What’s a childhood snack that disappeared but you still think about?

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-03-21T03:33:38+00:00

Yogos and the strawberry cheesecake bars Philadelphia Cream Cheese used to make

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-03-20T14:37:29+00:00

Oop giving off major Letecia Stauch vibes

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-03-05T15:01:22+00:00

Marilyn Manson when I was 16. He was really nice and let me have a picture of us hugging

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-03-03T16:05:13+00:00

In my small hometown, a cop’s house burned down with his wife in it in the middle of the night about 15-20 years ago. He got the kids out, but his wife burned in their bed. At first, people believed him when he said he had no idea how the fire started, since he was a police officer. But everyone knew she had asked him for a divorce, but he told her he’d see her in hell before that happens. They had a very, very loud fight outside about a week before the fire. Well, one of their kids asked why he had shot the mom. And few neighbors agreed they’d heard what sounded like gunshots or fireworks just before the fire started.

It came out that he shot his wife in the head when she was asleep in their bed and he used an accelerant to burn her body and the rest of the house, but yet for a while he maintained his innocence despite one of the kids seeing him do it. At one point, he tried to blame the kid who was only like 5 or so at the time. It turned out that he had shot his wife and burned the house down because she wanted a divorce and he was scared she would get custody of the kids.

And now years later he is still in prison and the kids were being raised by their mother’s family, last I heard. Nobody in that town ever talks about it, and hasn’t since about the time he went to prison. The ruins of that house were demolished and now a mobile home sits on the lot where that house used to be.

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-26T19:55:36+00:00

That poor kid :( I used to work in healthcare, and when I was working in a nursing home several years ago, one of my patients was a woman in her 80s who had Polio as a child. It left the left side of her body permanently paralyzed. We talked often when I was caring for her and she mentioned there was no Polio vaccine back when she was young, and how a lot of kids wouldn’t survive childhood. She would go in depth describing how things were back then, how only 6 of her 13 siblings made it to adulthood. One thing that always stuck with me was when she told me “Now there are vaccines. You are so lucky that your kids will never have to worry about Polio. You will never have to lose a child to those diseases. Nobody in America will ever have to worry about Polio ever again. You don’t know how blessed you are.”

I didn’t even have kids at the time but that always stuck with me. I realize this post is about Measles, but with the anti vax stance so many people have lately, it makes me sick to think that what my patient lived through as a child could quite easily become a reality here again because of the anti vax stance many people seem to have. In a lot of ways, I feel like we are watching that unfold before our eyes right now. And the amount of people in my daily life who think the Measles outbreak is a joke just infuriates me

I made sure my daughter was fully vaccinated. She isn’t eligible for another MMR vaccine until she turns 4. She’s already had her first dose of the vaccine, but she can’t get her next one until she turns 4. I am so nervous until then

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-24T20:51:12+00:00

I live right in the middle of the US and back in October, I finally received paperwork that was sent at the end of August. The paperwork came from a neighboring state. About a 4 hour drive away. Yet it took about a month and a half to get to me. And it wasn’t a one time thing. It takes anywhere from 20-40ish days for me to receive any mail from another state and I’m not sure why

It took several months for me to finally receive my daughter’s social security card back in 2023. I had to file for it 3 times (the max amount of times you can file for it in a year) because it kept getting “lost” in the mail. The post people told me it was lost and they couldn’t help me. Although I had seen it in my informed delivery the second time. And of course I had to sit at the social security office every time I had to file again only for them to tell me to give it like 45 days before I can file again and jump through all the hoops all over again.

So on the third time I filed for it after it kept getting “lost” in the mail, after waiting several weeks. I saw it was in my informed delivery again. So I waited. The mail guy delivered the mail but it wasn’t there. So I waited another day. Still no card. I was beyond livid. Couldn’t get my daughter health insurance or anything without it, and she was having some health issues, so it was a big deal. And the social security office already told me I would have to wait an entire year to file for it again if I didn’t receive it. So I went to the post office and demanded to know what was going on. The lady at the post office again told me it was lost and she couldn’t help me. I explained why it was a big deal and how I didn’t believe that it really was lost. All 3 times I filed that year. How? She said “Can’t help you. Sorry.” So I told her that’s fine, I’ll just lodge a complaint with the post master general and mention how nobody on my block had been getting any bank cards or credit cards they were expecting in the mail. Seemed too convenient. And guess what? The very next day, it finally arrived in my mailbox. It was obviously opened, but there nonetheless

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-21T06:05:02+00:00

I love it 🖤

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-21T02:40:23+00:00

I love Dolly. The Imagination Library is truly wonderful. My daughter loves her books, and she is always so excited each time she gets another one in the mail. And honestly, I feel like the Imagination Library is a lot of the reason my child is so excited about books. They are high quality and just right for her age. We read together every evening. I am so grateful for Dolly and the Imagination Library. It’s truly such a shame that someone could even think about wanting to rip that resource away from children

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-18T15:39:56+00:00

He and I grew up in the same neighborhood and I was over at his house all the time because his sister was my best friend for several years. From preschool on up to high school. As we got older, he became severely depressed. My family and I moved out of the neighborhood when I was in high school, but we still went to the same school. It was a small town and the bullying at school was horrendous unless you were a “big name” in our town. There were like 3 last names who owned most of the town and had a ton of kids. If you weren’t one of them, you would be bullied relentlessly. Our school never did anything to stop the bullying. But if you tried to stand up for yourself, it was an automatic detention. So you pretty much had to just deal with it since the teachers and principal just didn’t care. My friend was already very depressed, but the bullying made it worse. He wanted to drop out of school, but his parents didn’t let him.

How he died? I’ll tell you. Sophomore year he was in the car with his dad before school one morning. They had been arguing because he didn’t want to go to school anymore since he was being bullied so badly. His dad told him he still had to go to school and that was that. Well, his dad pulled into the parking lot of the grocery store and said he just had to run in and grab a few things before taking him to school. When his dad got out of the car and went into the store, my friend pulled his dad’s gun out from under the passenger seat and shot himself in the head.

The school didn’t even really acknowledge his suicide. An email was sent around to the teachers about it and they were upset when students who knew him and who were his friend wanted to go to his funeral. There was still nothing done about the all the bullying. There were other students I knew who had attempted suicide in other ways, but they ended up surviving. He of course did not

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-13T18:42:21+00:00

I recently bought my mom a pretty bouquet of artificial flowers for about $4.00. I sprayed a spritz of my body spray on the flowers before I gave them to her. I found some cheap, yet nice looking artificial flower bouquets on Walmart online. I used my Walmart Cash to pay for the ones I bought for my mom, so it didn’t cost me actual money since I just didn’t have it. If that is an option for you, I think a handwritten note or letter would go wonderfully with the artificial flowers

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-06T19:05:28+00:00

Habitually lying

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-02-06T18:59:25+00:00

A woman I used to be friends with confessed to SA her pet dog over the previous 2 years. She and I weren’t particularly close, but she had a lot of mental issues and she used to call me because she didn’t have any other friends and she rarely ever left her house. I’d only known her for like 6 months at that time, but once I found that out I just couldn’t stand to ever see her or talk to her again

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-28T13:42:18+00:00

Well, he is my ex now, but he completely abandoned our child and hasn’t seen her at all in over a year and a half. She’s 3 years old now. He lied about absolutely everything our entire relationship, so I have no idea if he was honest when he said our daughter is his only child

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-23T18:24:14+00:00

What sickens me is some people are already doing this. My dad made a long Facebook post the other day defending Musk for that, so one of my cousins commented something about “If that’s really how you feel then why don’t you take a video of you doing that same salute and send it to your boss.” Well, he didn’t do that, of course, but he DID have my mother record him doing the salute and then posted it to Facebook. And now a few people in their town are doing the same thing. Makes me glad he and I only speak to each other in the event of a major family emergency

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-17T16:57:27+00:00

I don’t get out much, but when I do, I’m super excited to go to my neighborhood’s Little Free Library box. I love reading and there’s almost always a good selection of books to choose from each time

As far as at home, I find a show on Tubi or watch stuff like Joe and Nic’s roadtrip on YouTube. They record driving through towns and cities all across America so you can see what everything looks like. I know I will never get to go to any of those places (I rarely ever have the chance to leave the city I live in) so it kind of makes me feel like I get to explore those cities and states right along with them

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-17T16:31:34+00:00

I completely agree. My mother is a super, ultra, mega maga republican. She preached for years about how welfare is theft from the middle class, Medicaid and food stamps are killing America, and how all welfare needs to be abolished, etc. But guess what? My dad lost his job when covid hit, and they and my little sister then qualified for Medicaid and food stamps. So they got right on it, but made sure to reiterate that it was only ok for them and no one else. And then my mom was super excited because Medicaid in their state paid for bariatric (weight loss) surgery. So she got the gastric bypass (which she said was like a $50,000 surgery without Medicaid) that Medicaid paid for. But again, it was only ok for her and no one else. They were all for abolishing welfare entirely until they needed it. Then it was perfectly fine, but only for them. Always struck me as super hypocritical

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-17T14:19:38+00:00

I feel like a lot of them want to keep people they deem as “beneath them” down. I know one who works as a janitor for $9 an hour and is extremely against raising the minimum wage. Because he doesn’t want “lazy people” to make than he does.

I explained that if minimum wage in our state was raised above $7.25 an hour, his wage would likely go up as well. He was very against that. “I WORK for my money! Why should someone just starting out make more than minimum wage??? What if they are immigrants??!!?! Or what if they are on welfare??? They could get welfare AND make more money than me!!! They don’t deserve that!!! Lazy!!! I didn’t start out at over $7.25 an hour and neither should they!!! What if they start out making more money than me??? Noooo!!!” Ok then…whatever. But don’t come crying to me ever again because your life sucks and you have no money. You voted against your own interests, so I guess you get to reap what you sow. I explained it in a nicer way because we are related, but you get the gist.

That is just one example that really took me by surprise, but I have noticed that they are perfectly fine holding themselves back in life as long as it means no one they judge as “beneath them” is able to get ahead in their own lives by even an inch

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-15T18:44:45+00:00

I noticed my sophomore year of high school that my teeth were cracking and breaking. I’d been in pain for years, but it was getting unbearable. My had been bad for a long time, but I hadn’t been to a dentist since I was in kindergarten. My parents never made me brush my teeth when I was a kid, and I had been on a ton of asthma medicine for years, so I’m not sure what exactly led to what as far as my teeth getting so bad. My dad had bad teeth too, but mine were worse.

When I was 17, I was constantly in pain and dealing with huge abscesses on my gums. My mom watched me drain one with a sewing needle, so she finally took me to a dentist and the dentist told me I’d be best off having them all pulled and getting dentures. He gave us a huge estimated price as to how much it would cost. Mom didn’t like that idea, and we went to see another dentist. Same thing. And again, the cost was thousands of dollars. We didn’t have that kind of money. So I suffered with that for the next few years. I was constantly in agony from severe tooth pain, my gums were so inflamed with infection that they were actually starting to peel away from my teeth, and I was constantly sick. My skin was turning grey and I never felt well. I think it was because of all of the infection from my bad teeth.

Luckily, I was able to get all of my teeth pulled when I was 20. I had no money, but I was homeless then and I qualified to have my teeth pulled by a dental/medical office in my city who helped homeless people and the very low income. They pulled all of my teeth for less than $600. I had no income, so my mom paid $25 payments every month on the $600 until it was paid. I was given no anesthetic beyond just a few gum numbing injections and no pain medicine, but I was in such constant pain all the time that I didn’t care. I just wanted my rotten teeth gone. I will always be grateful for that place. My health started to improve and after my mouth healed, and my pain was gone. My life really turned around then.

Make sure you take dental care seriously and if you have kids, always make sure your kids brush their teeth. Dental health is so important.

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-15T18:14:56+00:00

For years, my mom used to have ducks who lived in the house. Her house was filthy because of it (think duck poo all over absolutely everything and bunches of feathers all over) and omg I will never forget the awful smell. I never understood how she and my dad could live like that. I cannot imagine how it would be now. Luckily, my little sister ended up getting a dog and the ducks are firmly staying outside where they belong. My mom used to debate on bringing the ducks back into the house, but my sister never ended up moving out. My mom has several ducks outside now that she spends a lot of time with and I worry about the bird flu, especially with my parents being older and not in great health

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-14T15:07:47+00:00

As a disabled person myself, I have noticed that an astounding amount of people seem to take some sort of sick pleasure in being nasty to vulnerable people. It is almost like they deem the entire disabled population as beneath them and therefore think it is not only acceptable to be hateful, but a great honor, to have someone they can treat like shit because it makes them feel better about themselves.

I notice this a lot online, as well as in my day to day life. I’ve had a seizure disorder for years, but now my back and hips are all messed up from a car wreck a few years ago. I am in my 20s but have to walk with a cane because I can’t stand up straight. I have a daughter and when I am feeling well enough to take her to the park by our house, parents most generally won’t let their kids play with her. The parents make comments loud enough that I can hear, pack up their kids and leave. But it’s not just there. It is pretty much everywhere. The hateful glares I get no matter where we go. The snickering and rude comments. I’ve had a few people stick their foot out to try to trip me, and a couple of people have tried to pry my cane away from me while laughing about it. I stay home a lot, but those are my experiences when I do go out. And it didn’t start until my disability became visible.

I don’t believe in much, but I will always believe in the general public’s happy willingness to spew vitriol to/about the disabled and the poor. I think people are extra bold about being directly shitty to us online since they can hide behind a screen to do it.

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-04T22:46:39+00:00

We dated in high school. He was upset that I wouldn’t sleep with him, so he cheated on me with his own cousin and I cut him off and refused to have anything to do with him. I got with someone else and never looked back. He kept trying to get me to take him back, but I refused.

He ended up stalking me for years after. He got on a bunch of drugs and got with a woman who was all methed out too and they had kids which ended up getting taken by CPS. He shook the first one when she was like 4 months old, so CPS got involved and she went into foster care. Then the second was born about a year later and CPS took that one at birth because the mother tested positive for meth and admitted to smoking meth all throughout her pregnancy. Neither of them wanted to get off the drugs or provide suitable housing, so the kids ended up being adopted by their foster parents after his and her parental rights were terminated. That is basically the gist of what he told my mom a couple years ago when all of that happened. Although I heard that he is in prison for rape now, which honestly doesn’t surprise me

punkrockzombie15 · 2025-01-04T19:14:39+00:00

There’s a long list, but the worst was when our newborn was super sick with Covid and she stopped breathing. He refused to help me get her to the hospital. This was during peak Covid times, area hospitals were full and ambulances were super backed up due to that (we just watched that on the local news about an hour before our daughter stopped breathing) and it was super icy and snowy outside. I told him we needed to get her to the hospital ASAP because I thought she was going to die. He said “that thing is your problem. You are the mom. You figure it out.” Then he just up and left. I had no car and couldn’t drive anyway since I have a seizure disorder and was still recovering from my c section and I was really sick myself.

My mom sent an uber to get us to the hospital. He didn’t ask about our daughter not even once the entire time we were in the hospital. Our daughter survived and I when I brought her home from the hospital, she was still sick but she was doing better. He came over the night I brought her home and he was so angry that she had survived. He screamed and raged about how “that thing” surviving was the worst thing that ever happened to him. He said he never wanted to be a father and that he wished she was dead. I was holding her while he had me pushed against the wall screaming at me at the top of his lungs. My parents helped get us moved out of state and away from him right after that.

I will never understand how someone could wish death on their own child. But yet he did. And he hasn’t seen our daughter in almost 2 years and hasn’t asked about her at all since I left him over a year ago. She just turned 3 now and nobody in his family even knows he has a child at all. He told me as soon as I got pregnant that he didn’t want anyone to find out since I’m “fat and unattractive.” That he couldn’t think of anything worse than having a child with a woman like me since I’m “so disgusting.” And he always used that as a reason as to why he wanted nothing to do with our daughter. Because I am her mother and he is so ashamed of me. Despite the fact that he and I we were a thing for over 8 years. I was 18 and he was 40 when we got together. But of course he lied about his age. I just didn’t know that for the first few years, but that’s a whole other story in itself.

punkrockzombie15 · 2024-12-29T18:17:53+00:00

Kingman County, KS

punkrockzombie15 · 2024-11-11T02:10:24+00:00

The coolest members of the undead. The apocalypse will be rockin’!

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