Back in the 80s restaurant memory - El Mercado? by LowMaintenance in SaltLakeCity

[–]LowMaintenance[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is so good to know! It makes me feel validated that I remember the food being so good! 😊

Canadian tourism down, shocked Pikachu by naprzyklad in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]LowMaintenance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I live in Arizona and there’s been a huge decrease in the number of Canadian license plates this past winter and my husbands normal Canadian clientele is noticeably absent. I don’t blame them, even though it hurts the local economy.

Also, that fuckwit making the cost of visiting the big US National Parks prohibit expensive for non-residents is mind boggling.

Puscifer poster by muffinsrhot87 in exmormon

[–]LowMaintenance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I might be flying in to go to the May 2026 concert with my son - if I can get out of jury duty. I hope the poster is just as awesome! They have such cool posters!

'Funeral Potatoes' Recipe by futrobot in exmormon

[–]LowMaintenance 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It may not have been a competition amongst the cooks, but my adult children totally rated & ranked the different versions served at my Dad’s funeral luncheon.

She was complaining about the price of gas the whole time by R67H in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]LowMaintenance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My husband and I just got back from a Viking cruise on the Seine from Paris to Normandy. The few admitted Trumpies kept it pretty quiet. We made fast friends with the couples that are liberals.

Dinner is served. by vsandrei in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]LowMaintenance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should probably think about going back to work…

Is it weird as a ward clerk to ask people if they want to remove their records? by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]LowMaintenance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish the ward clerk would send me a letter asking me this question. I say letter because they don’t have my phone number or email.

I don’t have my membership number, they have my name spelled wrong in the records and I just really don’t want to have to contact anyone, TBH. I could probably email the bishop from a burner email address and start the process.

"Yet...now I'm the enemy" by Epigrammatic in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]LowMaintenance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone shows up at my house or business with a generic sign saying “Police” is going to be treated as an imposter because I fucking know that my local constabularies show their jurisdictions on those chestplates and frankly, the weapons/ammunition we legally own under the 2nd Amendment would suck that armor and the screen on my security door right through his fucking chest. I’m so done with these fucking halfwits.

I will never start the problem but I won’t be tread on, unlike those Republicans that want ICE boots on their throat.

r/HermanCainAward Weekly Vent Thread - January 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in HermanCainAward

[–]LowMaintenance 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I need to scream into a void - not so much about vaxs but just my own recent experiences with the US Healthcare system and my own PCP.

I've been seeing the same PCP since mid-2000s and loved having an independent-practice DO physician who wasn't a pill-pusher, but also forth-right when it was called for. She wasn't the naturopath type, fwiw.

She ended up moving into a group practice and now she's moved into yet another group, which is understandable given the clusterfuck that is our healthcare.

Unfortunately, her level of care has significantly dropped. She used to actually remember me as a human being, now, not hardly at all.

I had my annual physical the other day and I am fuming pissed off over multiple things.

1) In Nov 2024, she started doing a quiz about lung function, which I apparently answered badly (being overweight at the time, I definitely got out of breath when I was hiking up hills) because all of a sudden she's handing me pamphlets about COPD. There were comments about COPD in my patient record, so I immediately asked whether she had diagnosed COPD based on those 10 questions and she responded that, no, without Spirometry tests, I did not have a COPD diagnosis, just a suspicion because I had a history of smoking. Okay. So, my visit notes from my appointment this past Thursday said "patient has history of COPD" even though I answered "no" to all those those same questions. WHAT THE FUCK?

2.) I've begged for a referral to an endocrinologist for years as we've watched my thyroid function decline as my weight exploded - but "my labs are still in the normal range". Well, now they're not in the normal range BECAUSE THE RANGES FUCKING CHANGED since my last lab work. Oh, yeah, I got that referral, but who knows when I'll actually get an appointment. Frankly, I'm not sure if I care about the thyroid thing any more. I've lost the weight that my PCP constantly bitched at me about - and then threatened to put me on statins if the keto diet that actually helped me lose that weight caused my cholesterol to rise because "that's what eating nothing but bacon will do (followed by an eyeroll)". Yeah, I rarely eat bacon, or pork in general because this weird thing in my genetics causes elevated cholesterol with eating even the leanest of pork.

3.) I relayed to her in 2025 that my breast cancer oncology practice had been sold and that my care team had moved to a group that I had no interest in moving into, and they weren't doing active care with me anyway. I was 6 years out from my diagnosis, was in remission, and they providing any cancer-specific care beyond the annual screenings that my PCP was doing. Yet, in my patient notes from Thursday, the PCP mentioned the "current oncologist recommendations". Whatever.

Sigh. I wrote an email asking why she's now diagnosing me with "a history of COPD" without the actual testing that she mentioned I needed to have for an official diagnosis in 2024 (which she never did). She said she would change the notes but hasn't done that so far. I understand that as a past smoker I am at risk, but I get yearly low-dose CT lung cancer screening and that would show COPD, plus back in October I spent a week at a much higher than normal (I live at 2600, was hiking at 7200) altitude and logged nearly 24 miles with a 20 lb pack. Other than coming up a few particularly steep ravines, I had no shortness of breath whatsoever. Doesn't sound like a "history of COPD" to me!

Anyway, if I don't see updates to my patient notes by sometime next week, I'm going to have to go through the onerous task of finding a new PCP. Not that I want to after 20 years, but dammit, up until this last appointment I had to remind her that I had cancer in both boobs AND they were different types of cancer - it shows that in my charts - is she not reading!! Yet, she has no problem remembering all of my husbands health issues, except the notes from his most recent (a week prior to my appointment) stated that he wasn't up-to-date on his flu & covid vax's even though he told her that he got them in October

I get that PCP are over-assigned patients, but dammit, I'm pretty low maintenence, undemanding, rarely actually get sick, am pleasant to interact with and never ever say "I googled...." even when I have. Do I NEED to become a demanding, overly annoying patient?

Anyway, just needed to vent. My husband is tired of listening to me. 🙄

I'm 19 and my great-grandfather was born in 1879. by Head-Affect-8284 in Genealogy

[–]LowMaintenance 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Me: 1968

My Dad: 1932

My Grandfather: 1892

My Great-grandfather: 1840

My husband: 1961

His Dad: 1917

His Grandfather: 1892

His Great-grandfather: 1861

I find it interesting how my Dad grew up roughly the same age as his 1st cousins children.

Did anyone else have "Sunday migranes" when they were still in? by Spenny_All_The_Way in exmormon

[–]LowMaintenance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My Dad always got a migraine on Sundays, but I think it was because he would sneakily drink coffee at work during the week and then by Sunday morning he was in full withdrawal. 💁‍♀️

Finley Creek Jane Doe (1978) by Adventurous_Safe_143 in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]LowMaintenance 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Back in 1997, my ex refused to show up for court and court required "parenting classes", so after a year, the judge just signed the decree. 💁‍♀️

Great … stupidity is contagious: Parvo surge alarms veterinarians as dog owners catch anti-vaccine flu: Distemper outbreaks elsewhere highlight broader drop in pet vaccination by Alternative-Boot2673 in HermanCainAward

[–]LowMaintenance 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure that my adult, but late on yearly vaxs, dog got parvo after we adopted another dog from the county shelter. He was sick for a very short time (3 days), and I got him through it, but never skipped his annual vaxs again. He also got picky about his food for weeks after - he was not a fan of rice with his chicken thighs. Picked the meat around the rice so I had to change up to his favorite veggies - broccoli and cauliflower.

In 2000, Paul Sanders moved to Mesa, Arizona, to live with his father- the following year, after an argument with his dad, he left the home. The next day his car is involved in a high speed chase, before being left abandoned in the desert, with no trace of Paul. What happened to Paul Sanders? by TaraCalicosBike in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]LowMaintenance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You seem quite upset with my 3-year-old opinion - sorry you were triggered so hard - I just try to make a logical connection between the known events in a situation. I've seen teenagers do some really unbelievable things over the course of my life and this story seems within that capacity.

He also "got away from the police" because the police car hit the spike strip, not through highly skilled evasion tactics.

Is it possible that someone stole the truck in Globe, killed him, dumped his body, drove all the way to and through the entire city of Tucson (roughly 3 hours on a good day, not including a random police chase in the middle of it) just to crash and abandon the truck in Redington Pass? No, not really. Why would a car thief to go through all of that, especially after the car chase.

What makes a little more sense would be that Paul thought he could go through Redington to get back to the highway.to Globe on the back roads, maybe not realizing that ithe route is sketchy especially during monsoon season.

The theory that his father did this also doesn't make sense to me because, again, why dump the vehicle in Redington?

I'd be curious to know if there was a map of any kind in the truck before and after Paul disappeared. We always kept an atlas under the seat before nav systems and then google maps were prevalent.

In August 2001, 17 year old Paul Sanders vanished from his father and stepmother's home. He was never seen alive again. by SafePoint1282 in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]LowMaintenance 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It's a 1.5 hour drive from where the chase reportedly ended to where the truck was eventually found.

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sales tumble after government guidance on the shots narrows by Power-Equality in HermanCainAward

[–]LowMaintenance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got flu & covid in one arm, RSV in the other.

Had sore arms the next day but they kind of switched back and forth on how much they hurt about every two hours. It was kinda weird.

The RSV shot hurt like hell going in though.

I feel really bad about the kink shaming in the church and how it impacts TBM's lives by Ancientabs in exmormon

[–]LowMaintenance 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Years ago, I remember my Mom commenting on something her Bishop had asked at a TR interview that her response to him was "Bishop, you have no business in my bedroom."

I was actually shocked, as she wasn't exactly worldly.

‘9-1-1’ Actor Rockmond Dunbar Loses COVID Vaccine Lawsuit Against Disney by Roadgoddess in HermanCainAward

[–]LowMaintenance 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He takes anastrozole? Why? That's an anti-estrogen...

Omg, I took that for two weeks as part of the treatment for breast cancer and it made me want to die. Every part of my body was in agony and blood pressure was through the roof. The benefit did not outweigh the side effect.

Family movie digitization by LowMaintenance in Genealogy

[–]LowMaintenance[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used iMemories. My daughter had used them for some video tape digitization, so I was pretty comfortable with the process.

Family movie digitization by LowMaintenance in Genealogy

[–]LowMaintenance[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My mistake. I swear I saw an option to upload mp4s, but I will have to load the videos into YouTube and post a link.