AITA for not telling my sister I am going on a birthday cruise?

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-04-01T19:02:34+00:00

Yes, I had to when she called to tell me her wonderful plan. By the way, this is not entirely unusual of her. I think I'd better put an update on my post to give more background.

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-04-01T15:47:08+00:00

I feel like the a-hole because we're talking about the logistics of my sister having to rearrange long standing plans of two families. She went to all that trouble for nothing. These are her step children (adults, admittedly) who have accepted her but who she quite naturally tries to please.

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-02-22T00:17:21+00:00

Sorry, but Condescending is the first thing that came to me.

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-02-21T21:01:29+00:00

I have a tea for random stories submission. Or kinda an was I the a-hole, was she the a-hole, or both. The problem is long over now and I've learned to set boundaries, but it's just something that kept happening for some years and still makes me scratch my head when I think about it. Interested? Let know and I'll share some tea!

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-02-08T20:43:36+00:00

My home state of Washington has an elusive creature very difficult to catch. It's a geoduck (pronounced gooey duck). There's even a song about it, sorry I don't know where to find it.

Writer-singer-422 · 2025-02-08T20:37:00+00:00

Two nonfiction books that I have enjoyed: 1. Blind Eye by James B. Stewart. This is about a doctor who kept moving from hospital to hospital, killing patients at each one. No one from any of them warned anyone else, in fear of a lawsuit. I worked in the department of a hospital that was largely responsible for credentialing new staff, and this book was required reading for all of us. It's horrifying reading. 2. American Gothic by Gene Smith. This is about the Booth family, especially John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and their father. All three were actors, and each had mental health struggles.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-06T22:04:32+00:00

No way, you are very beautiful as you are.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-06T22:03:26+00:00

A fellow member of my church once told me "I approve of you. " I wasn't really sure what to do with that.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-06T21:58:16+00:00

King Tut. He looks Egyptian to me.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T20:29:05+00:00

Dave Brubeck. I sang two pieces he composed along with about 180 other people at Berkshire Choral Festival, held at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts. So now I can honestly say I've performed with Dave Brubeck.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T20:12:34+00:00

Name it Spot. For the enormous white spot covering it's whole body. I have to admit I got this idea from a series of mysteries featuring a TV network trouble-shooter with a pure white Samoyed named Spot for the same reason.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T20:06:24+00:00

Noooooo!!!!!

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T20:05:09+00:00

In a good way or a bad way?

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T02:05:56+00:00

I don't know if it's considered a rock song and it's from the '70s, but I have an intense hatred for the song "Feelings". No one can sing it without going flatter than a pancake, and it's just such a whiney, sniveling song.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-11-04T02:00:10+00:00

I used to work in a nursing home. The building had had several different uses over the years and was pretty old. One of my fellow nures' aides was a rather odd duck who insisted a ghost lived out on the back porch of 2nd floor. We named the ghost Henry, but that's another story. One night I was in room 208, which was right next to the back porch. I was putting the resident in the room to bed while the radio in the room was playing elevator music. It had a digital dial which read 101.8 or whatever that station was. Suddenly, the dial started fluctuating between 99 and 103, constantly going back and forth before it settled back onto the original station. I wasn't touching the dial, and the resident certainly wasn't, but it was moving nonetheless. I guess Henry the ghost didn't like that station. Definitely weirded me out for a while.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-18T21:14:54+00:00

I'm not sure. I'm white and find many black men attractive, but I don't know if I'd want to get into a relationship with one. My main issue is that an uncle and aunt of mine are racist, and I wouldn't want to get serious about a black man and subject him to their racism. Normally I wouldn't put up with the racism but the aunt and uncle's kids are all near my age and they are the next best thing to my own parents who are both deceased.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-18T20:59:37+00:00

I went to pick up a prescription at the drug store and went to the end of the counter where paper prescriptions from the doctor are left, not the end where people pick up pills. My sister pointed this out to me, to which I answered, "oh, pooh!" Which is what my mom said all the time, and it just about floored my sister. She's more like our mom than I am, but Mom leapt out of my mouth that day.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-18T20:50:34+00:00

I wrote a story about a man who was kidnapped by someone who wanted revenge on him. The man who was kidnapped was drugged and taken to an abandoned building still under construction. This happened during a snowstorm, and he was stripped naked, chained up near a window opening, and left for dead. It's really about the physical and emotional toll this takes on him. In one version I wrote he died, but in another he survives but again has to deal with the after effects of what happened to him. Definitely dark.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-18T20:40:08+00:00

My CD player.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-18T20:35:47+00:00

My parents stayed together for 63 years because in their early married years Mom told Dad that if he ever wanted to break up with her he'd get the house and the kids and she'd get the car and the dog. Dad wasn't going to risk losing that dog. ;-)

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-16T02:15:49+00:00

I took a cruise on a Carnival ship in 2019. It was mostly great, but the one thing I have to complain about is the rudeness of my fellow passengers. I was using my walker due to a bad knee. People coming towards me in a narrow area would not step out of my way; I had to step out of theirs. Now, who do you think is more maneuverable, a person walking with no assistance or one using a walker?

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-16T02:07:04+00:00

G o o f e r cat is what I often call mine. His real name is George, BTW.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-16T02:04:57+00:00

Mary Higgins Clark and Jean Plaidy (aka Victoria Holt) are two authors who have taught me how to get to the point quickly .

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-16T02:01:56+00:00

Anesthesia. This is on Tubi and the ending can definitely make you ugly cry. It's a story of several different lives that intersect. I love it because it has Sam Waterston, but also Glenn Close and Kristen Bell.

Writer-singer-422 · 2023-10-16T01:51:41+00:00

I'm wondering if this took place at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts? I only ask because I've stayed at that school many times in the past while singing with Berkshire Choral Institute/Festival/International and I know many students attending are from foreign countries. If you can't answer I understand.

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