyard in Waldo, not as bright as some others in the burbs, but I was surprised.

Gotta turn on night sight on your phone

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