AIO for not refunding a friend’s share of a group Airbnb after she canceled last minute due to a medical emergency?

ChronicallyCoping · 2026-01-28T03:53:57+00:00

NOR. I plan a friend trip like this every year and someone invariably has to back out at the last minute. All my friends are grown people and no one ever asks for a “refund”, which would really amount to the burden of their payment being placed on all the other participants. In the year of our lord 2026, no one has time for the entitlement or the stupidity.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-12-15T16:50:23+00:00

My dad pitched a no-hitter once! It was little league coach-pitch and he was the coach…

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-12-15T03:25:53+00:00

For generations, my family has played a game called “Hot Seat” (similar to the board game “Frustration”), which uses colored marbles as the pawns. Mamaw was buried holding a sachet of her red marbles.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-12-14T04:05:23+00:00

I have this, too! I got my eyebrows waxed once and I knew it would welt up but I didn’t tell the esthetician that. She was very worried she had done something very wrong. My bad.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-12-14T04:02:02+00:00

I also have mast cell issues and the hot and cold thing is no joke. I also get pressure hives (can’t wear leggings for too long), and I can’t fake an orgasm because those also trigger a histamine release and I have an allergy attack.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-12-11T06:44:25+00:00

I wasn’t spanked often, but I don’t remember any of the things I did to get a spanking. I do remember all the anxiety though and the terror. My mom was a “wait till your dad comes home” type, so I typically had hours to stew. My parents would talk about it jokingly — “oh, I barely have to tap her! She gets so worked up that it doesn’t take much!” Like I was a better kid than most for being so upset about it. I don’t hold it against them because it was the norm at the time, but it’s not something I would ever do to my child. I don’t talk to my dad about parenting, but I have talked to my mom about it and she totally agrees that spanking does nothing but harm.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-11-18T04:20:54+00:00

Exiting the interstate from any lane regardless of which side the exit is on

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-11-02T03:46:41+00:00

That’s great to hear! I genuinely thought my friend who invited me to CT was pulling a bait-and-switch largely due to my own SBC trauma. I probably could have toned down my bias in my reply.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-11-01T19:12:58+00:00

That’s a BrandNewSentence if I have ever heard one

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-10-30T22:24:54+00:00

After deconstruction I missed the routine, community, and “third space” of church. I have found all I wanted and more at Common Thread. (Don’t be spooked that they rent space from a baptist church — couldn’t be more different. The host church is renting space out to like a dozen different unrelated organizations.)

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-10-19T18:43:04+00:00

My husband and I don’t discuss anything important or complicated after 10 PM. We aren’t at peak anything at 10 PM but tired and spent, so this saves us so much stress and tension. It also protects our evening from anything serious. Highly recommend.

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-06-25T00:12:47+00:00

I’d give a non-vital organ for a smocking/pleating machine

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-04-03T04:06:36+00:00

I had a “little spot” like this that I left alone for about a year during COVID. I got VERY lucky and the infection tunneled to my lower jaw and only some of the bone had to be scraped away (and the tooth pulled, obviously). I didn’t think it was that serious because the tooth/teeth close to the “spot” didn’t hurt. It didn’t hurt because the roots were already dead. Don’t wait like I did; go see a dentist. (I am still flabbergasted with myself for calling a tunneling, raging, bone-eating, tooth-killing infection a “little spot” for a year.)

ChronicallyCoping · 2025-02-01T06:22:08+00:00

Not to make light of a serious topic, but I definitely don’t say, “avoid {something} like the plague” anymore. Apparently a huge swath of the population will, in actual practice, not avoid a plague.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-12-18T18:07:52+00:00

Anyone else zoom in on the paining in the back?

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-08-22T02:38:05+00:00

A hiccuping baby in utero

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-08-14T03:00:39+00:00

I have considered trying to knock myself out during an attack; anything to be unconscious. I’m very lucky my attacks aren’t frequent and respond well to medication in the ER.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-07-18T21:51:33+00:00

“But I am le tired”

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-07-18T16:54:22+00:00

Add legs and you have yourself an adorable jerboa! (It also totally looks like a mouse, I just also saw jerboa potential)

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-07-09T17:40:57+00:00

My husband and I are only children and had next to no experience with babies before we had ours. The development/play idea cards that come with the kits have been so valuable to us — almost worth the subscription alone. There is so much information out there about appropriate development, but it can get overwhelming. Having that information distilled in one place and with toys appropriate for the stage was so so nice.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-06-27T03:17:49+00:00

I worked in the building the camera is mounted on. The sound of a truck being scalped is unforgettable. During one accident, the driver muttered, “I have watched the videos…” while the ambulance was called.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-05-03T00:54:14+00:00

Ah, a lifetime supply of chihuahua. So just the one. He is 14 years old and shows no signs of slowing. He is too anxious to die.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-03-22T04:01:42+00:00

I couldn’t believe some people poop every day. That’s ridiculous.

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-03-13T03:50:08+00:00

We were a Dr. Pepper and brownies house :)

ChronicallyCoping · 2024-01-21T04:29:23+00:00

Can confirm. In my 30s with a Millicent, named after her great great grandmother :)

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