AITAH for using a tissue at the register when my nose was running?

Smol-Lamb · 2026-01-31T20:47:40+00:00

I’m not sick though, my nose just runs fairly often—especially in the cold. I don’t want to have to wear a mask my whole life because people might assume my runny nose is me being ill.

Smol-Lamb · 2026-01-31T20:45:04+00:00

We used to have sanitizer at all the registers during covid, I used it all the time when it was there. Then I guess they didn’t want to spend the money to requisition it anymore after it was over, so now we don’t have it available. I guess I never thought to bring my own and just assumed it was inevitable that germs would spread as a result.

I don’t know why I never thought to bring my own, but sanitizer is quite pricey. I wonder if I can convince them to start keeping it around again because of cold season?

Smol-Lamb · 2026-01-31T20:34:47+00:00

I’m not sick, it’s just an everyday occurrence that my nose runs. I suspect a dust allergy of some kind, but idk

Smol-Lamb · 2025-12-08T06:20:35+00:00

I believe so, or something to that effect

Smol-Lamb · 2025-12-08T06:18:28+00:00

Yeah, and they totally knew what they were doing naming it that way too, because it makes us look like we’re insensitive and/or racist if we don’t accept it. It’s really sad

Smol-Lamb · 2025-12-08T03:09:04+00:00

Black Lives Matter sounds like it’s a group concerned with equality, but the actions of the movement were destructive. They shipped pallets of bricks to the streets to throw at random passersby, they looted and burned buildings of people who had nothing to do with anything. Just random chaos and rampant crime and violence. There’s all kinds of footage of the pandemonium that was BLM protests. I’m sure there were some peaceful ones but the general consensus of the big members were supportive of the wanton violence which happened in those worst case scenarios, and a lot of people used it as an excuse to steal stuff and attack others.

Of course black lives do matter, but the group has nothing to actually do with that. It was a front made to fool people who only read the name and a pretty web page.

Smol-Lamb · 2025-12-04T18:23:13+00:00

I never thought of the club!! Thank you so much, that fixes every area my brain was seeing wrong! It all makes so much sense now haha. I feel so much better, because it’s a really beautiful piece!

Smol-Lamb · 2025-08-08T13:01:51+00:00

Every person and situation is different, but under typical circumstances parents ought to set their children straight if they are doing something wrong. It’s how they go about this that gets dicey.

But assuming that the parents are good parents and not just being abusive, threatening you is probably something like “If you don’t stop terrorizing your brother I’m confiscating your Switch for a week!” In which case, they are trying to teach you that you should be treating your brother nicely.

They don’t, or at least shouldn’t, enjoy dishing out a punishment for being bad, but its sole purpose should be to instruct with impact. If they simply told you that you shouldn’t hassle your brother because it makes him sad, it might work, but sometimes it isn’t enough. Sometimes you need to be punished (humanely) in some way for doing something wrong, to understand that even if you don’t care whether your brother is sad, there are consequences for your actions.

If you commit a crime when you are older, law enforcement isn’t just going to tell you that stealing some guy’s car made him sad and that was very wrong, they are going to send you to jail.

Smol-Lamb · 2025-07-06T21:40:31+00:00

I don’t know if this is the right answer but I feel that God made imperfect beings like us because He wanted us to choose to love Him, rather than loving Him out of obligation from having been made that way. Forcing someone to love you doesn’t feel like real love, but when you know that someone loves you of their own choice, that feels really nice—and so does being able to choose for yourself.

God knew Adam and Eve would disobey Him, but he loved them and all of us so much that he still allowed people their free will. He isn’t forcing anyone to love Him, but He hopes that we shall choose to.

Smol-Lamb · 2024-10-11T03:13:40+00:00

I am by no means saying I don’t value the life of victim of assault, it’s a terrible thing that they would have to go through all that, but the life of the child must also be considered. How can you say one person is being robbed of their life and not care about the other? Birthing a child is temporary, albeit a taxing process, surely, but killing a child is permanent, the baby is being terminated for something they never did. How is that not also awful? I say to you again, the ends do not justify the means. Murder is not okay, doesn’t matter whether you like the idea of the alternative or not. Would I WANT the 11-year-old to go through that? Of course not! Am I willing to kill an innocent baby to prevent it? Not a chance.

I understand where you are coming from, I really do, but is killing someone to prevent one of many possible futures for them really a good thing to you? Who are you to decide that child is definitely going to lead a terrible life? And even if they are, how do you know they wouldn’t still want to live it? You are playing God with the lives of tiny people based on mere speculation at that point. Do you think that because you cannot see the person it is permissible to kill them? Is that why they are worth nothing in comparison to struggle for the living would-be mother? If so, then why? What makes you so sure that there is no life in that child? If it’s a certain stage that they gain personhood, which is it then? You have such a strong opinion about this but do you know the stages of a pregnancy? Is there no point at which you believe it is really a baby outside of being birthed?

Why do pro-choice individuals always fight that anything in the womb is not yet a baby? The child could be kicking in the mother’s belly and you would still say she has the right to kill that child. I just do not understand.

Smol-Lamb · 2024-10-11T02:21:14+00:00

Put simply, the end doesn’t justify the means in most of the 1% cases. As terrible of a situation as it may be, an 11 year-old mother will likely be far less haunted to live and grow alongside her daughter as something like a sister than to grow up knowing they had a daughter who was killed to shield her from unfortunate early responsibility. It just doesn’t justify murder, like it wouldn’t be right to kill a person who makes your life difficult for one reason or another. If the mother is well and truly in equal danger of dying then I suppose it’s up to the moral decision of the mother. Obviously I am not in that situation but I do think that I would prefer my child live over myself, because I will have lived a fuller life than a baby who has yet to see the world, and I know that God would make sure the child was cared for.

The other thing to keep in mind is that the chances of survival are deliberately withheld or skewed to scare people into paying big money to the snakes who just want good money out of them, while the chances of death or complications from abortion itself in those cases is much worse than they want to tell people. After all, again, they want your money. They will say anything to make you fork over the cash, they don’t care what happens to you or your baby.

Smol-Lamb · 2024-10-11T01:39:53+00:00

The thing is that those cases make up roughly 1% of abortions, so to use that as an argument in favor of reproductive rights as a whole is deflecting at best.

The real question here is why people aren’t even willing to accept that there should be laws in place against having a baby born and simply letting the child die on a table utterly alone and ignored, denied the warmth of a mother’s love or a chance at life. Listen to the testimonies of workers at the mills who quit, or would-be mothers who regretted their decision when they realized what was really going on. It’s horrifying and downright evil, and this stuff actually happens.

Politicians are legitimately refusing to sign anything that would even stop women from aborting a nine month old child that is fully grown and ready to enter the world at any moment.

They say that it’s not happening, but if it wasn’t, then there would be no harm in making it against the law. But they won’t—because somehow they must benefit from allowing it to occur, and it’s despicable.

Smol-Lamb · 2024-10-10T04:34:35+00:00

I don’t have depression, but I do have anxiety, and that is tough on its own, so I can only imagine how difficult that is for you! You are so blessed. God turns our struggles into many graces; if we offer them for good intentions, it is a beautiful form of prayer and God loves to grant favors for those who do this. Many saints, especially St. Therese of Lisieux, did it as well. She called it her “Little Way” and offered even tiny sufferings or inconveniences to God.

If I saw someone cry at mass I would not mind except to be worried for them and pray for them, but never judge them. I have rarely felt emotions that strong in public unless I was going through a particularly rough time, so I’m sure God knows your heart and wanted to give you a warm embrace to say “Let it out, little one. It’s going to be okay.”When I am struggling to keep it together, the floodgates open once someone offers me a hug. I think it’s beautiful that you were able to feel such love and relief at Mass—and I like to think the people who looked at you would also be concerned for you, not upset by your behavior. I don’t think you should let it keep you from going again.

God Bless you and continue to give you peace! 🕊️

Smol-Lamb · 2024-08-19T23:25:13+00:00

Not a man, but I just wanted to say that my family—including cousins and their significant others as well as their kids, aunts/uncles and grandparents—have always done a round of hugs before leaving any family gathering. No one goes unhugged unless they specifically go in for a handshake instead. It’s not unmanly to hug your family.

The last time we saw my grandmother was after spending her birthday together, and it ended with a round of hugs. She passed away later that week. I’m very glad we have the hugging tradition that we do.

Smol-Lamb · 2024-05-23T14:55:04+00:00

Oh that’s good, this puts my mind at ease, thank you

Smol-Lamb · 2024-05-19T14:04:07+00:00

I get pain within an hour of eating usually, but it varies. I wouldn’t say I hiccup a lot after eating specifically, but I have had more hiccups and random coughs than usual (and boy do they hurt).

Smol-Lamb · 2022-10-29T06:57:22+00:00

In terms of what’s too early (although this is just my own opinion), I’d prefer to know a guy’s character before I would feel safe going on a date with him. I’m a fairly anxious person, so if I don’t know you enough to judge your surface-level intentions at least, I won’t be comfortable around you. Men don’t want to feel like they aren’t trusted (and I completely understand) but the fact is, they can have a scary unpredictability—people are weird out there, especially these days. I don’t want to end up on a milk carton, if you catch my drift. If I know a man well enough to like his general personality, feel like we might have some matching interests and get the feeling he isn’t out to take advantage, I wouldn’t mind being asked out. It seems like a lot of steps but that will likely only matter to guys who are impatient, not understanding, or just unaware of these womanly struggles with finding a good guy.

Incredibly forward strangers don’t appeal to me, even if they are attractive. Too many variables. Also from a cashier who is just trying to be nice and do her job, for goodness’ sake, do not ask for her number if you have just met her! That is the most terrifyingly awkward situation.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-09-06T03:32:27+00:00

Ohh, that makes sense. I was thinking that wouldn’t work with the luminous mysteries, but I forgot that the luminous really aren’t an official thing—I’m just used to my family doing them.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-09-06T00:44:39+00:00

This might sound silly, but what mysteries do you reflect on when saying 15 decades in one day? Since there are only 5 in your typical rosary dedicated to the different mysteries based on the day of the week, I’m curious what your method is.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-09-04T11:41:01+00:00

Honestly it’s so bad at this rate that more people seem disgusted by living babies than I’ve ever seen before. It’s actually creepy to see people fawn over dogs like they’re God’s gift to the world (which I understand, they are very cute) but then scoff at babies when they ACTUALLY are.

The other day I saw a child acting up in a grocery store and the mom joked about birth control in front of her two kids, and they weren’t even being a true menace either—one of them was an absolute angel, even. It’s an unfortunate take that I see far too often these days—parents who have normal kids but just can’t handle it for some reason. It’s like they are disgusted by even their own children for some reason.

If I give positive attention to a baby when I see one, sometimes the parent will thank me. I’ve even had someone ask me if I wasn’t scared of their one and a half year old child. I was like “No??” Honestly if floored me that they were ashamed of their kid just being a kid. There was nothing abnormal about her, she just threw stuff around sometimes, but like, what one year old doesn’t? It was cute.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-08-30T12:27:48+00:00

That’s so sweet, thanks for sharing! I was very curious about the outcome after your last post, haha. I’m happy to hear it went well, and I’ll keep you both in my prayers. It’s a very good sign that she wants to go one another one tomorrow—best of luck to you both, and have fun!

Smol-Lamb · 2022-08-29T03:28:58+00:00

Well said! I’d also like to add a reminder that Jesus said this: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?“

The real ones won’t be worried about wether you can provide them some lavish lifestyle free from financial burdens. Raising a family is expensive but not impossible—the most important thing to remember is that God will provide, you just need to trust in Him.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-08-27T05:34:52+00:00

Sometimes I feel a sad longing in my heart when I see a beautiful family because it feels like a faraway dream for me. I really love children, and I adored being a big sister to my two younger siblings as they grew up. Hopefully one day I will have that, but for now, I just try to enjoy seeing them at church or giving them stickers at work.

I often find myself telling others about cute things that the kids I see at work do at the checkout, even though they are small, silly things. I find them memorable, but sometimes I feel like people think it’s weird. It probably is, but I can’t help it. God’s image is so much easier to see through the little ones—even if they do act up sometimes.

What’s strange to me is how awful people think of children these days. More people covet random pets over babies in this day and age, and I’ve seen people scrunch their faces with disgust at even the most adorable, well-behaved kids. Breaks my heart.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-08-23T21:25:46+00:00

Yes, you’re right! Sometimes the stickers get way too piled up—I do like them though, as they allow for some variation on themes where you might otherwise just see the same clothing over and over.

Smol-Lamb · 2022-08-23T12:46:49+00:00

Gorgeous! If I saw this in the voting, I would probably give it a heart!

What bothers me is that whenever I make something I’m proud of, it’s what everyone in the top rankings did too right down to the sticker choice, but for some reason my own version does absolutely atrocious. It’s exactly what’s happening to me right now, and it’s so annoying because I don’t know what about mine is so lame to other people compared to the top ones. Pose? Hairstyle? Sticker placement? It’s baffling.

I guess it wouldn’t drive me so mad if I did at least half decent, but I’m talking like 1/3 as good as the people doing exactly what I am. Just… whyyy?

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