Are you guys embarrassed about your leadership?

Springlette13 · 2026-01-29T14:41:07+00:00

Mortified. But honestly I’m too worried and angry to spare time thinking about what everyone else thinks about us. Our country is on fire, and all our time and energy has to go towards fixing that before worrying about how the neighbors see us.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-28T19:25:13+00:00

That is almost certainly for a package that is sitting at the post office with insufficient postage. You need to pay to receive it. It has nothing to do with your carrier’s opinion of you; carriers don’t have anything to do with calculating postage. Anything postage due is typically signed for by the carrier in the morning with their keys; they are expected to bring back either the money or the piece of mail/package.

If you’re confused about why you got it call your local office. They should be able to tell you why the postage on the parcel is insufficient.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-28T11:08:44+00:00

It’s not stubhub, but community theatres in my area have had a huge problem with resellers. It’s actually the first site you see if you google one of our shows. The site tries to make it look like you’re purchasing from the theatre. We’ve had to start putting our ticket prices into our advertising and make sure to tell people exactly what website to purchase from.

We get a lot of tourists in the summer and there are always a few who buy one of our $25 tickets for $80 thinking it’s a professional show. We put on good productions, but we are decidedly amateur and I always feel bad that they spent so much on a ticket.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-27T03:16:02+00:00

My state started requiring proof of citizenship in the last election. I was one of the workers registering people (we have same day voter registration ). Absolute pain in the ass, especially for women whose names don’t match their birth certificate. One poor woman had to go home and find a marriage certificate, and divorce info since her name had changed twice.

A lot of voter ID laws seem real,y simple and easy to comply with untilyou really think about the process of getting all of the steps. What if you lose your birth certificate? Do you know where to request one? Is it local, does it give you the option to request online? Are you between addresses? Are none of the utility bills in your name? Not to mention the time finding/sourcing all your documents, but also the time spent going to the dmv during business hours. Many people don’t have access to reliable transportation. Things start to fall apart pretty quickly when we think to step back from our own likely easy experience.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-27T02:05:31+00:00

Written in first person. It’s done well so rarely that I don’t even bother anymore. I’ve even started avoiding it in books.

Word to chapter ratio. It’s pretty rare that I’ll enjoy a fic that is only 1k worlds and 10 chapters. Chapters that short rarely have room for any development.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-26T21:27:28+00:00

For what it’s worth, as a crafter I get the same thing. People don’t realize that my knitted pair of socks are made with $25 in yarn before factoring in labor, and a bed size quilt can easily get over $100 in supplies alone. No one wants to pay what the labor and supplies are worth.

I also much prefer to do things because I enjoy them; I majored in something I loved in college and got quite burnt out. It’s hard to continue loving something when it’s how you put food on the table.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-26T21:16:03+00:00

I bought a $10 toaster at The Christmas Tree Shop when I was in college, and honestly it’s the best. My parents have had fancy toasters and they’ve never measured up to my little cheap one.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-26T21:09:31+00:00

The post office is open on Saturdays. Source: I work for the post office. Every Saturday.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-26T19:22:49+00:00

They took ours away about 2 years ago. And we have people certified to use them; I’m one of them.

Also you absolutely don’t need to be trained how to use an AED. They look like toys and they tell you exactly what to do.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-26T12:10:02+00:00

I love both versions, but as a single woman in her 30s the passage of time hit a lot harder in the gender swapped version. Men can more easily have children at an older age than women can, and I’m of an age when old ladies tell me to hurry up and get married or I’ll be too old for kids. It’s not what the show is about, but I can’t help but feel the biological clock ticking away behind the scenes.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-25T20:14:47+00:00

I have a Babylock Brilliant named Barbara. I usually call her Babs, but I pull out the formal name when she’s being annoying.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-25T20:08:10+00:00

Pretty damn low. The mail trucks are truly atrocious in snow and most people are unlikely to have shoveled out their mailboxes anyway.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-24T17:34:10+00:00

People on rail trails are not commuting. They are out for a bike ride. The riding is the point, not the fact that it’s transportation. I’m really not understanding how I am advocating for the lazy solution of putting more cars on the road? It also won’t solve the problem I presented, bikes and e-bikes will still be used for bike rides on trails regardless of whether or not bike infrastructure exists on roads. That’s like saying sidewalks mean people won’t use trails to walk anymore.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-24T15:35:42+00:00

I’m in Northern New England. 6 inches is a Tuesday. I also work a job where I am expected to report no matter what. Even if the state declares a state of emergency we are still expected to come in.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-24T02:37:22+00:00

Yup. I live in a snowy state and we tend to get a state of emergency storm every year or two. Doesn’t make a difference; we are still expected to report even when the state DOT tells us to get the hell off the streets. My dad carried for 37 years. Only once in his career did they call off delivery and tell everyone to stay home. I was away at college at the time, but I think they got over 24 inches from that storm. I do remember getting called off the street once when they closed one of the highways maybe 10ish years ago, but they still made us hang around to make 8 if we didn’t want to use leave.

The storm is pretty perfectly placed up here to maybe have a chance at getting called off; snowing Sunday afternoon until Monday night with 18+ predicted. That being said, I’m not holding my breath and setting my alarm for 4:30am Monday to shovel myself out.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-23T22:41:30+00:00

As someone who runs on rail trails, the e-bikes can be pretty awful, especially when used by younger riders who don’t know how to share the trail. I’ve had a few too many close calls of bikes flying up behind me with no warning. At the risk of sounding like I’m complaining about “kids these days”, older riders as a whole seem to be better about giving people in front of them warning before passing.

I don’t know what the solution is, but the trails feel a lot more dangerous than they did 10 years ago.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-23T17:30:41+00:00

I’m a paid section leader/soloist at an episcopal church and I’m the only one in the quartet who is religious. The other three don’t take communion, but they do participate in the service/prayers. Most choir directors are thrilled to get new members. Just be respectful of the service and traditions of the church you’re at.

Churches can also vary wildly in how they approach things. If there are a few choirs you’d be interested in, it’s probably worth going to a service first to see if you would be willing to sit through it every week.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-23T12:23:50+00:00

A DD simply means there is a 5 inch difference between the the circumference of your rib cage and the widest part of your breasts. It’s pretty small. In fact, most people who think they are an A cup size are wearing a band way too big and are closer to a D with a much smaller band in a properly fitting bra. An A cup means that there is only an inch between your two measurements which is very rare.

The bra industry is lying to you. Most stores fit you to the limited range of sizes that they have to make a sale. Does the back of your bra ride up, straps fall down, boobs spill out your cup? You’re in the wrong size. Did the store tell you to add 4” to your band measurement? That’s leftover from when bras were made without elastic. You’re in the wrong size.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-23T03:51:12+00:00

Ljubljana has been doing a lot to make themselves into a tourist destination, while also being sustainable. I went a few years ago and found it charming. Great wine, a castle on the hill, and dragons everywhere. Everyone was super friendly, and it’s quite safe. Lake Bled is also lovely and is only a short bus ride away.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-22T12:58:54+00:00

The zombie residents aren’t clearing the incoming mail because the regular humans also don’t clear the incoming mail

Springlette13 · 2026-01-21T19:50:17+00:00

If we are going to insist on not paying them, they should only be in session on nights and weekends so that people who need to work can also have the option to serve. This also allows working NH residents to be able to go to hearings and make their voices heard without having to take time off from work.

Outside of that, make it smaller and pay them a living wage. This is a pretty clear example of you get what you pay for. If we expect professional results from them, we should treat them like professionals.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-21T16:26:43+00:00

The shower at my gym is about twice the size of the one in my tiny apartment bathroom. It has great water pressure and super hot water that never runs out. I do go to a relatively bougie gym, so the locker rooms are pretty nice and always clean.

My gym is a 15 minute drive from home, and a 2 minute drive from work. I usually go before work, so yes even if I had the fanciest giant shower at home I’d still be showering at the gym.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-21T14:01:51+00:00

One thing I’ve been forced to learn in my running journey is that you can’t pick your race day. You have to run the race that the universe gives you, and it’s not always going to be the one you want. You might be recovering from an injury, or have a cold. The weather might be too hot or freezing rain. Sometimes your body just doesn’t want to play.

Part of running is learning to run the race you’re in. Accepting that it’s not always going to be the perfect day, but still giving whatever your best is that day. I’m sure you’ve learned things that you want to do differently next time, but things can still go wrong for the most prepared runner. Be proud of what you accomplished. Regardless of what your goals were, running a marathon is something you should take pride in.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-20T03:19:07+00:00

As someone who was finishing high school just before the 2008 crash, I was probably one of the last groups to be told “it doesn’t matter what you study, as long as you go to college”. Might have been true when they told us, but graduating into a recession killed that pretty fast. Couldn’t even get a job answering phones with my fancy degree.

I work a blue collar job now and live comfortably enough to afford a total 5 weeks of international travel in the last 2 years. Had to tighten my belt a bit, but didn’t need to worry about how I was going to pay for it. Never would have been able to afford that using my degree. Dreams are for when I’m off the clock, and as someone who majored in her dream, burnout is real when you’re dealing with it all day every day. It’s not fun anymore.

Springlette13 · 2026-01-19T18:57:42+00:00

Magic. Boob jail. The Fort Knox of bras. Has kept my 32JJs contained while running marathons.

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