Leaving aside the fact that this was my unopened box of cereal, they regularly open bags of chips by tearing the entire side off (so, the serrated top is used as a starting weak point to start a vertical tear all the way to the bottom). This person is 40+ years old and they seem to have zero concept of resealing food (or ability to taste when things go stale).

I recently planted some vegetable seedlings and discovered that I have a very big snail problem. So yesterday I went and spread snail pellets everywhere.

This morning I found a resident blue tongue lizard had just woken up from its hibernation (new house so was unknown to me I had a lizard friend).

I'm quite fond of lizards and lizards are quite fond of snails so I just spent an hour picking up all the snail pellets I just put down so my new lizard friend doesn't die.

Snail pellets are very small and my fingers are very big. Thankyou for listening.

Pellets all mixed into the straw in the photo so you can't really see many. But trust me, there was a lot.

So I'm at the self checkout. I go to one next to an older lady and her spawn probably

A bit later lady with crutches comes to my left.

🧑‍🦱 🩼 ◾ ME ◾ 🙍‍♀️ 🧒

Kid says "she can't walk! Why can't she walk?"

"because she did something silly. Like jump off a roof. We don't do stupid things" There was more than that ya know. Old woman repeating self etc.

Only later I noticed who had come to use the checkout next to me and it really hit me.

Is that a thing now? Do we just shit talk strangers from right next to them now? And victim blame people who are hurt? Lady is in crutches in a busy store and this fuckass old woman's thoughts as 'you make bad desicions' and she's telling a kid that.

i am convinced AI has destroyed the internet. the song i was searching for is called Money Now btw

The lack of civic sense is so annoying.

Listen. I know capitalism has us all by the balls, but there has to be some room for common sense.

I went to Aldi today for pot roast ingredients. It's a Sunday evening, so the store is, more or less, picked clean. They sell onions in 3lb bags but the bins were empty, save for a few lonely, unbagged onions. I grabbed two beautiful bulbs, the rest of my ingredients, and went to check out.

Cashier says "We dont sell them individually, sorry."

I offered to scan another $3 item again. He said no. I offered straight cash. He said no. I offered to pay for a whole bag just to get the 2, he said no.

I asked, "So, what, are you just going to throw them away??"

"Yes." He said, "Its policy. For your safety."

I said, "My safety?? They literally grow IN the dirt."

He threw them away.

I'm now parked in my car at a second grocery store, typing this tale.*

Instead of coming home with me, the onions are going to sit alone in a plastic trash bag for the rest of time. Instead of going straight home, I'm using more gas and resources to make an extra stop just for two onions that I already held in my hands.

This world doesnt make sense anymore. Im already PMSing, and this interaction has sent me into an existential spiral.

I miss my onions.

I should have just stolen them.

*Edited for clarity, pls don't text and drive <3

I won’t order from there

This is so stupid, but it's bothering me, so I wanted to get it off my chest. I was just at a restaurant where the bathroom is a one-person situation, with a keypad lock on the outside. But, there's no way to lock the door from the inside; so, while you're doing your business, anyone with the code can just bust right in, and the restaurant gives the code to any customer who asks. The thing is, there are multiple signs in the bathroom saying, essentially, "don't worry about locking the door - it locks automatically," which is technically true, but doesn't change the fact that, when you're using the bathroom, there's no way to prevent someone from walking in on you. So, the signs make me think that, probably, multiple people have complained, but whoever's in charge just doesn't understand the problem, and so they put up signs like "silly customer, don't you see there's nothing to worry about?" But there is! There is something to worry about! Just so (mildly) frustrating...

To be clear, not asking for advice; we are getting the fuck out of this neighborhood. These were bleach white when I bought them.

Our ~50 home neighborhood has an HOA-managed pump house which draws water from an aquifer. The water turned brown after a very expensive backflush and purge the HOA did and has remained that way since.

That purge happened because the aquifer dropped down to about 0.5 gallons per hour replenishment for the whole neighborhood.

This of course was only after we nearly ran the president out of town when the neighborhood lost water for 2 weeks straight. While he was on vacation. And KNEW the buffer reservoir would run dry while he was out. AND had the funds to order a water truck to fill the reservoir.

Anyways; there are 3 distribution branches; our neighbor and us are the only two houses on the lowest (as in, elevation/gravity) branch. So we theorize that all the silt floats to the bottom at the pumphouse and gets sent to our sorry asses.

We have complained about this multiple times. The HOA refuses to install sediment filters at the pumphouse. So I installed these whole-house filters; this is after 6 months of very light service. It is just my wife and I, and we use low-flow heads on every fixture and have no leaks. For reference, these 20x4" filters are intended for full-sized single family homes, with a replacement interval of ~12 months for most homes. They are the size of my thigh.

I hope their very expensive pump shreds itself on the dirt and the president gets torched and pitchforked out of town. I am moving, fuck this place and fuck HOA-managed water distribution.

Edit: Water coming out of faucets and hose is diarrhea brown after pulling the filters and reconnecting the main inline. All y'all saying this is normal are funny.

"Treat yourself!" I'm both infuriated and fucking DYING

French tourist leaves 100,000 baht in Phuket hotel, gives staff 100 baht tip after cash returned.

The color of my toothpaste is purple and apparently he had his old toothpaste on his brush before he used mine.

EDIT: It's not shit. His old toothpaste was brown.

Still mildly infuriating...

I (30M) have a middle name that is my mother's maiden name, so in essence my name is like John Wilbur Jackson, and people will always say "so your last name is Wilbur-Jackson?" Then I'll have to explain that my family has this tradition of using the mother's maiden name as the child's middle name, "But it's a last name!" They'll say, correct but its being used as a middle name. Then they'll try to explain my own name to me like I'm the idiot in this situation.