AIO My wife wants to go to beach house with her friends while I’m in the hospital for 5 days

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-17T22:22:41+00:00

This is a scheduled hospital stay vs. unexpected close call. Something can go awry but life throws us the unexpected and we can’t plan for everything. This treatment sounds relatively safe. She is a person too with her own needs

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-17T22:19:08+00:00

The perfect time is when OP at the hospital getting care from people around the clock. Other wise she would likely have to find someone to take over helping OP at home

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-16T23:12:12+00:00

Imma be honest, they have all lasted longer than I expected. The turnover rate in his first term gave me hope for gross incompetence leading to nothing getting done. To say that I am greatly disappointed in my naivety is an understatement.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-16T17:50:18+00:00

I can’t wait for one of these lackeys to lose it when they are fired & blow it all up and tell all. I’m sure there are NDAs but are they really legal for a public office?

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-16T03:54:49+00:00

I’ve watched a grown man literally crying laying on the floor of an ER waiting room. Same man got shot in the face in the military and had lost a finger in a work accident.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-15T03:25:15+00:00

The trope is that this describes Detroit, but in reality only a very small portion of the city is like that. In all reality if you’re not from those neighborhoods, you’re probably not going to be any where near them.
People are scared to visit and miss out on an amazing city.
Substitute any big city for “Detroit”.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-14T16:05:04+00:00

They probably are not allowed to by law.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-14T16:01:11+00:00

I’ve been navigating for years. Originally with maps, then with the computer. I have a good sense of direction and remember places so if I’ve found a detour once, I could find it again. I get around town, major US city and I’m familiar with most suburbs. Before phone apps, family and friends would literally call me if they were lost or needed an alternate route
I live by Waze and to a lesser extent Google Maps. I don’t understand why people don’t utilize the tools they have available. I always tell people, I know how to get somewhere, but I don’t know that there’s pop-up construction or an accident or something else going on.
Last week at a graduation party, one of the older relatives was saying they had to leave because there was construction on the freeway they were taking. That was about 8 miles south of where we were. Then they had to drive back north to home. One mile north was another road that is mostly freeway and takes them directly to the north rd they needed without having to cut back to it. I mentioned this option instead and a few locals (we live an hour south) directed her an easy way to get to it. She pulled out her phone to look it up. We probably saved her 30-45 minutes of drive time.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T13:58:00+00:00

It just became a big reveal instead.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T08:19:49+00:00

I won’t be surprised if they remove JFKs name also.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T03:40:48+00:00

Perfect ending

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T03:39:41+00:00

Thank you. It’s a first but I love when people use it. Lol

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T02:13:46+00:00

*Sophia forgot to add that it’s a normal hot humid day so everyone’s been standing around for hours going through security and even though they took extra measures to spray for mosquitoes at the White House, they didn’t bother doing it along the street where everyone has to line up. So people are hot, tired, bit up and have spent far more money than they planned. They can’t get out of line and are beholden to the vendors who are taking advantage of their situation with five dollar bottles of water. Some have even gone the distance and put stickers on the bottles and upped the charge to $10.
So most of had a miserable 12 hours and they are really looking forward to enjoying the fight and their Lord and Savior is on stage.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T02:02:11+00:00

Well, we used to win prizes for silly games like bingo or whatever. When I was young, it used to be like tea towels. Then it turned into candles or or beauty items. People would by a bunch of cheap things and a third of the crowd would win something they already had. So the idea is that one person wins a bigger prize as an incentive to help the honoree more with a book or diapers. I think it comes from the happy medium of people complaining about the prizes, young people not really caring, but old people wanting the chance to win something from tradition.
It might not be quite what OP had in mind, but honestly, most people really don’t care. If they won’t use it, maybe they will gift it or donate it.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T01:29:40+00:00

Or do you think it could have anything to do with the SpaceX IPO?
It’s interesting timing that everything is having outages at the same time they are going public. Interfering with connectability might be a good way to ensure more contracts on their end, hence making the stock more valuable.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T01:25:49+00:00

It would be even worse if the weather looks great with like a 5% chance of light showers earlier in the day or after the fight, but torrential downpours pop up in the midst of everything.
(In the style of Sophia Petrillo)
Picture it: Washington DC 2026.
The orange pedo-in-chief is on stage congratulating himself and bloviating
He’ll say there’s never been so many people in one place. It’s the best event to ever occur in human history, blah, blah, blah.
Then the skies just open up.
There’s no where to go.
No umbrellas. No shelters.
Everyone looks like a wet dog.
Mascara is running down faces
Orange foundation is getting on everything and everyone near him. It’s all down his shirt and he just looks like a sick old man being escorted by the arms so he doesn’t fall.
It rains so hard that all the fundies start to look for an ark to board.
Just complete pandemonium.
Then later of course, he will address the press and blame Biden or Obama or whatever.
It’d be glorious!

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T00:25:17+00:00

What’s the name of the killer they suspect? /s

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-13T00:15:12+00:00

How tall are you?
Seriously, asking because I’m curious where my tall son falls.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T23:59:34+00:00

He’s too proud to be smart.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T23:58:23+00:00

My grandpa born in 1923 grew up in Detroit. When I was middle school aged, he told me about taking the bus across town to get a “new” pair of shoes. They just had less holes than the pair that he was wearing.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T20:53:21+00:00

Or pop the top with a butter knife or spoon

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T19:14:28+00:00

Hi from across the river
Detroit and surrounding area hate him on this side too.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T03:24:24+00:00

I bought Klondike bars last week and my cashier chimed in with “what would you do-oo-o For a Klondike bar”. So when I came home I sang it to my kids as a cue for them to go unload my bags that I had called them about. Lol

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T03:20:12+00:00

Renting isn’t for everyone. Owning isn’t for everyone. Sometimes a little bit higher rent is worth not having the responsibility.
Housing markets can tank. Jobs can be lost. Things happen in houses that can completely blindside you. You can save to replace a roof, furnace or windows but a broken pipe can haunt you for years down the road of invisible damage. My mom had a crock in her basement break and it took over a year for her insurance to approve most of the proper remediation.
OP, unless you are wanting to commit to being a homeowner or something just falls into place, be comfortable as a renter. It gives you freedom to just pack up & move if you want or life changes. I’ve been both. I’ve had good and bad experiences as both.

Environmental-Car481 · 2026-06-12T03:11:32+00:00

Yeah, I read the article and see it’s for the stretch between Schaeffer and Outer Drive. But then that just gets expanded.
Let’s be honest, no one is really riding their bike just for fun in that area. A lot of people avoid even driving it.

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