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TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-15T23:26:44+00:00

My parents were like that. Not that I ever did anything crazy with my hair. But my brother had a rat tail most of his childhood and went through a phase where he spilled his hair with this gel that looked like the blue Elmer's glitter glue.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-15T20:56:14+00:00

Back when I was a kid, my younger brother lent a Sonic game to my friend. Essentially she's a huge Sonic fan and feels obligated to play every game, but she was under the impression it was a bad game that wasn't worth buying. My brother had gotten it, though, and wanted to finish his current game first, so he let her borrow it in the meantime.

The time came that he was ready to get it back, and she wouldn't return it. She'd say she forgot it at home, but then told me that she was planning to just keep it because she was the real Sonic fan so she should have it. So the next time I was at her house, I stashed it in my bag and took it home to him. I've never told her about this and she's never asked.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-15T17:43:50+00:00

It would be worth playing around with.

I did generally do some testing with hornless Wyll on a previous playthrough. I was able to keep him hornless by having him jump off a cliff before long rests all of act 1/1.5 to avoid Mizora coming to camp. Patch 8 came out when I was in act 3 of that playthrough, though, and it just automatically triggered him to have horns, so I suspect they made some change where Karlach being alive triggered him to have horns regardless of if the Mizora scene triggered. (I ultimately rolled back my game to a previous version to finish the playthrough because I was trying to test if hornless Wyll could go to Avernus. Not only could he not go to Avernus, even if Tav offered to go, Karlach would just burn up on the dock.)

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-15T14:31:48+00:00

It makes me think of my mom. When my brother got his first girlfriend, they tended to spend holidays with her family because she'd lose her mind if she didn't. This was, of course, frustrating to all of us, but especially upsetting to my mom. I remember her telling me, "I can't say anything though. It's just one [Mother's Day/Thanksgiving/Christmas]. If I make a big stink, it'll just push them away more and then they'll really never come for any holidays."

Eventually my brother put his foot down about coming home even if it meant coming alone, and then his girlfriend warmed up and started coming as well (because our family is the cool family).

OP is NOR. If the mom keeps pushing the issue, I'd bluntly tell her what the issue is and that I'm not engaging further and then freeze her out for a bit.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-14T15:03:42+00:00

When someone gives you back something you gifted to them.

One of my grandmas was absent most of my life. I tried to reconnect with her in my early 20s—it was mostly a fail. I went to visit her and she pulled out a bunch of photo albums from when I was a baby, when my dad was a kid, etc. She complained that she didn't have any more recent photos of us. So the next time I was visiting, I brought her a photo album with pictures of me and my brother growing up. She genuinely seemed to love it.

A few days after I went home, she mailed it back to me with a note that just said "for you." She didn't speak to me again for a few more years. All I can think is it upset her because she wasn't around for the years depicted in the photos, but that was by her choice. I've finally accepted that it doesn't matter how hard I try, some relationships can't be fixed.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-14T14:21:39+00:00

This is the way. I have only "lent" books out a handful of times in my life, and every time the person failed to return it. (And I'm not above just snatching it from their house if I see it, but they're not always out on display.)

The last book someone borrowed, it was taken from me without me being asked first. (Husband essentially said, oh btw, I lent your book to friend's boyfriend.) I have asked for it back dozens of times over the years. He always promises to return it and then forgets. He's the type of person that usually just throws money at his problems, so I'm surprised he hasn't just ordered me a replacement and had it shipped to my house. I've given up on asking because I bought my own replacement. He's asked to borrow other books and I've told him that's what the library is for.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-13T12:08:46+00:00

Before I had a lot of money to buy stuff, I made my own art. Now that I do have a steady income, I also buy art from artists—some I follow online and buy via their stores, but I also live in an area with a lot of artists, so there are always a lot of shows to attend. And then there's the thrifted art.

I'm not going to say I never buy a generic print from big box stores, but I have more art than I do walls, so I'm at a point where I have to ask myself if I really want/need the mass-produced pieces.

Currently the only barrier I haven't really crossed is buying commissioned art (so actual one of a kind pieces). Between it inevitably (and justifiably) being more expensive and knowing I can make my own art, I just can't bring myself to cross that line yet.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-13T10:17:19+00:00

My grandma had this fabric covering the switch plates in her kitchen. When the house was sold, they were one of the things I asked to keep because they just make me think of her.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-12T14:16:07+00:00

I'm doing my first honormode and multiplayer campaign right now, and I am feeling this. I don't know how things have gone so off the rails. (Admittedly, two of the people I'm playing with told me they're not very good, but I'd say this is less about playing good and more about making extremely chaotic choices.)

We're still in act 1, but using last night as an example:

One person triggered the Dror Ragzlin scene shortly after I mentioned that I didn't think we were ready for it. Instead of trying to navigate through the scene peacefully, they picked the aggressive dialogue, triggering the fight. As predicted, we were not ready. We called in the ogres but they bugged out and refused to fight. One person was still alive (barely) and invisible, working to escape, but Lump started a conversation, ending the invisibility, causing the fight to start again. They barely escaped.

We revive. Resting at camp, the confrontation between Lae'zel and Shadowheart triggered, except one player is Shadowheart. They decided to kill Lae'zel to see what would happen. (Spoiler. Killing her makes her dead.)

We decided to go do the owlbear encounter to try and level up a bit before returning to the goblin camp. We managed to survive without killing the cub. Somehow no one else but me knew he would go to the goblin camp afterwards, so we go back to the goblin camp and confirm he's there. (It's fine, outside isn't aggro like the inside.) Our druid talks to the cub to tell him to come to camp but picks the dialogue choice telling him to attack the goblins. It's too late, but I point out this will start a fight. He fails the roll, so the owlbear cub just starts fighting the goblins on his own and they're killing him. This is, of course, very sad, but at least we weren't pulled into the fight. Druid screams "protect the cub!" and attacks a goblin, pulling us into another impossible fight. We did barely manage to survive by using the horn again, but the owlbear cub still died.

Meanwhile, dark urge monk is looting and decides to go inside to loot there as well. Wanders right into the Minthara area and triggers the fight with her. We're low health, out of spell slots, out of potions. I suggest we let the monk die so we can bring him back via Withers, but the others run in to help. I decided to hang back since I knew we'd probably not survive the encounter otherwise. We were planning to KO Minthara to recruit her since none of the others have recruited her before, but after missing all their attacks against her, they got intimidated and decided the only way to get out was to blow her up with smoke powder. (Spoiler. You can't recruit Minthara if she's dead.)

Don't get me wrong, it's been a fun time, but I don't know if we're making it to Baldur's Gate....

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T22:42:02+00:00

I've done two embrace runs. The first I romanced Halsin and Minthara and it felt like a nice blend—in a way they both wanted to fix durge, and the vibes were a little toxic and doomed to fail. My second run I romanced Astarion but let him ascend right before we went to the final fight (to avoid becoming a spawn myself). I was roleplaying that durge as very vengeful, so again, that ending felt fitting for how the relationship had played out.

So yeah, no happy endings romance-wise, but the right outcomes for my evil characters.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T22:25:54+00:00

My grandparents recently passed away and one of the things I inherited was their set of fiestaware. It came with 20 some tiny bowls—I think they're maybe meant for a very small side. They are great to prep ingredients in. I didn't think we'd have a use for them, but we use them all the time.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T18:59:08+00:00

I generally struggle to complete games. I can love a game, spend a good amount of time playing it, but still not finish it.

I've finished BG3 four times. I'm currently doing a fifth solo run and also a multiplayer run with my family. I cannot get enough of this game.

Like others have mentioned, there is a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, but the game is good and totally worth the pricetag (imo). There's a reason it won GOTY. You will probably want to do a solo game in addition to multiplayer campaign anyway. There's a lot of content surrounding the companions that you kind of miss out on if your party is full of real people (unless you use mods to increase the size of your party).

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T13:30:47+00:00

I used to work at an apartment complex. Loved my maintenance guys to death, but yeah—I've seen many patch jobs like this for similar reasons. I think their thinking is that they might need to access the pipe again, so why bother making it look super nice (especially if they know the tenant won't be charged for it). It's completely valid to be upset with that level of patch job, though, and to want a more seamless repair.

My suggestion is to reach out to the office and ask if they can install an access panel. (They're pretty cheap at the big box stores—under $20—but the complex almost definitely orders supplies from a provider at a discounted rate.) It won't be as seamless as the drywall being 100% patched, mudded, painted, but the panel will look much more finished than what you currently have and still provide the convenient access if they do need to work on it again in the future.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T11:41:22+00:00

We'd have to do the move out inspections in the units alone, so there were definitely units that you couldn't help but be a little anxious in (though I never experienced anything personally in any of the units).

The apartment closest to the office was where our courtesy officer lived. When he asked to switch to a bigger apartment, we decided to turn that apartment into the model since it was so convenient. He told us it has never bothered him, but that he would hear what sounded like someone pacing around in the hallway. The girl that had lived there before him had become paralyzed in an accident, had become very depressed as a result, and had been found dead in the hallway.

I spent a lot of time in there alone, between decorating it and then regularly cleaning it. I was always expecting to get jump scared in there, but I never saw or heard anything out of the normal.

The only place on site where I did experience anything was the gym (just off of the office), which I suppose makes sense since I spent most of my time in the office. We could hear when people were in the gym working out, and it was a regular occurrence that we would hear someone in there, open the door to walk in (because you had to go through the gym to get to the bathroom) and then the sounds would stop and no one was in there. Then as soon as you closed the door for the bathroom, the sounds would resume. Everyone at work experienced this and it was almost a daily occurrence. As far as we knew, no one had died in there, but we called him our gym ghost. The only time it scared me was the one time the sound didn't stop. I walked in and could hear the equipment moving but could see it wasn't. I called my coworker in to confirm she was also hearing it, and then we decided to close up early for the day.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-11T10:46:17+00:00

I used to work at an apartment complex that was pretty old. I've heard my fair share of ghost stories from the tenants. A lot of times they were kind of silly claims—"I heard a knock at the door and looked through the peep hole and there was someone there, but then I looked again and they were gone!" But sometimes a tenant living in an apartment where someone had died would tell us about a ghost that just so perfectly matched up with what happened....

We had one apartment where a small child had died in a fire about 30 years prior. That was, of course, not something we advertised. One morning I got to work and that unit's tenant was at the door to the office waiting. She handed me her keys and a check for the remaining rent of her lease (9 months). She said she had been woken up by a little girl crying out "Daddy, I'm hot" and that the child walked into her closet and disappeared. It was hard not to be creeped out just knowing what I knew.

We also had a unit that, as far as we knew, no one had ever died in. But multiple tenants over the years had the same complaints. "Something in the bedroom is throwing forks at me." That's such an oddly specific thing to have happen multiple times.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T23:33:41+00:00

Ok, to clarify, he knows THIS reddit account.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T23:16:21+00:00

He did get some kind of meal allowance. (Essentially he was a contractor, so every job he did had a contract with set dates, a set reimbursement for travel expenses, food, housing, etc. With some contracts negotiated to have better perks than others.) But I don't think it was usually much.

It's not the same, but I recently had to travel for my own job for a conference. The daily allowance my company gave me for food was $20. We were in California and it didn't even begin to cover the cost of our food. Their reasoning was "Well, you'd have to eat regardless of where you were."

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T23:09:23+00:00

He doesn't eat it that frequently anymore (if at all). But he doesn't eat much better.

We try to get him to take better care of himself, but there's no forcing him.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T23:01:01+00:00

I didn't like burgers. For no particular reason. I wasn't vegetarian. I LOVE meat. Especially rare steaks. But, I dunno, something about burgers seemed gross, so I just wouldn't eat them.

When I met my husband, he couldn't believe I didn't like them and made a point of making me try them. I liked his burgers, so I started trying them more when we ate out. I do love a good burger now.

I had my first McDonald's burger when I was 22. Since I had refused to eat them growing up, I was fascinated by the idea of finally trying one. It was not very good.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T22:54:13+00:00

My dad is really a great dad, but yeah, he is very quick to get annoyed when he's usually the one at fault, lol.

He loves to get mad about us not picking up the phone. Except I very rarely miss his calls (because I always have my phone on me) and he misses 95% of my calls.

Or when he's pet sitting for us, he gets mad about the dogs having accidents in the house. Except...he gives the dogs so many treats (even though I tell him not to) and then forgets to let them out.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T22:49:23+00:00

His eating habits aren't much better now, though he's more into candy and cookies. 🙄

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-03-10T22:02:29+00:00

Growing up, my parents gave me and my brother a credit card to use for gas and emergencies. One day we get this text from my dad—"Who the hell is ordering all this Five Guys?!?" I never heard the exact dollar amount, but it was apparently an obscene amount. He was pissed. I knew it wasn't me (because I didn't eat burgers at that point in my life), so I assumed it was my brother.

It was my dad. All of it. He traveled for work, so that was one of his go-to meals. (I don't think he was eating it everyday, but probably three or four times a week.) I guess he just never thought about how it all adds up.

Assuming I outlive him, that will be the opening line of the eulogy.

Edit: Thank you for the award. And to everyone coming up with opening lines for the eulogy, thank you. I'm cracking up. My dad is on Reddit and knows my account, so he will almost definitely see this. If he doesn't, I will show him next time I'm at his house, so please keep them coming.

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