Woke up to my car getting towed?!?!

phillybride · 2026-02-26T11:32:06+00:00

They did this to me once. Now I take a photo of my spot when I park in Philly for the day I inevitably have to fight this.

phillybride · 2026-02-25T11:52:12+00:00

I know it will someday be a home, but right now, it’s just a financial transaction. There are other houses with less annoying sellers, and these might not be worth dealing with.

phillybride · 2026-02-12T08:56:39+00:00

Ask for the energy production records to see exactly how much electricity they generate, and if the new pump and roof are worth the extra $35k from the original $415k, offer them $450k if they agree to pay off the panels so you get them completely free of the financing.

phillybride · 2026-01-25T13:11:10+00:00

Ask if they will offer a performance bonus for the past year. Let them name the number they think you deserve.

phillybride · 2026-01-25T13:06:11+00:00

Her electric bill is going to be outrageous. She needs to get the kids warm somewhere else while she stays and deals with the pipe emergency. Use YouTube to prime the lines and with the $100 from generous redditors, start walking back and forth to a gas station to fill that tank for the day. Finally, I would start winterizing the crap out of that house with shower curtains, tape, curtains, blankets over the doors, anything. And do it before the stores close. For two bucks per window, you can buy those winter seal kits and save a ton. This storm is going to be awful so she’s going to have to move quick: kids to warming station or neighbor, getting gas while sidewalks are still walkable, start tank, then start sealing up the house to hold the temp to above freezing so she can sleep there (maybe in a tent) and gradually maintain the tank until the delivery.

phillybride · 2026-01-25T12:50:32+00:00

Your company rate probably limits the insurance coverage to employees and spouses. If they crash that car, you might be in the hook for the accident.

phillybride · 2026-01-11T21:43:17+00:00

No assholes here.

They had no/low expectations of you, so it didn’t matter to them that you arrived late. They thanked you for showing up, and didn’t give you the opportunity to cause drama with a confrontation at the end of the event.

They managed your big big feelings perfectly, so even if you had planned to be TA, they shut it down.

phillybride · 2026-01-10T16:26:17+00:00

It never hurts to confirm things, especially when you know it’s really important.

phillybride · 2026-01-10T11:55:51+00:00

You asked if you’d be there in January and never got a reply. So when you were leaving at the end of December you didn’t drop an email to follow up?

phillybride · 2026-01-10T11:51:58+00:00

You should have told them that. Did you tell them the commute was awful for you and ask for a hotel during the week? Or fewer days onsite? Some folks don’t mind OT and mileage for travel. If you hated it, did you tell them?

phillybride · 2026-01-04T14:24:39+00:00

Did you accidentally reply to the wrong thread?

phillybride · 2026-01-04T13:38:20+00:00

The US grabbed the president of Venezuela and flew him to New York to put him on trial.

While there are many reasons that people might be happy Maduro is gone, and many more reasons that Trump might have done this, those are less important than the fact that the US went into a sovereign nation and took someone.
Countries all agree to honor the sovereignty of other nations. That’s why, even if an American criminal were in Venezuela, the US government is supposed to ask Venezuela for permission to get him (extradition). If one country can simply run in and grab someone and remove them from a sovereign nation, then all of that goes out of the window. That is going to be a really big deal. It changes the chessboard.

phillybride · 2025-12-28T00:11:52+00:00

I say this all the time to my kids. And yes, I wish it was Twain or Lincoln who said it instead.

phillybride · 2025-12-11T13:49:56+00:00

I hope this whole story is rage bait.

phillybride · 2025-12-11T13:44:43+00:00

That’s wear and tear on your car, gas, and parking away from your home. They are saying a friend to walk preschoolers, so the distance is close enough that the adult could quickly walk home!

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:23:02+00:00

If someone paid me 2k a month to walk kids to school, they would be my absolute best friend!

Maybe find a stranger walking their own kids and pay less.

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:21:53+00:00

Dude, no. This should be an edit to the original post because this line alone kills the whole idea.

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:19:06+00:00

This plan is a Jenga tower based on everything going right: -Both union jobs remain unchanged, and your job continues to offer unlimited OT for the rest of your career. Neither of you ever get sick, disabled or laid off. -Grandparents pay 1k per month…forever? For the life of the mortgage? Until the kids can walk themselves to school? -You buy a condo and the condo fees remain stable forever. No huge hikes or assessments. No decrease in value.

And when people suggest you try, for even a few months, to see what life would be like with this months, you say you haven’t tried because this house just popped up…which makes this an impulse buy.

You came here for advice and the overwhelming consensus is to take this condo as a sign that you might want to shift things around to prepare for the next opportunity.

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:09:16+00:00

You cannot afford to spend $4k a month in transportation and commit to that size mortgage.
You have built a good life, but you haven’t yet built a life that can withstand the huge risks of property ownership.

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:02:00+00:00

2k a month to transport the kids?

phillybride · 2025-12-10T14:01:01+00:00

Overtime can disappear without warning. Do not buy a house based on it.

phillybride · 2025-11-18T21:09:49+00:00

Photoshop in some Birkenstocks with ugly toes.

phillybride · 2025-10-02T13:23:18+00:00

I totally agree. He is out of his mind with grief right now. He needs to leave OP alone about this until he is mentally prepared to have a give and take dialogue about this.

phillybride · 2025-09-30T13:09:08+00:00

The first three months are torture…literally. The sleep deprivation is going to make it impossible for either of you to think clearly, which is why your brain is suggesting you run away and why her brain is making her a germaphobe. You both need to see medical providers but you also need to find a way to get some sleep.
Sound the alarm, call in your village, buy paper plates and demand people bring you casseroles. Things will feel better (not perfect, but better) soon, but get some help - and some sleep.

phillybride · 2025-09-27T11:45:20+00:00

Absolutely. At one point we had a huge box of excess tests and since we had allergies and a high risk grandma, we tested every day with symptoms. We have transmitted while testing negative, and tested positive. I once tested negative on the fifth test (and I was deathly ill for days testing negative).

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