15. “I work in a grocery store, and several things have changed. One: packaging is shittier. From the cardboard boxes being paper-thin to the cellophane wrappers being a joke to the glue holding boxes together, it has all gotten lower quality as companies cut costs. Two: the quality of the course has gone down. I…
“My dad and his entire side of the family had always been a mystery. My mom had two potential guys it could’ve been. We actually managed to track down one of them and did a DNA test, but it wasn’t a match. When I was 28, I did a 23andMe, and matched with a biological…
26. (Cont’d) “I realized very quickly on the starting dose that I’d gone my entire life being able to eat basically a limitless amount of food without feeling full, and GLP-1 medication completely changed that. Now, when I eat a reasonable portion, I feel full, and the idea of continuing to eat after that just…
2. “People licking their fingers before touching stuff that other people are going to touch next. (E.g., magazine pages, papers, cash, cards, etc.).” —Bastard_of_Brunswick “Finger licking out in the wild is just generally pretty gross. So are a lot of people’s phones, too, probably, along with computer keyboards and mice. How often do people clean…
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24. “I’m a single mom by choice. I have a beautiful and healthy daughter who is 6 years old. I lost a baby boy in 2014, the father was a guy I dated at that time, and I was desperate to be a mother to a living child. I tell everyone I got pregnant the…
7. “I’m an ICU Nurse. If the patient or family member can answer, one of the questions we ask at admission is ‘When was your last bowel movement?’ Because you should be having a minimum of three per week, preferably one good ‘number two’ a day. I had a patient who came in for a…
18. “I’ve gone no-contact with my father twice. The first time was right after he and my mom divorced. He lived near my brother and was actually pretty involved in my brother’s kid’s lives, but after the divorce, he sent a letter to my brother letting him know that he would not be a grandpa…
21. “My old housemates would cut food directly on the marble countertop of the kitchen island and leave the residue there, despite the fact that we each had two cabinets worth of our own kitchen tools, including cutting boards. They also never washed their dishes to the point that their side of the two-basin sink…
18. “I worked as a healthcare productivity analyst. Academic medicine has removed the incentive for physicians and caregivers to interact with patients. While at the University of Texas Medical Branch, we conducted a research project on the border between Texas and Mexico. We were looking for evidence that patient care improved through interaction with physicians….
