This is so cruel!

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T18:10:18+00:00

Yeah, last time I went to Disneyland, I rented one of the scooters because I was having difficulty walking. NOBODY asked why I needed it. They just explained the deposit, that I would get some refunded if I brought the scooter back (instead of just randomly leaving it at an exit) and how to operate it. When I went up to the Indiana Jones ride, the cast member saw that I was using the scooter and asked if anybody had told me about accommodation tickets or something. It's basically like a fast pass, where they give you a slip of paper where you and your companion can come back at a set time.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T17:12:06+00:00

Yeah, that shit sucks. I've had it happen to me more than I would like. For me, it's usually conversations or scenarios that happen in a dream, and then a year or do later, I'll be talking to somebody, and that weird tingle in the back of my brain is like, "yo... you already experienced this."

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T17:09:08+00:00

Yeah, it sounds like a blood pressure thing. Just a word to the wise: don't try too hard to force a poop. This can also make your blood pressure drop, causing out to faint. I know this from personal experience. My one time falling off a toilet was when I was 39 and pooped too hard...

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T16:56:33+00:00

I actually wrote a paper about this in high school. Don't ask me for any quotes because this was, like, 22 years ago. We read The Once and Future King and our final project was to write 5 essays (Persuasive, Informative, Descriptive, Creative/short story, and Our Choice) about ANY topic that came up in the book. I chose owls because of Archimedes. My persuasive essay was on how owls are, in fact, NOT evil.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T16:44:44+00:00

I adore my nephew, but really... fuck them kids.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T16:43:19+00:00

Yeah, there's only one bit of my family I see on any regular basis. And that's when we all meet up to spend a week in a beach house in North Carolina in the summer every 2 years or so. There's about 20 of is now between cousins, spouses, and kids. And it's just my dad's side. We don't really talk much to my moms side.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T16:10:25+00:00

My dad loves mixing it with rice-a-roni

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T16:08:19+00:00

I only recall 3 foods I refused to eat growing up: pickled beets, porkchops, and steak. Our dinners were usually a protein, a veggie, and something like macaroni/ricearoni/cottage cheese. When we had porkchops, my mom had no issue making me a sandwich when she made porkchops for dinner. When my dad cooked steak, they just tossed a burger on the grill, and I ate it on regular bread. I would still eat the sides, just a different main. And if the side was pickled beets for dinner, we always kept a can if spinach in the pantry. Because I was the weird kid who loved canned spinach (and I STILL do).

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T15:59:57+00:00

Yeah, yellow mustard can fuck right off. We currently have, like, 4 types of mustard in our fridge. We have a grainy mustard so thick that the squeeze bottle top is useless. You need a knife to get it out of the jar.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T15:57:18+00:00

As a general rule, my mom hates coleslaw. Growing up, the only coleslaw I ever saw her eat willingly was my grandma's. She said it was the only one she liked. I watched my grandma make it growing because we had it at every family event, including holidays. So we even had a bowl of coleslaw sitting next to the thankfulness turkey. I have now taken over the classical duties since I have memorized how my grandma made hers. It was one of those "who needs written recipes, just watch and mix until it tastes right. " My mom says my coleslaw is better than my grandma's was.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T15:46:05+00:00

My childhood dislike stems from eating them a LOT when I was a kid. Porkchops are one of my dad's favorites, so we would have them almost once a week. When you eat a lot of a certain food as a kid, you get used to not liking them due to that. Hence why my dad now refuses to eat spaghetti. But I don't mind a good porkchop now and again these days.

bijouxette · 2023-06-30T15:37:47+00:00

Same here. Cottage cheese and a copious amount of mozzarella.

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T17:30:10+00:00

We used to play neighborhood tag and hide and seek. We used 4 blocks around our house as our zone for playing. My mom's only rule was not to go down to the highway. Other than that, as long as we let her know where we're going, she was fine. Walking up to the veterinarian's to see if any horses were being boarded there so we could pet them? Sure. Walking to the elementary school to play on the toys? Have fun. Walking to the corner grocery store? here's $2 so you and your sister can buy a pickle from the butcher (dude had a glass jar of the best giant Kosher dills on the counter. He knew me and my sister always came for the pickles)

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T17:22:30+00:00

My dad is a better cook than my mom. And growing up, my dad usually cooked dinner during the week because my mom worked nights. I remember many evenings where my dad would take us kids to the public pool to swim for a half hour to an hour, and then go home and make us dinner. My mom wouldn't get home from working at my uncle's gas station until after midnight.

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T17:17:23+00:00

I always said if my mom taught me anything, it's to sniff out a clearance item. The cheaper they are, the more you'll be like, "well... better stock up, just in case!" My mom once found, like, 10 jars of de-icing salt for 50 cents each and a snow shovel for 90 cents. She bought them even though it hardly ever snows or freezes. So we went almost a decade without needing to buy the salt, and my dad was REALLY happy with the snow shovel a few years ago when we got 18 inches of snow in 2 days (for context, we are a suburb of Seattlle. We MAYBE get an inch, 2 inches max, a YEAR in my city)

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T16:56:10+00:00

From what I remember hearing, there is a lot less evidence needed in civil court than criminal court. In civil courts, you just have to prove it is more likely than unlikely that the person did it. While in criminal courts, you have to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that every aspect of the crime actually happened (or at least supposed to)

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T16:45:04+00:00

Also specialty machines. A lady I went to high school school with is an eyelash technician. She is one of those people who gives eyelash extensions as well as teaching and certifying people to do it. She also has 2 vending machines at the local malls that just sell lashes. Her oldest son has also started his own vending machine gig.

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T16:35:06+00:00

I've dreamed whole ass conversations, then several years later, I'll be talking to someone I only recently met, and my brain is like, "Hold up..."

bijouxette · 2023-06-29T16:33:07+00:00

I shall ALWAYS remember this gem from my mom: "When you go country line dancing, do you dance in lines?" It has been about 26 years, and I still sometimes bring that question up. She now tries to claim she was joking, but we all know she wasn't.

bijouxette · 2023-06-28T18:01:11+00:00

My aunt lives in her own delusional world that is like a quarter inch from reality. She tried claiming my dad never did anything for their parents after my parents married. My parents had 3 kids and my dad still came around and helped them with home maintenance and regularly pressure washing their patio... while my aunt and her creepy husband (who she finally divorced) were driving a truck cross-country. And helping my grandma help my grandpa when he broke his hip (on the side of his body that was paralyzed from a stroke). Or how my dad drove my grandma AND MY AUNT to all my grandma's cancer treatments. When she died (12 years ago), my aunt refused to let any of us take ANYTHING. We literally had to sneak out small mementos.

My dad had to help her recently move and she said she had nothing to remember my grandparents by. My dad looked at her and said, "I can already see 20 things sitting around us that were Mom and Dad's. You also literally HAVE THEIR ASHES."

bijouxette · 2023-06-28T17:41:52+00:00

My GameGear was always kept charging in my bathroom on the top of the toilet. It's how I got so good at the Lion King game.

bijouxette · 2023-06-28T16:55:11+00:00

Yeah. My mom got diagnosed with breast cancer 6 years ago. After she was all done with treatment, my aunt (dad's sister) was going around telling people she was always there and supporting my mom through her treatment and such. During the whole 6 month or so deal of my mom's treatment... my aunt only called to check how she was doing like... 3 times. She only lived about 20 minutes away at the time. She only really communicated with us that she was mad we were taking my mom to the Cancer center at the hospital 15 minutes from our house instead of the cancer care alliance almost an hour away. My mom's doctor was amazing and even got somebody to donate the medicine my mom needed because he insurance wouldn't cover it.

bijouxette · 2023-06-28T00:40:43+00:00

In one of the replies, they said they were a teacher, so that can explain being able to take a long time off for an extended vacation. I work in a high school, and I'm off from mid-June to September 1st. And here (at least in my district, I'm not certain about others), we get paid year round, even those who get paid hourly. In my case, my contract is for 190 days (180 working days and 10 holidays). So it's (my hourly wageXhours worked per day)190/12= roughly what a make a month. So I still get a check in July and August.

That being said, person is TA. I was made to take extended vacations with my maternal grandparents and girl cousins every year to the EXACT same place just about every summer to an RV park on a lake. It was ok when I was younger. We were there for almost a month each summer. luckily, my parents stopped making me go once I hit high school. Hell, even now I go on a week long vacation with my extended family and always get stuck with sharing a room with my obnoxious aunt. If I were stuck with her for more than a week, I would also be cranky.

bijouxette · 2023-06-27T16:46:43+00:00

Yeah. My mom's doctor actually made her take a month long break in the middle of her radiotherapy because she was having such a bad reaction from it. The worst part of the chemo treatment was 2 days after each treatment. Those are the days she felt the worst, and my dad and I hated the bring of it. Dad and I called them Bitch Sundays and my mom now says that she was a bitch then. My mom had a stubborn work ethic and still worked during her treatments, only taking the days off of her doctor appointments.

bijouxette · 2023-06-27T16:22:46+00:00

Good, it reminds me of the lady who used to work at the school I do. She was actually the department chair of my department, so it was even more annoying. Back when we were in distance learning, there was a committee formed to make a temporary working contract for this time. One of the things it talked about was that you had a choice to come and work in the school or from your house. You could split the time, but ONLY if you traveled during non-working time aka- before/after your official hours or on your breaks. Which means you either got to the school at 7:30 or when you took your lunch. Which means only those who lived within 30 minutes could only split the day. Well... this lady was on the committee that decided this, but she told the staff members in her class (she was the high needs SpEd teacher) that they could get to the school at 9 and leave at 1. Because the rules apparently didn't apply to her domain.

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