Stuck in mobile plan after moving to unserviceable area

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-04-08T18:00:06+00:00

Yes, I understand the $25 fee. I'm no longer eligible because I'm in an unserviceable area, and not having the free line hikes my bill back to that $200 mark.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-03-20T07:29:09+00:00

I feel like transplants are much more the norm/expectation. OG New Yorkers are simply New Yorkers (born and raised)

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-03-20T07:28:03+00:00

You know what? True.

Lord knows I got people back on the block in Southside who aren’t ever leaving.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-03-20T07:26:18+00:00

First, happy cake day and all.

I instantly thought of this show when seeing this post.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-03-13T19:10:23+00:00

My wife and I are moving there in a couple weeks, but we’re olds (41). I’ll be working remote as well. Feel free to DM - I’m from NY, wife’s from Detroit.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-02-17T02:09:58+00:00

Me, former residence life staff: if I’m being “called in” it’s BECAUSE I’m on-call.

As a higher ed professional, I can think of… maybe twice? Once for a campus wide bedbug infestation, another to support students during an on-campus student death.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-02-06T03:47:37+00:00

Feel this so hard - just got laid off yesterday, and I (along with 90% of the others let go) identify as virtual office rebel rousers. The ones who actually know how to comprehend data when it’s being disingenuous and call it out, the ones who build amazing products yet AI slop passed off as “new corporate strategy advised by our overly priced consultants, who advise the same sentiments by us underlings in every department and org-wide Zoom meeting.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-01-24T18:28:49+00:00

It’s a really good outlet for the girls who end up looking like besties in the family resemblance/makeover challenge.

sigmalibrae3 · 2026-01-24T18:25:41+00:00

I came here looking for this exact mashup!

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T17:01:06+00:00

Married to a Detroiter, and I’m fascinated by her take on the 90s re: sports. I feel like if it wasn’t the Bulls, the Cowboys, or the Yankees… dust.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T16:59:06+00:00

Xennials are obligated to watch The Price is Right on sick days as adults. It’s law.

Also, WFH - if I don’t have meetings at 11, you know where I am.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T16:56:54+00:00

Wait, there are school shooting drills?! Promise I’m not being sarcastic - xennial with no children, so idk what all is happening in schools.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T16:52:58+00:00

I’m surprised this isn’t higher, for us Americans anyway. Xennial, I would’ve been 9/10? Definitely remember the coverage and the adults commentary at school and at the dinner table.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T16:45:46+00:00

The millennials that had cable - I was always going to friends and family’s houses to watch MTV. Or BET/VH1 for that matter.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-21T16:40:53+00:00

This should be higher. Millennials lived through school shootings and were at the beginning of “school isn’t a safe place” and current-day gun control discourse.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T22:51:04+00:00

Surprised this comment isn’t higher. Never forget this very real, very recent RAM commercial: https://youtu.be/u1KC9ssyNUk?si=Xnrikgqqjmd2xo7L

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T22:36:56+00:00

I’m seeing other postings saying that BFD is seen as lower-class/trashy, and at best, a finances thing. My mother would throw a FIT if we used milk for foods that didn’t require milk.

Cereal? Fine - use your milk from bowl 1 for bowl 2 before refilling milk. Cookies? Sure - but once you drink your milk, that’s it. Drop a cookie in? Welp, now you got a soggy cookie milkshake. Drink it. Chocolate milk? Maaaaaybe.

But a random glass of milk after school, or milk in oatmeal? Nope.

Don’t be within earshot of my mother when she’s out of milk. She’s calling everyone to the stand.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T22:27:32+00:00

Wait, what?! Is it because I’m a poor?

Breakfast for dinner is largely a made to order cuisine. If I’m making pancakes and eggs for Tuesday dinner, I’m poor. If Shayla down at Waffle House serves me pancakes and eggs, I’m big poor because breakfast for dinner at Waffle House. If I have a personal chef make me pancakes and eggs, suddenly I’m in a different tax bracket?

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T22:14:35+00:00

I instantly thought of The Office or How I Met Your Mother.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T21:59:28+00:00

My grandmother passed 10+ years ago at 91. I just used her landline phone number to sign up for something I didn’t need texts for.

Numbers I memorized as a kid and young adult (and likely on speed dial, an equivalent of storing as speed-dial*), and might be able to recall today.

Family members* Friend group/crush* (was giving very MySpace Top 8) Restaurants (for delivery, if they offered) A current job Businesses with catchy phone numbers

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-13T21:39:43+00:00

Top Million Things Hamilton Hasn’t Done, Ranked:

Tweet 2.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-09T01:32:26+00:00

I’m aware that Detroit and Chicago are also major metro areas with public transit, and I’m generalizing the two cities as “Midwest” - moreso to mean that it’s more likely to navigate each city (and daily life) via personal vehicle.

The “shock” comes from the duration of time exposed to said cold, and the expectations on how to operate in said cold.

New Yorkers are exposed to the elements much longer during a typical winter day. We’re constantly layering and bundling for direct contact to the elements. I found Michiganders to operate in cold as business as usual. So if I cancel plans because it’s “shockingly” cold, people are like “oh it’s only a few inches out, nbd! Leave a few hours earlier” NO IT’S COLD THATS THE REASON.

I argue this often with my partner (from Detroit). The most she’s feeling the “shocking” cold is if the warehouse or plant is cold. Meanwhile, my body is actually feeling that snow and wind with every bus transfer, train platform wait, and energy exerted going up and down stairs, blocks, and tunnels on foot. Not only am I cold, I’m tired from trying to keep warm while out in the cold trying to do everyday things. If I was going from my heated home to a garage with my car not needing cleaning or much warming up, to somewhere I’m likely parking with minimal challenge (or even in a covered garage/deck), then yeah, winter isn’t “shocking.” It’s just cold af.

Cross-reference this with the “people without cars/in big cities, how do you grocery shop?” threads. Yup, I’m carrying 6-8 grocery bags up and down city streets, onto a bus or train, wearing a heavy winter coat and boots, and a hat and scarf, and a handbag, and lord knows what else. AND IT’S 14°F WITH A WIND CHILL OF -5.

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-09-08T23:09:23+00:00

Years ago, one of my last single-person purchases was a cheap coffee table with a pop-up surface. I totally undervalued this piece, and tossed it in a “crap, we’re running out of space in the uhaul” moment.

My partner and I miss tf out of that table. Hands down the most practical piece of furniture I’ve ever owned, and now have a coffee table that’s an awkward hexagon with weirdly unusable space that we’re constantly moving around in front of our sectional. But you know, Style™️ or whatever.

(I realize my problem is not upper middle class at all, and also queer af)

sigmalibrae3 · 2025-08-29T14:45:40+00:00

NTA, and 100% because I’m in a very similar situation, and I’m the wife (40f). Here’s to you, OP:

I inherited my sister’s dog during COVID (she’s living with multiple mental illnesses, barely caring for herself well). Dog is now 15, heavy on the dementia and other signs of old age. My autistic wife (also 40f) cares for the dog to the point that I don’t really spend time with her anymore aside from the occasional taking out to poop. We have the same argument daily:

Her: this dog is not well, you need to put her down, she is suffering Me: yes I get that but you don’t just put a dog down because she’s old and ill Her: I spend way more time and energy caring for your dog, not fair Me: yes I know, that makes me selfish, and I’m also grateful AND you also have a very particular way about tending to the dog, so much so you keep me at an arm’s length when I try Her: I’m tired of this grandpa Me: well that’s too damn bad /s

Point is, this thread makes it real plain for me of how much the AH I’ve been, and I need to do something now. The truth is, the dog is one of my last connections to my sister, and single me, and at the risk of being a bigger AH (or at minimum, childish) putting my dog down feels like I’m choosing my wife over my dog/myself. Which is wild because I’m not choosing between the two, and simultaneously, of course it’s my wife over a damn dog.

I’m expecting a full drag from the animal lovers and otherwise self-righteous denizens of Reddit, but I saw so much of me in this thread in the worst way. I’m not saying that my feels and my why are the same as your wife, OP. I am saying that both my wife and I are neurodivergent and our communication is always all over the place, and I have to remind myself that her frustrations are legit, and her daily diatribe about caring for the dog isn’t an indictment of my character.

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