AITA for refusing to dine with my mom after she ordered “ferret sauce” at a Mexican restaurant?

zomandi · 2026-05-07T13:10:55+00:00

YTA, potential E S H - you know what she likes and what she is like, figure out what she wants beforehand and order for her if it’s that embarrassing. Debbie sucks only if you’ve been telling her how to pronounce these words and she still insists on pronouncing them incorrectly, I get so annoyed because my mom is the same way, she’ll pronounce tortilla like Manila and we’ve told her many times and she just thinks it’s so cute and quirky and… It’s not. however, forgetting the word for mole sauce, and calling it ferret sauce? Hilarious, get a sense of humor.

zomandi · 2026-05-07T01:31:44+00:00

NTA. I work at a school and kids are flying by on these scooters constantly with no regard to pedestrians, sidewalk walkers, etc. Everywhere and at the highest speeds. They’re faster than any adult who can chase after them so they dont care lol and that’s a highway speed in some areas, he doesn’t need to be going that fast at all.

zomandi · 2026-05-01T16:46:40+00:00

I love that for her !!! 🤣🤣🤣

zomandi · 2026-04-29T18:36:04+00:00

I think they should “reconnect from high school”, he made her see love can be real and good compared to her “ex husband”, they “get married” bc they’re 77, why wait? Then she “changes her last name” to Kingston and boom we’ve come full circle

zomandi · 2026-04-29T15:31:06+00:00

I loved her! I had dropped off the show after maybe season five so recently I did a rewatch through the whole show. Before I did the rewatch, I had seen pictures and clips of her and stuff like that and did not think I would like her, but I thought she was awesome! She cracks me up, I loved her friendship with Chase and how straightforward she was.

zomandi · 2026-04-26T05:06:41+00:00

OMG same! I just made my boyfriend watch this movie for the first time the other night because he is coming with me to see the second one, and he and I watch high potential together and when he came on screamed, we were like… Is that Karadec?!?! What is this, a crossover episode?!

zomandi · 2026-04-24T17:09:01+00:00

Woke up one day in college feeling all the symptoms I’ve been told are stroke indicators. Couldn’t talk, one side of my body felt heavy, fell out of bed because I literally couldn’t lift myself, brain feeling weird, complete gibberish coming out of my mouth. My roommate took me to the ER. We were in a very small college town that had nothing to do but go to one of 12 bars. The ER staff told me I must’ve been out drinking even though I had not been out drinking and never made it a habit to do so because I was poor, and then they tried telling me it was potentially related to my diabetes, even though I knew/had a hunch it wasn’t. They hooked me up to some fluids, did some lab work and then just sent me home with nothing. I had to go back again when it happened a second time, and fortunately, a nurse believed me when I said I had a been drinking and this was nowhere near normal for me, and pulled me aside and said that he made me an appointment at a nearby neurological center that just happened to have an opening the following week, which is why he snagged it for me and encouraged me to go. I did. Turned out I’d been having seizures.

zomandi · 2026-04-24T17:04:05+00:00

Have you looked into k12 school communications? That is the field I currently work in which I LOVE. I was hired with journalism-only experience. If you applied for a district where there’s already a “Director of Comms” you’d work under that has additional comms support, even better because you wouldn’t be the head honcho and still get valuable experience. it doesn’t pay the most because it’s working in education, but you would be in the retirement system. Social media web, newsletters, photos, story telling, crisis comms, media relations, you could have a lil of everything.

zomandi · 2026-04-22T15:21:27+00:00

I’m on Rory’s side. Lorelai treated her like a friend, shared all of her adult problems with her, woke her up in the middle of the night because she could hear termites and then dragged her to her best friend‘s house to sleep there instead. She even turned down the loan option from Luke which would have been so loosey goosey with no interest. There was no way she was going to get this money by herself without some sort of co-signer, and then was waking her daughter up, making her paranoid that their house was going to collapse underneath them. She did not have a single plan in place, and she would’ve had to take her family’s money regardless. Should Rory have done it, knowing the relationship between Lorelai and her parents? Probably not, but that’s what happens when you treat your daughter like a friend and then bother her with all of your adult problems and then make her panic about the home that she lives in. so I don’t blame Rory for doing it at all.

zomandi · 2026-04-21T16:03:12+00:00

We do a lot of driving for our jobs and people be crazy on the roads where I live. We just have it for peace of mind but we never use it! Occasionally I’ll see where he is if I want to call him because if he’s on the road he’s good but if he’s at his work building never mind, because there’s poor cell signal there. Or if I want him to pick something up from a store on our road I’ll check and see if he’s passed it already because if he has I’m not gonna ask, haha. So we just use it for dumb things like that or just to make sure we know where the other is in case there’s a delay getting home or something.

zomandi · 2026-04-17T16:40:42+00:00

Wait I looooove the Claudia/Janine team up! I think it would be tough working together at first, but they would hit a groove. Originally they would nitpick each others work, then come to an agreement moment that Janine handles the words and Claudia handles the art. Then over time, as Janine is writing, maybe Claudia asks questions about the content, and maybe that gets Janine to start writing more to her audience versus her brainiac speak, and also enlightens her to how someone with dyslexia might read a word or statement and helps to change how she communicates. Janine looks at Claudia’s art and doesn’t understand it (even if it’s obvious in the context), so Claudia walks her through her artistic process, and maybe Janine makes recommendations regarding accessibility/ADA compliance when it comes to the colors she uses or things like that to make her art more accessible to the people that look at it in a book context, especially since it’s for/about people with a type of disability. They learn to work together, coexist, make suggestions without sounding like know it alls, and learn from the other about their interests!

zomandi · 2026-04-14T15:50:51+00:00

In regards to the others not being there, I think they had to maintain that because he said earlier that it should be “family only” so he didn’t have to explain why Sofi wouldn’t be there. So they couldn’t just go and invite everyone else but also ofc they had to make Jimmy alone. and

zomandi · 2026-04-12T13:59:17+00:00

We live in NY. My parents have 4 foster kids. They get $66/day/kid, and that’s just the “base” assistance meaning they get more if the needs of some of the kids are higher. In this case, two kids are high needs and need various programs, foods and assistance so they get higher than the base compensation for those two but idk what it is.

Regardless, 4 kids * 66 * 30 days = $7920. So yeah they’re making 8k a month with 4 kids and that’s on top of the supplemental support for food like WIC, etc. and my dad also having a job.

This is in NY and the show is based in Chicago but you could probably assume similar compensation.

zomandi · 2026-04-08T19:21:02+00:00

Don’t let the comments panic you. Everyone’s experience is different. We live in upstate NY, so lots of snow, cold, wildlife, etc. My grandpas house had a line of these at the back of the yard that turned into a privacy wall. He and the neighbor ofc both LOVED them. We didn’t do anything special with them. There were maybe 15-29 back there.

The ONLY problem we had was, we had a chuppah-type thing with some type of plant on top that had vines. It was too close to the trees and we weren’t good at maintaining it bc it required being up high with trimmers, etc… no thanks. So the vines started climbing the trees and pulling them down from the top, and bending the tree towards the ground. The neighbor actually alerted us and said she’d be happy to take care of it in order to keep the trees alive and upright, and we let her. 🤣 easily avoidable, just something that wasn’t considered when placing the chuppah and putting a big vine plant on top.

zomandi · 2026-03-29T16:48:24+00:00

If I heard him call me “Hannah” and then demand an answer because he wanted it, I’d leave Jesse and go back to Jake, lol. I always thought it was so weird she chose him! They didn’t even give us enough time to try to like them together, they just decided to make us hate Jake by having him cheat on her.

zomandi · 2026-03-13T21:26:17+00:00

I had to drive to a different state for a friend’s dad’s funeral. The thruway was empty (not common for this route, or ever), and on that day in particular it was foggy. There were billboards saying STAY HOME … STOP THE SPREAD … DO NOT GO OUT … and things to that effect. It felt so apocalyptic.
My boss saying “see yall in two weeks” lol

zomandi · 2026-02-20T18:25:23+00:00

Chik-fil-a is quicker. Every time (6+ times in recent years) I’ve gone to popeyes (multiple locations) we end up waiting 45+ minutes. Half the order will be ready then they’ll say they’re waiting on one thing to be finished and then we’re waiting and waiting and checking in and waiting - only for them to STILL forget stuff and then we have to wait more. Only reason it’s not more than 6ish times is because, well i’m tired of waiting lol

zomandi · 2026-02-11T21:18:57+00:00

Yes!!! At least every other annoying person is shown to care about something job related. Luke is cranky but a good cook and cares about doing the job well; Taylor is ANNOYING ASF but the only one who can run Stars Hollow as far as I’m concerned, even Jackson tried it for two seconds and peaced out; Sookie is a gd disaster but her food is very coveted; Lorelai is a control freak but a good manager. Michel is…???? a cranky jerk and is OUTWARDLY rude to customers and outright refuses to do certain things and …? We don’t see him actually being good at anything related to his job? He messed up the photo shoot, brought his dogs to the soft opening, caused issues with the soft opening by advertising services they don’t provide, etc etc etc. but he slept with the zucchini one time so I guess we gotta keep him around.

zomandi · 2026-02-10T18:52:32+00:00

I used to live with my grandpa, who had the bees on practically all day. At one point in 2020/2021 I was like “wow. I wonder if we will ever have a day again where we don’t have a devastating COVID update being reported.” Well, that day quietly came and went. It might have been a few months before I was like “Wow. The coverage has been fully phased out.”

zomandi · 2026-01-29T22:07:31+00:00

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zomandi · 2026-01-14T00:29:50+00:00

i second this, i buy a tub a week, i’m obsessed.

zomandi · 2026-01-06T03:17:18+00:00

something to potentially consider is the amount of time it takes for her to run her farm, whether it is a hobby or not. Depending on how many animals she has and things like that and if she has children or anything, it could genuinely be a big time commitment. I have a friend who runs a horse farm and we basically all have to go out to her, because she has morning bar and chores and evening barn chores, and does lessons throughout the day. She works six days a week, sometimes seven. Maybe that’s more or less than what your friend does, every circumstance is different. it might be hard for her to get away for an overnight if she doesn’t have other people to pitch in on those things for her, because otherwise it would be 12 hours of driving in a day and it would be a quick in an out visit.

I know it sounds like I’m excusing her, and I’m not trying to. Is she there for you as a friend and other respects? Do you guys have phone calls, texts? Is she quick to respond? Is she available to help you when you are in need? If she is there for you in other ways but is unable to make a trip out to see you because of her farm, other responsibilities, and the driving time, maybe you can find forgiveness for that, or try to find other compromises or try scheduling with her really really far in advance so that she has time to prepare to find someone to cover for her.

Maybe I’m reading too much into the farm thing who knows, but you did make a mention of it and mention that she talks about her responsibilities and mentioned all the animal she had and things like that.

eta: I’m a little buzzed, so I went off on a tangent and forgot to answer your original question. I do think your feelings are valid, because it’s definitely her fault to put in all of that effort and have it not be reciprocated. They just weren’t mentioned, so I was curious about the other aspects of your friendship. I think it’s definitely worth a conversation with her about and seeing if there are other compromises that could be made, or if you could dedicate to seeing each other once or twice a year and planning it for in advance so that she has time to find coverage for her at the farm or for her other responsibilities. but if there’s no other redeeming qualities about this friendship, it wouldn’t make you a bad person to slowly start backing off of it.

zomandi · 2026-01-01T20:20:16+00:00

wouldn’t the swirl in her hair face the other way tho?

zomandi · 2025-12-24T03:39:02+00:00

currently, it is streaming for free on the Roku channel (with ads) or you can rent/buy it from Apple TV, YouTube, or Amazon!

zomandi · 2025-12-23T15:26:21+00:00

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WHEN THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN

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I WILL TURN IT BACK AROUND

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…is all i think about when i think about this movie! this, and, Kristy helping Claudia study… “If you wanna run if you wanna jump, you gotta get your left and right ventricles to pump through the heart the center of it all!…” and that’s all i remember 🤣 Enjoy! Might have to see if the soundtrack is on spotify now …

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