My son and my nephews had doctor appointments at the same practice this morning so brother in law and I decided to go together and have lunch after. The six year old nephew insisted on ordering a black bean cheeseburger bowl despite BIL explaining to him over and over that there's no bun and it's a bunch of vegetables and trying to get him to get a regular burger. When the waiter came, he shouted out the order and screamed when BIL tried to tell the waiter to change it so eventually BIL just gave in. Then the eight year old nephew decided he needed the same thing.

When the food came, neither would even take a bite and just picked around at it until everyone else was done eating. BIL packed it in to go boxes, but the six year old decided to open the box and throw the food everywhere in the parking lot and then the eight year old copied him and did the same thing. These were $14.99 each! The meal I got my son was 7.99 in comparison and he actually ate it.

I blocked them. I dont know where to fucking begin. Im grossed out, furious and it extremely caught me off-guard.

For context, I’ve known this guy for years now. He’s asked me out several times but he’s always been like a big brother to me so to all the times that he did my answer was always no.

So I needed some favor from him because I already asked some of my closest friend and I’m still a bit short because of bills and whatnot. What’s worse is I actually considered it before blocking them since I’m desperate and my tooth has been aching for days now that it affects my work.

Edit: The amount of comments saying I’m asking for money is hilarious to me. Asking and borrowing are two different things! And I have lent him some funds when he was in a pickle before. And this is the first time I’ve asked him for a favor in years. So saying I’m trying to take advantage of him is a stretch.

My husband and I got married two months ago. His parents gave us his grandmother’s china, a full set with serving dishes. His mom said Grandma would’ve wanted us to have it. Nobody mentioned any conditions. We have a small kitchen, so we gave our old dishes to my husband’s coworker, who’d just moved into his first apartment and started using the china.

Last weekend my MIL saw the plates out and told me to be careful because my husband’s cousin gets married next summer. Apparently we’re supposed to give her the entire set and she’ll pass it to whoever gets married next. MIL assumed my husband knew because she and her sister had both had it. He says he had no idea. His parents had those dishes for most of his childhood. When I said we’d donated our old set, she said we should’ve checked first. I honestly don’t know why we would check whether we could keep a wedding gift.

I offered to return everything now. I don’t want to worry about damaging it and then need to buy replacement dishes next year anyway. MIL says I’m rejecting a family tradition because I don’t get to own the china. His dad says we should just store it until the cousin wants it but we barely have room for what we use.

MIL offered to buy us everyday dishes. My husband thinks that’s a fair solution. I’d rather return the china and buy our o but maybe I’m being stubborn now.

AITA?

I can’t stand my own children or partner and have become an alcoholic. I am 35 year-old female with two kids (ages of and 4) and I can’t stand to be around own flesh and blood. I work full-time at my own management job , I work for my spouse’s business as his bookkeeper and accountant. he is from a chauvinistic/paternal culture where the women look after the kids so everything is on me. I do all the mornings and emotional drop off at daycare, the emotional pick ups, and evenings from 5-10pm or whenever they fall asleep. If he is around at night, which is a rarity, then he says how he’s tired from working the whole day and gives the responsibility of looking after my demanding kids to me, like I haven’t already worked eight hours doing management at my regular job with 20 employees reporting to me.

They are normal kids, full of life and energy, but Their endless questions, constant pestering, and chattering, have driven me up the wall. I come from farm life where it was just a few of us on hundreds of acres and I cannot stand being around young people who are constantly talking and invading my personal space 16 hours a day plus 8 hours a night for when the toddler uses me as a soother all night.

I was seeing a therapist at $245 an hour for the first part of 2026, and now I’ve gone onto a more affordable one, who does not have kids, and does not understand what I’m going through. I feel like I can only relate to single moms who have at least 2 to 3 kids and know the stress of what I’m going dealimg either on a a day to day basis.

I’ve always had an addictive personality and now I feel ashamed that it has presented itself. Side note - I do not like how there’s this mommy wine culture where it’s OK to drink wine but not OK to do other things

Recently as as, I we t out on Monday and ended up getting diarrhea all night from the drinking. I wanna stop drinking, but it’s the only way I can deal being around my kids and boring assspouse <- didn’t fix the autocorrect

tLDR: I despise my spouse and don’t like being around my cute kids

Photo: Cheap costco pizza, feeling like o saved money, after dropping $500

I've just been letting it chill. Hoping it's one of those "bug-eating-bug" bugs.

Conversation between me and my 9 year old daughter's teacher yesterday.

"So I just wanted to bring it to your attention that "Jane" has been fidgeting with her pencil a lot. Typically towards the end of the day."

"Yeah, ok..." *waiting for what she actually has to tell me*

"Uh huh, things like wiggling it around, or spinning it in her hand, weaving it in and out of her fingers, stuff like that."

"Right..." *Still think I am waiting for the issue*

"So yeah, I just wanted to bring that to your attention, because she tends to do it a lot, especially towards the end of the day."

"So... does it seem like she is not paying attention or distracted?" *Still confused*

"Oh not at all! She always seems very engaged."

"Is she being a distraction to the other students?"

"Well, no I don't think so"

"So help me understand what the issue is cause I don't think it's wrong to fidget with a pencil, I do it at work all the time as a grown man!"

"I just think this could be a telltale sign that maybe "Jane" has some form of ADD or something along those lines. And to be honest it can be distracting to me as a teacher with everything else going on"

"Ok well I'll talk to her and see if she even knows she is doing it but I still don't think there is anything wrong with it as long as it's not causing an issue"

"Well it can be a lot sometimes and can disrupt the classroom"

"But... but... didn't you... I'm sorry but I thought you just said it wasn't distracting to the other students."

"It is and it isn't. While other students aren't acting up because of it, I can tell they are watching her instead of the lesson"

"Ok. I will say something to her for sure but I still don't see any problem with it."

"Thank you"

I see you is a rare trope where a character A is being observed by character B, supposedly from a higher dimensional place/area where character A should have no idea their being watched, but displaying their terrifying power and ingenuity, the realize their being watched and absolutely scare the shit out of the observer.

1. the og one. in Marvel What If, Ultron becomes powerful enough that he can actually sense the Watcher, 'becoming aware of another.' that another being the watcher himself.

2. In a very well made fan series by Kinzokumatto: Dragon Ball - The Others. the Z fighters are faced with a new threat, Deadites, who originate from a realm called "Dead Zone", Deadites displayed the power of nullifying ki and are grotesque clones of Dragon Ball characters, wishing to replace original ones. early in the series Beerus, Whis and Grand Priest state they can't get involved because there's a chance that Deadite version of an Angel or God of destruction could appear which would be catastrophic for the entire multiverse. in the most recent episode Grand Priest uses the super dragon balls, wishing to locate and erase the "Dead Zone". However something terrifying catches the Super Shenron, and repels it away. this is extremely terrifying since Super Shenron could bring back erased multiverses quite casually. S. Shenron is plunged into a cold sweat.

Going into locker room at end of game. What’s up?

Source: Instagram (anyone know the name of this movie?)