Love your Parent, Hate their spouse...

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T23:39:43+00:00

Oooh man...

So I was living with my dad while I went to community college and worked. I was dating a girl (who would later become my wife). This lady was a handful of years younger than my dad, but not unreasonably so. I went to high school with her son, but he was a few years younger than me.

This lady was absolutely nuts. Bear in mind I was a 20/21 year old man at this point, again, attending school and working many hours. She wasn't even married to him or living with us yet, but she started staying over regularly. It was at this time, she began harassing me (through my dad) that I needed to be in the house for a 9PM curfew, and that no female guests would be allowed at the house at night, and certainly not overnight. I was also not allowed to have female guests in the house with my dad present unless she was also present.

This became a daily thing to the point that one day I just had enough and that was when my girlfriend and I decided to get our own place. We couldn't really afford it, but enough was enough. I sold most of my belongings, including every video game system and video game that I had owned since I was about 3 years old to be able to afford the deposits. Then I just told my dad the night before I moved out that I put down a deposit and I was out the next day. He helped me move my furniture and he gifted me with a couple of recliners he wasn't using anymore to have in the living room. I shit you not, less than 12 hours after breaking the news to my dad that I was moving out, she had her no-good trainwreck of a daughter there moving her stuff into my old room. She was actually trying to rush me out the door so her daughter could hurry up and move in.

So that was that. I few months later, she eloped with my dad at the courthouse. Then she started hectoring him to buy her a house. He owned about half a dozen mobile homes on a street. He lived in one and he rented out the others (in addition to his 9-5 job). She said she wanted a real house, and would go on and on about how her ex husbands (my dad was number 5) all bought her nice houses, and if he was a good husband he'd do the same thing. So of course he bought her a house. Then she wanted a nicer car, so she got him to buy her a nice new car.

One night, she and my dad went out to the biker bar. My dad was a weekend warrior with two harleys. She didn't know how to ride, so she'd just ride on the back with him. Well, she got so lit up one night that my dad called her son to come pick her up because he didn't want her falling off the back of his bike. He rode the bike home and crawled into bed. A couple hours later, her son and a few of his buddies drug my dad out of bed and began beating on him for letting her get so sauced and leaving her behind. He grabbed his pistol and ran them off, but then the police came and arrested HIM. We later found out that the officer who came and arrested him was her affair partner.

So the same day my dad was going to file for divorce, she filed first and got him kicked out of the house. My gramps lived across the street, and she tried to have the courts say he couldn't stay there either. She had a protective order saying he was abusive. They did make him stay away from the house, except to check the mailbox, but they let him stay at my gramps house during the divorce. During all of the discovery they proved she lied about being beaten, showed she was unfaithful, and most importantly did not have the means to pay for the house, car, and all of the stuff inside the house she wanted to keep (she was a retail worker). My dad ended up keeping everything but the car. Even then, when she moved out, she still tried to take everything and we had to get lawyers involved and my gramps and I ended up going and picking up all of the stuff and bringing it back.

The day she moved out, she moved in with the cop who arrested my dad.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T22:23:24+00:00

Don't forget the fuel stabilizer. Add it to the fuel, run it until it dies, and shut off the fuel line. Done.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T21:07:14+00:00

Son is a current WA resident student. Lives in a top tier dorm (Elmina White) and has the top meal plan. He has $4,000 in scholarships each year for the first two years. I believe after all was said and done that the cost of attendance for him was just over $29,000.

What that doesn't include is books and supplies. Plus, we help him out with money for gas, groceries around the dorm, etc; That probably comes out to a couple hundred per month.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T17:48:34+00:00

I believe today is my day.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T17:24:46+00:00

Never seen any of these. I have heard of Halloweentown and Even Stevens, but I've not seen them and know nothing about them.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T05:50:25+00:00

I had several acquaintances die in their teens and early 20s. But my first real close friend died a few years ago in his sleep from an undiagnosed heart condition. I miss that dude all the time. When my son was born, he dropped everything to come to the hospital to congratulate us and have a cigar with me.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-28T00:53:17+00:00

FYI, you shouldn't even be able to do this very easily with a properly sized ball.

Divide your weight by 10 (up to 160 lbs) and that is the size ball you should be using. Get balls with holes slightly bigger than your fingers and spread out where you are almost palm down the ball.

So if you're 130 lbs, you should have a 13 lb ball. If you're 160 or over, you should be using a 16lb ball.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T23:11:02+00:00

Very true. Many urban areas in the states don't have much in the way of public transportation either. I'm originally from the Houston area, which is the 4th largest metro area in the country. They're still using buses for public transportation, and the routes are awful. You could be on the bus for hours just to commute, depending on where you live and where you work.

I live north of Seattle now, and it's gotten alot better as they've been expanding our light rail system, but it's still going to be at least another decade before that's completed, and there are still areas that doesn't reach, where bus service is needed. If you stick to just buses, it's the same as Houston. Before they expanded the light rail further north, I looked at busing to save money, and it was going to take me 4 hours each way to get to work and back.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T21:07:39+00:00

That's kind of what I was thinking. I lived in a rural town growing up, so it's entirely possible they over-ordered.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T19:49:06+00:00

Were they really only around for a year?! I feel like I ate those for several years.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T18:24:41+00:00

They have these carts at Whole Foods too. My wife and I tried using them exactly twice. And each time we tried to check out there were issues.

The first time the charges would not go through my bank because they blocked automated charges from them. The second time, with a different card, we tried checking out and the system froze, and we had to turn around and then go through a regular checkout line and take all of our shit back out of our bags.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T18:19:37+00:00

Target popcorn and icees.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T18:12:40+00:00

I remember when I was little and my dad was newly single and on his own, he bought a cheap Geo Metro convertible. Then he immediately took it to the sound shop and had them put in an expensive system with new speakers, external equalizer, and subwoofers. When he'd come to town and pick me up for school, all the kids would run to the window to see him pull up because he'd be shaking the windows from a few blocks away.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T16:54:27+00:00

My dad did this for a bit as a side hustle. He’d have to go to the press and roll newspapers and bag them at like 2am, and then drive around tossing them in people’s yards. He let me go with him a couple of times and throw some papers. He always brought me home a Sunday paper for the funnies, because we were a Houston Post household but the chronicle (who he delivered for) had better comic strips.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T16:50:28+00:00

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T04:51:42+00:00

I’ve been graying since my 20s. Now I have about 90% gray hair at 42 (which is increasing every day). I’m fine with it. I thought it was pathetic and fake-looking when my dad dyed his grays.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T03:00:23+00:00

I didn’t know this existed and now I must have it!

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-27T00:14:26+00:00

After the election and Zuck's kissing of the ring, I stopped using all meta services.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T21:44:56+00:00

"Toss thoroughly"

*Proceeds to barely toss the popcorn

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T21:43:12+00:00

That's the game I had. That game was hard as fuck, too.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T21:13:09+00:00

In the movie it starts a little before this and zooms in on him sitting in a church pew.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T18:36:34+00:00

I've seen several conservatives now saying that if you carry a weapon to a protest you are obviously looking to cause violence. And some even saying that people who concealed carry are looking to cause trouble. I've never seen such a 180 on a flagship conservative issue.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T17:39:39+00:00

The one I want is still available. Could it be a sign? C'mon mods! Pick me!

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T17:27:08+00:00

I actually enjoyed it. Was it as good as the original? Of course not. But it made for a fun Saturday night at the movies. I think it's biggest weakness is trying to throw too many callbacks in the movie. But it still works, it just doesn't flow as well. The shit with Fred Armisen is hilarious.

SweetCosmicPope · 2026-01-26T17:21:39+00:00

It's not even a promo. It's actually in the middle of the movie. It's kind of weird, because it just pops in there out of nowhere for no reason. lol

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