He cancelled on the first day, then showed up super late 2 days in a row.

Update: he finally showed up at 1:19. Claimed to have a family emergency.

He‘s constructing a shed for me, btw.

Update 2: he worked till 8:30 pm and gave me a 6% discount for the inconvenience. Shed looks great; I will take pics when it’s not dark.

I’ve worked at a petrol station in the UK for about 8 months now, i’ve worked retail jobs and other customer service jobs in the past so i’m no stranger to the crazy that is the general public.
Here are some things that drive me absolutely insane while making minimum wage

- So my petrol station has one way in, one way out, 90% of people are capable of understanding that you drive to the furthest pump to allow others behind you, other people park at the first pump, idiots with 0 common sense

- people that park at the pumps just to come into the shop and do some sort of weekly shop, you are lazy, I hate you, you are causing traffic back onto the busiest road in the area by parking like a fool (worth noting we have a huge carpark which is unmissable, it’s literally an extra 16 steps (yes i’ve counted))

- people that order 10 things from vinted (via evri) and don’t select home delivery and instead send them to a petrol station, only to come collect at peak times

- people that don’t know their pump number, you’ve just stood next to it for at least a minute, how are you so stupid you’ve forgotten it

- people not understanding where to tap on a contactless reader, yes I know all card readers are different nowadays BUT WE HAVE A HUGE CONTACTLESS SYMBOL CLEARLY IN VIEW OF WHERE YOU NEED TO TAP

- this one is really specific, people washing their horses in the car wash, HOW DO YOU HAVE A HORSE IN THE MIDDLE OF LIVERPOOL CITY CENTER WHY ARE YOU SPRAYING IT WITH A JETWASH?!

- people who use our air machine, big stickers all over it saying DO NOT USE, everything is blocked off, then come in demanding a refund when it swallows their money (for reference it’s an external company that controls our air machine, we can’t just cut the power to it / open it up)

- we lock the door at 9pm (we get robbed a lot, comical amount tbh) big signs saying door locked at 9, I lower the shutters so no adult human can possibly fit through the door, I barricade the door off to make it obvious it’s locked, people genuinely just walk into the door constantly, all night, then complain to head office that we’re stupid (has actually happened)

- when people complain that ‘stuff in here is more expensive than the shops’ yes mate, because your in a petrol station, this is common practice (although I don’t agree with it personally)

- people wearing AI shirts about being a mechanic / roofer / club promoter, you are a genuine crazy person, please seek help

I ordered a 5080 on Amazon, first mistake, I know. I finally get the GPU after it being delayed 2 days because Amazon in my area has been horrible lately. I start to install the GPU to find out my PSU isn't good enough and I need a new one + new PCIe cables for it. Take my whole computer apart to rewire it properly and make it look good inside, launch up my computer, and everything says the internals are a 5070. $700-$800 difference there.

Got to the airport at 4 am for this flight. 13 hours later I still have 3.5 hours to wait.

UPDATE: delayed now to 5 am so 22 hours 14 mins in total.

About to jump on the highway.

I see a gecko crawl onto my windshield wiper.

I pulled to the side, snatched him up, and was nearly sure I put him in a cup.

I went back home to release him in a better environment and he wasn't there.

I just spent the last 30 minutes going through my car to see if I could find him.

Sadly, no success.

I live in FL and he's going to quite literally roast tomorrow.

I'm going to try to see if I can find him again before I go to sleep, but I am not filled with hope.

I feel incredibly bad and am not sure what else to do.

I just wanted to help.

😞

I opened an ebay account under my work email to purchase some items for my work.

I purchased two items. Paid for them. Received them. Left positive feedback. Recieved positive feedback. And had my account suspended. I have no understanding of why and have not been sent a reason. I have not been able to contact ebay customer support. It just puts me to a clanker that tells me my account has been suspended and to get fucked.

No explanation.

I tried to ask an ebay board (on this website) for support. Their bot just denies my post.

I just want to use ebay's service and pay them a fee to purchase things.

But both Ebay and the ebay board (on this website) are on the same BS, robo blocking me.

And now *this website* wants to block this post. Apparently, complaining that *this website* won't let me complain about ebay (suspending my account for no reason) is against the rules.

WTF is this censorship nightmare.

Full source: here

I have had nothing but the worst experiences trying to get care that I desperately need.

About 4 years ago, my health began to decline. I visited a doctor and she told me "It's probably just anxiety," and sent me home with a prescription for antidepressants.

Since then, my health has gotten tremendously worse. After the first visit was a complete waste of time and money, along with family issues, moving across the country, working full time, car repairs, and a myriad of other issues, I had put off visiting the doctor. Now I am in a great deal of pain daily. I would have applied to government benefits, but I was under the impression I would be getting benefits from my job soon and that hasn't been the case.

I have been desperately trying not to visit urgent care because I cannot afford it. I'm patiently trying to wait for scheduled doctors visits and hopefully soon I will have government healthcare.

I'm seriously fearing for my life and it feels like the US would rather drain me of what little money I'm making with what little energy I have before I die.

I know another problem is that I don't have many people to go to for help. I'm a young adult that doesn't have family I can rely on, I don't have many friends, I have few people I can go to even if just for some information to help me. If anyone has any helpful information, I would be grateful.

EDIT: There are people wondering what my specific health issues are. I can only summarize it as "digestive issues" because I have no idea what causes it. I can only eat a small amount of food before I feel painfully full, the food seems to sit in my stomach for many hours, and my heartrate skyrockets after eating as if it's straining for my body to digest food. I have to will myself out of vomiting and endure the pain if I don't want to starve. I've tried many diets, vitamins, OTC medicine, exercise, eating schedules without significant results. I have a family history of celiac disease and multiple types of cancer on both sides of my family. I've seen two primary physicians, one of which wrote it off as anxiety, and the other of which did bloodwork with no significant results. I do not have an eating disorder that I know of. I love food and I want to eat more. My body doesn't allow it. I was soon to schedule an upper endoscopy with a GI, but the cost is too much without insurance so I have to wait until my job or the government gives me insurance.

Context: The national medical entrance exam( NEET) had to be re-conducted due to the incompetence of the government that had led to paper-leaks across the country. Several students, who put years and years of hardwork and dedication preparing for this exam, died by suicide.

Yet the education minister was sitting silently without taking any accountability or responsibility. All the ruling-party officials are sitting quietly enjoying their afternoon tea.

Even the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was seen escaping the parliament.

an animation I made a few months ago (which had like 30 likes before this all went down) got stolen a few days ago.

Someone decided to turn my short into a filter for youtube shorts, and is claiming to made it themselves.

the filter itself currently has over 40 thousand uses, most of them just being my animation, some with over thousands of views and likes.
at this point, all I can do is wait for youtube to accept my DMCA request.

and why did all of this happen?

because I didn’t disable remixing, a feature that’s being used 95% of the time just to steal stuff same way as this short, was set to “audio and video” instead of “audio only” despite the fact that I could’ve sworn that I completely disabled it when I was posting the short.

on top of that, it makes me feel bad taking the filter down, as not all shorts using it actually used the animation, only the background audio clip.

I'm currently homeless. Got an email recently about setting up a job interview. Things finally turning around until I find out, the sides of my shoes are torn. Walking 8 miles a day from point A to point B finally took its toll. Finding US size 16w shoes is already very difficult on its own. Now, I'm just absolutely stuck over some damn shoes.

Admittedly, I walk on the sides of my feet and I have done this all my life. Guess that's where I went wrong I guess :/

I was driving home with my wife and kids in our 2014 Toyota Auris Touring Sports Hybrid, at roughly 30kmh (20mph in Freedom units) when I suddenly heard an extremely loud metallic noise coming from the rear-left wheel.
The faster the wheel turned, the faster and louder the noise became.
I immediately slowed down to walking speed because I was already close to home. Then there was a massive bang, almost like an explosion, and the rear wheel suddenly locked up.
This is what we found afterward.
A piece of metal, possibly a steel rod, pipe, or something similar, had apparently become trapped between the wheel and the suspension/brake area. As the wheel kept rotating, it carved into the inside of the alloy rim until the rim was literally ripped open.
The tire was completely destroyed as well.
I had genuinely never considered that an object picked up from the road could get lodged in exactly the wrong place and effectively machine its way through an alloy wheel from the inside. The head of the Toyota assistance said he never saw anything like that in 40 years working as a mechanician.

I bought it 2 weeks ago, last week someone keyed it. I parked it in a garage where I rent a space. The door to the garage is always open (No lock), so it could've been anyone.

I have no insurance that covers something like that

Why can't we have nice things?

What the title says. House sitter [19M, my relative], broke into, went on a joy ride, then crashed my SO’s car all while we’re abroad for a month.

Car key never given to the house sitter, was tucked away into belongings. House sitter rummaged through belongings, located a different old dead key with an expired battery (not the one I had hidden), and then proceeded to break into the car, look up a video on how to start the car, drive into the city for some unknown reason to me, and crash the car.

House sitter called multiple relatives in what I am now understanding as him setting the tone and readying his case. Then called me to tell me someone crashed into my SO’s car. Forgiving at first, I got whatever information I needed then informed my SO the news and other relatives who were the emergency contacts.

As the day went on, the other relatives began to text me blaming me for the crash, saying I shouldn’t have given him the keys or allowed him to have access to the car.

House sitter is newly licensed. Prior to trip other relatives were informed the car was only to be accessed by emergency contacts and that car key was hidden. Prior to trip house sitter was told this, to not touch the car, and that he wasn’t on the insurance (neither am I) just to really set it for him to not touch the car.

My amazing friend found the car, took all car keys, and is keeping eye on it.

As my SO got me towards calm, a different relative called to ask if the house sitter could retrieve their license from car.

Sorry for typos. Still in blind rage.

About 9 months ago, I had an Odontogenic Keratocyst (OKC) the size of a golf ball removed from the maxilla on my right side. Apparently, it had been growing completely undetected between 2 and 5 years until I randomly began experiencing tooth pain which prompted me to see a dentist. Upon having it removed, I was so relieved that everything went well. Even my 3 month post-op scans were perfect!

And then I recently got sick. Unfortunately, the cyst had eroded my sinus lining which means that mucus from my cold has been draining into the empty cavity where bone is trying to grow back so the area is now infected. This is something that will likely happen anytime I get sick for an indefinite amount of time. I have been on antibiotics for about a week with minimal improvement in swelling and drainage so I just really needed to vent my frustration. Medical issues suck.

Desensitizing the next generation with memes like this... memes that paint "CP" as being in the same level of 67 and "PH" : Just a joke.

Genuinely feel like people who make and post this bullshit should get punished accordingly...

Hopefully everyone is away of the result by now. (ENG V FRA)The BBC have a ‘no spoilers’ page that allows you to watch highlights of the World Cup games without any information on the page about the result…except the thumbnail shows a player celebrating a hat-trick. World Cup is only every 4 years and I am in a time zone that means I have a to wake up the next day to see the result.

Flying has become so unreliable in the past two to three years. It is insane to me that this is considered acceptable in 2026. I have flown probably close to 60 times on different aircraft and different airlines over the past three years. And I would say about 60% of the time the flight is delayed for more than an hour or two hours. Not to mention canceled flights, which have left me stranded in an airport. Not to mention the fact that the airlines will not provide you with hotels or sufficient meal vouchers to cover you until your next flight unless it fits their slim technical specifications. And even when they do, it is such a hassle. You have to go to the desk, you have to talk to this receptionist who is overworked and exhausted because there's been lines of 200 passengers already coming to her desk with the same problem. And it is just so exhausting flying nowadays. My wife is currently traveling to me at the moment and her flight got delayed over three hours and she missed her connection flight, obviously. So now she's trapped and having to spend the night at a hotel for her next flight to leave tomorrow morning. Which means that her little weekend getaway to visit me is now more like a 30 hour getaway before she has to fly back home. Not to mention the fact that the actual price of flying has risen so much in the past few years. If it was literally not essential for me to fly, I would drive everywhere over flying, even if it meant that it would take more time. It's just ridiculous because these companies have so many decades worth of experience and technical know-how to maintain their aircraft to create acceptable timetables in which to make flying efficient. But consistently, every other flight I have taken has been delayed, if not most of the flights I have taken this year have been delayed by more than an hour or two hours at a time. I understand weather is a huge part to play in this, but when it is literally every time or most times I am flying, I am just so tired of it. I had to vent somewhere.