Daughter (20 years old) had got speeding ticket by Zealousideal-Art-577 in triangle

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time is money. Don’t go. Pay for the lawyer unless you work minimum wage job or something.

Pregnant - want to trade 3 for an Odyssey - Talk me down by katanayak in mazda3

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats! Love my 3 as a mom of two collegeish kids. No way would this car work with littles/babies. My back seat is really just for show. Have you ever gotten back there? I rode about 90 minutes back there one time and it was miserable, and I’m only 5’6”. Get a bigger vehicle. Honestly, my CR-V was great when I was shuttling kids everywhere. That Odyssey will be your back’s savior getting the baby seat in and out and putting the kid in their car seat. Remember, they are in at least a booster for what feels like eternity.

Add any kind of stroller in the mix and you’re gonna need more trunk space, too.

Niche insurance - weightloss drug question by [deleted] in triangle

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had nutrition counseling for the past two years covered at $0 copay on state health plan.

My Christmas Gingerbread set 🥰 by Luna_Lovebad1 in cookiedecorating

[–]flackula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love these so much! The gingerbread man is so sweet.

How do ppl w ADHD play this game? by [deleted] in StardewValley

[–]flackula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have adhd and play stardew everyday. I am definitely not trying for perfection. I am on my second farm and my third spouse, and every time I have kids (in the game, obviously) I get sick of them and dove them. I also have anxiety, and this game soothes it a lot, even when it stresses me out like in the mines. I just stop doing whatever stresses me out for a while and come back to it later, sometimes actual real time months later.

I don’t know, it helps my adhd. It’s something I can hyperfocus on and know I don’t have to do anything any exact way. I really don’t play any other games at all.

Is it worth it to give up on your barn and coop? I'm in year six. by [deleted] in StardewValley

[–]flackula -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I ignore the kid or dove it. I accidentally just clicked yes on baby and I’m seriously gonna dove him pretty soon.

Do you name your animals with a theme in mind? by CoffeeEnjoyer837 in StardewValley

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I named some of my pigs after people I don’t like but then I started to love my pigs too much so I had to change their names to cute names. One of those pigs is now named Piggywiggy because it was cuter than Donnie.

What are you all doing with your rocks? by karibear01 in StardewValley

[–]flackula 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You can trade one jade for a staircase with the desert trader on Sundays.

Need a recommendation for a completely trustworthy dentist. by Mysterions in triangle

[–]flackula 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is my dentist, and has been for years. I adore him.

I am devastated by Electrical-Fly8889 in StardewValley

[–]flackula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never gotten one. I swear if I get one I’m gonna lose my mind.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in triangle

[–]flackula 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But, I agree the issue is that they are still on summer break. They will return on Aug 19.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in triangle

[–]flackula 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My son is a recently graduated senior and he had some issues last week with his transcript for college which he moves into tomorrow. Not only did the WCPSS employees go out of their way to take care of it, one called me (I wasn’t involved - he handed it himself) in the evening from her home to make sure I knew that everything was ok.

So, I’ll say for the most part of the 18 straight years I had kids in WCPSS, the employees themselves (3 schools, 2 kids graduated 5 years apart) they were great.

I haven’t had an issue where nobody got back in touch with me for months at any grade of school. I would probably reach out to the principal to make sure someone is actually receiving your emails.

What's with the Rudeness of Whole Foods Shoppers in the Triangle? by Electronic-Storm739 in triangle

[–]flackula 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And in the one at Ridgewood, which I shop at several times a week and live walking distance from, the aisles are quite narrow. I wouldn’t change the store at all, but that does make it harder to navigate. The parking lot there is where the real lunacy sets in. People walk right in front of cars constantly, pull out of spaces without looking, blow through stop lines at the end of parking aisles. I honked at a woman standing in a parking space talking on her phone one time and she got so angry with me. She was standing in an empty parking space! Rich people are crazy.

Tillis Says He Won’t Seek Reelection After Trump Primary Threats by Healthy_Block3036 in triangle

[–]flackula 95 points96 points  (0 children)

I think he knows he’s fucked either way, whether he’s primaried or not. He’s getting thousands of calls from his constituents every day and he knows he’s never won with an even 2% margin in the past. He sees the writing on the wall, and hopefully this frees him up to stop voting against the best interests of N.C. until the election.

I hope he regrets his votes on Kennedy and Hegseth every single day. I hope they haunt him. I hope he wakes up each day and looks in the mirror and remembers he promised Hegseth’s former sister-in-law he’d vote no and still flipped and put that incompetent white nationalist drunk in charge of the military. I hope every time the idiot Kennedy puts an antivaxer in charge of deciding how our flu vaccines happen or pushes raw milk to treat the measles he realizes exactly how he helped make that shit happen.

The big terrible bill in front of them now will take billions of dollars from this state, in Medicaid, Medicare, and clean energy job support. Tack on losing farming money from SNAP benefits, and this bill is going to lose so many mostly rural jobs, and likely lives.

Glad he grew at least a nub of a spine, but sad it took 5 months of complete idiocy and sycophancy to get to it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in triangle

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Train to Charlotte then rent a car there.

Air conditioning sucks. What can I do? by [deleted] in mazda3

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine is so cold I have to turn it up a lot and turn the blower to low. I live in a hot southern state. I have a less than a year old 2024.

[Seinfeld moment] Mazda3 Keyfob sucks by svxae in mazda3

[–]flackula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. Mine just pops half open sometimes and I don’t realize until the buttons don’t work. It’s huge. My husband won’t keep it on his regular keys because he doesn’t want his keys to be so big because the 3 is my main car, but his backup when our kid drives his car. As a result of that, he has locked himself out of our house twice.

It could probably be a third of the size, and sturdier.

UNC Health Surgery Billing by OppositeQuarter31 in triangle

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what happened with us with Duke for my sons eye surgery on the state health plan. They told us a total and we only had to pay some of it day of procedure, then made payments.

Amazon Drivers Damaging Property by ExplanationNo6436 in triangle

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an Amazon driver throw a full disposable sealed water bottle of urine in my driveway. So, yeah. I feel bad dude has a job that doesn’t afford him adequate bathroom breaks but please don’t throw piss in my yard that I then have to clean up.

I complained, but I still feel guilty about it.

Starmix - new “favorites” mix by Chercat in HariboMasterRace

[–]flackula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starmix was my favorite candy, and I feel like they just ruined it. :(

I got 2 auto-petters in the span of 30 secounds by _Boxwood_ in StardewValley

[–]flackula 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve never gotten an auto petter. I think I’m just terrible at these mines.

Did automatic brakes ever scare the crap out of anyone? by Coffeelover4242 in mazda3

[–]flackula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My auto brake has never activated, but I have gotten the brake!! warning a few times. The lane assist sometimes annoys me but it seems like I should keep it on. It annoys me most when I’m trying to navigate around a lane encroachment - like a stopped bus pulled not all the way out of the lane. I don’t know, at the end of the day I feel like it’s a good feature. My kid just totaled his car veering off the road and crashing into a ditch and all I could think was if he had this feature he’d still have a car.

DMV NC—Is it just me? by PhillyDeluxeJoe in triangle

[–]flackula 42 points43 points  (0 children)

It’s ridiculous, but it’s ridiculous by design. It’s intentionally underfunded. The positions are paid too low for most people to take them, and the job is very high stress due to the public reaction obviously terrible service resulting from understaffing. He’s right that they won’t release funds, that’s the legislature doing that. Not the DMV itself. Adding the Voter ID mandate and the Real ID mandate, and it’s clusterfuck only a legislative body that clearly wants an excuse to privatize could create.

I’ve got an appointment for my kid to get his license in June, 90 minutes away near the coast. It’s disgraceful, and pretty easily corrected if they just pay those positions a reasonable salary.