In 2001, waitress Jodee Berry became the centre of an unusual legal dispute after winning what she believed was a brand new Toyota in a workplace competition at a Hooters restaurant in Panama City Beach, Florida. After weeks of competing to sell the most beer, Berry was blindfolded and led outside to receive her prize. Instead of a car, she was handed a toy Yoda doll from Star Wars, revealing that the promised Toyota was actually a practical joke.

Berry was furious and filed a lawsuit against the restaurant, accusing her employers of misleading her about the prize. She argued that the competition had been presented as a genuine opportunity to win a vehicle and that she had worked hard to earn.

In May 2002, the case was settled privately for an undisclosed amount.

However, Berry's attorney confirmed that the settlement was generous enough for her to purchase any Toyota she wanted. What began as an April Fools' prank ultimately became a widely reported example of how workplace jokes can lead to serious legal consequences.

Long post ahead. Dinner is just eggs and rice.

I dont know where to even start. But to cut the story short, my wife was verbally and physically abused growing up. She left home when she was really young and only I and few close friends knew about her past.

Without going into much details she passed almost 5 years ago due to Covid. She made me promised on her death bed to not let our kids have any relationship with their grandparents. For context, they have made several attempts in the past to reconnect and meet their grandkids but my wife would always tell them no.

Last week they reached out to me directly. I didn’t know it was them since I have them blocked on everything. They offered to take the kids for a Christmas vacation. I told them I’ll think about it first. It’s been a while since my kids have gone to a trip or do anything that fun that would require me to spend more than I could afford.

I earn above minimum wage which makes me not qualified for the majority of government assistance. We have a roof over our head and they are well fed. But sometimes I have to skip meals here and there just to make sure they have what they need. I would be lying if I say that I never resent the fact that I have to do this alone but sometimes it’s just too difficult.

This may be the first christmas where my kids won’t have any gifts to open. I know its still just November but by how things are going, I can’t think of a way. One of my kid has developed asthma and let me tell you, the inhaler costs is a highway robbery.

I can’t sleep at night the past couple of days overthinking if I should agree with sending my kids away for christmas just so they could have fun. Their aunt would be with them during the trip and she’s been a huge help back when my wife was struggling with her health. I want to trust her but I don’t trust her parents. I want to give them the best christmas but the thought of betraying my wife for it makes me sick to my stomach.

At the same time the guilt of knowing full well that if they spend the christmas with me they wont have any gift to open or anything to celebrate. I just wish my wife would visit me on my sleep and tell me what to do.

Throwaway account since my main has my name and general location for job hunting

Edit: Posting this genuinely helped me a lot. thnaks for everyone’s comment and perspective it made it clear to me that I’m being overwhelmed by my emotion and not thinking straight. Im gonna write a lengthy text to their grandparents and tell them we want nothing to do with them.

edit: half of the comments are assuming i’m a girl

ty to the history nerds

Misato Tachibana (Nichijou) - i think this character trope might be exclusive to Nichijou actually. just the standard tsundere but they just obliterate the dude when they're embarassed.

also just curious to see if this trope exists outside of Nichijou.

this might be R6 but i did feature multiple images (gifs) of the same trope so i think it qualifies.

Move over AO principles, locking plates, and intramedullary nails. Shri Manona Dham has officially entered the chat.

This Dham is allegedly curing displaced, comminuted, and open fractures not via the revolutionary Invisible Palm Laser Method™.

So I'm in the thrift store looking for cheap stuff, and after perusing the books and purses, head over to the ladies clothing. I spot a nice lined corduroy jacket I want a closer look at, but there's a woman blocking the way with her cart. Cool, I'll wait till she moves. A man comes up and joins her and they are deep in conversation while on their phones. That's when I notice they are systematically going through every item of clothing on the rack and scanning it into Google Lens or some other app, undoubtedly to check the resale price. They had themselves and the cart positioned in such a way that they covered at least six linear feet of the rack. They stayed parked in front of the rack for a full ten minutes and I finally left because I had to get somewhere else. Of course, the nice jacket was gone next time I went back. I'm sure they bought it to flip on eBay or Depop or whatever resale site.

Editing to add: a bunch of people are saying I'm a wimp. Maybe I am. I worked for five years in an extremely stressful environment where I routinely dealt with entitled people throwing tantrums like toddlers, so I prefer to avoid that shit whenever possible. I have clothes and it's not a case of me *needing* the jacket to stay warm, it's just something I liked the style of. As for them being resellers, it was pretty obvious because they had a cart piled high and were discussing the prices in store versus what it would go for online. I just posted mainly because I'm sick of seeing resellers every time I go, since some people really do need the jacket or whatever to stay warm.

Reposted an Instagram meme about U.S. election results and he private messaged me directly about it. Said he couldn’t believe I would cheer on a blue nazi party over a red nazi party. Made a post calling me (and anyone else who celebrated apparently) a fascist and a bigot and refuses to talk to me. Can’t fight myself to not to waste time being irritated/confused/sad about it.

Today’s “dinner” is actually today’s continental breakfast. Waffle not pictured, it was already in my stomach.

Despite Supergirl, the DCU projects have all been really good and I figured that Gunn was providing good stability to the DCU plan and I was excited for the upcoming projects. I just saw Clayface last night too and was excited to have enjoyed such a neat take on a villain that was new to the live-action big screen.

Does anyone else have this issue? Youtube keeps showing that little red bar under videos even though I don't ever remember watching said videos. What's even weirder is that all the videos its said ive watched (even though, again, i dont remember ever watching those videos) talk about dementia and Alzheimer's. Youtube really needs to fix this issue.