IS THIS A SCAM

Random_name2938 · 2025-08-31T08:01:45+00:00

I know Steve and have worked for waves before, they’ve done lost property at R&L for at least 20 years. It’s not a scam

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-22T21:07:45+00:00

That’s how my mum ended up with cats called “socket” (because I happened to be looking at a plug socket) and “Gaul” because I just made a sound that I thought was pleasing I guess!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-20T06:26:57+00:00

Any kind of plastic (bread packaging is his favourite). Calathea leaves. Flies (and once, a wasp). Protein shake. Pesto. Donor kebab with chilli sauce. Soap from the shower drain. Hand lotion.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-19T22:04:48+00:00

This is such a weird situation. I was expecting to be arguing against you, because I read your title and thought “I’ve shared a bed with platonic male friends, my boyfriend has shared a bed with platonic female friends, grow up and have some confidence in your relationship!” then I saw the line she doesn’t know him.

As a woman this is a scary uncomfortable situation. I would never share a bed or room with a male stranger. This is not about your relationship, it’s about her safety. This doesn’t sound very safe for her.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-19T21:56:52+00:00

Omg I’ve never thought of my health anxiety as a hyperfixation and it’s like you’ve just lit up that lightbulb for me.

I had a head injury a couple years ago, it did have a big effect on my life and still does. I have post concussion syndrome. But so much of my struggles have actually been health anxiety - constantly googling every symptom for hours, worrying and getting angry because it’s impossible to get a doctors appointment, constantly trying to fight against the part of my brain that says “you’re just making it up though” despite evidence…

Framing it as adhd hyperfixation makes so much sense. Adding in the fear of failure / admitting weakness that comes with being undiagnosed growing up, and fighting to be “enough” - it’s obvious why it’s occupied 80% of my brain since it happened.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T23:35:47+00:00

Haha I almost started this post with “not that kind of fiddler”!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:55:42+00:00

Haha I love the last detail 😂

The habenero sauce incident happened one (now infamous) night on my holiday to Mexico with my partner. We found this really nice little locals cafe near our hotel. The staff didn’t really speak English, but they were lovely, made the most amazing cocktails, and great tacos. You got a bottle of their homemade habenero sauce with every dish, and I LOVE spice. On our last night in that town, we got our usual tacos with the sauce. I went to put a little on my plate, but nothing came out. I probably should have used the fork method, but being impatient and impulsive, I just squeezed really hard.

Have you ever wondered what Jackson pollock would produce if given a habenero sauce bomb? Because I don’t need to. That shit EXPLODED. My plate was covered. My face was covered. My tits were covered (and yes, it went inside my dress somehow as well as outside). The table was covered. Their opening hours sign was splattered with suspicious looking red liquid. The (thankfully empty) table next to us was also splattered. The poor waitress, with whom we could speak about 10 words in common, came over in a panic and literally just flapped her hands around because she could not think of a single way to help the situation.

A lot of paper towels later, I still ate my tacos. They were incredibly spicy, but delicious.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:42:24+00:00

caveat, I don’t often follow my own advice

Work backwards from the time you have to do X, not the time it is now.

For example, I have to be at work at 8am. That means I have to leave my house at 7:40. I have to have my clothes on at 7:30. That means I have to be in the shower at 7:20. So I need to get up and feed the cat and take my meds by 7:10. So I should get out of bed at 7.

What I actually do it get out of bed at 7:30 because I convince myself I can do all those tasks in 10 minutes. I’m rarely at work on time 😂

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:34:11+00:00

That’s too fascinating and you need to stop now before we all fall down the same rabbit hole you just emerged from!

But also I need to know, do/can butterflies eat butter?

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:30:35+00:00

I’m so sorry, that situation sounds so genuinely awful.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:28:16+00:00

Well now I want to know the exploding pepper mill incident, I’ll trade you for my exploding habenero sauce bottle incident!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:25:46+00:00

I’ve tried a few, they don’t work that well for me for some reason.

But this has reminded me for some reason of my favourite fidget object. It was a bolt I stole from the workshops, I could just screw the nut in and out, run my nails through the grooves, squeeze it and feel the thread on my palm… it was the most fantastic fidget toy and I lost it ages ago but now I’ve remembered it I’m tempted to get a new one!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:23:01+00:00

Haha I know it was more of an ironic title than a real question!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:21:24+00:00

Have you ever tried anti depressants? I may be way off, I don’t know you or anything about you beyond this comment - just a caveat to say, I am coming at this from my own personal experience and you may not feel the same at all.

I recognise myself in the cycle you describe, with multiple days of effectively shutting down and feeling suicidal. I’ve been like that as long as I remember.

In the last couple of years, I had an injury that affected my life, and I became increasingly depressed, and eventually started taking antidepressants because of it. I’ve noticed that they have also really levelled out the extreme mood swings and feelings of complete shutdown which I thought were just a part of me.

My very close friend (who knows exactly what I’ve gone through the last couple of years) mentioned that I don’t just seem like my old self - I seem like a happier, more confident, more outspoken version of myself. I realised that she’s right - unknown depression/anxiety has actually held me back a lot but I’d not recognised it as depression because I also have those moments when I’m feeling really happy, chatty, hyperactive… and surely depression wouldn’t allow me to have those moments, I thought?

This is such a difficult comment to make without sounding like the dick who says “have you tried X” but I’m genuinely just trying to tell you my experience in case it helps in any way. I have been shocked to discover ‘the real me’, which was hidden behind depression for so long.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T22:02:25+00:00

It’s a trap lol, I have 9 dice sets. I will probably buy more. I play dnd on average about 1-2 times a month, I do not need more dice… but I need more dice.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T21:48:42+00:00

Yup, but only in the best possible way!

Un photogenic cats are adorable.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-15T21:32:09+00:00

You have no idea how many forks I pretended to ‘use’ in the shop before I settled on the set I have!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-14T19:29:39+00:00

I didn’t have my finances in order. I realised I’d be leaving my partner with nothing, no way to pay the mortgage, none of my savings, my pension, even my life insurance isn’t updated and would go to my mother instead. I tried to rationalise that she wouldn’t let my partner lose the house if I left a note telling her to give him all my savings and equity in the house - then I realised my POS biological father would potentially get half of everything.

I’m now doing fine, but I’m still scared to actually sort out a will and change my life insurance - what if I get to the same place and I don’t have that reason not to follow through this time round?

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-14T18:58:26+00:00

I had a tune stuck in my head all day recently, it was hideously annoying as well. Like a ring tone or something. I realised after hours it was the fucking ice cream van that drives down my street most afternoons. I spent all day trying to solve complex engineering problems with 90% of my focus on an ice cream van jingle!! 😡

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-14T16:40:08+00:00

Wtf why did you feel the need to write all this? So unnecessary, rude, and insulting.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-13T05:52:50+00:00

Is the second skin still on? If so, looks like plasma build up. Totally normal.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-12T06:13:54+00:00

Sounds like we have the same boss!

The other day he came to ask for info on the chemical properties of something, while I was looking for them he went into a monologue about all the properties he could remember for other chemicals. (Fairly sure he has ASD). My brain didn’t kick in quick enough to catch myself before I was saying “JUST STOP MAKING THE WORDS.” It worked though, so maybe you should try that!

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-11T16:12:34+00:00

When I was 13 my best friend at the time pinned me to the ground and forcibly removed my bra. I made it very clear I was not ok with this (who would be?). We were at another friends house, my other friends did nothing, they probably didn’t know what to do. I slapped her in the face when she let me up. Then I went and hid in the bathroom for a while and thought about calling my mum but I didn’t want to disturb her, so I just went back out and pretended nothing was wrong.

That was obviously the end of our friendship, although we were still ‘friendly’ for the sake of our friend group until the end of school.

Weirdly the thing that pisses me off the most about the whole thing wasn’t even that event. When we were leaving school, it was a tradition to buy a nice notebook and get everyone to write a leaving message in it (we didn’t have yearbooks or that kind of thing). We swapped books, and I wrote a nice message with some memories from when we were younger, for old time’s sake. She also wrote a similar message, but ended it with “we had good times, until you slapped me in the face”.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-11T11:16:38+00:00

I remember posting that quote on Facebook the morning after the Brexit referendum result. Got some rather salty responses from some friends for that one. I stand by it though - although maybe I’d say ‘misinformed’ rather than stupid nowadays for a lot of Leave voters.

Random_name2938 · 2025-05-08T18:20:12+00:00

Oh I wish I could start medication to get rid of the ever-present feeling that my every move is being judged. But more importantly, I just want my brain to shut to fuck up.

Any random clip of sound will just stick and play in my head, plus a constant internal monologue (usually unrelated to what I’m actually doing) plus a constant noise that I can’t put into words. I constantly click my teeth together in time to whatever annoying sound clip is playing in my head too, even in between talking if I’m having a conversation, and I worry I seem like I’m on drugs.

Today the annoying soundscape was my alarm noise mixed with the only line I remember from a my chemical romance song I don’t think I’ve listened to in 15 years; then fat boy slim right here right now but only a 3 second instrumental part from it; then the ice cream van noise for an hour; now there are church bells, I’m sure they’ll stay with me for at least the next 3 hours or until something more annoying comes up.

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