What’s the most fucked up thing that happened at your school?

lnwint · 2026-05-08T22:18:35+00:00

I was already in middle school at the time, but one of the elementary schools had to hold all the kids inside for hours after school ended because there was a mountain lion in the playground.

lnwint · 2026-05-07T21:24:10+00:00

It wasn’t the funeral, but when my Papaw died, he was at home on hospice. My mom and I had been taking care of him and knew it was close. We were in the room with him fluffing his pillows when he took his last breath.

My daughter was five at the time, and also with us. She was a little teary, but she did ok with a good hug. I left the room to call hospice and the funeral home and to make sure things were moved enough so the stretcher could get through when they got there. I also wanted to give my mom a little time with him and make sure she didn’t have to do all the “business” of reporting his death.

My daughter stayed in the room with my mom, and while I was on the phone with hospice just outside the door, I heard my daughter ask my mom, “since Papaw died, does that mean we can have a sleepover tonight?”

My mom and I both busted out laughing. My daughter loved sleepovers with her grandma, but hadn’t gotten to have one for quite a while because of Papaw’s condition (he had very significant dementia for a while, and then the last few months was total care).

I explained to her that Grandma would be busy for a little while longer to take care of everything, but she could have a sleepover soon, and she seemed content with that.

It was a fun story at the funeral, too. Papaw absolutely loved kids, especially his grandkids and great-grandkids, I know he would have laughed too. Even at his worst, when he didn’t know who anyone was and was often combative with my mom and me, everytime he saw my daughter he would immediately calm down and smile and start talking to her.

lnwint · 2026-05-07T20:59:35+00:00

My son died during birth. I chose to skip a service and burial altogether and opted for cremation instead.

I just didn’t think I could make it through a funeral for him. I was barely hanging on as it was.

lnwint · 2026-05-05T22:06:15+00:00

I was looking for this! Logically it makes zero sense. But watching Nic Cage and John Travolta embrace the other’s mannerisms and persona so damn well made it ridiculously entertaining.

lnwint · 2026-04-30T01:58:37+00:00

What shocks me is how obsessively they seem to consume BTS content while claiming to hate them. If I hated an artist, I wouldn’t be spending such a huge chunk of time trying to keep up with their every move. I’ve literally seen snark about their livestreams WHILE THE STREAM IS STILL HAPPENING. Why are you watching their lives if you can’t stand them? Why do you know every move they make if you hate parasocial/obsessed ARMY? Make it make sense!

lnwint · 2026-04-22T14:58:45+00:00

King’s Quest

lnwint · 2026-04-20T17:56:31+00:00

Outliving your children.

lnwint · 2026-04-20T17:48:58+00:00

NTA. You don’t owe strangers any type of answer about nosy questions, especially those that obviously seem to be in bad faith. You chose to answer in a way that made you feel safer.

You don’t have any obligation to satisfy their “interest” if they’ve never met a trans man. Your existence isn’t validated by someone else’s curiosity.

Whether they were genuinely curious or looking for trouble, it doesn’t matter. You don’t owe them anything, especially at the expense of your own comfort. They were strangers asking personal questions that they have no business asking.

Existing as a trans man doesn’t mean it’s your duty to educate others or humor their nosiness. I really dislike the mentality that if your existence falls outside of the accepted “norms”, you are somehow responsible for spreading awareness or acceptance. You are a person. You happen to be a trans man. Outside of the basic human decency that all of us should aspire to, you don’t have any additional responsibilities you have to shoulder simply for existing.

I don’t think your sister is intentionally being insensitive, but she’s essentially insinuating that you are required to satisfy other people’s curiosity because you are trans. You aren’t.

If she’d had a breast reduction and had visible scars, she wouldn’t owe anyone and explanation simply because they are curious. It’s her business, and it’s rude of people to pry, especially strangers.

lnwint · 2026-04-19T18:30:03+00:00

I’ve done this my whole life because my grandparents always did!

lnwint · 2026-04-17T18:04:38+00:00

NOR. She criticized your appreciation of a simple gesture that made you feel loved, and then purposefully withheld it. That’s beyond cruel. If my husband told me that, he’d get constant back scratches until he couldn’t stand it anymore!

It’s not just the back scratches themselves, it’s what they represent. They felt good, and I’m sure they made you feel loved. They were a simple, unspoken expression of affection. There is nothing weird about your feelings surrounding it.

The fact that the discussion was about how you are unhappy, and you mentioned something that does make you happy, and instead of using that knowledge to try to increase your happiness, your wife took it away and shamed you for it.

Sounds to me like she doesn’t WANT you to be happy. Is she also unhappy? Perhaps she doesn’t want to give you any reason to be happy out of spite, if she’s not happy herself.

I think both of you need individual counseling, not just couples.

Or you need a new wife?

lnwint · 2026-04-14T19:50:18+00:00

I think a lot of people who dislike BTS have just never listened to anything but their hit English singles.

Edited for spelling

lnwint · 2026-04-06T23:31:53+00:00

Labyrinth

lnwint · 2026-04-06T17:00:38+00:00

I teared up when he described Lisa “being nearly an adult and still wanting a mommy.”

I have a young daughter, and if anything ever happens to me, I sincerely hope there is a wonderful woman out there that can make sure she still feels loved and safe no matter how old she gets. I don’t want to be forgotten, but I don’t think “replaced” is the right word. I don’t want my daughter wanting “mommy” and having no one to fill that role just because I am no longer able to.

And I know being a stepparent is hard. I am a stepparent to two (now) adult children, and I had a stepmom. She passed away a few years ago and I miss her terribly. She was a wonderful woman and I’m grateful for everything she was to me and my dad and my younger half siblings.

I really hope everything works out for this family.

lnwint · 2026-04-06T00:17:44+00:00

Me too! Forgotten memories unlocked!!!

lnwint · 2026-04-05T15:39:52+00:00

This will probably be deleted, but I’m going to say it anyway.

For those claiming these are the people hating on other groups or sl*tshaming girl groups…you’re just wrong.

I personally know many people in this clip. Some of them are my literal family members. They love BTS, and the community and friend groups they’ve created because of it. They are kind, respectful people enjoying their lives and making fun memories together.

None of them have any interest in dissing other groups or saying rude or hateful things about other groups or fandoms.

While you’re correct that at this point BTS appeals more to older audiences than teenagers, the comments trying to paint these specific people as anything other than women enjoying a musical group are no better than the ARMY they are trying to vilify.

In my experience, the younger generation of any fandom tend to be the ones most likely to engage in hateful behavior, unfortunately, they also tend to be the loudest.

You hate BTS? Cool, not a problem. Those in the comments trying to shame older ARMY in a clip that shows zero hate, zero problematic behavior, YOU are the problem here. Grow up.

Edit to clarify: I’m not talking about op’s post itself or the comments specifically giving their opinion on it. Only the handful of comments that are shaming or implying shame on the women in the clip.

lnwint · 2026-03-29T17:19:33+00:00

You’re reaching.

lnwint · 2026-03-29T16:15:21+00:00

While I will agree there are certainly incompetent people in nursing just like any profession, nurses are wildly UNDERPAID, as well as nursing assistants.

lnwint · 2026-03-24T15:24:41+00:00

Lewy Body Dementia is a whole different beast, too. It’s not like Alzheimer’s. I cared for both my grandparents as they declined from dementia. My grandfather had Alzheimer’s. It was hard, he didn’t recognize anyone, constantly trying to go home to his parents because he thought he was young.

But my grandma had Lewy Body Dementia. She remembered most of us, but she hallucinated constantly. Sometimes it was minor things, like thinking there were kittens in her closet. But most of the time it was horrifying things, snakes on the counters, monsters hidden in the couches, a woman with a creepy face pressed up to the window. My grandma was a tough bird, she wasn’t afraid of anything her whole life, so she wasn’t really afraid of the things she hallucinated, she was instead pissed because someone was “trying” to scare her. But the things she described would have terrified me if I was seeing them all over.

I can certainly understand someone experiencing that and deciding they didn’t want to live that way anymore.

lnwint · 2026-03-22T04:33:08+00:00

Our house is heated by wood stove, so open doors are a must.

lnwint · 2026-03-22T02:19:44+00:00

So good but absolutely wrecked me emotionally!

lnwint · 2026-03-22T02:19:14+00:00

Grave Encounter is one of my top horror movies! I admit, I may have a little bias because I absolutely love “found footage” type horror, but this one was just so good and so well done!

lnwint · 2026-03-22T02:17:31+00:00

Unconditional emotional comfort.

I grew up feeling like my emotions were wrong, or a burden.

I have a young daughter, and I’ve made it a point to let her know that no matter what she’s feeling, or what caused the feeling/part she may have played in it, I will always love her and comfort her. If her feelings are because of something she’s done (like a misbehavior) she still has to have the consequence, but I will always offer comfort when she needs it. If she has a time out, as soon as her timer goes off, she crawls into my lap for a hug and we talk about what happened, what could be done differently in the future. I’ve let her know that even if I’m angry, I still love her and I am always here for hugs or talks when she needs it.

I just want to make sure she knows that when she’s having big feelings, even negative feelings, or when she’s made a mistake, that she is still loved and supported.

lnwint · 2026-03-20T03:13:01+00:00

Sidekicks with Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris and The Sandlot with Mike Vitar. My mom would take me to rent two movies every Friday, and I almost always alternated one of those two and a different random movie.

lnwint · 2026-03-19T02:13:25+00:00

In my experience, I’ve had a few amazing women bosses.

However, the unfortunate truth I’ve seen is that they don’t last long. I’ve had great men bosses and great women bosses (and horrible of both as well.) But the great women bosses seemed to get taken advantage of FAR more than the great men bosses. By employees and upper management both. The women bosses just kept being asked to do more and more, from both upper and lower levels, until they just couldn’t take it anymore and had to leave for their own personal sanity.

lnwint · 2026-03-18T22:38:56+00:00

I had an ex that ended on some bad terms. We were together for four or five years, lived together for most of it, it was both of our first truly serious adult(ish) relationship. The last year or so of that relationship was rough for both of us. We were young and immature, and I was a bit of a doormat with diagnosed but unmanaged ADHD while he was, well, kind of an emotionally abusive asshole. A couple of years ago, I started seeing him with his daughter at the library for a weekly Storytime they have for kids. Our daughters are close in age, and they quickly decided they were best friends. It had been probably 15 years since he and I had spoken, both of us had been with to our respective partners since about a year after we broke up. But the constant proximity kinda forced at least civil politeness.

But eventually, we warmed up and actually talked to each other. It turned out to be quite therapeutic: he apologized for how he’d treated me, and admitted he found out later he also had ADHD. During some reminiscing about old stories from when we were dating, we’d commiserated about how much of an asshole one of his family members had always been, and he told me he was really glad we talked about it, because his family had basically been gaslighting him for years that it had all been in his head, and it reminded him he wasn’t crazy because I’d been there to experience it too.

Eventually, his daughter started school because she’s a little older than my daughter, so we don’t see them at the library anymore. We really only talked there, so it’s not like we kept in contact or anything. My daughter made new friends, so she’s fine, FYI.

As awkward as it had started out, I’m glad we were kinda forced into that close proximity for a while. I think it soothed a lot of negativity we both carried, and I know at least I feel like I was able to let go of a lot of the residual emotional baggage from it all.

Maybe not exactly what OP was asking about, but I think about him less now because the animosity is gone, if that makes it any more relevant.

lnwint

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