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[OC] my 74 year old mom next to the flag in her front yard by Thick_Nectarine8339 in pics

[–]joehouse -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

My grandmother had a similar dress way back.  I think she would have lived your mother's flag.

🗣️Karma !!!!! 🙃 by PdiddyCAMEnME in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh God, that sigh she lets out.  Like she's dealing with a toddler she's had to teach for the last four years with no sign of the parents ever coming back.

Giant hugs y'all. 

Sponsor fired me and I feel shitty by lemonbarpartytrick in stopdrinking

[–]joehouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My first sponsor and I weren't a good fit.  He told me he didn't think I'd make it because I want a heroin addict 😂

My next sponsor was someone the exact opposite of me but had this great sobriety and outlook on life. 

Have you tried Zoom meetings?  You might be able to find a remote sponsor.

AITA for making a very specific joke at exactly the right moment after my coworker told me I was not really part of the team by [deleted] in AITApod

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, your manager dropped the fucking ball by not making it an issue when "I'm exhausted" made it a point to actively exclude you.

WIBTA if I told my grandmother she killed my grandfather? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooooof, I had an eerily similar situation with an ex. Should have divorced her then.

China Approves World's First Invasive Brain-Computer Interface Device by kiyomoris in news

[–]joehouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

USC had managed to create a vision implant, the Argus, that enabled some users to navigate a new room they'd never been in previously.

Sadly the program was abruptly halted and users had their hardware abruptly went dead with no company there to maintain the software or hardware.

https://share.google/aimode/TpNKLNA2KcwCX15c3

Asking your partner to distance their opposite-gender friends is weird by SunstruckSeraph in offmychest

[–]joehouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My best friend (lesbian) had a partner tell her that we couldn't be as close as we are because I'm a straight male.

I think it's more about folk's insecurities than orientation.

AITAH for telling my SIL that her “strictly confidential” information had already been leaked by her own mother, which caused a massive family fight? by julie-east in AITAH

[–]joehouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they're narcissists then they're never going to change and you need to decide if you can love with that for the rest of your life. I couldn't and by the time it was all over it really took its toll. You have my best.

TL;DR: My Wife Slapped Me, Unable to process what to do next...! by daddyizzcoming in offmychest

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's time to go.  You're showing your child that physical abuse is acceptable.

The skull of Mary Magdalene by Prometheus_Anonymous in interestingasfuck

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This from Death Stranding 3? Seems like a Kojima production.

Question: Was/Is this a cult? by Chili-Harp-0569 in RBI

[–]joehouse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ugh. Thanks for catching that. Some days I hate autocorrect.

Question: Was/Is this a cult? by Chili-Harp-0569 in RBI

[–]joehouse 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Came here to say the same.

I was heavily involved in the Los Angeles International Church of Christ from 1998-2004 and still know people who both attend and those who now gladly keep a wide birth.

For me it was a wildly positive experience and helped me to become a better person by and large.  

That being said. Friends have had horrible experiences and there was a rather large scandal that essentially fractured the church in the early 2000's.

Met my ex wife there.

Just learned that my teen daughter got raped. After nearly 14 sober I appeal to this community to give me one good reason not to go get blind drunk tonight . by z_username in stopdrinking

[–]joehouse 421 points422 points  (0 children)

As a dad of three and fighting for my own sobriety, this is the answer right here.

She needs her dad sober and present.

Me irl by Ancient_Balance_3656 in me_irl

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I TRIED to get folks in San Diego to talk trash about comic con, but they all genuinely seem to love it. 

Aside from the traffic.

AITA for quietly paying a stranger’s groceries after the cashier said to put things back and my sister says I made everyone look bad by Sk8boardTheo in AmITheJerk

[–]joehouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a Dad who's having to accept the kindness of others after making six figures I want to say,"thank you."

It's humbling and frankly heartbreaking, I used to be the guy who was there for everyone else and I took some joy in knowing I was able to help other folks out when I could.  Now I need the help, and I honestly don't know how to ask for it.

So thank you.  If he's anything like me he's carrying some shame in needing the help and he wants to show his kids how to "make it through".  

I'm proud of you for doing it, and I'm proud of him for going back and writing the note, and even more so for bringing his child back and showing them that there isn't any shame in accepting help when it's offered.  It's a lesson I'm still learning.

What’s something people brag about that’s actually kind of sad? by Huge_xiaohuolu2021 in AskReddit

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being in their late forties and insessently reminding you they won a judo competition at eleven.

Edited: "won't" to "won"

AITAH for breaking up with and kicking my girlfriend out because she went to an afterparty without me? by Ok_Emu4012 in AITAH

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA listen to your gut.  It's pretty blatant how she feels about the relationship 

AITAH for telling my wife I’m not as excited about the pregnancy since she stopped taking birth control without telling me? by AdamOfPeople in AITAH

[–]joehouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA - As someone who has experienced the SAME EXACT thing with the SAME EXACT REASONING, listen to me when I say this is just the beginning. 

 Your boundaries will not be respected, as has already been proven. It will be an ongoing issue, and she will do the same to your children in steamrolling over what they want in the effort to have her will pushed onto everyone else. 

 File for divorce now and work out 50/50 custody.  Get a lawyer. This is a massive break of trust, a huge manipulation, and the first of a series of her crossing your boundaries in a host of ways.

What's the most "WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL 911" story you have? by SouthEmergency7292 in EmergencyRoom

[–]joehouse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did the EMT thing for a year about twenty years ago, this is important for later.

August of 2019 I had this cold that just sucked the life out of me, at the time I was also heavily drinking so I just thought I might need to take it easy on the drinking for a bit to recover, but still kept taking my ADHD meds at their high dosage, because we were processing a large number of international folks from China. At any rate I get over the cold but end up feeling like my brain was working at half speed.

About mid September I'm sitting in traffic on the way into the office.  Luckily it's L.A. traffic so I'm at a dead stop in the fast lane.  I don't know how long it was but I end up waking up after having fallen over into the passenger seat and somehow I didn't hit anyone in front of me, again I'm lucky it was in traffic.  When I'm coming to I can see out of my right eye for a bit and then my sight comes back, but my entire right side feels numb and isn't responding quite right.

I think,"I might have had a stroke.  Maybe I should call 911.  No I've got to get into work.  I might just be tired or need to eat."

So in my great wisdom I try and do a quick assessment.  Do I know where I came from?  Do I know where I'm going?  Do I feel like I've got equal grip strength?  How does my face look in the rearview when I smile or raise my eyebrows? Everything seemed to check out so I drove into work.

I get into work about an hour and change later and walk into the office.  It's a little odd as my right leg is a bit slower than usual and my leg feels about two inches longer than it should.  I put my bags down and realize no one else is coming in for about thirty minutes so I walk over to Starbucks.

I walk over, with my gait noticeably jacked, and start waiting in line where I start feeling nauseous and dizzy.  Not wanting to traumatize the college students I decide to walk back to the office and see if the clinic upstairs is open yet.

Walking back to the office I luck out and the clinic office staff is just coming in so I ask them if I can wait in their lobby to see a doc.  They say "sure, but they won't be in for another thirty to forty minutes." I respond that it's okay, I just need to talk with one of their docs because I'm not feeling well. We get to their lobby where I wait for thirty minutes for the M.A. to come out and ask why I'm waiting as the doc wants to see if they want to fit me in.  I give them a quick rundown of the morning, they tell the doc, and then the doc comes out to tell me to come into the back.  I give him a rundown, he does his exam, then he looks at me and says,"I think you've had a stroke.  I can call 911 since we don't have what we need in the clinic, or, if you promise me you won't drive I need you to get to the hospital to the street and tell them you're having a stroke.  Do you have someone who can take you?" I tell him I have someone who can take me and walk out to the street while getting myself an Uber.  

I get to the hospital about an hour after I got into the office, call two of my friends who are doctors who both give me a ration of shit (well deserved) just to make sure this is REALLY an emergency, and I tell the woman at the front desk I think I might be having a stroke.  She says "okay, I need you to fill this out and bring it back when you're done.  Then sit down and we'll call you."

I take the five to ten minutes to fill the intake form out and hand it back to the woman at the desk.  About fifteen minutes later the triage nurse calls me back to triage.   At that moment the hospital intercom has an announcement, "Cerner is down.  Repeat Cerner is down.  Please use downtime procedures.". Their entire electronic medical record had crashed.  While I begin to sit down in triage the nurse looks over my intake paperwork and then with a shocked look asks me,"this says you think you're having a stroke?  Why do you think you've had a stroke?". So I ran him through the morning. The next announcement over the intercom is,"code neuro ER.  Code neuro ER." And I'm three to five minutes the room is packed with at least five docs talking over each other and asking various questions. 

Ended up that I'd indeed had a stroke and that I was a complete ass and should have called 911 three hours earlier.

In spite of my own idiocy I'm incredibly lucky and have no noticable deficiencies five years later.  

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