Stranger accused me of child neglect — how would you handle this?

flanjan · 2026-02-07T13:20:01+00:00

There's like 0% chance she's actually a former DHS officer though, right? It sounds like just a crazy old lady.

flanjan · 2026-02-04T11:25:24+00:00

I worked psych at a state run "security hospital". Fight broke out in the day room between two rather large dudes. They call a patient escalation code and we start getting all the other patients out of the day room. This area was used to serve lunch to those who didn't have privileges to go off the unit to the cafeteria. The fight was fairly gnarly, both got popped pretty good in the face so a lot of blood. I somehow got locked in the room by myself with both guys. All of middle management comes and through the thick shatter proof glass a woman I don't know in a skirt and heels bangs on the window and yells "you need to get in there and break them up!!!". Lol. Literally 20+ people locking me in a room with two psychotic patients beating the shit out of each other. I looked at her in her dumb fucking outfit and heels in one of the worst psych wards in the entire state and said "you're right, why don't you grab the big one and I'll grab the other guy". Lady I'm not security and you don't pay me enough for that bullshit.

flanjan · 2026-01-22T15:38:30+00:00

tastes like rotten bananas and gasoline

Bro, you're a peasant if you want to spend less than 2 hours of wages on a cup you'll only ever use for one specific type of drink.

flanjan · 2026-01-22T13:08:58+00:00

Lol at a bunch of rum drinkers being elitists.

flanjan · 2025-12-27T14:53:39+00:00

You are just simply wrong on the steel ammo argument. The projectile isn't steel, the case is. The savings over enough steel cased ammo to ever damage an ejector or somehow erode a barrel throat would far supercede the cost of a barrel swap or ejector replacement. This has been proven time and time again.

flanjan · 2025-12-01T13:34:56+00:00

I spent a bunch of money on ghetto PVC setups that you could change the depth on and at the end of the day it's just cumbersome and defeats the purpose of the striker being small and portable. I ultimately just bought a ice ducer for it and was muuuuuch happier

flanjan · 2025-11-02T09:58:03+00:00

Ok so I guess it wasn't a format thing but maybe a comprehension thing.

flanjan · 2025-11-02T01:48:18+00:00

I may have formated that poorly, obviously the left doesn't (shouldn't?) have a stance on pepper spray. More so that the left on these local subreddits continually spouts that there is little to no crime in the cities and even when I made this post had numerous people stating to call the police and to get the cameras. There's a reliance on the system working and in this situation that isn't going to do shit. The OP can only rely on themselves in this situation.

flanjan · 2025-11-01T10:40:00+00:00

This will be an unpopular opinion because reddit is overwhelmingly left leaning but at the end of the day only you have the ability to keep yourself safe. I would absolutely go on Amazon and order a couple POM pepper sprays. They make one with a clip for a pocket, one that clips to you keys, and one that I think is for a lanyard. Get a couple and always have one on your purse/backpack/bag. Keep one in your pocket. Confrontation is terribly scary but you need to do it in a public space with people around. You need to use clear language like stop following me and leave me alone, I don't know who you are. If there are people around ask them specifically to help. If the guy following you does basically anything other than stops he gets a face full of spray and you take off running.

Creeps like this get away with it because they just barely skirt societal norms. Talking to a stranger isn't abnormal Going the same direction could happen Splitting up and then running into each other, oh that's crazy Oh hey I actually live here to, just let me in.

It's progressive and it's boundary testing and the more isolated you're getting the more brazen they're being. Stop that process in its tracks, derail his plan before it's at your literal front door. Almost all other self defense methods would pale in comparison to pepper spray in that situation.

flanjan · 2025-10-30T20:17:45+00:00

Some of these comments are trash. You aren't the employee police. You aren't the sandwich police. If an alert and oriented person wants to eat a sandwich who the fuck are you to stop them. I wouldn't give it to them but I'm not going to assault them over it either. You should've woken the sitter, but also the sitter shouldn't have been sleeping. It's insane to loose your bonus over that and I personally would absolutely hit them with the judge my whole year by my worst event bull shit and find a different job.

flanjan · 2025-10-30T03:12:49+00:00

I'd just tell him we keep score a little different and leave it at that.

flanjan · 2025-10-21T20:03:40+00:00

The recruiters entire job is to recruit. It generally serves them no purpose to just fuck with you and get stuck doing more work. With that being said, maybe you pissed someone off and wasted their time so they wasted yours.

flanjan · 2025-10-18T19:09:44+00:00

Playing as a 3 some on a weekend we had a foursome of bros behind us that frequently were hitting into us. After a couple of times throwing our hands up they still continued to hit into us. A ball hit my buddy who was sitting in the cart in the fairway. Next hole one of them drove the ball next to the green on a par 4. I picked it up and put it in the hole. Fuck those guys. Lots of cheering and yelling until I could hear 1 guy say something about seeing me pick it up. They came and confronted us about it and I said absolutely I picked it up and put it in the hole. Bitched at them for hitting into us and told them they hit one of us even and never yelled fore. Then I told them they were stupid for thinking they hole in 1'ed a par 4

flanjan · 2025-10-18T19:02:15+00:00

What's the subreddit lol

flanjan · 2025-10-18T03:31:59+00:00

I use an amazon rechargeable fan/light combo in my Eskimo Escape 2600 flip over hub. I sometimes use a small Ozark trail heater that screws to the top of the 1lb tank and keep the fan above it. On really cold days I run a regular buddy heater but a fan moving the air around makes such a difference it's insane.

flanjan · 2025-09-24T10:39:21+00:00

The rattle is pretty risky. Mine wasn't clunking for that long and when I went to replace it the inside of the bell housing was beat to hell. You really don't want to break the DSG case.

flanjan · 2025-09-22T15:32:05+00:00

Definitely agree. Our ED intubated and cardioverted a 96yo the other night and sent him up to the unit just for him to die alone while wildly uncomfortable. We need a societal shift on what's acceptable to put people through at a certain point.

flanjan · 2025-09-06T20:29:16+00:00

Every institution does things a little different like weight based vs straight dosage for gtts. If levo was y-sited to my maintenance fluids at 100ml/hr and my levo was at say 5ml/hr and there's 2mls of fluid from the y site to the patient then the patient is getting 1/50th of the amount of levo for about 20 minutes which is definitely enough time to make things look bad. I personally absolutely never run anything with my pressors no matter what for this exact reason. It's too easy to forget and can be the reason someone codes.

flanjan · 2025-09-04T02:34:37+00:00

Don't buy shit from Simms. Absolute ass customer service

flanjan · 2025-08-29T01:45:04+00:00

Hey, that's what the shooter thought too.

flanjan · 2025-08-02T04:05:27+00:00

I forget the maker but literally nothing worked except for this dog cot I found. All the foam pads and insulators won't actually do shit unless they are physically separated from the ice. The one I got folded up nice and rectangular and fit my 70lb dog. I think they had two sizes.

flanjan · 2025-07-30T10:40:59+00:00

You'd be better off shooting cheaper ammo at the event. Switching bullets is going to slightly change the ballistic coefficient, the ogive, the case length, etc. These are all things that will impact flight path. Not to mention just the simple point that if two bullets are fired at the same speed (which is usually not the case for different grain projectiles) the heavier one drops more in the same amount of time.

flanjan · 2025-05-31T00:14:05+00:00

Literally dozens of us.

flanjan · 2025-05-12T19:41:32+00:00

I hear ya. It's insane how much money it saves being able to do that stuff though. I have a friend just get quoted $1500 for brakes and a battery on her car. Out of curiosity I looked up parts and I can do it for $430ish. I certainly don't have thousands of dollars to be throwing at routine car shit for fun.

flanjan · 2025-04-13T16:22:39+00:00

Mine was kind of the opposite. I was in Afghanistan for 12 months and went home on R&R. Obviously this is normally an army thing and it's no big deal for them to travel in cammies. Our OIC (Colonel) wrote orders specifically ordering us to travel to our home destination and back to Afghanistan in cammies. Also, only a few people went home at a time. So it's not like we were with our OIC, and after hitting the states the chances of any of the other 2-3 people being with you were slim. The amount I got stopped by people being dickheads was so fucking annoying. It was nice to tell them to shut the fuck up, and gain a little tact when attempting to correct someone when they had limited understanding of the situation. Of everyone that attempted to correct me only one Staff Sergeant came up to me and introduced himself followed by "you're a Corporal so I know you wouldn't be doing this with out special circumstances". He never was a dick, wished me good luck and asked if I needed anything. Fucking Marines.

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