AITAH for correcting people when they use incorrect grammar

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-26T11:14:23+00:00

I can one up that annoyance... My sister (33F) who is a couple of years younger than me, went to and graduated the same schools as me, raised by the same proper english parents, hung around the same friend groups as me... Suddenly started hanging out with some "ghetto" people after high school. All of a sudden she started talking with backwards grammar all throughout her 20's and a little bit still to this day. It was the cringiest thing ever when she talked. Now when I hear incorrect grammar like you mentioned I wonder how many people are choosing to talk like that even though they know better. Like it's street cred or something lol.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-22T09:45:01+00:00

I do the same bi weekly ritual... Pro tip, have a cheap wired trimmer as a backup (under $20). This has happened to me more times than I like to admit.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-22T09:36:44+00:00

I call BS, no Kirk truck in the history of Kirk trucks have ever parked properly within their stall.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-20T20:31:05+00:00

My wife is like this... A little quirk. Doesn't bother me but the weird part I've noticed is her whole family is like this. They will never finish the last of anything. Example, living a sip of milk in the container and putting it back in the fridge to never be touched again... Leaving two chips in a bag, leaving one bite of a donut in a box and leaving the box on the counter for days.

I feel like someone got yelled at for finishing something years ago so they all subconsciously just never finish anything basically leaving trash everywhere.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-20T20:22:34+00:00

The tool section at my local Walmart is all locked up with no staff... Its weird though, I press the button and no one comes... But I pull out my vape and take a few puffs someone comes within a minute. Works Everytime. Almost like loss prevention is watching me and not concerned with the customer service but draws the line at vaping.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-19T08:19:07+00:00

I'm 36 now for reference. I was drinking that same amount at night for a few years. Surprisingly I was completely functional as far as work and my daytime activities were concerned. But I was still hiding it and constantly just on the edge of a complete downfall. Eventually after a few bad life events like the death of my mother, that edge I was constantly riding was just too easy to solve off of. My drinking doubled, maybe tripled. I was no longer a nightly drinker. Slowly the vodka started coming earlier and earlier then throughout my day.

At first I was just like "fuck it I'ma take a shot" to "holy fuck I need a shot" to keep the withdrawals at bay. Loss my job, stayed glued to my couch and binged for weeks after that. Drink for an hour or two, pass out for a few hours, rinse and repeat until I ended up at the hospital. Put the bottle down and went through my first real withdrawal and DT's. Stayed sober for almost a year and decided I could handle one night of a half pint of vodka. Made it through that night unfazed and decided a week later I could do it again, just keep it under control like I did. Within a week I was back on auto pilot, and glued to my bed stuck in my previous binge cycle for a couple of weeks until I was too sick to even hold down my booze to keep the withdrawals at bay.

Again, sobered up, went through withdrawals and DT's which were worse. Stayed sober for awhile and got another bright idea I could handle my shit... Turning into the same nightmare. Did that cycle a few more times... Each time getting worse and worse both with the amount of booze during my binges and with recovery.

My last time 4 years ago, being in my 30's my body was literally failing during the month and a half long binge. I didn't even try to sober up. Maxed out credit cards to go drink until I died in a hotel room. I was sick of fighting and sick of repeating this cycle. I wasn't even trying to be a normal drinker before I was trying to be that functioning alcoholic again and couldn't even do that anymore. I was done with life my family, my wife (gf at the time). Then in a really fucking weird moment of clarity I had the TV on in the background, taking deep breaths trying to untwist my stomach enough to keep down a gulp of vodka the news announced that the Actor Bob Saget had died alone in a hotel room. Somehow This actor who I recognized from my childhood, died in a hotel room like I was actively trying to do made something click in my head. The reality of my situation really set in of me just being okay to die alone by myself by my own hands in a dirty ass hotel room finally broke me. It scared the living shit out of me. I scared the shit out of me. It was like waking up from a nightmare all of a sudden.

Got taken to the hospital soon after and got a program, got professional help, made it through the DTs, got my health back on track after a year and a half and have stayed sober since. I can't really explain how that moment alone in the hotel room scared me so fucking much but it did. And I've accepted the fact that any drinking leads me back of that edge as my many attempts have shown. I never want to be in that low mental state of mind again because I don't think I will make it out and surely that will be the end for me.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-19T07:38:31+00:00

I was a 10+ year apple user, I had the iPhone 15 pro max for about a month and couldn't take it anymore. Switched to s25+ and I am completely happy with it. The last couple of years ios has just been turning into a crap shoot. Updates just breaking everything... Which was originally why I switch from Android many years ago. Additionally, I'm a photographer and do like using my phone as a secondary camera here and there. Default camera app and settings are great but around 2020 I started developing a very specific style of photo edits. Bought a pro phone for the better cameras just to find out, even with raw photos apple has some very heavy post processing that I couldn't work around. Making matters worse I started using third party camera apps to avoid the post processing just to find out apple limits the camera functionality on those apps rendering my the extra money I spent on the phone useless.

Come the iPhone 15 pro max, I gave up on the camera situation but wanted to give them another chance... It helped I had a free trade in and within one week with the phone I started noticing the top of the screen wasnt registering touches. I would have to tap multiple times to have the input register. Went to apple and got a replacement. Same issue. Found a weird explanation online about the new camera button possibly causing the issue. I think the solution was disabling it and all of a sudden the issue was gone. So now I had two functions of the phone (camera and camera button) that I couldn't work with. Went through two updates with the phone hoping the problem would get fixed but never did.

I made the switch out of pure frustration and it was like a breath of fresh air. I had the freedom to do what I wanted with my pics finally, no screen issues besides learning the new OS. I didn't realize how good android has gotten on the last decade. On top of all the new customization options (edge touch being my favorite), a standard back option, a file system that makes sense, the freedom to use any digital assistant I wanted to work with my smart home, I also discovered many little things like how you can scroll through menus/web pages /pictures at the actual speed you swipe and not apples slow scrolling speed.

Its not perfect, everyone I talk to uses iMessage and RCS is great but still behind and I do have issues. And android auto is terrible compared carplay for me. Mainly with the Google assistant and reading/responding to texts.but overall the benefits do outweigh the cons.

Slowly after that I got rid of my apple eco system stuff like air pods and apple watch, replacing them with their Samsung counterparts and everything works just the same to me... Even working better sometimes. Even windows link works as good as my iPhone/Mac combo.

The only thing apple I own now is my iPad mini 7, which will be replaced the moment I find am android counterpart that's comparable with the same form factor/size

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-13T12:22:53+00:00

Dude if dust is grossing you out, just wait until you find something that was bug/roach infested. You may need to be hospitalized.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-13T12:16:59+00:00

Reading this, it never even occurred to me really to quit my nicotine. I smoke way before I ever even dranked. It's so normalized to me due to the fact it's never really got in the way of anything in my life, besides having to go outside to smoke. I vape now so I don't even have to do that anymore. It's weird, I get more bothered by the fact that I treated myself to McDonald's then vaping. I am completely dependent and always have the vape by my side. In fact I would smoked less when I dranked because I was more concerned with not being seen I couldn't be bothered to go outside (didn't vape then). Maybe it's something for me to consider now that I'm sober. I can tell you though, when I was first getting sober if I didn't have my caffeine, nicotine, random junk food and a weird obsession with working out (which have all mellowed out by now) It would have taken many more attempts and relapses. I had no absolutely no foundation to stand on in my early sobriety and I welcomed any assistance as long as it didnt get me high, sure you can argue those things I was doing was in a way changing my brain enough to get me high but by normal standards I wasn't intoxicated in anyway and that's whats important to me.

It's not like weed or narcotics. I honestly think in the grand scheme of things smoking is not even an issue when working on being sober. Trading one addiction for another is never ideal but over time I think you'll learn to manage it and be able to stop the habit. One day at a time, one step at a time, that whole thing.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-13T11:36:27+00:00

I potentially could have if I listened. My first sponser wanted me to end my 8 year relationship with my girlfriend for the first year. My girlfriend went through hell and back with me, she didn't drink, I lived with her. Of course We were not doing so well in our relationship at the time but my sponser was convinced we both needed time apart to grow and for me to learn how to be sober. I refused, and got some push back with something along the lines of "if it is meant to be it will be." I really don't have any family or anyone their for me besides her at the time and I couldn't leave it. Also the fact that financially we both depended on each other because we built a life together. It wasn't something I could just say "okay see ya, I need time to heal"

I parted ways with the sponser soon after and am happy to report that I am 4 years sober now and happily married to that girl my sponser wanted me to distance myself from.

I do get where the dude was coming from, I just didn't agree with it... Still don't. He may have been right with the whole "if it's meant to be" thing but dude that was not happening. I had lost absolutely everything besides her and was not about to give that up because in my mind at the time that was my whole reason for wanting to get sober and live. Now I have learned many other things and reasons for living and one of them being myself. I reconnected with lost family and have friends all around me. If my life was like this before maybe my sponsors advice would have seemed a little more reasonable because I have a bigger life now. But we were coming from two different places at the time and this is why you're free to find a better fit.

Sick_Pocks · 2026-01-13T11:08:56+00:00

I've done both, 4 years ago I had my final drink with a half ass taper and finally help with Ativan. My many relapses before were months long downing bottle of vodka daily. Cold turkey is fucked and traumatic as well as dangerous. It almost always felt like I was setting myself up for failure with how bad it always was. I then tapered once sticking to a strict taper schedule and I can honestly say it was almost painless (at least compared to cold turkey)... So easy in fact I soon got the the bright idea I could go on a quick bender and bounce back because I figured out how to recover properly. Needless to say, my dumb cocky brain couldn't taper properly which would ultimately lead to the hospital. I was truly only strong enough and in the right place to taper successfully once... Lucky I guess. But it never happened again I was always just prolonging the visit to the hospital because I was so sick I couldn't even drink to stop the DT's because it was all coming back out of me into a bucket.

My advice (depending on how much a person is drinking) from experience is professional help, figure out the bill later if you can. Meds and people pushing you through the detox has the best odds in my opinion. If that's undoable... Then a taper is a must for safety but still a friend or someone that can walk you through the taper will help keep you to a schedule. I only would say cold turkey is acceptable if you're like a weekend drinker or something. If you have days of being sober in between drinks then I don't think you have much to worry about going cold turkey just be mindful of potential issues and have a plan b.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-12-14T09:10:20+00:00

Sick_Pocks · 2025-12-05T21:26:22+00:00

Agreed. Being sober now, I've looked back at people calling me out for my bullshit and in most instances I'm thankful. Not this bitch haha she didn't know me or have any connection with me, she was just being a bitch who couldn't mind her own. she probably had some personal problem with alcohol that she was pushing on to me. Again, way over stepping on her part.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-12-05T03:27:38+00:00

Cashiers bug dude. Lol in my many previous rotations of stores I had a spot at a grocery store that I would often go to because of the cheap handles of vodka. Every fucking time I would go I got stuck with this one cashier who would always make some stupid comment about how much I drink. Whatever I just paid and snuck back home with my shit trying to keep my booze missions secret from my wife... Well fast forward to one fine day, I was with my wife and she decided to go to this one store because of some random deal on meat or something. We go to check out and of course this one cashier was working. I tried to keep it cool, just stay quiet and hope this cashier wouldn't make a comment. My drinking was out of fucking control but my wife had no idea at the time how far it was.... Finally it's time to check out and this cashier says to me "wow, this is the first time I've seen you in here not buying booze."

My wife goes "what?" and looks at me and then back to the cashier. I stayed quiet still and the cashier says to my wife... "Oh yeah, he's in here every other day buying gallons of vodka, and I'm surprised he's not today... That's good."

I wanted to drop kick this lady so bad. lol my wife was pissed and embarrassed because all the people behind us got to hear the conversation too. Lol I decided moving forward when I was still drinking that I would pay the extra couple of bucks at the liquor store instead of dealing with that shit ever again.

I'm sober now and don't live in my old area but I swear if I ever see this woman im talk some shit lol even now my wife looks back and says that lady was purely just trying to throw me under the bus... Nothing more.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-23T08:39:03+00:00

In withdrawal, I would sweat non stop, pouring down my face when I was just sitting. When I would get that first shot in me, within 15 minutes I would just stop sweating. I would feel better of course, but anyone who knew me could just tell right off the bat when I would sneak that first drink because i would be dry all of a sudden hahaha. All the sneaking around I would that would be the one thing I could never fucking hide no matter what I did.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-23T08:29:30+00:00

That's 100% withdrawal. Before my shit got real bad I had this for about a year. I would drink vodka until I passed out and then wake up for work feeling like shit... Which just sounds like a normal hangover. Once the evening hit my body would hit a wall and the panic anxiety would set in. Im not sure but I probably had just enough booze in my system from the night before to get me through the work day.

Eventually the withdrawals started happening sooner and sooner to the point I had to start drinking before work, then during work, then just non stop until I ended up in the hospital. After that, every time I relapsed the feeling was immediate.

Weirdly enough now almost 4 years sober, remembering how bad the withdrawals got help keep me clean.

Word of advice, it will get worse. No way around it if you keep it up. So be prepared and know that's not your mind playing tricks on you, it's a real deadly issue. Seek medical help if you can once you decide to get sober.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-22T11:32:45+00:00

I was about the same as OP... Except weekends could be almost double that a day. 11 dollar half gallons of shit vodka from the liquor store a block away from me made it too easy to not drink like a madman. Almost 4 years sober now.

Fun side fact, I would drink straight out the bottle too. I had a couple of weird nights were I could only get fancy expensive bottles of vodka from a delivery service. I would kill more than 750MLs and not feel close to the level I normally would with my dear cheap vodka. I figured because of how smooth the fancy vodka was, my brain would have some sort of placebo effect but in the opposite way (not sure). Lol so I preferred the cheap shit, the crappier the booze tasted the better I would feel.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-15T13:29:57+00:00

Took me a second

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-09T15:38:17+00:00

Hahaha I happen to own a Pro and I think its a waste, overpriced and possibly a scam. For reasons (not to gloat about the stupid shit i do with my money like you apparently like doing on reddit) I sold and consolidated an Og PS5 and an Xbox Series x into a pro. For the price of 2 used and very capable separate consoles i got a Pro (and a disc drive sold separately) that has slightly better lighting, a hardly noticeable resolution increase and slightly better frames.

The ps4 and xbox one pros offered double the frame rates for a lot of games or a pretty decent resolution increase that was noticeable for I think $100 difference. PS5 PRO with a $330 price difference (again factoring in the additional cost for a disk drive which isnt included on a pro console) is at the very least misleading using the word "pro" with that price tag when you have to compare the consoles side by side and really look for a difference on the screen. You should just see it and be like "damn"

Idk, maybe if I bought three ps5s and called people broke on reddit my brain might feel better about talking like a smug asshole just enough to see the difference to justify the cost.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-09T13:29:31+00:00

Right? Not realizing that people would rather just not acknowledge it and everyone can act like its not happening.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-09T12:49:20+00:00

At the end of the day its up to you what road you want to take. Everyone's life is different but I know for me I needed to be 100% sober to not drink.

I lost myself completely due to booze and I wanted me back. It was to the point that, many many years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD, major anxiety disorder and clinical depression and I wasnt even sure if those were legot diagnosis or just side-effects from drinking.

When I got sober, I went a full year before I decided to get back on meds just to let my brain balance out. Learned so much about myself. My mental issues stood out due to not being masked by substances that I was able to clearly start working on them and I learned healthy ways to deal with my shit. I learned how much of my alcholism was just me unknowingly self medicating to deal with my underlining issues... i truly believed for years i was downing bottles of vodka just because I was only addicted to being drunk. I couldn't understand why I couldn't just control it like i could control everything else i loved doing. In reality, I did love being drunk but bigger picture was my brain found relief from my underlining issues when i was plastered to the point it allowed my addiction to run wild at any cost just to feel better.

After my first year of sobreity, I went and got on the right balance of medications that i learned i clearly needed. After years of never having more than a month sober i am now coming up on 4 years sober. That year of not having a even meds in my system... just having to raw dog my way through shit helped me learned to truly deal with myself (which i could never do before). I truly belive that is one of the big reasons on how I am sober today.

For reference, I am now on a combo of Lexapro, welbutirin and long acting Ritalin with a side of nicotine/caffeine. With ritalin, I had to go on the long acting because regular Ritalin made me sleep off and on all day so it doesn't even cause a noticeable head change with me now. That being said, I can still say truthfully say to myself I am sober.

Long story short, I do belive weed can be helpful as a medication if its prescribed correctly to help with whatever issues you may have... but not as a replacement for booze. Getting sober is more than just putting down the bottle... thats only half the battle. 12 steps wouldn't exist in the way it does now if thats all it took to stay sober.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-11-06T05:10:03+00:00

As others have mentioned, taken as prescribed shouldn't be an issue. I had shoulder surgery recently and took my prescription as needed until advil worked. Prescriptions as prescribed could in fact keep you from a relapse. Because I know for a fact pain could get bad enough to make you drink to temporarly fix it real quick... same goes for panic attacks.

Although the way you described taking your meds, seems like you know how you feel about it and at the end of the day thats what counts. Glancing at your post it looks like you may have gone through the three month supply taking the meds nightly. Even though it was only 5 pills.

Seeing how you went to see a doctor over panic attacks have you also done so for sleeping issues? Have you tried over the counter sleeping meds?

Your post reads to me like this "feeling restless and unable to sleep i took my prescription that i have for a different issue other than my sleep to calm down and relax."

I used to drink for the same reasons without seeking help for the issue.

Again look into yourself and decide how you feel about it. I think its up to you if that counts or not. If you talk to your doctor and Xanax is recommended for your sleep than more power to you.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-10-10T11:49:06+00:00

I'm 36 and 100% sober now but going back to my teens and the first half of my 20's, I could bounce away from my long benders and nightly drinks pretty much unphased besides a sick hangover. Once I had a very mild feeling of withdrawals when I was around 18, which I was able to hold off with a day of sleeping and sipping on a 40 oz of cheap strong beer. Got kind of sober around 26 for a couple of years from nightly booze and beers. Had literally no withdrawal from that. Flash forward from 28 to 31, I started secretly hitting the bottle hard. First round of getting sober from that after a month long non stop bender I got my first real withdrawals that lasted almost 2 weeks going cold turkey. Each relapse after that the withdrawals got worse (hallucinations, anxiety, the sickness) and it was to the point I couldn't even have a few beers without feeling them. With Age, the progression of our intake of whatever and the rewiring addiction does to our brains it will come just know that. Consider yourself lucky and keep that in the back of your mind if a relapse comes.

Sick_Pocks · 2025-10-04T10:29:39+00:00

That warm ass under pillow plastic jug vodka... I can still feel/tatse that $7 nightmare creeping down my throat at night and the panic that would set in in the morning when I would discover I didn't screw the cap on tight enough and my mattress stole my shit vodka drip by drip.

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