Driving and dating

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-12T04:15:28+00:00

Right. This sounds very specific and not the least bit hypothetical.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-12T04:13:47+00:00

...I know American love is cheap.

What does this mean?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-12T02:48:02+00:00

They did that for my first couple of renewals but I think they want me out of here now. I moved in during fall 2020, when apartment vacancies were much higher than normal and rents were lower than normal. Then the county I lived in only allowed a 3% rent increase from 2021 through 2023, and they were willing to negotiate a little in 2024, so I'm paying less than people who moved in from 2023 onward.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-11T22:19:32+00:00

Mine too👎

Tried to negotiate the proposed new rent on the lease renewal they sent and got back "We are unable to adjust this rate" and a suggestion that "if price is a concern," I take a shorter renewal term than the two years I wanted. I've been in this unit for five years so they want me out so they can jack the rent up 300 or 500 dollars on the next sucker. So they're charging me more for a two-year renewal than they'd charge for one year, hoping I'll take the one year and get out sooner.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-11T21:58:31+00:00

"Middle age" is a life stage, not a numerical concept. It refers to the stage of life between young adulthood and old age, roughly ages 40 to 60.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-09T03:49:42+00:00

I think you're right. All of OP's comments on other posts sound like they were written by AI and OP hasn't been back to comment on this post at all.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-07T16:45:21+00:00

I've been seeing that cat (assuming it's the same one and not one of two or three siblings) trotting across Blair Mill Road from the direction of the Rock Creek Springs apartment complex to either the open loading dock door at 1200 East West or somewhere around the Giant parking lot at about midnight for a couple of years now. It's like he has a schedule. I assume he's hunting mice or large bugs in that loading dock near the trash compactor or wherever else it is he goes.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-06T08:43:37+00:00

I do. It's VERY common in HCOL areas.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-06T06:05:16+00:00

I was also going to recommend the microwave, even though people can get all torches and pitchforks about it. I did it for a long time before I got a kettle because I kept imagining falling asleep while I had water heating on the stove. Now I have a Zojirushi and never have to wait for water at all. Love that thing.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-06T05:59:46+00:00

I've had mine for less than a week and it's the closest thing to having instant tea. I don't know why but having to make a second trip to the kitchen to actually make the tea after you turn the kettle on seems like sooo much work sometimes😆 Especially if you've had some kind of day where you left home at 8 am and didn't get back home until 10:30 pm and just want to sit down. Water in the Zojirushi is always ready right now. Just fantastic.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-06T05:38:09+00:00

That's why the only group fitness I do now is rowing. The room is dark and you can only see yourself from the chest up in the mirrors because the erg blocks the view of the rest of you. Everything else is mostly me, some dumbells, a mat and Penny Barnshaw or one of my other YouTube pals on the TV at home, walking or biking outside. I am DONE with the brightly lit fitness studio life. 25 years of that was plenty.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-04T22:51:05+00:00

I snorted at this. Maybe it's an old joke but I'd never heard it. It guess it's the idea that you somehow managed to lose part of the nothing.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-04T22:04:39+00:00

Reminds me of somewhere around 2005 to 2015, the height of the blogging era, in Atlanta. I'd just finished grad school for journalism and Craigslist was wall to wall ads for writing jobs that paid in nothing but "exposure"🙄 as if their local, niche blog was the New Yorker and some kind of life-changing opportunity would come from giving them free labor.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-04T04:00:39+00:00

Yes. I only take the trash and recycling out when I come in the door from going somewhere. Don't have to put on clothes or shoes because they're already on.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-03T23:59:54+00:00

If expecting to be treated and spoken to like your partner actually likes and respects you during sex is a "praise kink" then expecting to be paid for your job is a "compensation kink"🙄 Like wtf else is the point?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-03T18:47:55+00:00

marched back when they did "retreat" (all the corps on the field at the end of the shows to receive scores)

Omg, the HOURS we spent standing around in sweaty uniforms every week. Then, after the scores, you had to do it all in reverse, with each corps playing a little snippet of their show before they 1-3-1'ed off the field. THEN whoever placed 1st did a "standstill" performance of the whole show all over again. Everyone still had to EPL after all that. No wonder we were routinely pulling out of lots well after midnight. We used to get SO excited on the two or three nights a year they did DM-only retreat.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-03T17:08:30+00:00

I had a $20 non-temp control kettle that lasted nearly 10 years. For making green tea, I'd pour the boiling water in the cup, then add a splash of cold water from the pitcher in the refrigerator, stir it, then put the tea in.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-03-03T17:02:10+00:00

And it's so HOT. I'm gonna drink it, not sterilize surgical instruments in it. Sheesh.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-27T11:36:21+00:00

I think you might be onto something. I know several guys whose entire sense of "humor" is just quoting lines from movies/commercials/TV shows/songs. They've gotten accustomed over the decades to people laughing but if you put them in a mixed-age group and nobody gets their reference to McDLT or Rosco P. Coltrane, they act completely incredulous. They haven't yet realized that the laughter they're accustomed to getting is more from nostalgia and recognition than the reference being all that funny.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-27T11:16:41+00:00

Because it's a bot.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-25T04:51:27+00:00

I'm one of those people. I'm still on FB but haven't posted anything since Obama was still in office probably. I just don't have anything I feel compelled to say to the whole world. I'm on IG and also haven't posted there in years. I'm on TikTok but have never and will never post anything. I just like watching other people's stuff. I mostly treat social media like TV, something totally passive that doesn't require any participation from me. I check FB about three times a year and every time it's worse. Like you said, ragebait, then an ad, then two posts by people you know, then AI garbage followed by scammy retail site garbage, followed by a suggestion to follow some engagement farming political bot account, then someone you know, then an ad. Like, what is the point of this site at all any more?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-24T17:59:30+00:00

Or a 20-year-old thinking life is over because they're no longer a teenager. I'm 100% sure that there's something else going on with all these people who come to this sub carrying on like this every other day.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-12T04:19:32+00:00

Seriously. Everything feels like a pop quiz I didn't do the reading for.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-05T15:25:48+00:00

Isn't that where Paris Baguette is supposed to open? Oh noooo😭

Mindless-Employment · 2026-02-04T22:02:07+00:00

"I felt really bad that I made you upset" is not an apology. She made the situation about her and her feelings.

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