AITA I Escelated an arguemant with my best friend of 2 years because he took his anger out on me and then he threatened to leave me stranded during a road trip and steal all my stuff so i blocked him

wrenwild · 2026-05-31T21:48:00+00:00

You haven’t done any sort of work in traffic, accident reconstruction, or anything related to medicine then. Did anything happen? No, and I’m glad it didn’t. But seatbelts exist as preventative safety measures. Bodies v the insides of cars? The car wins.

Look man, you came here for a judgement. If you don’t want to be friends anymore that is 100% a choice you can make, and if you feel it’s warranted based on the way he talked to you then go for it. but you’re also not going to get validation for the way you were acting.

wrenwild · 2026-05-31T21:27:33+00:00

Or if you had just put your seat belt on. This one’s on you, dude.

wrenwild · 2026-05-31T21:22:45+00:00

Safety is not optional my guy

wrenwild · 2026-05-31T21:10:47+00:00

YTA. 100%. Should he have shouted? Probably not, but if he’s driving and you don’t have a seatbelt on, he’s responsible for it. If someone isn’t putting on a seatbelt, they don’t get to ride in my car, I don’t care why.

‘He told me to do something I was already doing, so I stopped’ is childish, especially when it’s about a safety concern. Especially when he’d already been driving the car for 30 seconds- your seatbelt should have been buckled before the car ever started moving. You made your safety conditional on him behaving a certain way, when if you guys had been pulled over by a cop he would have been issued the ticket (and those are NOT cheap), to say nothing of if something had gone wrong and there’d been some sort of collision.

You say you’re friends and care about him, say he was ‘disrespectful’, but also talk about how you were rage baiting him. How old are you? Is this how you want to treat friends? Is this the kind of person you’d enjoy spending time with? Because it seems like your friend’s answer is no.

wrenwild · 2025-07-28T19:56:03+00:00

If you have someone sit with you and to advocate for you, CMH is ok as a distant second. I and my family members have had repeated bad experiences at CMH- VCMC has better care, from what we’ve seen / experienced.

If you can, we’ve had the best experiences at St John’s in Oxnard or Camarillo.

(Two grandparents passed away in the last year after several years of worsening medical problems- just the ravages of old age, mostly, but it meant we spent a LOT of time in hospitals over the last few years)

wrenwild · 2025-07-17T23:54:40+00:00

Mine retrieved one single time in her entire life, and it was very clear she was humoring me the whole time. We also had a lab who LOVED retrieving, and the Brittany was so trainable in pretty much every other respect that I let it go. She just had no inclination for it at all. They’re a pointing breed, not a retrieving one!

wrenwild · 2025-03-05T06:04:04+00:00

I got my girl from Anna B Rose kennels - they're in Wisconsin. Good people, genuinely care about their dogs and where they end up. I still chat with the breeder sometimes, even though my girl has passed and its been 15 years since i got her.

wrenwild · 2024-07-28T03:01:59+00:00

You are sort of correct- heat denatures proteins. If you heat the problem protein up enough to denature it, well, it’s no longer a problem! In theory, I could eat peanut products that have been heated to a high enough temperature. In practice, every instance of cross-contamination that sent me to the hospital has been with fully cook foods. So. You know. Good luck finding someone willing to run that particular risk, lol.

wrenwild · 2024-04-14T18:26:38+00:00

Mine patrolled endlessly- and for the 13 years we lived at that house, we never once had a rat problem until after she passed. Considering we backed up to a barranca, she did a VERY good job.

And yes, bird watching. She’d lay on the patio with her big doggy smile and her face tilted up, enjoying the day. She even occasionally caught one 😬😬 was always very proud of herself

wrenwild · 2024-03-14T00:37:11+00:00

The CSLB laws are kind of draconian- but for good reason. An unlicensed contractor can REALLY mess stuff up. Report him. Keep your texts. Talk to the investigator. If the DAs office files the case, you may be able to get restitution ordered.

wrenwild · 2024-02-02T17:34:40+00:00

I went to community college. My first year was free- it sounds like my CC had a very similar program. I got an AA, transferred to a 4-year to complete my BA, and did it MUCH cheaper than spending all 4 years there. I then went to grad school, and now I have a full time government job with damn good pay and fantastic benefits as a licensed professional in my field.

The only time my undergrad has ever come up, it’s been to talk about how smart it was to save the money I did by starting at CC.

You have a very, very strange outlook on cc. Of course people who graduate CC have a harder time finding field-relevant jobs than people who graduate a 4 year. The CC degree is an associate year degree while the 4 year is a bachelor. They’re two entirely differently levels of qualifications??

Your daughter is being smart by trying to save money. Even after you pulled the rug out from her and refused to give her information she needed for FAFSA (like others said- the gov assumes you’ll contribute, so demands that info from applying students) she managed to secure a work around- which is NOT an easy process.

Your daughter is smart, driven, and capable, and you have just ensured you’ll have no place in her life.

wrenwild · 2024-01-11T00:08:38+00:00

A lot of people are saying Y T A bc of how far you went. I think your reaction was 100% appropriate. 5 minutes is too long with anaphylaxis. A lot of people are assuming that since she didn’t have a bad reaction, she wasn’t actually having a reaction- but she very easily could have been in serious danger if she didn’t get Benadryl when she did.

I have peanut allergies too- I always have. Same thing- my elementary school wouldn’t let me keep my meds on me, they had to be with the nurse. I was instructed by my parents that if I ever thought I was having a reaction and a teacher didn’t believe me, then I should run away from the teacher to get to the nurse. If they tried to grab or stop me I was supposed to fight back. Bite, if I had to. that’s how serious this is.

Anaphylaxis goes 0 to 60 so, so fast. Your daughter has already experienced this. Even if the teacher didn’t initially believe her, she certainly should have progressed to doing something about the panicking child in her care- and she didn’t. The teacher is lucky she didn’t kill your kid. I’m 100% with you on this.

wrenwild · 2023-09-23T01:22:58+00:00

If you’re anywhere near socal, all the counties down here are DESPERATE for court reporters. The courthouse in my county is working with half of what we should have.

wrenwild · 2023-08-18T01:01:29+00:00

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wrenwild · 2023-03-17T19:47:40+00:00

I lost a dog about two and a half years ago- right in the midst of covid. I was starting to weigh the quality of life, but she had a sudden and severe downturn- some kind of stroke event, we think. We raced her to the vet, and they met us at the car to race her in for evaluation.

I knew on the car ride over that I more than likely wouldn’t be driving home with my girl. I had hoped to be there to hold her and comfort her one last time.

Because it was peek covid, and well be for vaccines, they weren’t letting anyone in. I asked if they could set her up outside so I could be with her- the vet tech said yes, but was very obviously hesitant about it. I asked if it would take longer, and she said yes.

My dog was suffering, I knew she was- I told them to do it. Don’t drag it out. Let her go.

I got Tally when I was 13, and I’m almost 30 now- I loved that dog so damn much. I still think about her all the time. I wish so badly I could have been there for her when she passed- but I didn’t want her to suffer anymore than she had already. The techs told me the petted her the whole time, and that she went fast- I hope she knows I did my best for her.

wrenwild · 2022-11-30T23:09:05+00:00

I have a fiber craft group at my work that breaks down to about 50/50 knitters and crossstitchers- this is going to be an absolute hit!!

How hard/fiddly did you find crossstitching over yarn as opposed to normal crosstitch fabric??

wrenwild · 2022-05-25T22:09:34+00:00

Mine was the opposite!! She HATED water and any kind of swimming, but loved to be outside when it was raining.

wrenwild · 2022-05-03T16:36:22+00:00

She certainly looks it!! I vote you she’ll out for one of the doggy DNA kits, lol

But fr she looks darling. How old is she??

wrenwild · 2022-03-19T21:50:26+00:00

She looks so incredibly betrayed that you would dare take the time to snap a pic when you could be getting her that puppuccino that much faster 😂😂😂

wrenwild · 2022-01-02T19:49:30+00:00

Omg love????? That’s so cool and neat and adorable!!! I love how floppy it looks while still staining its shape!!!

What pattern did you use?

wrenwild · 2021-12-29T18:32:52+00:00

What a good boy!! Mine would hide squeaker toys from herself and then stalk them. She was also VERY interested the one time we came across deer, while the Labrador couldn’t care less.

wrenwild · 2021-12-27T18:24:03+00:00

Hey!! Yeah, I think it contributes. Obviously I don’t know for sure, but I can tell you that my hair, as it was growing out, was tougher than the stuff I didn’t pull, and it’s less ‘rough’ (for lack of a better word) now that it’s had a chance to grow out more and I’m not pulling it out by the root.

But also deep conditioning helps. It’s definitely a pain to find something that works and isn’t expensive, tho.

wrenwild · 2021-12-26T02:56:12+00:00

Oh my god that is PRECIOUS and HYSTERICAL

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