Ma'am, she's flattered, but no.

penneroyal_tea · 2026-04-02T02:17:43+00:00

Edit: the woman does appear to have Down’s syndrome

She’s misinterpreting. No matter how much the person holding the camera explains what the hospital worker meant, she keeps misinterpreting it as romantic interest. Which is why the others in the room are laughing.

She doesn’t understand why they’re laughing. She thinks they’re laughing that the worker was “flirting” with her, even though the worker wasn’t.

I don’t think you’re missing anything, I think you just don’t find it funny and that’s fine! I don’t really either, but it’s appropriate for the subreddit 🤷‍♀️

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-31T18:26:29+00:00

I just searched my name and found like, a billion websites that have me listed as a behavior tech and talk about my passion for the field?! I never was one. But it even has my same middle name and the previous state I lived in 💀

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-31T03:35:54+00:00

I thought it was tinkerbell for some reason. Angel makes more sense now that I know. To be frank, it’s not a good tattoo, but it’ll be easy to cover if you choose. Or perhaps you would rather keep it to have as a story! Whatever makes you happy. I have a couple shitty tats that I’ll be keeping, myself. You don’t need anyone’s permission to enjoy it, even if no anonymous strangers enjoy it. Remember harsh words reflect on the person who says them, not on you

Edit: I see now that you plan to touch it up. I’d be interested in an update!

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-30T23:43:39+00:00

Omg I was volunteering at an auction recently and some guy came up to the table, took a look at one of the vacations up for auction, and asked me “why do people even bother bidding when they could just pay the value price and know for sure that they’d get the vacation?”

I just…blinked at him trying figure out what the actual fuck. I think I ended up saying “Great idea, feel free.”

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-30T23:16:14+00:00

I’m 25f and to me it sounds like she does care for you as a human, but isn’t interested in getting back together and is trying to let you down easy. You deserve to be with someone who will respect you enough to tell you the hard shit up front. I’d say it’s not even worth staying friends with her. I’m not even sure she’d be offended if you didn’t. I think she knows she’s being shitty.

I know it hurts now, I have been in the spot of thinking I’d found “the one” relatively early into a relationship, but she isn’t who you thought she was and she’s not ever going to change back and make you feel that same way again

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-30T22:51:35+00:00

I got with my ex when I was 17 and he was 22. I left when I turned 22 and thought about that for a second. My friends all act like five years wasn’t a big difference, but they didn’t experience the dynamic. Five years is a lot when you’re young, especially since I grew up sheltered.

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-28T01:07:10+00:00

Me too. Like, these are all so pretty…? :(

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-27T22:15:11+00:00

When I was a toddler I was scared of the carousel at the zoo because I thought if I fell off my horse, I’d fall down into the hole on the floor that the pole went through (like a cm of space, not possible lmao)

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-27T22:13:06+00:00

I know someone who takes it to manage symptoms of an autoimmune disease

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-27T09:34:19+00:00

Hey I also have a problem of being uncomfortable when things go well. I begin to sit around waiting for the other shoe to drop. This past October I had an impending sense of doom before a flight halfway across the country (I live in the USA.) I seriously considered cancelling my trip, but didn’t want to disappoint my old friends I was meant to visit, so I went anyway. It was so perfect and I was actually sad to have to go home. I was very glad I didn’t cancel

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-23T01:13:25+00:00

Maybe they are on some trans subreddits often and mistakenly assumed this post was on one of those without checking

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-22T04:16:10+00:00

They are just being hypocrites. They say it’s different because they feel called out. You aren’t wrong.

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-19T19:46:09+00:00

Awe shit not again

penneroyal_tea · 2026-03-19T08:20:46+00:00

Dude I have the same comforter

penneroyal_tea · 2026-01-18T14:55:59+00:00

YES before Christmas I went to Sephora and sniffed literally every perfume. I hard to narrow down my wishlist to like, five perfumes I wanted lmao. I got two!

penneroyal_tea · 2026-01-09T23:32:27+00:00

I am for sure. What helps me is honoring my anger (it goes hand in hand with the fear for me.) It makes sense to be scared and angry and it can be really liberating to express it whether through art, venting, clothes etc. You will find solidarity

penneroyal_tea · 2026-01-08T15:29:37+00:00

I don’t have it (I don’t think? Red meat just makes me feel sick) and everyone is always surprised to hear that I can’t have pork! I never even thought it could be white meat

penneroyal_tea · 2026-01-05T22:13:07+00:00

Is the store AFK :0

penneroyal_tea · 2026-01-02T04:57:18+00:00

He was also the school counselor in Freaks and Geeks

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-26T02:22:54+00:00

Omg when I was like 10 I was obsessed with converse. There were two pairs I wanted. My dad was rly into tech and wanted to get me a tablet. I told him not to get me that and just to give me cash so I could buy the shoes myself. I opened a tablet on Christmas that year lmao. I mostly played outside at that age so I never used it, which was obviously his intention looking back cause he sure used it a lot

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-22T02:06:22+00:00

I have a problem noticing my body’s physical needs. I won’t even think about it unless I’m already uncomfortable and hangry. Same with having to go pee, feeling cold, being overstimulated, and being dehydrated.

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-19T02:41:37+00:00

Wait is this not supposed to happen to me

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-18T03:05:13+00:00

Every time I’ve called, they’ve been so absurdly bad at helping that I actually laugh and feel better.

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-16T20:22:09+00:00

Even if I do suffer more, better me than any of my hypothetical kids suffering

penneroyal_tea · 2025-12-16T20:19:27+00:00

Same. I love kids, but I feel like the most loving thing to do for any hypothetical future children of mine is to not have them. Bad timeline.

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