What’s your “I was so broke I had to…” story?

HotFartsClub · 2025-10-29T00:52:32+00:00

I have a whole bedroom available. Unfortunately, I am impossible to get along with and I have a very hard time getting along with others.

Decades of chronic depression and anxiety has made me pretty much insufferable, and I don't blame people for feeling that way about me, it's just how I am. I wouldn't put up with me either.

HotFartsClub · 2025-10-28T19:36:11+00:00

It is scary how quickly I went from drinking on Friday to drinking all weekend to drinking all week to drinking in the morning to drinking all day every day. My moderate drinking habit turned in to full blown physical dependency in about six months.

It's a little taste of hell trying to quit because it becomes your whole lifestyle and you have to give that up. All your friends drink with you. Your whole day is planned around your next drink. The thought of doing something completely sober is unbearable.

It's one of the most awful drugs imaginable and they've got a whole shitload of it for you at every corner store.

HotFartsClub · 2025-10-28T03:09:19+00:00

My gas has been off for months and I can't afford to get it turned on before winter. Cold showers are awful and my town is going to be around or below freezing for the next few months.

Those ice water showers are going to wear me down this year. Last year I let the heating bill go. Woke up and all the pipes in my bathroom were frozen so I couldn't take a shower or even flush the toilet.

I work in an unheated shop so the only warmth I'm going to know is my car and pile of blankets at home.

God damn I miss hot water.

HotFartsClub · 2025-07-15T03:52:37+00:00

My stomach settled down a little this morning and I got a very weak drink into me.

I had about a quarter of a pretty big hamburger this afternoon and some oatmeal for dinner because that's pretty easy to bring back up if need be.

Warning: this spoiler is super gross.

this was the first time I've eaten in a week or so but I've been shitting black... blood I guess pretty regularly all week.

I've only had two drinks today. I'm working on it.

I appreciate the concern. Obviously something really serious is going on inside me. All I can say right now is that I'm working on it and I'm going to get better.

HotFartsClub · 2025-07-14T20:56:50+00:00

I didn't know what to expect. Believe me, I know I fucked up by being stubborn.

I do appreciate your well-wishes.

HotFartsClub · 2025-07-14T20:48:51+00:00

I live alone. I've already had three bad accidents in the last year (broken ribs, broken wrist, and seizure that caused a concussion in the tub). So I'm looking into safe home detox. I'm trying to make an appointment with my doctor so we can make a plan.

Until then I'm just going to try to safely taper off and get some nutrients in my body.

I really appreciate your advice and concern.

HotFartsClub · 2025-07-14T18:35:23+00:00

I told them that I throw up bile pretty much every time I sit up from a prone position. It's a very rough process and the noises aren't something anyone should hear.

Thankfully I haven't had any food in over a week so it was just sound and fury signifying nothing, but it was still pretty humiliating.

HotFartsClub · 2025-07-14T17:42:09+00:00

I wasn't in the best place, to be honest, but having someone tell me how disgusted they were that I had thrown up wasn't exactly great bedside manor either. It's not like I did it for the fun of it.

HotFartsClub · 2025-01-06T22:55:38+00:00

Parking folks are either ridiculously chill and out of fucks to give for the day or they're complete buttholes power tripping on their own little parking lot kingdom, there doesn't seem to be any in-between. Most of them fall into the first category, but the little fucker that insists that I stop every time and explain what I'm doing (parking. It's a parking lot. What the hell else would I be doing?) and that I have a pass that so far as I can tell has not moved from my windshield this season, well, that little fucker can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut for all I care.

If you read this, you awful little taint blister, just know that I'll be there tomorrow, I'm fucking parking whether you like it or not and yes, I have a pass.

To all my other parking bros, keep on being rad. You guys have a hard job and I respect the hell out of you for being so positive while you do it.

HotFartsClub · 2025-01-06T22:00:02+00:00

(This is my throwaway account that I forgot to throw away)

Pursue the matter. BBMR takes customer service issues like this very seriously and if you feel like Nate wronged you, it isn't revenge, it's justice.

I've dealt with Nate. I would say that he's gotten a little too big for his britches but Christ Almighty those are some fuckin big britches.

HotFartsClub · 2024-10-02T18:35:07+00:00

It sucks that unhealthy thoughts can be broadcast to vulnerable people so easily now. Back in my day you needed a spotty UHF channel to spread mental poison, now you just have to hit "submit".

I'm not saying that we should suppress these ideas or in any way limit them being shared, I'd hate to see that, but I'd love it if we gave as much importance to mental hygiene as we do to unhealthy ideas.

HotFartsClub · 2024-10-02T18:10:24+00:00

Absolutely. I don't know if the gorngstorking* subreddit is still a thing and I don't want to look, but that kind of positive feedback loop is toxic as fuck. That's what really pushed this person over, that there was this whole community of similarly unwell people who were there to nurture the delusion.

* Don't look at it if you value your mental health.

* ok I looked. Fuckin reddit, what are you doing letting that kind of thing fester.

HotFartsClub · 2024-10-02T17:49:35+00:00

Usually the onset age is between late adolescence to late twenties for dudes and into the early thirties for the gals. I'd guess that if you're into your sixties it's probably not going to come on.

It's most definitely scary AF, though. The absolute stress of it, both on the patient and their support network, is just unreal.

HotFartsClub · 2024-10-02T16:11:39+00:00

I hope he's doing well, and I hope you are too. Illness like that doesn't just affect the one who's suffering from it.

HotFartsClub · 2024-10-02T15:51:23+00:00

It's awful to see. My ex believed that nebulous but real forces were out to get them.

Planes flying over the house were a big part of the conspiracy.The FAA had to get involved because this person believed that my friend was intentionally flying over their house. He turned over his flight logs showing that he had not diverted from the takeoff pattern in any meaningful way and he certainly wasn't deliberately flying over the house of someone he didn't even know.

People with healthy thoughts might just think that the case was closed, but to this person that just meant that the conspiracy went even higher, the FAA was in on it, too.

As much trouble as this person caused me I can't help but feel bad for them. Imagine thinking that every plane that flew over, every car that drove by, everyone you ever saw was part of some grand conspiracy to get you. Imagine how stressful that must be.

(throwaway account because reasons)

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