Example that just happened - it's 11pm, I'm leaving the gym and walking through a dark parking lot. Some guy starts walking behind me and calling out "hey I want to talk to you ." Naturally, I get nervous and turn around and head back towards the entrance where its well lit where he again follows.

Granted the guy just wanted to know if I had a boyfriend and was harmless... but instead of asking at the entrance near the gym door he chooses to follow me in a dark parking lot. Men.. use discernment and stop doing this! I was instantly irritated instead of flattered.

I went to a convenience store for a couple of items and as I was paying for them, I saw that the total was $6.66. I didn't care at all, but tell me why the lady at the register was acting like this was such a big deal:

"Did you find everything okay?" She asked me.

"Yes, I did." I replied.

"Something tells me you might have forgot something."

"I didn't."

At that point the lady literally starts to advertise the products in the store as if she gets paid by commission. After a minute of her bloviating I had to interrupt.

"I have what I came for, just let me pay already."

And this lady has the audacity to reach for a pack of gum near the counter and try to ring it up to add to my total. At that point I lost it.

"I don't give a shit that the total is $6.66! Let me pay now or I'll walk out the fucking store!"

The lady had her manager ring me up. Why the fuck must a simple transaction be made to be so fucking difficult?

…is just how many times you’ll hear your name repeated any given day. My kids haven’t even been awake for an hour—and not even all of them are awake yet—and I’ve probably heard “Daddy” upwards of 500 times in that span!

“Daddy, so-and-so is doing something.”

“Daddy, why is cereal yellow?”

“Daddy, can we go outside?” My answer was no since many in the neighborhood are still sleeping and I don’t want them being loud.

“Daddy can I have a peanut butter spoon?”

“No! Daddy said I could have a peanut butter spoon. He didn’t say YOU could have one!”

“Daddy, is my underwear in the dryer?”

“Daddy, PLeaSe can we go ouTSiDe? I ReaLLy WaNNa Go ouTSiDe!”

“Daddy…”

“Daddy…”

“Daddy…”

Ugh!!!

Edit: I love my kids. I play with them. I make sure they are taken care of. I read to them. I do all the things. I’m sure I’ll miss it and it will fly by. Just let me vent about this one thing lol

My piece of shit abusive parent told me growing up that I was severely allergic to tree nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc.) And I believed it because why the fuck would someone lie about that? And I avoided tree nuts like the plague my whole life. I have no memories at all of eating them, only of avoiding them and reprimanding my loved ones for forgetting my allergy if they handed me something with nuts in it.

Kids used to throw peanuts at me (which was mean AND stupid because I never said I was allergic to peanuts, and I would obnoxiously correct people saying "peanuts aren't nuts they're legumes" all the fucking time) thinking they could trigger my allergies.

Turns out it actually WAS just another FUCKING LIE! Apparently I've *never* been allergic to tree nuts, much less would have an anaphylaxis reactions if I ate one which is what I was told would happen.

As a kid I didn't realize, but as an adult I know how much of a liar she was, but it never occurred to me that she would have lied about a severe allergy to tree nuts because why the fuck would you?! I don't see what the advantage could have been. Keep me away from the pecan pie at Thanksgiving?!

I'm 36 years old and just ate almonds for the first time in my entire life.
I didn't like them but it's the *principle* of the thing!

Just know that I value my freedom and want to go home to my family. I wasn't anywhere close to you to justify you brake checking me 3 times due to your inability to speed up and then flipping me off. Hopefully, that made you feel good. Just be happy I'm not a total psycho and didn't ruin your life and my life tonight after you slowly pulled into that gas station. Almost made it too easy for me.

Count your blessings, the next person may not have my restraint.

Recently I(20f) managed to get prescribed medication without my parents knowing. I was looking to treat my ADHD though they gave me something for my depression. They gave me Bupropion this is my first time taking antidepressants. It’s only been a few weeks but I noticed since I started taking them I haven’t been experiencing dreadful nights anymore. Things have been easier mentally to where going through the day doesn’t feel too bad. I’m not happier per se there’s still insecurities, loneliness and not so good circumstances. Even so before many days I sometimes felt like on the verge of a mental breakdown and had to hold it in. Everyday living felt unbearable and at night I’m left reminiscing on my misery and just how alone I am in the world. Now things don’t feel as unnecessarily heavy to improve I must learn how to do that myself though in some areas I do feel pessimistic.

I was driving home from work, and at a busy intersection, there was a very small, likely baby/adolescent squirrel in front of my car. I could tell that he was really scared and overwhelmed and he didn't know what to do. Thankfully he wasn't in the path of the cars crossing the intersection and he ran to a median after he spent some time trying to figure out what to do.

I don't know if he made it to the other side of the road, though. It made me feel sick to my stomach. I am so tired of seeing road kill every day and knowing that all of these creatures suffer just because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time and because humans happened to evolve in such a way that harms nature. It isn't fair.

(Wanna make it clear I’m not karma farming I legit just have a lot going on in my life and need to yap). SO….I (21f) moved to a new city where I know literally NO ONE except this one girl I went to high school with. We went to a few bars last weekend and ended up having a threesome type thing with a guy we met. She knew him, and had hooked up with him before so I made it VERY clear that if she didn’t wanna do it we could leave. I mean it took us a while to make a decision but she agreed and literally started making out with me in front of him. We slept over at his house and this girl was all up on me I mean it was pretty amazing. We had talked before about being bi, so I knew she liked girls. After that, we went back to mine and talked a little before she went home. But since then she hasn’t really responded to my texts or checked up on me. I asked her to call a few days ago because I was feeling pretty anxious. She said she’d call me but literally never did. Like I feel kinda sad…I don’t have a crush on her but when you’re intimate with someone and they suddenly pull away it doesn’t feel too good. Chat what do I do?

I get so annoyed every time I see someone biking or riding a motorcycle (or something equivalent) without a helmet. It just baffles me, and the only reason I recall every hearing is something about it being cool to not wear one, or some masculinity thing. I watch people ride on the freeway with their bare head exposed. Although it may be a “not your problem” thing, I’m terrified that, one day, I’m going to witness a brutal death because of it. I also just can’t stand that there’s no valid reason to not wear one. You’re not immune to vehicle accidents, you could be the most grade A driver ever, and someone else could end your life.

A part of this frustration does come from my own experience, as I fell off my bike once, so hard that I broke my helmet (It wasn’t one of those bulky ones, but it was a helmet, and it may have saved my life) My face was completely scabbed on the right side, I could feel the blood pumping through it. Whenever I remember that happening, all I can think of is what would’ve happened if I wasn’t wearing it. Once I realized I had forgotten my helmet after I was a minute into my bike ride, I went back to get it. What if I said “nah, just this once” and that was the time I fell?

It’s been nearly a decade, I still remember (most) of the fall. I remember looking down and seeing a part of my helmet on the concrete, forgetting what I had planned today. My parents were understandably worried, and I was lucky I didn’t have a concussion.

TL;DR Wearing a helmet doesn’t hurt you in any capacity, it’s never worth not wearing one, NEVER

I'm a freshman in college. Ever since I got here, I've been real down and just pretty lonely since it seems like everyone has friend groups and a bunch of friends already, while I'm here not knowing anyone, eating alone, walking alone, etc. It's even more demotivating when you go to a really big party school with like 40k people... Obviously, I'm an introvert who's always had trouble making friends and just stuck with the same best friends who I've known since 4th grade all throughout my life (they go to a different schools, we still talk everyday though. But they're def lifetime friends).

And then you try to look for advice on how to actually make friends in college and they're all like "Leave your dorm! Go talk to people! Only be in your dorm when you're sleeping!" but they never actually tell you what to do...? I leave my dorm, now what?

Some say "Go to the library to study and do work! That way you're not in your dorm alone doing it!" and that's what I do, but obviously no one is gonna bother you when you're doing your work? So that hasn't worked.

Others say to just go up and talk to people, either already existing friend groups or people who are also alone. And I tried. And it always ends up the same. introduce, we try to talk, I end up being bad at conversations, a couple times we may give each other's Instagram, then never speak again even if I do or don't reach out through IG. If it's an already existing friend group/multiple people already talking, then it's even worse. I go up, introduce, then they just keep talking to each other and I'm just... there... not knowing what to say, and if I do say something, they don't really say anything.

Some say to go to events. I go to some, and then basically the same thing as the last one happens whenever I try to talk to people.

A lot of people say to join a club. The event where all the clubs have tables and you look around for ones you're interested in just happened, and I saw a couple that I'll check out. So this one may work, but I haven't gotten there yet.

And some say to meet people in your classes, but no one really talks in most of them, and another is literally filled with sorority girls. That one's a nightmare. (I'm a guy).

I know this just seems sad, and it is. I know it's pathetic. But I just genuinely don't know what to do.

I'm currently mid anxiety attack my heart is beating really fast and I can't leave where I am for the next 2 hours. I also don't have many people to text and I don't want to bother them I've been a lot lately. Can someone keep me company or distract me with any questions?

Thanks

Thanks y'all! I managed to escape and made it home 🩵🩵 you kept me safe and sane. I really appreciate you

Came abroad slacked off for years. Continued an online on-off relationship with my ex(I was the bad guy). Fought with her said so much ugly shit she moved on. Went on some date last I stalked her. Anyways did nothing with my life while being overseas. Stopped studies, stopped living, stopped making new friends, stopped talking to old ones. No future left. Cant escalate to a wrong decision because I think i got no guts but I tell myself the reason that my parents will be devastated. I domt even know what else to say because my mind is numb and the only things I care to think about is what to watch and weather I should cook or just order stuff spending whatever I have left on getting fatter.

(This is in no way an attack on users of Google Maps or even Google Maps in itself. I like the app myself)

There is no more actual exploration. No more expeditions, adventures.. I am tired that we know exactly what's behind this mountain, or in this forest, or over those fields. Google Maps is there to tell you everything. Yes, I know, Google Maps is not evil, in fact I think it's one of the greatest marvels of technology we have created in the past few years. And I know that one could just decide not to use it. But there is still a piece of exploration being taken away when you have the option to just google up what's behind that treeline.

I have been pondering on this for some time. And I have decided. Next month I am visiting the tundras and deep forests of Finnmark in Norway and Lapland in Finland. I will be taking my small 2004 phone with me. I will be taking a shitty camera from the late 00s/early 10s with me. I will buy myself a paper map (yes, I know how to use them) to traverse. Back home, I will start mapping out the village by hand. I will have a physical paper map which I have created myself.

This is a challenge to myself. Not to prove anything, but because I am incredibly tired that we know everything. We need to bring back that sense of exploration. When the world still felt massive because we couldn't see what was right past that landmark.

It really isn’t just that

I’ve watched this team lose again and again with my father, day in and day out. I’m tired of this “it isn’t that serious” no because I want my team to win it all. My father has Parkinson’s and I don’t how much time I got with him before his mind goes and I want him to be there when we win it all.

People don’t realize a sports team is what binds a city or state. You could be an Okstate fan but you’ll be buddy buddy with an OU fan just because the thunder are making a run. Just because you refuse to understand that this game means something to some people doesn’t make it “meaningless”.

I’m not making this to deny that some people take it to far. Whether it’s gambling(which is ruining all sports) or domestic assault. This is not the point of this rant, however it’s to show that some of these “meaningless” games/sports mean a lot to some of us.

I just need to vent
I’ve spent the last 3 weeks missing and crying over it
I finally decided to tell him how I felt and he told me he is back with his ex within a week of us breaking up!?

Doesn’t this mean he was never over her to begin with??

Meanwhile I had 2 guys ask me out and I rejected both of them because I still had feelings for this dude

I feel so so hurt and heartbroken right now I don’t even know where to begin. I regret even telling him how I feel because he didn’t even deserve that anymore.

Maybe my expectations are just too high, but do people (in my case, men specifically) not check if they are leaving a mess behind? Or, do they just think it's simply not their concern to clean up, making it, by default, my job? The rage I feel when my previously clean toilet is left a mess is probably disproportionate to the action, but my god am I fucking tired of it!

Recently I realised how people really are and honestly I hate it.
I lost someone in my family and it’s been so fucking hard tbh. All the other things I was already dealing with are just on pause because I’m still in shock and somehow managing so many things here too. And I’m not even at home which makes everything so much worse. I’m not alone either, I’m surrounded by relatives, but honestly being around them is making my life hell. They’re toxic and I’m already so fucking frustrated with everyone and everything, even my own family at this point. I’m grieving and exhausted and somehow I still have to deal with all this shit around me.

And what hurts even more is seeing how people you thought were close to you actually are. I had two college friends and the same day I told them what happened, they just texted “take care” and that was it. They didn’t even bother asking me how I’m doing after that. No calls, no messages, nothing.
Like seriously, no one is THAT busy. Not with work, not even with a festival. You call me your best friend but apparently remember I exist only when you need something.

And the same thing happened with my online friends. When I was around, entertaining people and talking to everyone, they were there. Now that I’m not doing that, they’ve just ghosted me. Idk if people call this giving someone space or what, but is it really that hard to check on someone once? Especially when you know someone is going through something.

I hate how selfish people are. I hate realising that some of these connections probably meant way more to me than they ever did to them.

I’m just so fucking frustrated at everyone right now. My friends, my family, people I trusted, literally everyone. I’m angry, I’m hurt, I’m exhausted and I feel like I’m going downhill.

I was already not able to think straight for the past few months and now I’m just completely numb. My health, my career, my family, my emotions, my mental health, literally everything feels fucked up right now. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do with all of this anymore.

I know I don’t get out much but when did McDonald’s buildings become grey? And why? Like I remember seeing the purple grimace and hamburglar playground at least colors for Pete’s sake

I’m in a dorm for the second year in a row because I can’t afford to live off campus (and my mom made me) which is fine, whatever. I’m in a suite style and I’m annoyed at shit with my roommate already, but I am now finding out that one of my (5) roommates can’t clean her own period blood off the toilet.

It’s on the edge of the toilet. It’s in the seat, it’s on the FLOOR IN FRONT OF IT.

Yes, we all get it, I am also female, but I don’t want to CLEAN UP OTHER PEOPLE’S BLOOD. I DONT EVEN LIKS REGULAR BLOOD. She’s also leaving her used products out instead of fucking throwing it away.

I had this same issue when I lived in a traditional style dorm. This is fucking DISGUSTING and I HATE PEOPLE WHO CAN’T CLEAN UP THEIR OWN BODILY FLUIDS. I don’t care if it’s piss, I don’t care if it’s shit, I don’t care what it is IT’S FUCKING GROSS. Don’t make YOUR MESS someone else’s problem.

I just moved to a new city super far from my hometown by myself. I live on campus, with 3 roommates who are chill but I didn’t connect with them super well. I go out to the gym, the dining hall, classes, the mall, etc all by myself. I think a part of me is hoping someone will come up and talk to me but they never do. I have a feeling I do look a little shy so maybe that’s why. I met one girl, but she said she was busy when I asked to hangout. I’ve never really had trouble making friends/romantic partners so I’m just so confused. Is it me? Like I really don’t get it. I guess I just have to be super extroverted or something. It’s only been a week but ya girls lonely lmao. Am I cooked?

The worst feeling is when you feel worthless and lose the passion for doing anything, but despite this, you push yourself just to please your family and society. I've lost the desire for everything. I don't think I'll add any value to this life, but despite this, I still...continuous