I understand not liking a relative, especially an in-law, but to “pretend to like them” is disingenuous, but don’t have to to hateful or hostile either. Be courteous and civil, is all I am saying. Pretending to like them when you don’t will only make them more suspicious of your motives and make them assume you are a…

I would much rather someone hate me honestly than pretend to like me. I probably already know they hate me and probably know why, so pretending just makes me dislike them more.

I had the dog until he passed of old age (I was heartbroken) and did not get another for the same reason, and allergies (which were unknown when I got him).  

I love to entertain, so I had people over, and then they left, I locked the door, cleaned up and went back to doing me. I got a dog so I would have a reason to occasionally come home. I think living alone and being able to take care of yourself is an ESSENTIAL life skill. So many people stay in terrible situations…

Living alone rocks. No one else to mess your place up, move stuff around or just mingle in your karma. I did it for years (and will again) and its really a great way to live. I am not even anti-social. You can always go out and see other people (pandemic aside) any time you want, then and have a fortress of solitude…

A lot of classes I have taken were online and to actually learn the material I needed to memorize, I forced myself to write it (I used 3x5 cards so I could cross reference and add to them later as I found more information). Since I had to concentrate to write them legibly (terrible handwriting), I found remembering…

I got a little faint from just reading this, so thanks for the new paranoia. I can add to to the thousand other nightmares I already host.

My grandmother lived through the depression and she never threw anything away. She would take old clothes (t shirts are ideal) and cut them into strips, and roll them then braid them, and join them end to end forming a long “cord”. She would then take the cord, wind it helically, stitch it together as she went and made…

I don’t really drink (maybe once/twice a year, if that) but conventional knowledge says when everyone is getting out of something, that is the time to get in, so I think I may have to take it up and have a wet January, since every other month is dry (for me).

He is an asshole on a good  day. I do not know if there is a word in English for what he is on a bad one. :)

Revenge was had in the form of no one would drink the decaff so he was forced to make his own coffee for a change. If no one was drinking it, no one was making it. It opened my eyes to how easy it was for someone to sabotage it and I now make/bring my own from home. You never know what kinda of crap some lunatic will…

My boss decided we were all going to go decaf, but he didn’t tell anyone and put the decaff coffee beans in the regular coffee can (covering it up, so he knew what he was doing). I thought I was ill, felt like I was in a (bad) dream, dragging all the time and had awful headaches for days. I actually scheduled a doctor…

I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for alcoholics to maintain sobriety with all the family time. I don’t even drink and yet after a little time with family I want to slam back a few (I see it as less harmful than jumping off a cliff, which is the initial response). No one knows your weaknesses and how to push…

Yes, anyone can be reported, but if HR comes to you, the employee (especially 3 times) its not because of some frivolous unsubstantiated complaints. They will have done a full investigation and concluded that you are a repeat offender and willfully not correct your issues.

Several years ago, a friends father got sick of all the speeding tickets issued to him by the village of Oakwood, Ohio (a notorious speed trap), so he learned to fly an ultralight, then took his years long savings hoard of marijuana seeds and sprinkled it all over the area from above. Pretty sure he was stone-high…

You are correct, I did not clarify of the insect variety.  I love puppies/kitties, etc, but they are also not allowed in the house due to their super power called “allergies”.  :)

Sorry, but anything with more than 2 legs (or with less than 2 legs as far as that goes) in my house is condemned to death if I see it and can stop screaming long enough to tap dance on it or otherwise murder it in cold blood. Just too much eewww to sort them out.

I still believe and always will. Life is complicated and horrible enough, why give up a cherished and comforting tradition from childhood. No harm comes from it and a great deal of joy does. To see the magic of Santa in a childs eyes brings me hope in humanity anew, and I just don’t see any down sides to that.

I am from the Midwest and if someone came with TP, I would laugh, thank them and move on. There will be plenty more to be offended about by the end of the meal, especially if family are the guests.

Chronic tardiness in a person is just a passive/aggressive way of reminding everyone else that they are the most important person and they control everyone else in the situation. I was not having it and in the process freed everyone else in the family from it as well.