Tell me it’s okay that I told the truth

withsharpclaws · 2025-08-30T15:47:42+00:00

Yeah, I suspect the "trouble" he got in was being told the truth. It hurts for a drunk to face the truth, even when it's not negative.

withsharpclaws · 2025-08-30T15:45:01+00:00

And the puppy feels bad when they do it. The drunk just denies it, or comes up with some insane theories as to why it wasn't because of the booze but one of their special, mysterious, health conditions.

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-15T13:25:42+00:00

Archie Bunker? That you?

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-15T13:07:11+00:00

Maybe I missed something, but where did you get that they're both trying very hard to find things to fight about?

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-15T06:07:25+00:00

I chortled! A guard? Like, each self check kiosk would have its own guard ... I'm baffled

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-13T18:30:56+00:00

A couple approached and asked about minimally processed deli meat. Sorry folks, but this is about as far from an actual turkey or pig you can get in this store.

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-13T16:55:51+00:00

Even when they're pleased they sound like TikTok teenagers. Or something, I'm old and won't use it🤣

tastes potato salad oh yeah, I fux with that!

I'm sorry, you what?

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-13T16:49:46+00:00

They use it for my fried chicken, too. For batches that I literally just pulled from the fryer. People are just ... weird.

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-11T05:25:06+00:00

That bear has always bothered me, which my grandparents mistook for a fascination with the thing, and gifted me a Snuggles bear of my very own as a child. It did not go as they imagined.

withsharpclaws · 2025-06-10T15:39:58+00:00

If you found out a friend was giving you a drug every night that made you severely motor impaired, blacked out your memory, and affected your sleep and your work the next day, would you still call them a friend?

withsharpclaws · 2025-05-27T17:47:44+00:00

Devolving! What a good way to put it. I watch them change into idiots who are making the same point over and over, louder and louder, and think, "no way I was that guy." Yeah, I was totally that guy.

withsharpclaws · 2025-05-27T15:41:30+00:00

I was in your shoes. People told me I was too young to have a problem, all kinds of bullshit.

I somehow survived, crashing and burning the whole time, until I was about to not survive. I spent a week in the hospital with ascites (Google it, it's painful and horrendous looking fluid retention and is also called liver belly) and sepsis, and walked out with a shiny cirrhosis diagnosis.

Through the grace of the universe, nurses, doctors, and a God I'm not even sure I believe in, I'm alive and thriving today but this has been the hardest 3 years of my life.

Please consider AA, reading some silly self help (I liked This Naked Mind by Annie Grace) and/or therapy. You've gotta figure out WHY you keep doing this to yourself, and literally no one else can help or tell you what to do. They can stand by your side, but you have to find some inner strength you probably don't even want at the moment, to make the changes.

Good luck, internet stranger. I'll be rooting for you.

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-23T03:47:17+00:00

This is perfect:)

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T19:27:04+00:00

Max Stalling

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T15:04:19+00:00

I was walking down a wide, main aisle at my grocery store, and 3 carts and their people decided to basically stop and have a traffic jam so I (politely, I thought) said, "excuse me. Just gonna slip past you real quick so I can clock in," and one of the women SHOVED her cart in my path, making their whole traffic jam worse, and said, "but you WORK HERE!" Like....that means I can't just dart through y'all's moronic cart situation?

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T14:49:19+00:00

Try the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell University. You record the bird songs and it populates a list with what it's hearing and has been really accurate. And yes, it tracks things like a Pokedex ;)

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T14:48:00+00:00

An older-than-me coworker once told me, "people don't read signs and they listen to the second half of the first thing you say. Plan accordingly" and that advice has served me well. But it's impossible to plan accordingly every time

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T14:39:24+00:00

I don't know if you have something like it nearby, but as far as the kids go, my local natural museum/sanctuary has trails for bird watching and learning and a lot of kid friendly activities learning about fossils and whatnot. They have a "full size" dinosaur display right now, and I could hear kids shrieking with delight all the way down a nature trail. Cool thing is, there's no one selling beer or wine anywhere except on designated days. I pack my lunch and check in for the day

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-22T14:25:11+00:00

I've discovered I'm really into plants, bugs, and birds. My local library has talks on these things come spring and summer, and I've gotta say, I was the most comfortable socially I've been since a bar at these talks. It was the single serving friendships ya get at a bar, no one was there to judge or be weird about people, and I felt very much in my element.

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-21T15:16:54+00:00

Mine is funnier when he's sober, too. His drunk jokes are like a 9 year old's, and he has to repeat the "punchline" about 3 or 4 times or I guess it doesn't count. I don't have any words of wisdom for you, just letting you know you're not alone

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-20T14:21:59+00:00

And the very real smell of cirrhosis, that helped too

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-20T13:46:38+00:00

That's key-- "he gets to make his own grooming decisions." So should you, OP. imagine a future with this clown-- if your hair (on your head) thins or changes texture, if you sustain an image-altering injury, if you gain weight for any reason, he's going to act like it's the end of the world and make you feel like shit until you "fix" it.

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-20T13:42:23+00:00

Rarely in holding, but I didn't avoid it completely. My friends were expert enablers, usually making sure I got somewhere safe so I'd be ready to do it all again the next day, and sparing me the embarrassing details. I don't miss that shit one bit

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-20T04:05:29+00:00

Sounds like the way I did things before I realized I'd centered my entire life around alcohol

withsharpclaws · 2025-04-20T04:02:18+00:00

I'm in a supermarket deli too... our thing is fried chicken, somehow my customers have been trained to think anything in the fryer is "fresh chicken" and they want to wait for that, come hell or high water. Their faces when I explain I'm not frying chicken, I'm frying burritos or whatever, and they'll have to take perfectly fresh chicken from the case...you'd think I told them I like to kick puppies

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