Malfeasant@lemmy.world

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I grew up in Boston, it was not only accepted, but expected.

    There’s an etiquette to elevators and subway trains and buses, and really any other confined space- it’s better for everyone if you let people get off before you try to get on.

    When I first moved to Phoenix, I was on an elevator at a mall, when the doors opened for my floor, two teenage girls tried to push their way past me and my wife… But I’m a pretty big guy, so I just kept walking. The one that was directly in front of me got knocked on her ass. I felt a little bad, I hadn’t intended to hit her that hard… But only a little.


  • It probably helped put her mom at ease that I am woman

    Probably somewhat… As a man, it’s a crapshoot what kind of reaction I’ll get if I try to help someone else’s kid. Last time I was ice skating with my kids, a little (like 4 years old I’d guess) girl had fallen, she was getting quite upset, she was trying to get up but couldn’t get her skates to cooperate. Her older sister (who wasn’t much bigger) was just standing there kind of helpless while their dad (who didn’t have skates on, so wasn’t allowed on the ice) yelled incoherent instructions from 20 feet away. I asked the girl if it was ok if I helped her- she didn’t even say anything, just grabbed onto me, and let me pull her to her feet- and that’s when the dad decided to ignore the rules and walk out onto the ice himself finally. He grabbed her with a bit of a dirty look in my direction. They left shortly after.



  • Weird, my ex had endo as well… Didn’t want sex for a long time, and I was doing my best to be understanding and not pester her… Then she unexpectedly ended up in the ER with extreme pain and heavy bleeding, bad enough she was on morphine and needed a blood transfusion… It took months, but I eventually found out she had cheated on me with our son’s best friend’s dad, and that apparently triggered the event. Hence why she’s now my ex.



  • Not necessarily… Several of the new weight loss drugs are primarily something else, and the weight loss is an “off-label” use. My (now ex-) wife was prescribed mounjaro for her type 2 diabetes, and proceeded to lose a considerable amount of weight. She wanted me to do the same, but insurance only covers the primary use, I wasn’t/am not diabetic, so I’d have to pay out of pocket, and that shit is expensive.