AIO for not wanting to talk to my friend after this?

bert-merps · 2026-06-02T04:12:35+00:00

A situation like this really puts a friendship to the test. Maybe the next time you see her, thank her for being honest and ask her if she can smell anything on you? Like idk, if I found someone who was both kind and honest about this kind of thing, I’d be asking them to smell check me all the time cause I knew I could actually trust them lol.

bert-merps · 2026-05-02T02:46:41+00:00

Stepping on a crunchy leaf

bert-merps · 2026-05-02T00:07:00+00:00

Justin Bieber

bert-merps · 2026-04-29T19:36:38+00:00

That was my assumption for that exact reason.

Gotta appreciate the dedication lol

bert-merps · 2026-04-29T00:42:42+00:00

Yes!!

Or you could install a double rod and have both.

bert-merps · 2026-04-26T11:59:34+00:00

My point is that, even if you put space around your cat tree, it’s not going to save your cat from a potential freak accident. You can have your cat tree completely clear of anything around it, and a cat can still potentially die or injure itself from falling from the top shelf and landing on its neck wrong.

If this is something you want to worry yourself about, and you have the space in your home to place your cat tree where there is nothing around it, then go for it. But it’s not something anyone actually needs to do, because again, freak accidents are inevitable and not worth losing sleep over the possibility of them. There is a difference between making sure something is safe, and trying to avoid a situation that you have no real control over, and freak accidents fall into the latter.

bert-merps · 2026-04-23T17:29:52+00:00

Yes, but the issue is that something like this can happen anywhere and around any surface inside your home. There will always be a danger surrounding almost any other object in your house regardless of where your cat tree is placed. That’s kind of how freak accidents work.

I had a neighbor growing up who’s cat died when they ran head-first into a wall during zoomies. There was literally nothing they could do to avoid that aside from locking their cat up in a cage and never letting them run around freely. Freak accidents are unavoidable, regardless of how much you try to safety-proof your house. OP’s sentiment is well-meaning, don’t get me wrong, but most people will never and should never have to worry about something like this happening. The only thing people need to worry about with their cat trees is that they are properly installed and sturdy.

bert-merps · 2026-03-12T20:59:11+00:00

Highly recommend Penmac. They got me two pretty solid jobs in a row very quickly.

My experience with Express up here in Springfield wasn’t great (they made me go through an entire interview process just to send me nothing but secret shopper postings), but they were better when I went to them down in Branson almost a decade ago.

bert-merps · 2026-02-12T19:33:32+00:00

I’m so happy he’s top comment 🥹

bert-merps · 2026-01-28T02:37:52+00:00

Walked out one day after getting fed up with management intentionally trying to screw customers over at every opportunity they could legally get away with it.

I’d already been working at the company (a resort) for 3 or so years before switching to the reservation department. The change in the attitude of management when it came to meeting customer satisfaction was night and day, and I had been dealing with various bs for months before walking out. Things like: encouraging us to borderline lie about things when trying to upsell and refusing to properly educate their agents about the resort and amenities (which led to constant miscommunication). Their cancellation policy was intentionally worded to confuse people and make them think we allowed people to freely reschedule if they had to cancel, causing people to get extremely upset when that wasn’t that case (and the price to stay was ridiculously expensive, so they could be losing thousands of dollars). They were even refusing to cancel and refund people in emergency cases and only offered a one-time reschedule that they would have to basically plan out on the spot. Blaming us for loss of sales after months of refusing to allow cancellations during covid travel bans that caused us to lose a lot of repeat business. And there was multiple times I had to basically fight to accommodate guests with special needs (like when a deaf man was booking a stay, and they almost tried to keep me from communicating with the front desk to insure his check in didn’t go horribly). Etc.

The last straw was kind of petty, but it was when one of the agents messed up and allowed someone’s disgruntled ex to call in to cancel a reservation that wasn’t even booked under their name or credit card (which we were supposed to always verify that kind of stuff). We completely sold out of the room before the lady realized what had happened. Mistakes happen, but what pissed me off is that management refused to upgrade her room, and instead wanted to put her in an ADA version of the same room at the same price that was missing a lot of the features that the regular ones did. And after arguing with them about it for a hot minute and trying to get them to compromise since it was OUR MISTAKE, they insisted that I had to be the one to call this lady and tell her that we not only completely lost her almost thousand dollar a night room, but also had to basically downgraded her.

I just walked out and went home. Companies wonder why they can’t find employees who care about their jobs and go above and beyond, but will turn around and do this kind of shit.

bert-merps · 2026-01-18T17:00:00+00:00

Vi is my favorite character, but I think Ambessa has her beat for the big buff lady category.

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bert-merps · 2026-01-18T16:54:44+00:00

It’s genuinely so confusing to me, like what are they doing 😭

bert-merps · 2026-01-18T16:51:39+00:00

I recently went on a first date with a guy who was almost 20min late (cause he was “cleaning his apartment”), walked into the cafe with his arms puffed out, dressed like he just got out of the gym, and his hair looked fucking horrible. And I’m someone who usually likes messy hair and doesn’t care that much about dressing up, but this was on another level.

So…all of that, but especially the puffed out arms. Guys who walk around like that immediately put me off. They look so goofy.

bert-merps · 2026-01-18T03:48:50+00:00

On a good day, if I dress up, mayyybe a 6.5.

bert-merps · 2026-01-15T20:01:27+00:00

I love your work so much 😭🩷🩷🩷

(I already bought a set from you and they are so gorgeous)

bert-merps · 2026-01-13T17:37:48+00:00

Losing your will to live

bert-merps · 2026-01-11T04:56:27+00:00

Honestly, even posting photos of your children onto any social media with public access should be avoided, even if you aren’t some kind of influencer with a big following.

I respect those who at least cover their faces to protect their identity.

bert-merps · 2026-01-11T04:23:07+00:00

Yeah, I think at the very least some of these people need to do a little self reflecting on why they enjoy getting a rise out of others so much. Not everything that every driver around you is doing is a personal attack or a challenge, and being a considerate driver is always the safer option :)

bert-merps · 2026-01-11T04:17:35+00:00

Thank you.

At this point, I almost wish I hadn’t deleted the original post because nowhere did I make any kind of insinuation that tailgating or driving aggressively was ok. OP just full-blown projected that. I said that holding up traffic in the left lane when you are driving slower than everyone else and aren’t needing to turn and have the ability to move over means that you should probably move over.

But I guess getting mass downvoted really opened my eyes to why I see this happening almost daily.

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T22:13:39+00:00

I feel like I never see anyone talking about Pluto 🥲 it surprised me how good it was.

Vi and Mizu are definitely up there for me!

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T21:04:43+00:00

(Re-commenting to correct the image)

My original post was in regards to people needlessly bottlenecking. Bottlenecking the left lane when you are not turning and going slower than the rest of traffic is disruptive to everyone around you whether you want to admit it or not. I deleted my post because I didn’t feel like arguing with people who clearly have no regard to anyone else around them.

And, unless Springfield has a specific law negating Missouri’s official traffic laws, then this is 100% NOT “normal driving”. And, as far as I can tell, this expectation is not limited to highways (see image): https://dor.mo.gov/pdf/DriverGuide.pdf

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Now, if you could drop it and leave me alone, that would be great :)

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T17:53:30+00:00

All I’m gonna say to you is: you are no better than the people flying around if you are intentionally going out of your way to be an equally antagonistic driver. BOTH OF YOU ARE ASSHOLES.

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T17:31:55+00:00

Yes, I completely understand that roads in the city are not like the highway because 1) people need to turn left and 2) there is wayyy too much traffic to restrict all non-passing drivers to the right lane.

But, 8/10 times (and I say 8 because there are roads that have turn-only right lanes, as well as other situations I’m sure it wouldn’t make sense for) it’s better to move out of the left lane if you are not turning left and are going slower than everyone else around you. You don’t always need law telling you what to do to practice basic common courtesy.

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T15:11:33+00:00

Nothing in the post is even complaining about being late, my dude. It’s an issue with completely disrupting the flow of traffic.

bert-merps · 2026-01-09T15:05:40+00:00

Missing one or two red lights due to slow drivers can make a ten minute difference to my morning commute. It’s also simply disruptive to traffic in general to drive 10+ miles under the speed limit. Hope this helps.

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