How much should you expect from a first date? Let’s be real, nobody likes feeling as if they are unwanted or simply a placeholder for whatever another person desires, but that is exactly how things often go in the rocky world of dating. Most serial daters have stories of meeting up with somebody who looked …
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‘Settle a Roommate Dispute’: What’s the right way to load bowls in the dishwasher?
We all have different ways of doing things. Is there a right answer? When you start living with people, you realize that we all have our own way of doing things. We were all raised with different customs, and we all run our households differently. When you start combining those things, though, then you can …
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Why Do People Complain About Being Lonely, But Never Make Plans?
Is curing loneliness that simple? It’s no secret that many Gen Zers are lonely. They are going out less, making fewer friends, and having a worse time than generations before them, but why is that? It is easy to blame phones, and I think that might be a pretty big cause of loneliness, but I …
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Man goes through 3rd dates phone while she was in the bathroom, doesn’t understand why she’s freaked out
What would you do if someone went through your phone without looking? Your phone is an exceedingly private place. It’s where your whole life lands. It’s where you correspond with people, where you make plans, where you write down your deepest, darkest thoughts. It’s where you talk smack about others behind their backs, and it’s …
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Employee records her manager during their 1 on 1 meeting: ‘Is this normal now? Is she building a case against me?’
She could be recording her just in case she says something suspicious, which doesn’t bode well for the manager.
Boss makes assistant cry because she ordered steak and dessert during a business lunch with a client: ‘The client and I both ordered burgers and fries. The client and I both said no to dessert.’
Nobody is born knowing the intricacies of ordering and eating at a business lunch. Still, it’s understandable that she’d feel insecure about the micromanagement of her food choices.
Brother-in-law bails on fancy dinner because 46-year-old dad is watching anime at the table: ‘[He] shakes his empty Mt. Dew glass at the waiter’
Dining out with someone who has bad table manners can be incredibly embarrassing. You try to telegraph to the server that you’re sorry, but you can’t help that you’re part of the problem. You hope none of your friends do it, but you never know when you’ll end up in that situation. The question is, …
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Concertgoer refuses to stand up to let 8-months expecting mother pass by to use the restroom: ‘I say again “excuse me, can I get by you?” and he ignores me’
Concert etiquette is a lost art. Even the basic stuff. If you’re on the internet, you’ve probably heard complaints about how people act at concerts these days. It seems that ever since 2020, we’ve lost our idea of how to be in public with each other. We’ve forgotten all the basic, unspoken rules that we …
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Friend’s boyfriend calls out woman for unread books on her bookshelf, doubles down and calls her ‘defensive’: ‘I don’t have a safe where I keep all my books I haven’t gotten around to reading yet’
Do you keep unread books on your bookshelf? Where do you keep them if you don’t? We all have certain habits that we would rather keep to ourselves. We have that weird little thing that we’d rather nobody else know about. This is always the risk of having somebody over to your house for the …
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Gym-goer takes 25-minute «everything shower» at their $130/month gym, ignores repeated knocks on the door: ‘Gym showers are for getting the basics done, not spending almost 30 minutes deep conditioning your hair’
Should there be a time limit on gym showers? It’s always good to be courteous, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Last year, my hot water was out for a couple of weeks (I know), and I definitely used the shower at the gym. I tried to be conscious of my time …
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