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forty kids on a school bus at 6:45am and the mirror above the driver's seat is fogged up. every. single. morning. cant see behind me, cant see them, just vibes and prayer.

drive thru headset died mid order and i had to shout through a window for ten mins. just me and one other person on shift. *uck this job

After six months of attending every single planning meeting, the demolition notice arrived via email. No call. No warning. Just gone.

got $2.47 left til friday. mcd's app wont load and i cant even get the cheap breakfast. this gig shit aint paying.

Drove three hours to the Audubon sanctuary based on a tip about a pileated woodpecker sighting. Staff said it left yesterday. My life list remains incomplete.

gas stations charging $6 for a gatorade. im making $18 an hour and still broke. what the *ell.

my mom wont stop calling asking if the ikea bookshelf is done yet and i found ONE extra screw in hour three. one. where the *ell did it come from.

got charged $47 at mcdonald's drive thru because apparently the app price and the register price are just different realities now and like i literally watched the cashier ring it up and it was too late to care, still broke as *ell and now i'm mad about a mcflurry

just watched someone cut in line at the grocery store like the queue isnt a social contract. we're all standing here for a ****ing reason, buddy. the audacity..

my Uber Eats order got "lost" three times in a row. same restaurant. im not even mad im just confused

pilot travel plaza on i-90 near syracuse ran out of hot coffee at 2pm. two hours til the next stop. *amn.

the 6 train is down to one car during rush hour. one. car. how is that even legal??

been going to choir rehearsal for three years and suddenly we're "balancing the sections" which means sopranos get notes i cant hear and im supposed to just. smile about it.

Drove two hours out to see the Perseid meteor shower. Some guy next to me kept his car headlights on the whole time. Two. Hours.

So I went to Target yesterday to grab like three things, right? And of course the self-checkout is down, only two registers open, line wrapped around the back of the *oddamn store. I'm standing there with my kids who are losing it, and the cashier is moving at like one item per minute, and I'm thinking...

my groomer keeps saying matting isnt "that bad" and i'm like... its literally causing my skin to hurt. scheduling an appointment three months out isnt helping either.

I announce delays I didn't cause on the Red Line every morning. Everyone stares at me like I personally held up the train. I didn't, but good luck explaining that.

I spent three weeks building this entire city with faction politics and a mystery that actually connects to their backstories and then half the group couldn't make it so we rescheduled and then two people forgot we were playing and honestly I don't even want to talk about what we actually did instead because it was just...

Love having the house to myself. So peaceful. So quiet. So... empty. Why is Costco suddenly depressing now.

i hate that the only time i can reliably video call my partner is during my commute home, which means i'm either standing on a packed red line train trying not to drop my phone or sitting in traffic on 95 staring at the same billboard for fifteen minutes while people behind me honk.

stuck in an empty office building for 12 hours with one dying radio. silence is apparently a policy now.

my sister keeps "popping by" now that she knows im home. the silence lasted three whole days.

been chasing the same three people for league dues since january. its march. im not a *amn collections agency.

my isp caps my upload at 0.8 mbps. cant even upload a *amn zoom recording without it sitting there for three hours. this is ridiculous.

dude standing right in front of my amp the whole set. like, theres a whole station. move literally anywhere else.

My neighbor keeps "borrowing" the garden hose and never returns it. Meanwhile my tomatoes are literally dying of thirst. This is tomato murder and I will not stand for it.

I've been at this family tree thing for three years now, right, and I keep hitting the same brick wall with my mother's side. The 1920 census has her listed under a completely different last name - not a maiden name situation, just... wrong. Like someone at the bureau decided to just make something up that day.

so i'm three months into what was supposed to be a simple bathroom tile situation and home depot is out of the exact grout color i picked and apparently has been for six weeks, which nobody mentioned when i bought forty dollars worth of the stuff in week one.

been chasing the same three people for league dues since september. its now march. three. people. out of forty. why am i like this.

I need a specific situation to write about. What's the online consumer friction you want to complain about? For example: a streaming service glitch, a website checkout issue, a customer service chat nightmare, an app that won't load, a delivery tracking problem, a subscription cancellation loop, etc. Give me the details and I'll write the post.

I've been dealing with this weird shoulder thing for like three months now. Or not even a shoulder thing, more like a neck-shoulder-into-my-upper-back situation that I keep telling myself is just from hunching over my laptop at 2 AM, which it probably is, but also it's gotten worse and I actually need to see someone about it.

got karaoke thursday rotation issues and im broke as hell. some *sshole keeps singing my song slot and bar mgmt does nothing about queue etiquette. how is this my life rn??

missed my friday class to pick up an extra shift. now im broke anyway and didnt hit my weekly PR. literally what was the point.

yeah so the whole starbucks app thing where it says the drink is ready and you go in and wait another 10 minutes because apparently their system is just vibing on its own timeline, meanwhile i'm gonna be late to my 8am lecture that i definitely cannot afford to miss and like i get that they're understaffed but also why is the app

My mother calls me out every time I visit her for parking badly. *uck, I drove all the way there and I still get criticized