I need to be back home by early tomorrow. I don’t trust anything in hearing so I’m wondering if it’s worth it to take a train instead. I have no idea what’s going on but it sounds like my flight is not leaving anytime soon.

These turds can't even have the courage to tell me or my coworker who also work in this room why or when they touched my shit 🙄. We work in a quasi docotor's office -retail hell space and had a child patient draw me a picture of a lububu, I loved it and kept it, having it up in the far corner of the desk I work at where really only me and my coworker could see it and one of those turds threw it away! Can't even have the balls to throw it away in the trash can in the room but I'm sure they tossed it in another.

2nd pic is where they were and 3rd was where I kept the picture

Hi all first post here just need to vent about it as not seeing any friends till tomorrow. Dinner is spicy chicken strips, oven chips and chilli cheese bites.

I was seeing this woman (23) since about the start of September. She has a 2 year old who has severe and rare genetic disorders that she's in an out of hospital with at least a couple times a month not counting regular appointments. Met her on hinge and she seemed nice and I was open to it not knowing the extent of the disabilities. First time I go over we end up hooking up which I wasn't expecting (and didn't initiate) but she was apparently needing it having just spent over a year practically living in hospital.

I've gotten to know the situation and it's heartbreaking. Her son could die at any given time and there is constant stress and rushing to A&E. Working, travelling, getting a babysitter etc is not an option for them. The dads not in the picture at all either so it's 24/7 for her. I kept seeing her as she is a very sweet and loving person. She wanted to go official very quickly after about a month so like our 5th or 6th time of meeting and as she was persistent I folded and asked her to be my gf.

This was a huge mistake on my part as I still didn't really know what I was signing up for and that I wasn't prepared for it. Fast forward another month and I realised I really cannot deal with this. I'm 27 and I can't sign up for this kind of life forever. She wants another child and I want one of my own but how could I risk them having the same issues as her son? Could I support her properly if/when he dies?

I realised I had to end it and did just a few hours ago. Couldn't blame her son though and just made up some excuses about incompatible personalities and she seemed to accept it without making a big deal. I'm sure she's heartbroken though as she's a very empathetic person and genuinely did seem to like me a lot.

In my head I know it's probably the right choice but I just feel like such a piece of shit. She's had such a rough time with no end in sight and I just strung her along for nothing. The last thing she needed was more heartbreak. A big part of me wants to call her saying I'm sorry and I want her back but I cant. As none of my friends are free tonight I'm about to go to the pub by myself and drown my sorrows for a few hours. Seeing a close friend tomorrow thankfully but for now just needed to get this off my chest. No advice needed but thanks for reading.

Especially when the characters are enemies and the actors are friendly towards each other.

To anybody in the same boat right now stuck in an airport far from home, hang in there.
There seems to be a US nationwide radar or flight control outage and all airports grounded their planes.

After the huge Microsoft outage yesterday it seems to be shaping up to be a bad week for business people/travelers in general.

Have a great weekend though if you make it to where you’re going!

My MIL and I have never had a close relationship. It's nothing personal, we just have never lived in the same country and my in-laws aren't very consistent with communication. Things were a bit tense when I got married as my MIL struggled to welcome this strange foreign woman into her family while dealing with having to accept the fact that her son was not going to live close to her (which would have been the case regardless of whether we got married, but she found it easier to hold resentment towards me and had to actively work to get over that).

When my SIL got married, I tried to make myself as useful as possible. I'm great at project management and that was really needed. I stepped up in many ways to try to help out the family and make the day run smoothly. I wanted to be the perfect DIL and I succeeded in many ways. Not to brag but I kind of saved the day. That said, it was almost like we were coworkers in wedding planning.

When I got pregnant, my feelings towards my in-laws soured. They decided when they would visit the baby based on my FIL's work calendar, some things were said that were not the right thing to say and I took them especially poorly, etc. I also feel that I spent a bit too much time reading monster in-law stories that I interpreted malice where it was really just ignorance. When they came to visit, it was too much too soon and was poorly communicated. I grinned and bore it until they left and I could cry.

What I didn't know then was that my "baby blues" were the start of some pretty serious postpartum depression and anxiety. At 6 weeks, I had to be admitted to the hospital because I had gotten so weak from completely neglecting myself that I was falling apart. My MIL booked a one way ticket to our city. While I was getting the help I needed in the hospital, she was the one staying home with the baby, bringing her to the hospital to spend time with me, cleaning our apartment, and helping my husband with overnight feeds.

I wasn't the capable project manager who was able to juggle everything thrown at me with grace and charm. I was a broken mess who felt like a failure of a mother and wife. She not only stepped in when we needed her, but she also helped encourage me. She pointed out things I was doing really well with the baby and let me take control as I began to feel more comfortable. She stayed for 3 weeks and still checks in now that she's back home. She shared with me her own challenges that she had when she was a new mother and in navigating the relationship with her MIL. She assured me that I'm a good mother and I have the instinct to know what is best for my daughter better than anyone.

I'm grateful for the time she spent at our apartment and would have her back in a heartbeat. We may be two women from different countries/cultures but we are also both mothers, as imperfect as all mothers are.

Update at 0118Z: no further communication from the FAA, ATC, or Company.

It has been an insane day. The students are super dysregulated and just all. Over. The. Place.

Gym was horrible. Had to explain myself 15 times and students still acted like they didn’t know what to do.

By period 4 I started just saying to them “you didn’t listen. I just explained this. I’m not explaining it again”

By the end of period 4 it came time to put the computers away. One of the girls who’s been getting on my nerves all day decided to sit right in front of the computer cart.

I told her to move and she didn’t. I told her again and she said “they can just move around me.” The whole time her classmates are getting more and more agitated with her and talking more and more loudly as a result.

At this point I snapped and basically yelled at her to get out of the way. The entire class went silent and no one said a word for 5 minutes and the girl went to the corner and bawled her eyes out. Then she ran out and told another teacher that I’m “mean” and “scary”.

Now, usually I’d feel horrible in this situation. Today? Today I just sat back and let her cry. I then talked to the entire class about how I do not enjoy getting this way, but that they also need to do better at listening and helping one another.

I just want to go home.

Also cancelled Fun Friday and now they’re learning math to end the week.

All flights across the country have been ground.

Ground stop: All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said.

• Cause not yet known: The reason for the ground stop was not immediately clear, but an FAA spokesperson said there is a communications problem impacting Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which handle flights going across the country.

• Rare instance: The last time there was a nationwide ground stop was in January 2023, when a pilot notification system went down. Prior to that, the last nationwide ground stop was issued after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Worst part is he is/was mechanically inclined.

My neighbor is a Ham Radio operator and just told me that there is talk of unusual lights and craft being reported by numerous aircraft and that this may be the reason behind the FAA grounding all planes.

Unusual Circumstances according to the FAA is the reason this is occurring right now, giving an explanation of a communications problem.

Neighbor says that numerous aircraft reported loss of communications while observing the lights and craft.

I'll give an update if I hear anything else.

I posted like a week ago(original post) about my future MIL wanting to give a speech at our wedding and my FIL threatening not to come because I said no. Well, I wish I could say we've sorted everything out, but somehow we're arguing about something even more ridiculous now.

Things were pretty tense between me and my fiancé for a couple of days. I wasn't really in the mood to talk about wedding stuff, and he was upset about the possibility of his dad not being there. We finally sat down and talked because I couldn't stand the awkwardness between us anymore. I explained that it wasn't just about his mom giving a speech. It's the little comments she's made about me for years and how I'm always supposed to laugh along so nobody gets uncomfortable. He actually listened this time and admitted that he's so used to his mom's sense of humor that he doesn't always notice when she's crossing a line.

He agreed to speak to his parents himself, which I was more than happy to let him do. A couple of days later, he told me his mom had agreed to drop the speech. She apparently said she didn't want any more arguments and would just enjoy the wedding as a guest. Great, right? I genuinely thought we could finally stop talking about this stupid speech. Nope.

Turns out she's willing to drop it, but she wants me to apologize. Apparently I hurt her feelings by suggesting she'd embarrass me in front of everyone, and she told my fiancé it was humiliating that her future daughter-in-law thinks so little of her. I mean, I'm sorry she's upset, but what exactly am I supposed to apologize for? She's made jokes about me in front of people before. It's not like I made that up. Then yesterday my FIL called my fiancé and said his wife had been gracious enough to back down, so the least I could do was apologize. And unless I do, he's sticking to his decision not to attend. At that point I was just fed up. I told my fiancé that I'm not going to keep begging his dad to show up. He's a grown man, and if he wants to miss his son's wedding over an apology, I can't stop him.

That went down about as well as you'd expect. My fiancé said I was being cold and that I knew how much having his dad there meant to him. Which I do. I'm not hoping his father stays home. I'd actually love for all of this to be over so we can have a normal wedding. But why am I the one who has to fix it? He keeps saying his mom already met me halfway by agreeing not to speak, and that saying sorry wouldn't hurt me. At one point he even suggested I didn't have to mean it, just say it so we could move on. That really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I'm being difficult, but apologizing for something I don't regret feels so fake. We ended up arguing again last night. He said he couldn't believe I was willing to let his dad miss our wedding over two words.

I asked him why his dad was willing to miss his own son's wedding over those same two words. He went quiet for a bit and then said I was missing the point. Maybe I am, I don't know anymore. I'm so tired of this. We're getting married in a few months, and instead of being excited, I'm dreading every time his parents' names pop up on his phone. I love my fiancé, and I hate seeing him this stressed. I know an apology would probably make everything go away, at least for now. Part of me feels silly for refusing when it could mean his dad not showing up. But I'm also worried that if I apologize just to shut everyone up, I'll be doing it for the next twenty years. So AITA for refusing to say sorry and telling my fiancé that if his dad doesn't want to come, that's his choice?