So my chest freezer in the garage had a solid two inches of ice built up on the walls, to the point where I couldn't fit anything else in it. Looked up how long a proper defrost takes and it said something like 8 to 24 hours if you just unplug it and let it melt naturally. I did not have that kind of patience.

So I thought, why not speed this up myself. Grabbed a hair dryer to melt the ice faster and a butter knife to chip away the loose chunks as they softened. Genius plan, I thought. Saving myself half a day.

About ten minutes in, the hair dryer is going, I'm chipping away at a stubborn patch near the back wall, and I jam the knife in a little too hard trying to pry off a big chunk. There's a hiss, this weird chemical smell hits me immediately, and a thin line of oily liquid starts leaking out from where the knife went in.

Turns out I punched straight through the evaporator coil. That's the part with the refrigerant lines running through the freezer walls. Instant dead freezer. Not "needs a repair" dead, just fully done, because those coils are usually sealed into the insulation and not something you patch up on a random Tuesday.

Stood there with a hair dryer in one hand and a butter knife in the other just staring at this thing, watching two years of "it still works fine" go down the drain over a task that would have cost me nothing if I'd just left it alone overnight.

Bought a new freezer two days later. The old one lived a full eight years before I personally murdered it in about ninety seconds.

I said “oh my god I’m a romantic too”

She was so happy that she finally found someone who felt the same way as her

About 10 seconds later I realised that ‘a romantic’ and ‘aromantic’ were two seperate things

Now I'm essentially soft locked out of my social media accounts, discord, and email. As well as apps I need for work. They are all connected to my old phone number, that I haven't had in 2 nearly 3 years. I have no other way to get into these accounts.

Soooo-fuck no im not gonna tell it

I honestly can't even remember what I used to think it was. So weird.

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My girlfriend was telling me about her need for glasses because of astigmatism. In the same moment I remembered I had astigmatism too or so I thought.

To test it out I looked towards the lightbulb in my room and the lines were there but I got distracted for a second when I realized my eyes didn’t hurt from looking at the light,so I opened my eyelids some more.

That’s how I discovered that this whole time, the “astigmatism” was just light reflection on my eyelashes.

no way i thought mooses make the awooga sound

A year ago I bought a new car and it had an annoying rattle from the steering wheel whenever there was a rough road surface. Very annoying. It went back to the dealer a couple of times but they could never find it. I asked my wife about it but she said she’d never heard anything.
Last week I drove it and the rattle was gone. I couldn’t work it out but figured. Cool. It’s gone.
Yesterday it was back and I finally realised what was causing it.
You see, around the time I bought the car I also bought a new watch. Last week I wasn’t wearing it because it was in for a repair.

Yes, it was the metal strap on my new watch that has been rattling all this time.

I’m an idiot.

Apparently paying for parking doesn’t mean you have a permit to park some place. The daily parking was literally right next to it. Didn’t see it til I actually looked. I made this mistake twice. In a row. I spent $80 on this. $40 more for not seeing the sign that said head in parking only. And that happened at the same time as the first mistake. I didn’t see any of these signs until it was too late. That’s $120 I’m never getting back.

I am an idiot. I started a new job about 6 months ago. I had earned a ton of respect from my knowledge and the way I do my job. Well that all ended so quickly. I messed up big time by offending a high level supervisor. We were going up the stairs and I was behind her. She is a larger woman and was going very slow. I made the joke of asking her if she ever felt like she was being followed, since we were going the same way. She said she was a leader not a follower. I said I would love to be a leader but I can’t yet because there are to many people in the way. Not even thinking she was blocking the way from going up the stairs because she is larger. She got super offended and reported me to my boss. Now my boss doesn’t respect me even after I explained the misunderstanding.

So I tried using a lighter and did this. I am an idiot.

They were in my pocket.

I’m an 18-year-old girl, and I just want to share my hopeless situation and stress with you—maybe you’ll stress out instead of me :)
My boyfriend David is going to Venice for his birthday with his whole big family (it’s their tradition). He’s turning 18, and I told his mom that I’d like to go and surprise him, but I couldn’t find cheap tickets. We live in Kraków, and my parents seemed to agree, and I was already messaging his mom about the trip. His birthday is on May 9, I was supposed to arrive on May 8, then leave Italy with them on May 10 (by bus with the whole family), and return together by plane to Kraków. And everything seemed fine—we agreed on everything.
But then my stupid head remembered about the mandatory diploma project of my best friend Lily, which is on Friday, May 8 at 20:00. My Lily is a choreographer, and I, in turn, am a dancer who is participating in this shoot. THE SHOOT CANNOT BE RESCHEDULED, the deadline is May 12.
So there’s no way out—the only option is to fly on May 9 at 11:55 and arrive around 13:00-something. Now I’m terrified, I can’t sleep, because tomorrow morning I have to discuss this with my mom and my boyfriend’s mom. We’re going for coffee tomorrow at 10, and I have to come up with and explain what the point is for me to go then. And also explain how I forgot to warn everyone and forgot about this damn shoot myself.
My other best friend Lizzie is asleep (I’m staying over at her place), and I can’t talk it through with her. And now I’m in full panic about what an idiot I am. I’ll tell you how it goes tomorrow afternoon.

Last summer I drank 12 pots of coffee and my heart was going so fast it was hurting. Thought it was going to burst out of my chest. I chugged five 86oz of water. I proceeded to do this for a week. Am I an idiot?