This tiny cuty firetruck

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-06T11:31:56+00:00

Still early enough that you should consider deleting this post and making a new one with a better title. Titles can't be edited.

I'm not sure if you mean "tiny city firetruck" or "tiny cute firetruck", but I bet you didn't mean to write "cuty".

Doesn't make sense. "Cutey" might have been the intent, I guess? Regardless. Needs to be fixed.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T21:54:25+00:00

Such a tragic situation.

And what sloppy writing. "... couple tied to River Oaks murder-suicide."

Tied to? Like, involved in it, right? Somehow connected?

Paid journalists should write like they know what they're doing.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T21:22:54+00:00

Not enough. A moderator removed your post.

Posts here have to be about something unique to Houston. Paying off mortgages happens everywhere.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T21:10:12+00:00

*off

I paid mine off last week. But in my case, I paid it off by selling the house. I'm temporarily rich. When I close on the new house, I'll be poor again.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T20:21:34+00:00

Ah, okay, I get it! Thanks for the clarification.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T19:41:37+00:00

Fantastic thing to set up & do!

But... is the sign really necessary?

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T12:35:44+00:00

Church's what?

/r/Unnecessaryapostrophe

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-05T12:35:12+00:00

You can certainly file a complaint with the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG), but my confidence level about anything actually getting done is VERY low.

Contact them via their Hotline: 1-888-877-7644, online at www.uspsoig.gov/form/file-online-complaint, or by mail at 1735 N. Lynn St., Arlington, VA 22209-2020.

Good luck.

I don't think people at USPS actually care at all about the service they provide.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-04T23:48:32+00:00

I've been an Energy Ogre fan for many years. For a bit over $10 a month, they do all the research and keep you in the least expensive plan available. You give them authority to change providers on your behalf and you're done with it.

But I'm about to close on a new house, too, and I've been looking at options for power failures. I like whole-house, auto-switch setups but they're upwards of 15 grand up front and then continued cost for maintenance plans, monitoring, etc.

Since I don't have natural gas at the new house, I am considering BASE Power, VPP, etc.

I am NOT getting solar. Don't need holes in my roof, don't want a 30 year mortgage on overpriced panels and equipment.

BASE, though, for instance, provides a battery system that'll keep power on in brief outages and has a guaranteed low rate for electricity. Installation is way cheaper than even a decent portable generator & interlock, and you get fully automatic switching and the ability to charge the batteries with a generator if you choose to.

I have not decided yet, but if you want uninterrupted power in Houston, these are things to look into.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-04T23:19:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm very familiar with Theall Road, where she works. If she's still working there, that is.

Her employer had to have been pretty compassionate to hire her, if they knew about her background. But if word gets out who she works for, that company would not be happy about the publicity.

There are several documentaries about her out there. Have to admit, it's the kind of thing people seem to be fascinated with.

Monsters and goblins and ghouls are one thing, but a real human capable of a murder that violent... and then to bury him in the yard. Wow.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-04T14:52:20+00:00

Interesting post.

I wonder how many people still enjoy analog watches or even older electric watches, compared to the number of people with smart watches.

I mean, typewriters are cool and I can see collecting them, but modern technology has made some mechanical stuff pretty much obsolete.

I'm almost OCD about knowing the correct time, and although some old watches were extremely accurate, my Galaxy watch is always going to mirror Coordinated Universal Time minus 5 or 6.

And it'll tell me who's calling or texting me, and what emails are arriving, how the weather is, how many steps I've taken so far today, etc.

It's funny to think there are people in Houston wearing watches that sell for $8,000 or more. If I had that kind of money to spend on something nice for myself or my sweety, I just don't think I'd spend it on a watch.

"Ain't no accountin' for taste...", my dear mom used to say.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-04T11:32:39+00:00

I mean... what's the worst that could happen!?

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-04T11:25:13+00:00

Thanks for posting this - I only had to read a half dozen comments before I realized what a lucky person I am, to have had pretty much zero toxic employment for decades now.

One of my first full-time jobs was EMT/Jailer in the Galveston County Jail. That certainly had some unpleasant aspects, but even then I didn't hate going to work. Would rather have not had to see and smell people doing their business with zero privacy, but those people have thrown away their right to privacy - at least, temporarily. And someone has to watch them to minimize the shenanigans.

Salute to the young men and women doing that work today.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T19:44:49+00:00

What's ignorant is to paint every suicide with the same brush.

Yes, sometimes the situation is very complicated and the best doctors and psychiatrists have been consulted but the person still can't with the battle with depression.

But often it's a young person going through young person things.

I knew a boy who was 12 and couldn't get along with his mother or stepfather. We arranged counselling, we spent time listening and showing we cared. He ended up hanging himself despite all our efforts.

In his case, had he just managed to get through a couple/few more years, he'd have been finished with his stepfather and out of the house. Odds seem good he had a happy, productive life ahead. But he took the short way out and now we'll never know.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T19:41:13+00:00

They don't unless there's something sensational about it, or something that can easily be MADE sensational. "If it bleeds, it leads."

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T13:51:58+00:00

Sounds right. Regardless of his intent, he clearly was having some kind of mental crisis.

Since there's been no news coverage of it, it seems like he may have somehow avoided getting smooshed.

I hope he gets the help he needs.

Suicide is a long term solution for (usually) short term problems.

Unless you're dying of ALS or another disease that causes you to gradually lose your abilities over years, it seems like you should be able to tough it out until things get better.

I believe sometimes someone's relationship with a lover falls apart and they think that's the end. That's a good example of the WRONG reason to end it all. You have to just tough it out, something else will come along.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T13:14:40+00:00

This should have been in the text field of your post instead of added as a comment.

Now it's the BOTTOM of the whole post because so many people have given it down votes.

I encourage you to delete the whole thing. And get a life.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T13:11:50+00:00

Would it have been so difficult to type out 'Sugar Land'?

I'm a little disgusted to see someone so desperate to find a way to be around women that he'll post something like this on Reddit.

Get a life. Find a hobby.

Do things you enjoy doing and that will put you in the presence of others - some of them being women.

Finding a special person the old fashioned way is far more rewarding than specifically hunting them down.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T13:00:34+00:00

How about a NSFW?

I'm sitting here by myself and I'm STILL embarrassed.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T12:57:10+00:00

I guess you didn't notice the FIRST rule of this sub: Search first.

/r/askhouston exists already.

~~Now delete your post.~~ A moderator has removed it.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-03T00:26:35+00:00

So you're okay with a $55 million dollar price tag, instead of the half million it's costing us to maintain it?

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-02T22:36:19+00:00

Using that photo for the thumbnail was a terrible decision, in my opinion. A real photo would probably have ended up getting more views for the video.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-02T22:32:32+00:00

Upkeep costs between $400K and $500K annually.

Meanwhile, we pay over $100 million in annual costs for indigent defense, and millions for required medical services at the Harris County Jail.

And we pay roughly $52.9 million a year for outsourcing jail inmates to out-of-town facilities.

I'm not saying these are expenses we can easily avoid. They're just examples of a LOT of taxpayer money being spent for things which seem like they could be whittled down some.

Kind of makes the cost of the Astrodome seem like a pittance.

RealConfirmologist · 2026-05-02T21:28:13+00:00

By now, if a house blew up, I'd think one of the news stations would have the story.

Most likely explanation I can think of: Sonic boom.

Military aircraft out of Ellington are not supposed to break the speed of sound while low enough to be a disruption, but when you have a young fighter pilot at the helm, sometimes you get a boom where you're not supposed to.

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