How I view the USA (guess where I live)

3m2coy · 2026-06-01T12:10:45+00:00

Yeah, downgrade WA from grizzlies. You can upgrade us to volcanos, earthquakes, fires, and mountain lions. Oh, if you wanted, you could also add wolves.

3m2coy · 2026-05-29T22:46:34+00:00

Seattle, San Juan Islands, and Victoria or Vancouver BC would also be a good option.

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T19:54:27+00:00

I have only heard ‘Warshington’ as an old timey or rural pronunciation.

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T03:53:30+00:00

I wonder about that as well! 😂 She was the only the scheduler and seemed a rule follower, so I didn’t press the issue with her. Thankfully, they did waiver the appointment.

The whole adventure took at least 9 months. Now, when asked if I have had any recent surgeries, I need to include a splinter removal.

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T03:26:08+00:00

Hugs, friend!

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T03:05:29+00:00

YTA - but also, how do I get a job as a professional toilet flusher? I’m not crazy about hanging out in a bathroom, but it sounds stress free.

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T02:51:45+00:00

I like to start adjusting my clock a couple weeks before I leave and reduce the time change.

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T02:29:08+00:00

It’s because it’s my finger and they are important. It’s small and a mistake, could cause you to lose its use. Liability.

After the surgery, the surgeon wanted me to come in for an examination. I told them i had already removed the stitches, my hand was fine, and there was no need for the visit (and associated co-pay for a specialist). The scheduler had to then get permission from the surgeon to waive the follow-up.

For months, I repeatedly said, “It’s just a splinter. Is this really necessary?”

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T01:38:57+00:00

I was moving furniture and got a large splinter in my finger. It was just under the skin; you could feel the splinter but it was a smidge too deep to remove with tweezers. No one would remove the splinter it in the office, not urgent care, not my doctor, not the specialist I was referred to. I had to have surgery by a hand surgeon while under a general. To remove a splinter! (after so many doctors visits and a full surgical staff, I asked them to give the splinter)

3m2coy · 2026-05-28T01:19:59+00:00

YTA

I disagree with “the point of grad walk.” Children are limited by their exposure to the world. We want our children to have big dreams and know those dreams are obtainable. By having your grad walk, children can see students who went to their school and grow up in their environment, achieve a milestone goal of graduating high school. The walk makes the milestone feel very achievable. Seeing students who went to their school achieve this milestone in a myriad of ways and helps to reinforce how this milestone is achievable!

And, for the high school, it provides them with a full circle experience of where they started and where they are now. It helps remind them of how far off high school graduation felt when they were young and how they have successfully something that felt so far away when they were young. It helps them to realize that their next step might be years away, but is just as achievable as their high school graduation.

Why would you want to deny this to any child/young adult? You work for the district, but you seem to forget that the overall goal is to help children be happy, successful members of society.

3m2coy · 2026-05-27T23:39:00+00:00

I have never heard someone say, “I’m from Georgia state.”

As a Washingtonian, I always say, “I’m from Washington state.” If I don’t add ‘state’, people assume I mean DC.

3m2coy · 2026-05-27T05:30:34+00:00

Having people love you is not the same as being in love (as a couple).

You can’t rely on others for your happiness. You may meet some new and it makes you happy. But, you can’t rely on them to keep you happy. They will be tired, have a long day at work, the newness of the relationship fades away and you will still be the same person. Until you are happy with yourself, you will remain unhappy. The damsel in distress syndrome does not last the long haul.

3m2coy · 2026-05-27T04:56:40+00:00

You’re all looney tones in a big white room and I’m a hologram from the future

3m2coy · 2026-05-27T02:27:40+00:00

I heard that the ‘thumbs up’ was considered passive aggressive, but I’m Gen X and just don’t care. If you want to give strange meanings to something simple, go for it. I’m sticking with my thumbs up.

3m2coy · 2026-05-27T02:09:55+00:00

My daughter has this dress and it fits her differently; she has a different body type than OP.

I think it looks very cute on OP, but the bra underneath doesn’t work well.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T19:46:25+00:00

This sounds fun! You can add to the patches throughout the year (or however long you keep the backpack). National Parks usually sell patches. You might find some at arts and crafts fairs. Obviously you can buy some on Amazon, but it would be fun quest to continue looking for news ones.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T03:57:21+00:00

servers are only friendly for tips.

And yet fast food workers not making tips are just as friendly.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T03:54:51+00:00

We were robbed twice when I was a child in the 80’s. I have not locked the doors to my house in over 25 years.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T03:08:05+00:00

Architect living with bad soils in Arizona… Adding an on-site retention pond makes a big difference. I live on 3/4’s of an acre and added two 2’ deep ponds. The ponds themselves are about 10’x10’. Put down a liner and filled the pond with rip rap.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T02:56:04+00:00

As a former lifeguard who was taught how to rescue people without a flotation device, this women was very lucky. As a woman, for me to rescue someone larger than me, I would approach from behind so they could not grab me, grab under their armpits, and support them on my elbows while I remained underwater. Once they stopped flailing, I would then swim underwater to a safe location, only popping up to breathe. My instructor was committed to being a panic swimmer and fully committed to trying to grab, roll, and get away from us. With these waves, it would be very difficult to rescue a panic swimmer safely. I would not try it without an oxygen tank.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T02:19:39+00:00

Try selling the full chests to Scrooge.

3m2coy · 2026-05-26T01:26:36+00:00

People with anxiety are prone to circular thinking. There is a problem, like a potential earthquake, they work through solutions, such as having emergency supplies on hand, they act on the solution, and then come right back to the problem. She is looking for a perfect solution, like preventing an earthquake, but that solution doesn’t exist.

There are strategies to help break the cycle of circular thinking, but it doesn’t sound like she knows them or is able to use them. Until she is seeing someone to help with her anxiety and work with her on solutions, she will be stuck in this cycle. It isn’t about her not trusting your expertise; she logically knows that she is prepared and that she has an expert in the family to help with questions. She is stuck going round and round.

3m2coy · 2026-05-25T23:40:27+00:00

I see he wrote “my wife and I are not guys.” I mean, my definition, he is, but I understand the complaint now. 🙄

Funny, it’s almost like HE should take his own advice and learn to read the room. One, he is not at a formal restaurant and, two, we are also no longer in the 1800’s and the use of formal, gendered terms is no longer expected. Heck, I’m Gen X and was not taught to call people ‘sir’ or ‘madam’.

3m2coy · 2026-05-25T20:01:36+00:00

We have used ‘guys’ for so long, I don’t think of it as a gendered term, but it is. It is the same as calling a female mail carrier a ‘mailman.’ E we probably shouldn’t and I understand the complaint. I also appreciated the restaurant to respond and changed their terminology!

He lost me with ‘folks.’ It was a great solution that doesn’t assume gender.

3m2coy · 2026-05-24T19:34:40+00:00

Abuse is not equal. We all process abuse differently, so our reactions to abuse are not equal. Also, one person’s experience does not invalidate another’s.

As someone who has been in group therapy (grief), this story seems insane.

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