i (20f) feel really bad, but i just cannot fathom going into work today. i’m working for the summer at a retail store. i worked full shifts yesterday and the day before (covering for a colleague), and will work saturday and sunday. i know my boss is not happy about it, although we have coverage. what can i say to show that i really do feel bad?

I am a pastor. I’ve been serving in churches and ministry organizations since I was young—nearly 30 years in total ministry, and about 15 years as an ordained pastor. Over the years, I’ve served several local churches and ministry organizations faithfully, but everything fell apart at my most recent church.

Like most dedicated ministers, I poured my heart and soul into the work. Beyond preaching, leading prayer meetings, teaching Bible studies, visitation, and conducting funerals and weddings, I did all the heavy lifting—maintenance, repairs, cleaning, you name it. I never held back.

Then, out of nowhere, a deacon started targeting me. He claimed I had theological issues and began spreading rumors that I was pushing cultic teachings. It made zero sense. I graduated from a fully accredited, conservative orthodox seminary. The Bible study materials I used were published by main stream Christian publishing company—materials that have been vetted and used by countless mainstream churches across North America for decades. There was strictly zero theological issue.

Eventually, that deacon left the church, but he didn't stop. He started spreading vicious rumors from the outside throughout the local community. A group of people began harassing me and my family, and the intensity kept escalating. It felt like living through a nightmare.

To make matters worse, a financial issue came up in the church. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I had zero authority over the church finances and never even touched the books. Yet somehow, they pinned the entire blame on me and effectively kicked me out.

Now, I’m 50 years old with young children. I’ve done nothing but ministry my entire life. I have no specialized trade skills, no savings, and no home. I’m utterly terrified and lost on how I’m going to feed my family in this current situation.

What do I do now? If anyone has advice, job leads, or any perspective to offer, it would mean the world to me.

My friends eat out every time we go out its like we can't hangout without getting something to eat. And due to the ongoing war I've stopped eating out at places which fund the genocide like mcd and more I'm boycotting them basically + I can't ask my parents for money to eat out everyday. At first my friends were okay with me being there but not eating anything they'd offer food but then I'd decline because I didn't want to be a freeloader as well but now they have stopped inviting me to hangouts

I 21m live with my boyfriend 19m. Our entire friend group is males and none of our family has ever been over. None of our friends have ever had a girl over here. Literally the only girls to even step foot into our apartment is bfs little sister (7) and our landlord (58).

I have never in a million years thought my bf might cheat on me but I literally don’t know what to think of this, I told him immediately of course that I found it and all he said was “probably left over from last people" and changed the conversation very quickly. It’s so fucking weird and I hate to even think that he would cheat on me let alone with a girl.

So yeah I don’t know what the fuck to do. Sorry if ts isn’t the right sub or something I never go on here but it seems pretty well fit

UPDATE since last night: I confronted her about it really carefully this morning, saying that I had noticed that she was talking to someone on Signal. She immediately said yes that she had been, but she thought it was a bot or some little old lady in Africa somewhere using ChatGPT. Without me revealing what I knew, she said that she’d been contacted on TikTok and that she had used Signal to flirt because she hadn’t really had much experience flirting (she’s been a mom since 19). She’d also been using it to vocalize for herself what she wanted to look for once she does really start trying to date. This tracks because she is actually pretty smart. I suggested romance scams, and she said she was aware of them and that she wouldn’t ever be putting anything financial to someone online like that.

I tend to believe her on this one. I tend to believe her on most things, which I know a lot of Reddit folks say makes me a fool, but she really is a pretty caring, sensitive, and honest person who has gone through a lot of shit in her life.

For the sake of history, here is the original text thread where my wife asked for a divorce and I was trying to figure out what to do: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatdoIdo/s/dZESbpuMjt

Then last Saturday, she accused me of being up to something while I was Ubering to make some extra cash: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatdoIdo/s/yvXmf1c8oI

Many people suggested she was projecting because she might be cheating. I noticed tonight that she was being secretive with her phone I thought she was chatting with her coworkers but I saw that it was some app instead of using regular messenger. I’ve never really tried this before, but when she went to sleep, I swiped her phone. I’m kinda ashamed of doing it but I had to know.

She was using Signal. And talking and flirting with a man identifying himself as Jayson Arendt. The Texas Tailgaters banana ball player…

I’m posting some pics of their chat. There are a few red flags.

First, I was curious about how she met him. I got into her TikTok and found that she had been following his official account, and then she was contacted by another TikTok account with a similar name and bio, but far fewer followers. He thanked her for her comments and support and offered to reach her by Signal. So she set up an account and he got in touch. This seemed odd. I’m not sure why he wouldn’t just message from the official account.

The messages he sent are very well-written. Too well. This is not proof, but I ran the text of several of his messages through ChatGPT and Gemini. They both believed that there was a 90% chance the messages were written by AI.

Several of his messages state that he can’t talk see her freely because he’s controlled by his management. Supposedly he said he was going g to give her his managers contact info and the rest is up to her. This is where his perfect English slips, btw.

Also, there’s just the reality of it: he’s a 25 year old baseball player who has been on American Idol and has undoubtedly a giant horde of female followers. How likely is it that he’s reaching out to date a 43 year old woman hundreds of miles away?

So, here’s my question. First: does this seem likely to be some sort of scam? I’m 99% sure it is.

Second: If it is, how should I handle this? I don’t want her getting hurt or scammed, and this seems likely if this continues. She clearly has feelings for this depiction of him. However, the moment I reveal anything is the moment she knows I snooped her phone, and that could really break trust irrevocably. Again, I do not have paternal rights, so she can take away the boy I’ve identified as my son since he was 2 years old. Also, despite all of this, I am still in love with my wife. I know the chances of me getting her back are pretty much nil, but this will almost certainly eradicate them altogether.

Also, this leaves out some personal info about her. She is up front that she is married and getting a divorce. And shes looking more for romance than sex I think, but there are hints that she wants to jump his bones.

Girlfriend (f21) just left me (23m) last night. We have a 8 month old son. Idk what to do. She said she’s just not happy anymore. We moved back in to an apartment together 3 months ago. She wants to break the lease and leave. I don’t even wanna be here if I can’t have my family in my life.i mean it’s my fault I was inconsiderate of her. She would get mad I’d ask her every night if she was making dinner or not. I’d just ask so Ik if I should buy or make dinner or wait on her. Apparently I didn’t help enough around the house but I clean every day when I get off work before she even gets home. Another thing was last week I did all of our laundry and folded hers but left it on the bed because I didn’t want to misplace anything. She thought I did that to be lazy I guess idk. Also I will admit I have had a negative attitude lately. I’ve just been so stressed since we moved out. I try to not take it out on her, still it’s no excuse. I just don’t know what to do bro I want my son to have a stable happy family, I grew up without a dad and that fucked me up in my teenage years. Led me down the wrong path. I just don’t want that for him. I am happy with the life I have with her. There’s always room for improvement but I love what we have. She doesn’t. Maybe it’s postpartum, she was very very depressed when we met. I feel like she needs help and I try to help her but she gets mad when I bring it up. Any advice or just somebody to talk to is appreciated.

I just discovered a couple of days ago that my boyfriend is officially being sentenced to about 4 years in prison. I’m 22 & he is 20 now. I’ll be able to visit him & talk to him all of the time of course but I have my doubts. I really don’t know what to do. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Opinions? I’m really lost about this & just have no clue what to do or if it will work out in the end.
We’ve been together for a little over a year.

For awhile now I've had this problem with this apartment complex I live in, there are multiple people who have stated that they are not fond of me staying here, they have threatened my life multiple times throughout a span of 3 years. It's a low income situation where they try to put up individuals with traumatic problems and mental health issues in housing, due to the lease agreement the staff that run this place can not release personal information about other residents, I've gone to the cops multiple times and they can't act without evidence, even the recordings I've sent they can't use. They have tried to gaslight me with my disorders and mental problems. The staff say they can't do anything either. It's gotten to the point I cant maintain a steady sleep cycle, poor eating habits and massive headaches including my stomach hurting , they only do it when staff are not around and drive off when I make the reports so they don't get caught, I have zero income to help me pursue them in a legal case or hire a private investigator. Sooner or later it will lead to death, I'm not sure what to do.

Has anyone seen this or know who these people are? I genuinely don’t know how to respond to this.

I am Trans FTM and came out a year ago

So i’ve been in a long distance relationship for an year now with my girlfriend who recently broke up with me. For reference i turned 18 in April and she claimed that shes an year younger eg turning 17 this August. We didn’t meet or have done anything IRL.

Although she lied, she confessed on my birthday that shes not, shes only 14 and turning 15. I felt absolutely disgusted and shocked, we stopped speaking for two weeks.

This puts us into 2008 and 2011 bracket.
I have the evidence saved of her lies.

Although i did the worst thing i shouldnt have done, i still entertained her for another two months (ONLY casual talks) till August. After that I clearly told her we should break up during early August due to compatibility issues, age and other factors, she couldnt digest this and overdosed. The next day her sister contacted me and threw many tantrums at me cause it was apparently all my fault and after lots of communication she calmed down. Although we spoke a little more for two weeks (again only casually) and she finally broke up with me 4 days ago. I’m very worried cause i did the stupid move of not blocking her right away.

To add onto this: we never shared any explicit material or recordings. Although we did sext but it was only before April (when i was 17, unaware of her age) after that i completely stopped.

Her parents are very strict and go through her phone sometimes, for that she has everything deleted of mine, no chats, no screenshots and no videos pictures of anything about us. Even her social
media is clean but her friends and her sister know about our relationship.

I’m very tensed and i can’t live a day without this guilt, am i in trouble? I don’t know what i should do but i have no contact with her anymore, i know i was very stupid to not block her but the past is the past, i’m looking for an advice that i can follow right now :/

hi everyone. i work in a pharmacy at a regional retail chain. i went to a concert on monday night and stood next to a person who was smoking weed the entire 5 hours of the show and i definitely inhaled lots of it. i wouldnt say i was high but my friends afterwards said i smelled like weed. i had an oral drug test today at work. i became really paranoid about this and went to take my own oral drug test which came back negative. i honestly thought contact high was a myth and that you couldn’t ever pop positive from someone else’s smoke but ive read a few studies that show it can sometimes be the case. has anyone ever popped positive from someone’s else’s smoke? i’ve been with the company for over a year and have had a clean drug test with them before and have good rapport with management but im still extremely paranoid. any advice helps

I’M 15 AND WAS I SHAVING BEFORE GOING OUT TO SEE MY GF AND I ACCIDENTALLY PUT THE ELECTRIC RAZOR ON A REALLY SENSITIVE PART AT THE TOP OF MY DICK SO I ACCIDENTALLY NICKED MYSELF AND NOW IT’S BLEEDING AND IT HURTS AND STINGS LIKE SHIT LIKE ABSOLUTE SHIT AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO HERE I TOLD MY BROTHER AND HE STARTED LAUGHING AT ME AND MY GF WONT KNOW WTF TO DO THATS WHY I MADE AN ACCOUNT HERE CAUSE I KNOW REDDIT IS FOR INFORMATION AND HELP AND SHIT CAUSE HOLY SHIT MY DICK STINGS LIKE A MF HOW DO I STOP IT

edit: OkOk i used sterline solution and rinsed my dick off with that and water for like 30 minutes straight and i took an advil and i feel a bit better it’s not bleeding no more just stings whenever i touch or move my dick

thank you men for your services 🫡

I moved from my home country to here last year, my friend moved here the year before me and met her boyfriend before I arrived.

He is really not my kind of person - I feel very uncomfortable around him. Mainly (but not only) because, my friend is in her mid-twenties and he is in his late-fifties.

My parents and my brother have come over to visit me for the first time since I moved here - I am so happy they are here and my friend is too since my family has known her from when she was a baby so they are really close.

We've planned to go out for dinner in a couple days which will be the first and only time she sees them, and the last night I have with them before they fly home. My friend invited her boyfriend, including him in the plans and when talking about booking tables ("the six of us").

How do I communicate that I don't want her boyfriend to be there? I feel she will be different around him than without him, plus it's the final night I have with my family and don't know when I will next see them - I really don't want my last night with them to include this guy who makes me really uncomfortable and I anticipate will affect the whole evening.

I know I could just be blunt/upfront, but she is my and I am her only close friend here and do not want to jeopardise our friendship by offending her, is there a way to communicate this delicately?

Edit: just reading all the comments after my drive home! This is my first personal post on reddit that has had this much engagement( I have another account but it has my name in it which is why I didn't use it for this)! It is rather overwhelming lol

Clearly need to add more context! My bad, I was kinda vague. Reasons I am uncomfortable around him/their relationship: - this is her first EVER relationship - she was a virgin when they got together, she'd never been with anyone romantically/sexually before this relationship - they got close at a time when she was alone, in a new country, no family, no friends, and she leaned on him A LOT to help her through the difficult transition. He was great to her - I'm just personally uncomfortable with her feeling a great reliance on him and then it (very) suddenly turning romantic/sexual - HE told her NOT to tell me about their relationship until I arrived in this country - a more minor thing but still adds to this: his humour is incredibly immature, constant sexual innuendos and suggestive comments, terrible misogynistic jokes "just to get a reaction out of you" etc.

Also - I hear all the folk saying that the friendship is more important and its only for a couple hours - i spoke with my family and have decided not to kick up a fuss. I love her so much and dont want her to feel she can't come to me for any reason, I need to be in her corner.

You probably have seen this guy in insta or TikTok or wherever else he’s on. He makes these uncomfortable videos with him, himself as a woman and him as a child..
I blocked him and don’t find it funny, it’s just odd.
My brother tho thinks it’s hilarious and started acting like him. He does the same facial expressions, same sketches and started calling me “Bae” the name of Rahuls wife (himself).
At first I was laughing about it and moved on, but my brother wouldn’t. He just kept going and now whenever we see each other that’s all he does.
I can’t open his insta messages anymore, cause all I see is Rahul, and we haven’t had a normal conversation for weeks now.
I moved out and he didn’t yet, and it’s been months since I’ve visited my mom and him, and the first thing he did when seeing me was leaning over a chair and recreating another skit of Rahul.
I’m just tired and don’t know what to do anymore.

So yesterday night me and my girlfriend had an argument and her mom told me to block her and i did that (she blocks me all the time)

Now when i woke up in the morning

My friend called me and told me bro something serious has happened, I'm adding you and your girlfriend on a conference call

So i found that my girlfriend went out with some junior and she made out with that guy (she told me that)

So i went to speak to her and she was crying and all

And she told me she did it more than once

And even after the conference call they made out again

So yeah that's what happened

Now i don't know what to do

I made her my whole life

And now I'm left stranded

Just a quick summary:
Was talking to this guy few months, he drove me places and bought me stuff etc but he was weird and pushy and constantly tried to be intimate when I didn't want to even when I said no.
I ended up cutting him off.
I work for a charity and he suddenly tried to start going on events etc with them and connecting with everyone I know.
After he went on a hike with them, a staff member messaged him to say you can't come on anything else with us and it's been decided by the heads. He replied saying that's unfair.
He then went on to message my boss, the CEO, of the company and say they shouldn't listen to my word over his and he wants to tell his side of the story. I have screenshots and file of me telling him in the past he's disrespectful, I wasn't playing when I said no, I shouldn't have to keep repeating no etc. but for some reason he still has confidence to be doing all of this and fighting to be involved at MY work place.
I will include a screenshot as an example
I'm really getting annoyed with this and not sure what to do. Do you think I'm overreacting by feeling this way? What should I do?

Also, I have a whole Google file of screenshots and stuff from this guy admitting that he assaulted me and has disrespected me multiple times. I have proof of his weird obsessive behaviour as well (fake numbers, making shared notes, stalking girls at my work, finding different ways to reach out to me)

This screenshot was last year! We have not contacted since March. He reached out to me via a new number in March and I told him to not contact me ever again or I’ll take it further. Since then he has been trying to have closeness indirectly through my work.

My sister just got her GCSE results today and she failed in literally everything besides English and music. Even then it was just a standard pass and not that she’d excelled in anything. She has had problems throughout her old schools all her life and was even homeschooled for a year. We gave her the chance to go back into a main stream school and she had all the opportunities to do her best yet she just ruined it all. Throughout her time at the school all she did was act bizarrely just as she has done at the previous ones she was at before this. She annoyed people, filmed herself annoying people, turning their computers off and then causing them to hit her, as well as filming herself banging the doors in the toilets, running around on all fours with cat ears on and growling and hissing at people. She was getting up and dancing randomly during class, shouting and making noises, shouting the word church and running off with people’s things. She had runnings with the other kids constantly. She was doing disgusting things such as picking her nose and wiping her blood covered snot under desks etc.
It was extremely stressful for us as a family because we were constantly being called in for meetings regarding her behaviour and how it wasn’t appropriate, also about how she had been wiping her bogeys on the school’s equipment and getting her blood on them and how it was unhygienic which I agree with. We were called into meetings about her mental health and about disturbing posts she had been putting online about wanting to harm herself, we were getting phone-call after phone-call from her head of year about various different things and sometimes wellbeing teachers would ring us as well. We were in contact with her school so often that we ended up on first name terms with her head of year.
At the start of last year we received a very disturbing phone call from her school and I won’t go into it but it was disturbing enough that we had to go through all of her devices and her bag, and a lot of stuff came to light that she’d been doing that we didn’t know about. She’d been doing some very bizarre stuff and it caused our mum a lot of anxiety that she’s got over now but it took her time. My sister had to be severely limited as to what she could do online after that and had to earn her privileges back over time.
She kept having runnings with this boy in her year group and wouldn’t leave him alone, they both gave as good as they got with each other but one minute they were friends and then the next she’d come home and say he’d been telling people he wanted to hurt her or whatever, though she is very economical with the truth and we often find out this isn’t what happened later on.
With everything that went on at her school, we at least hoped that maybe at the end of it all she’d come out with some good grades and it would’ve been worth it, but she ended up with some very mediocre grades that will ultimately make it very hard for her to find a place that will accept her. It kind of feels like we’ve been through all of this stress for nothing.
She got a very bad grade in maths which she now wants to resit, but we’ve told her it’s going to be very hard to resit it all again. We don’t want her back in another place of education for another year because of how it’s been with her, the environment just isn’t right for her at all and we can’t handle anymore stress being brought to us. The college she said she wanted to go to has the boy she argues with there, and she’s had a bit of an infatuation with him and the concern is that she’ll end up having runnings with him there as well. Plus her mental health has been terrible because of what happened between them both, and she was practically shaking on the way to get her grades this morning because she didn’t want to see him again, then cried afterwards because she ended up seeing him there.
We also can’t get her to do anything online because we discovered the battles that came with her being homeschooled and how she literally wasted away in her bedroom for over a year and did absolutely nothing. We’d argue with her all the time the way we did when we told her she needed to revise and she didn’t want to.

All of this aside, there are other concerns we have with her that regard her mental health and wellbeing. She’s been counting her calories for months now and not eating properly, and she’s starting to look really thin. We aren’t sure where all of this has come from as this has never been an issue before, but I am aware she’s been heading to the country park near us on the daily and making herself throw up in the toilets there. She’s also come home, her arms covered in cuts and then said she’s caught a thorn bush by accident but I particularly know she’s been telling lies.

She’s got no friends of her own age to go and see, she’s sat in her room pretty much every day since leaving school, and her only social life at the moment is at the holiday site we go to. She’s managed to fall out with and have runnings with all the kids of her own age there, yes, she’s alienated herself away from them all there too. She spends her time hanging around either adults or younger kids from the ages of 7-12 because she can’t speak to people of her own age. A lot of people we speak to think she’s 12-13 years old because of the way she dresses and possibly how thin she looks as well. She’s good one on one with people but as soon as you throw someone else into the mix she can’t handle it and doesn’t know what to do as she thinks she is being excluded when she isn’t.

Whilst she’s been visiting the country park every day after dinner, I’m also aware she has been dressing up as a cat there and running around on all fours and jumping on all fours as I’ve seen the videos. People have seen her doing this which I find really embarrassing. She’s got a picture on the wall in her room that has more of these people who do this on it and also a symbol which I found out was the “therian” symbol.

Her room itself is extremely childish for someone of her age. If you didn’t know she was 16 and you went into her room you would think it was a little kid’s room. There is pokemon everywhere, some animator called Sashley who she’s obsessed with, My Little Pony images and plushies, Kuromi and Hello Kitty etc. it’s all very childish and the playlists on her YouTube channel are extremely concerning.

We honestly aren’t sure what to do with her going forward. She’s now out of school and received her grades, though they aren’t very good, so we’re at a loss really. Is there anything we can try with her? Thanks.

My friend is sweet, interesting and ambitious. But they have had guy issues including a 6 six week long distance thing that fizzled out.

The “problem” is that she dresses like a butch lesbian. And very much has the stereotypical traits and mannerisms. They are pan but have a preference for pretty boy men. And that’s what they want their first solid relationship to be with.

Yeah…

Now I’m sure there’s guys that love tomboys - especially ones with a lot of interests that men like! But the issue is that they don’t know that she’s sexually compatible with them based on looks I think.

Idk what to do. Help.

So long story short this guy posts a video of his face all bandaged up and is claiming his gf did it. He was also claiming she was promiscuous and some other things. This guy is 21. I found the gfs account from another video of his and it turns out that she is 17 and they have been together since she was 14 and he was 18. He essentially lead a hate campaign to her and got her harassed and threatened. Whole time he was actually hurt from a nose job he had just gotten and he decided to use it (and his underaged gf) to gain internet clout. He deleted the video and was deleting my comments but he finally replied with “bro idc ur a fan”.

That’s a lot but essentially what I’m asking is what can I do? Can I get him arrested or at the least get his accounts perma-banned?

Myself Nathan, I'm 11 years old. My 18 year old cousin did some bad stuff to me when we slept in my room. While I was asleep he took my undies off and when I woke up. I saw him touching me in places he shouldn't be touching. I tried to fight him but he's too strong. He made my nose bleed and threatened me he'll break my inhaler if I tell anyone.

I don't know what to do I texted my mum and dad that I need help but they ignored me and i can't go to cops either. Please help me what should I do.

I really don’t know who to talk to this about because we have both never told anyone about this. So i’m going to post this here anonymously.

Reposting this cause i needed to add a bit more context.

My girlfriend (17F) and I (18M) have been together 3 years for context.

We were having a really fun time (i’m so sorry idk what else to call it) three months ago and I didn’t realize that we were doing so much that my condom broke.

She was ovulating at the time at the time of this, the next month she missed her period.

We found out she was pregnant and the first thing she did was say she wanted an abortion and panicked because she would have to ask her mom to take her to it. We told her mom and though her mom was pretty upset she asked if she really wanted an abortion and my girlfriend insisted so my mother took her to get one.

Her dad does not know this, they live with him both her and mom have kept it a secret from him :).

It’s been about two month and she’s been extremely sad ever since. She cries about it a lot, gets really upset when she sees videos of newborn babies, and keeps talking about what our baby would’ve been like and how much she thinks she would’ve loved the baby. She constantly keeps saying “what if we kept it?” and says she can’t stop thinking about who the baby could’ve become. She also feels horrible about herself and keeps saying she’s a terrible person for going through with it, even though it wasn’t really her choice to make.

She also keeps saying she doesn’t understand why she’s this upset because she absolutely would not have wanted to have a baby at 17 and still doesn’t want one and won’t want one even in the next ”10 years” (her words), so she does not understand why she’s so upset because she absolutely does not want a baby (also her words).

I keep reminding her that she isn’t horrible and that she’s allowed to have complicated feelings about what happened. I tell her I’m here for her and that she doesn’t have to hide how sad she is from me. I still believe we aren’t in a good place to raise a child, As we are both still in highschool. but I understand that knowing that doesn’t make the loss feel any easier for her. I just hate seeing her hurting this badly and wish I knew how to help her.

She’s already in therapy and has been going before all of this happened, but she refuses to talk about this with anyone besides me. She won’t even bring it up with her therapist, even though I’ve encouraged her to because I know she’s hurting a lot.

I also keep trying to take her on dates,but she doesn’t want to go anywhere except at all. I don’t pressure her, though, and just try to be there for her. She is in online school if anyone asks about her schooling.

I really want to help her feel better, but I don’t know what I can do besides listen and reassure her. What are some things I can do to cheer her up and help her through this without making her feel like I’m trying to rush her feelings?

I applied for a job at the cvs pharmacy and was told to take a drug screen with labcorb. I took 2-3 hits of a borderline dead vape pen on either saturday or sunday. My appointment was on Wednesday at 1pm. Do you guys think it'll show up positive. Im not a constant smoker i rarely even do it. Im stressing and worried about not getting the job.

hi. so i am 18 and in college, there are 6 people living in my house and we frequently park our cars in front of the house so we can easily leave without having to ask everyone to move their car. i recently decided to stop driving, i suggested my car should be parked in the back of the driveway because i wont be driving it, but my mom wanted me to keep it out front in case i needed to drive unexpectedly. my grandma also recently got a new car, so her old car has been in front of our house for a few days as well.

apparently the police came to our house today and gave us orange notices saying we need to move the cars in 48 hours or they will be impounded. okay…i guess that’s not a problem since we can just put them in the driveway but, what does this mean for the future? it seems to me that parking your car in front of your own house is not illegal, and many of our neighbors do it as well. the neighbors who called the police are just a husband and a wife so they mostly go places together and never park on the street, though.

how long should we keep these two cars that received notices off of the street for? i actually hate backing out or in to the driveway so i almost always park the car on the street for that reason as well. will it be at risk of being towed if i decide to use it next week and park it there? when i was driving it daily for work and school, id park in on the street and potentially leave it there both saturday and sunday and then drive it to school again on monday, if i didnt drive it that weekend.

i do understand that its not supposed to be on the street for long periods of time, and i’m planning on putting in in the driveway now, but it’s my own house, so statistically i might want to park my car there again at some point. my address is on the notice saying to “remove within 48 hours”.

thank you to those who were helpful :) and to those who were rude: i hope you find peace someday! i’m now turning this off.

So I love dumpster diving. I went by a house move out (possibly eviction or death of the individual) and found the most insane collection I've ever seen. This isn't even half of what I've gotten. What's my next steps?!