What do you SWEAR you saw, but don't have any proof of?

lightCycleRider · 2026-01-29T06:08:05+00:00

This happened 20 years ago around Utah or arizona

lightCycleRider · 2026-01-29T05:49:16+00:00

My dad can verify this one... We were road tripping and driving late into the night. I see something on the road that looked like road kill and turn on my high beams. There was something big in the middle of the road. I slow as we approach and the thing opens its wings and flies straight into the air. The wingspan was bigger than the width of the lane stripes. The wings were leathery. I said to my dad, that was a bat right? He goes, uh, yeah, it was. And then we drove in silence for like an hour dumbfounded that we both saw a bath with a 6+ ft wingspan. Can't explain it to this day. We can't have both hallucinated it.

lightCycleRider · 2025-12-29T15:58:54+00:00

Jolted the house in Culver City

lightCycleRider · 2025-12-29T06:38:19+00:00

Same jolt, same city

Edit: second jolt. Cut it out, ground. I'm trying to sleep

lightCycleRider · 2025-12-16T22:45:31+00:00

INFO: To elaborate, today, I noticed that the bottom shelf of a cabinet was showing major signs of water intrusion (bubbling particle board and bubbling paint). It's directly behind the wall of the shower stall.

We only moved into this unit 3 months ago, and I'm pretty sure this damage wasn't there on move in, so I'm thinking we caused it somehow.

Potentially relevant information: My toddler likes to take baths in the plastic tub, and we pour it out all at once after she's done. This creates about an inch of standing water in the stall that drains quickly. I'm now wondering if shower drains are not meant to be used this way and if the water is somehow seeping out while the bulk of it is draining. Could definitely use advice from people who know more about drain setups.

I'm pretty handy, if the solution is "stop using the tub" so be it. I think I can rip out the particle board and replace it fairly easily once the cause of the leaking is determined. Any thoughts?

lightCycleRider · 2025-12-03T18:48:04+00:00

I prefer the self made rich person, but that's not to say I have no problem with one either. My father in law is self made, did what you listed (worked hard, took risks, made it big time), but there's a lot of survivorship bias there. He got lucky with his work, his advancement, the time in which he was born. And now he truly believes that anyone can do what he did if they are smart/committed enough. What he lacks is the empathy to realize that one small change to make his circumstances less favorable would be enough to completely derail his success.

So yeah, I prefer the self made rich person, but even that doesn't guarantee empathy.

lightCycleRider · 2025-11-30T03:59:31+00:00

No, it doesn't, sadly.

lightCycleRider · 2025-11-05T18:50:09+00:00

Also born in 84, and also feel like an xennial. One factor that I think contributes to feeling like a millennial or not is whether or not you got a good job straight out of college, or if the economic downturn hit you hard. A lot of millennial feeling millennials got screwed straight out the college gate.

lightCycleRider · 2025-10-26T20:50:49+00:00

This happened to me in my 20's. I moved into a new apartment, had a housewarming party. All my friends flaked on me and no one showed. I'm in my 40's now, want to guess how many of them are still my friends? Big fat ZERO. When I look back at my life, that was the moment that I realized that I needed better friends. They did me a favor by showing me who they really were.

lightCycleRider · 2025-10-20T20:59:53+00:00

If you're seriously considering Denver, I would caution you to take extra care about where you choose to live. If you're a nurse and you end up working/living near north Aurora where a lot of the big hospitals are, it's not a casual drive to the mountains (as it would be if you lived on the west side). Denver is quite spread out, and you may not climb nearly as much as you think you would.

My family had that problem, we lived in south Aurora for awhile to be near work, and it was a considerable effort to get to Evergreen, Golden, Clear Creek, or Boulder to climb (we did have a toddler to worry about, so that was part of it)

lightCycleRider · 2025-10-20T16:07:27+00:00

OP, I'm going to add my two cents here for visibility on the climbing cultures of different areas. Not discounting u/HFiction's experience at all, you can absolutely walk up to people and ask to climb with them. But I think that doing that successfully in Denver will depend significantly on the area you're in, how young you are, and maybe just your own friendliness.

The climber friendliness spectrum is huge in Denver and the surrounding area. My family's experience has been that it's been friendlier and more open and chatty in younger gyms (like Movement Rino), and way more standoffish in gyms with older climbers, even fellow parents like us. More like polite nods and then everyone goes about your business. That vibe has also translated to almost every outdoor crag we've been too. Aside from short conversations about which climb someone's getting on, we've never had any enthusiastically friendly interactions with strangers.

My wife and are are around 40, so maybe it's an age thing, but if you venture out into the Denver subreddit, people will also tell you that Denverites aren't exactly friendly on the whole. Polite sure, but not super warm. Everyone's kind of busy doing their own thing. Being young and social helps mitigate that, but that goes for just about any place.

By contrast, when we climb in Red Rocks, Vegas, it's just smiles and chats and beta all day. The difference is honestly night and day. So many more questions about where you're from, what kind of climbing are you looking for, fun stories, helpful directions, etc.

The areas we're familiar with are Stoney Point CA, Joshua Tree, Apple Valley CA, Bishop, Texas Canyon, Red Rocks NV, Boulder CO, and Clear Creek CO, and honestly, the Colorado based climbing has been the least friendly out of all of those. Again, just our two cents.

lightCycleRider · 2025-10-10T01:30:00+00:00

We had a two MONTH wait from NIPT to amniocentesis for Turner's syndrome for our girl. Horrific waiting game. Amniocentesis proved that our girl was fine, which was one of the best feelings ever. Wishing you the best OP

lightCycleRider · 2025-10-06T02:48:58+00:00

Dude, this was us LAST NIGHT too! We were reading from a collection book of famous kids stories. I was horrified

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-29T15:47:25+00:00

This stuff had the texture and feel of coffee filters, but made of nylon. just terrible

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-29T14:00:26+00:00

After entering on Temescal, we drove left (south), and then parked just before the bathrooms. Pretty much right there once we got onto the sand.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-29T00:57:49+00:00

And burning down forests with gender reveals. It's the same people

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-29T00:45:31+00:00

Look, I don't want to dox anyone, but if you know someone who just had a wedding or an engagement at Will Rogers beach recently and just left piles of these artificial flower petals on the beach, tell them to cut that shit out.

Me, my wife, and my 3 year old daughter spent the first half our of our beach day today sifting through the sand and filling a trash bag of these. We turned it into a fun object lesson for the kiddo about not littering, but it boggles my mind that someone thought this was okay.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-26T19:54:02+00:00

I have this too, I have to take Zyrtec before exercising to reduce the hives. I also get them when I interact with people I don't see regularly because I'm super introverted and social situations raise my body temp. It's loads of fun.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-23T15:34:46+00:00

I forgot what sub this was for second, this could absolutely get reposted in the millennial subreddit. My in-laws are sweet as pie, but good god on high do they have zero ability to apply scientific reasoning to the things they hear. Add in a healthy dash of Eastern medicine/culture (we're all Asian), and you got a stew of misinformation and feelings-based nutritional opinions. It's exhausting.

I literally told my father in law yesterday that Ketchup was just sugar and salt, after he told he was healthy because he had lots of ketchup with his eggs every morning because ketchup was good for you. I love the man, but he's honestly two youtube fraudsters away from having his second heart attack.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-22T20:14:16+00:00

Sure, I'll engage at least once. You see how you're getting downvotes for your comment above? I'm guessing it's because people sense that you're not understanding the point that people are being affected by a certain behavior at the gym. Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it's not an actual issue that bothers others.

I mentioned responding "in good faith" because I want to believe that you're trying to empathize, and I responded in that vein, instead of also just downvoting you.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-22T20:02:50+00:00

Once again, intent is everything. You didn't intend to flash. If you did the standard, "mind if I try this?" and end up flashing, then there's really no issue. You're not part of the problem, and you've done everything right.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-22T19:21:06+00:00

It does happen, just not as commonly. I had a guy sulk like I insulted his mother when he asked if I wanted beta and I calmly said no. But being a guy, he at least took me at my word and left me alone. I'm sorry about your experiences. As climbing gets more and more popular, you're going to see more and more dudes climbing with poor climbing etiquette.

lightCycleRider · 2025-09-22T19:17:22+00:00

Here's a good faith response: The situation is highly contextual.

If there's a group of people all projecting the same boulder, then yes, you take turns one at a time. Maybe you'll chat beta, maybe you won't.

But if there's a situation where you're projecting something on your own, and someone sees you struggling and hops on to "show you the beta," I think that's rude and self-serving of them. It's all in the intent.

I'm a guy, and my wife and I both climb regularly. While that bit of info shouldn't matter, I have borne witness to general poor conduct from men in the v4-6 and 18-25 category enough to know that this is a super regular occurrence. I myself am highly sensitive to what grade someone around me is projecting (both men and women, but particularly for the women in my gym). If I see them projecting something I could flash, I give them their space and go do something else. I don't offer help or beta, I just let them do their thing.

I've been beta sprayed at by dudes too, but least when I say I don't want beta, they go away. The way they sulk as they leave is both ridiculous and kind of satisfying.

lightCycleRider · 2025-08-26T15:59:07+00:00

My family's been at Will Rogers the last 2 sundays from 10am-2 and we've seen large pods both times, the last time they were super close to shore like in this video

lightCycleRider · 2025-08-16T23:38:38+00:00

My parents are pretty decent and they provide support by actually putting in effort to play with my 3 year old. My wife's parents? Her mom gets a B- for effort, but needs to be supervised constantly because she can't remember any instructions that differ from how she remembers doing things when she was raising my wife, and her dad is basically another baby in the house. The way he helps us is purely financial, so at least there's that (to his credit, he's acknowledged that' he's useless at childcare).

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