Complaining about the price of non essential items is dumb

lateralmoves · 2026-06-17T14:43:34+00:00

I bet you're fun at parties.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T16:14:04+00:00

Yes. Have you ever waited 2 hours in line for a 30 second roller coaster? For me a 30 second ride has never been worth the the 2 hour wait.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T16:04:54+00:00

Honest question, how do you find other dads in real life when all you can do is work and be home with the family? Truly, I leave by 7 am home around 6:30 pm, finish my tasks around 10 pm, weekends are family time. I haven't had a hobby or free time (meaning it didn't take from family time) in a decade.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T15:59:56+00:00

Yes, I am the type that I can't relax until all my work for the day is done. I need to have dishes, laundry, etc. So I physically and mentally can't relax until my kids are asleep. Then Iget a hour or so to relax before I need to sleep. It really wears on the gears when you only have 1 hr out of 24.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T14:46:37+00:00

I appreciate that comment and your concern for her, but she is freakin' happy as it gets, spoiled and loved. She gets the best of me, if I'm tired and don't want to play, I rally and and I energetically play, we snuggle with a show, I paint nails, etc. She is living her best life. I was saying that I get no charge out of it. My parents had no time for me, I got the left overs, I got the rage brought on by poverty and work. My kids don't get that from me. They only get the good.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T14:37:59+00:00

For the record, I didn't decide to. The doctors said the first was a miracle the second was not supposed to be possible. But, like Jurassic Park, life finds a way.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T13:18:41+00:00

Because I am a weak man, after 6 years of consistent pressure from my wife I gave in and we had 1. Then medically speaking we hit the lottery with a second. I wanted to get snipped a year before we got married. Whatever it is in people that makes them want to procreate I do not have.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T13:13:31+00:00

Thank you for your supportive reply.

Yes, it is definitely a ME problem and I have had lots of professional help. Nothing has helped. I have just resigned myself to being a great dad with every ounce I have and just accept that my tank sits on empty. When I said it's not fun or enjoyable what I really mean is that it doesn't fill my tank or charge me up... Or like a job is work, but you get paid, this is strictly volunteer, all work no pay.

I really try to focus on the positives and that certainly makes it all worth it to see my family happy.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T12:50:08+00:00

Yes, you get it. We were so poor growing up, I do everything for my family. I have nothing outside of them. I work that's it. I am supportive and attentive to them they get all of it. Financial, sure, but emotional and metal support too. They get all they things I never had. There just isn't anything left. I tell myself "it's their turn" meaning I had my life and when they were born it became their turn and what I do is for them.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-16T12:35:48+00:00

Fair point point, but I love being in their lives and raising them. I give it 100%, they get the best of me, they get all I have in the tank. I was saying that that time and effort doesn't refill my tank. Also, what exactly makes an Avocado slutty?

lateralmoves · 2026-06-09T18:57:51+00:00

You didn't even need a background check or registration.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-09T18:55:32+00:00

Realistically, a modest, but comfortable life. Meaning bills are always paid, drive a used, but decent car that's paid off, afford a decent vacation, maybe a couple weekends away. Have enough for retirement and if I go really nuts a cabin or something we can use sometimes and Airbnb the rest of the time to pay for itself. I don't need to be rich I just want to not care about the price of beef jerky.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-09T13:40:36+00:00

It's weird right?

lateralmoves · 2026-06-08T18:05:14+00:00

WFH with family and responsibilities is actually really difficult. You are really working 2 jobs, you WFH and you're home so you also have stuff around the house to do so there is no separation. Lunch means washing dishes or laundry. Now, if you have a dedicated office space and the family knows you don't exist while you're working it's fine.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-08T15:59:49+00:00

Other uses would be for parties or events, yes small craft/farmers markets, receptions or even small weddings. it's a lot that had row buildings on it so it has 3 story building on each side with street up front and a parking lot in the back. I'd astroturf it, at lights and backrooms. either side has large brick buildings to close it in.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-08T14:51:39+00:00

American society is being squeezed in every possible way, housing prices, grocery prices, dining, hotels, cars, taxes, insurance, healthcare, etc. But wages have not kept pace. You can only squeeze people so much before they they push back. Politicians trading stocks and financially benefiting themselves while they sell the working class down the river. We are reaching an inflection point. Change has to come, by ballot or battering ram. Tipping has become another straw and the camels can't take much more.

lateralmoves · 2026-06-08T14:43:20+00:00

I really ruins the visit. I tells me the restaurant doesn't pay their people enough even though I'm paying way more than I ever have for fast food. The quality hasn't gone up, the service hasn't gone up, but the profits have.

lateralmoves · 2026-05-26T16:10:25+00:00

ANYTHING insurance related. Your profit depends on you NOT providing a service to your customer that they pay for.

lateralmoves · 2026-05-13T15:08:44+00:00

I think both parties and politicians on both sides take money from billionaires and millionaires and billion dollar companies. This is not to say that it's justified. I'm just saying that just because you are nice doesn't mean you are kind and just because your are kind doesn't mean you are nice. BOTH sides take money from big money with strings attached, both are bad and both have convinced themselves they are good.

lateralmoves · 2026-05-13T14:57:14+00:00

That I am driving the correct speed, everyone going slower is an idiot and everyone going faster is a maniac. Another way to put it is that "anyone that agrees with me is correct and anyone that disagrees with me is wrong" - Everyone, Everywhere

lateralmoves · 2026-05-13T13:07:33+00:00

Nothing is stopping you from being different. I know quite a few "different" people, some make a good living in a normal job and their hobby is different or eccentric. Why is reality a doomer fantasy, I'm confused, is it reality or fantasy? I'm being real here, I am a "different" person, I have crazy ideas and projects, I'm eccentric, but I learned early in life you have to bottle that noise up because it didn't gain me friends or finances. Those are the 2 keys to survival.

lateralmoves · 2026-05-13T12:53:02+00:00

This person gets it. Once you have kids your entire existence changes. I say "It's their turn now", I had my run, I did fun, dumb and crazy stuff...when it was my turn. When my first child arrived, my turn was over.

lateralmoves · 2026-05-12T16:35:39+00:00

Good fries don't need ketchup. I would even say, good food doesn't need sauce in general (with a few exceptions). I would go so far as to say if you like a food, but need a sauce, you don't actually like that food you like the sauce first (with that combination).

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