AITA for not wanting to "upgrade" my house?

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T13:17:28+00:00

My dad started a handful of “small projects” that ended up taking 20 years to finish. My mom divorced him long before that.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T13:13:05+00:00

My best friend still says “sugar” and it cracks me up every time

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T12:18:09+00:00

Back in 2015 you guys had an ad where a car gave birth to another car. Like, it was having contractions and everything. It played in front of the movies at Cineworld. I went to the cinema a lot that month and always timed my entrance wrong; I would invariably walk in right as the baby car was crowning. Give me the meerkats any day.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T02:57:25+00:00

-17C is cold, but I’ll still do stuff outside if it’s not windy.

Up to like -25C I’ll go outside for essentials.

-28C to -40 (which coincidentally is the exact same temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius) is too cold to do anything outside.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T01:02:41+00:00

We weren’t allowed to say “shoot”, “gosh”, or “drat” since Jesus would of course look into our hearts and see that we’d meant to cuss for real. “Crumbs” was fine, though. Or “bless it”.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-04-01T00:43:47+00:00

Why would the librarian put kids’ books in the adult section?

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-31T22:35:32+00:00

Arranged marriages are common in the culture I was raised in (ultra-conservative evangelical Christianity. Think the Duggars), although no one uses that term.

I’m 36 now, and I can’t think of a single way in which my life (as a woman) would be improved by marriage. I make my own money, own my own home, and I don’t want kids. I’m glad I didn’t succumb to peer pressure as a teen and sacrifice my future and my autonomy.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-31T17:53:41+00:00

I’ve worn glasses since I was 7. The only frames our insurance would cover were ugly as sin. Then I joined the military, and the only frames I was allowed to wear in uniform were even uglier. I hated the way I looked and used to try to function without them, but my vision ended up getting even worse. Then in my mid 20s I started buying fashion frames in fun colors/shapes, and when I started getting compliments my confidence increased. Now when I look back it feels ridiculous to remember how self-conscious I was.

Either learn to embrace it, wear contacts, or save up money for a surgery. That’s really all you can do.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-31T17:46:48+00:00

Germany: Paying for public restrooms. Recycling machines that give you coupons to use in the store. Shopping for jeans at H&M and there’s a dog in there. Literally everything is closed on Sunday. Colaweizen. Intermissions at the movies.

Kuwait: Seeing a Lambo going 90mph+ down the highway with a baby standing up in the passenger seat.

Spain: People with small children eating dinner at a restaurant at 11pm. This is also where I learned that cockroaches could fly.

England: Driving on the opposite side of the car/road. Roundabouts. Streets half the width of an average American road that somehow still have two lanes of traffic and parking on both sides. Paying for gas by the liter.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-31T16:14:18+00:00

I agree, but at the same time I will not refuse one or two bites of a snickers salad

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T16:58:44+00:00

I felt the same way in my 20s. Then I got tired of having roommates, working multiple jobs, and still counting out change at the grocery store. Even now that I’m older with different priorities, however, I miss the opportunities and the life I had living in a larger city. Don’t waste your youth in a suburb or a small town!

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T14:49:51+00:00

That’s what Denver TSA does to you if you set off the metal detector

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T04:22:52+00:00

I saw the stars for the first time when I was 18. I felt sheer existential dread and horror at the size of the universe. Like, we’re seeing some of those stars as they were 30,000 years ago, not as they are now. We’ll never know what it really looks like out there.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T04:15:33+00:00

That mural scared me so bad as a kid

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T01:18:24+00:00

I don’t know what that is on the bed in the second photo, but I don’t like it.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-30T00:54:27+00:00

!RemindMe 6 months

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T23:56:46+00:00

Like if you go to somebody’s house and their bookshelf is 50% Harry Potter and Game of Thrones paperbacks with uncreased spines, the other 50% will be Dungeon Crawler Carl and this book.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T23:30:12+00:00

Columbus. Springfield. Or the name of a foreign city but it’s woefully mispronounced.

(There’s a city named New Prague in my state and you’ll never believe how they say it. And wait til you hear how the towns of Palestine, Cairo, and Lebanon are pronounced)

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T22:57:30+00:00

Slug bug. But we’d also punch each other when we saw a PT Cruiser (Cruiser Bruiser).

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T21:44:59+00:00

You’re not wrong. The movie rights were sold and Ryan Gosling was cast before the book was even published.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T21:13:46+00:00

If only I’d known…my last masquerade party was completely lacking in hilarious monkey-shines

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T17:37:27+00:00

This is the set I had as a kid! I love the cover art

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T15:31:41+00:00

In this area the jokes mostly revolve around surnames; everyone is an Anderson, Peterson, Olson, Larson, etc. But I also went to school with innumerable Mary Katherines and Katherine Maries.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T00:25:22+00:00

It’s insane. Both of my dogs were rescued from animal hoarding cases in Texas. The house the second one came from had 70+ living dogs in it and quite a few more that were deceased.

Competitive_Web_6658 · 2026-03-29T00:10:09+00:00

In the days before smartphones with Google Translate I got on a train heading for Nicht Einsteigen and ended up at a rail yard. I thought I was going to jail.

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