As someone in mental health I do sort of feel for the ultrasound tech. While normally an argumentative patient does not warrant that person being committed, we don't know the details of how Ruby acted. That said, these "phantom" pregnancies occur and dealing with them is akin to dealing with other conditions such as…

I have a sister in law who is delusional. She doesn't self-harm, though, so there is nothing we can do to make her get help. She's in her sixties, now, and has a fairly unhappy existence. It's unfortunate. I suspect therapy and medication might have been of benefit, but she wasn't a threat to anyone else or really to…

I came here just to say that. History nerds unite!

Yep, you're right. Lemme fix.

the queen referenced in the story was Mary I of England. She was also queen of Spain, but never of France. Her aunt was also named Mary Tudor and was queen of France, so it's an honest mistake.

So many stars for you

I'm going with rotting in the crawlspace after being dispatched by his new wife and her long-term boyfriend.

We can only hope. My money is on auto erotic asphyxiation gone wrong.

Hurr hurr, fat people always be eating, amirite?

3 million is right in that lottery curse sweet spot. Enough to think you're set without being enough to constitute actual fuck you money.

How many lottery winners do you know? Are you a part of a massive lottery scam ring, and if so can I get in on it?

I think the danger there is that people will try to marry you like you're a dude in a Jane Austen novel. "Ooooh, there's Mr. Fitzwilliam Misfittoy, he has ten thousand a yeaaaaah!"

Yeah, he skipped out on mandatory sexual predator counseling. He's totes repentant. Meanwhile, his child victim is now a young adult who's always going to have that hovering over him, while he's a fucking millionaire.

On the bright side, winning the lottery usually makes your life dramatically worse.

Yes. I think it's time for the family to file a civil suit. They'd totally get it all.

If the victim doesn't get it, McDonald's will.

I am

This kind of shit is all the argument you need against there being any type of divine justice or design in the world, everything is just a random crapshoot of crap.

Winning the lottery + being in florida means this will almost certainly end badly. I vote for "slamming jet ski into motorhome" as the most probable future cause of death.

That money should all go towards reparations for the victim, who likely had to pay for years of therapy and counseling.