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EV Road Trip Report: Mid-South to Florida

2023.03.20 19:10 kommandarskye EV Road Trip Report: Mid-South to Florida

This sub was really helpful during my purchase process so I thought I would share some feedback in case it helps others considering buying one and/or taking a long trip in one.
Purchase/QMerit Installation
For context, we purchased a new Bolt EV 2023 (2LT) with the infotainment package in Feb. Got very lucky, all the local dealers in Memphis who had listed inventory (of EUVs/EVs) had already been spoken for, some of them still in transit and paid for sight unseen, and nobody seemed especially interested in helping me order one - this seemed to be true out to a 250 mile radius, and even further out for most of Jan. I had one dealer in Arkansas close-by that had an EV en route that they had not yet listed, so after finding a used EUV to test-drive, I put down a deposit and purchased at MSRP with no nonsense add-ons when it came off the train a few weeks later. (Very smooth sales process, feel free to DM me if you want more info)!
I had had a mild preference for the EUV, since the plan was for this to be our daily commuter with two kids in car-seats - but in the end, we find the EV is more than spacious enough. Zero regrets, I kind of prefer the EV's look anyway and while the 3 inches of leg-space would be nice, the better efficiency is worth it.
QMerit install process was smooth, it took a few weeks but Level 1 charging was just fine for daily work/school/shopping (20-30 miles), I think it was adding about 48 miles in 12 hours overnight, the battery never really fell below 50%. The installer quoted a $1700 non-standard install at first but once I e-mailed QMerit customer service about it, they said they would cover it completely. I got them to install an Emporia charger that I'm happy with, had it hardwired which is probably a bit overkill but it does indeed charge at around 11.5Kw. The only real use for the level-2 is getting back from a weekend away close to empty and needing a full charge before an unusually busy weekday of driving; I suppose it extends the life of the dual-level charger which is useful when charging at campgrounds or when staying at others' houses.
Road Trip We took our first long-distance road trip in the car last week for spring break, about 800 miles each way to visit family in Florida.
A few observations in case they are useful to others planning to buy a Bolt and/or to take a long trip in one, esp. in the South:
1) A Better Route Planner is very useful: not sure the premium features are worth it or necessary (but I'm happy to support the developer!). I started out quite conservative (requested arriving SoC at 10%) and pushed that down to 5% on the way back: I think it makes sense to keep it higher because it seems to be around 6-8% that the range will drop to "low" and you get a reduced propulsion message, which you might find stressful (we did the first time, but I believe you should still have 10 miles left at that point).
2) Plugshare seems to be the best place to get up-to-date reviews (most of the major charging stations had check-ins within days of us). Seems to be good etiquette to update if things go well (there were some chargers that had not been checked in for weeks or months and I was concerned about depending on them in case there was some issue) as well as if things go poorly. Especially useful if you are in urgent need of charging, as it will turn up wall outlets and level 2 chargers that are not always in ABRP's route plan.
3) Driving in this region (TN/MS/AL/GA/FL) a lot of your stops will be at Electrify America, often at Walmarts. We never had problems finding a working stall but it was typical for 1-2 out of 4 to have some kind of issue (usually already documented on Plugshare). It charges very quickly under 50% (55 Kw), so the ideal situation is to arrive with <20% charge and get to 80% within an hour. EVGo also worked well the one time we used it. It makes sense to get the monthly plan even for a single trip, I think I saved over $8 on one long charge alone.
4) We typically don't drive continuously for more than 4 hours anyway, so the stopping to charge was not generally an issue. The problem is that you are forced to stop at, well, these particular locations - at best, strip malls in the suburbs of big cities (Memphis, Birmingham, Montgomery, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Ormond Beach etc.), sometimes just a convenience store or gas station. There are usually a few food options but you are limited to what happens to be available if you want to eat while charging. With small kids in particular, you may only have 1-2 options that can be walked to across a parking lot: twice on our trip, I dropped the family off 0.5-1 mile and walked back over, which wouldn't be so bad if there were pedestrian walkways or cross-walks but there aren't in such places. In contrast, on our ICE road trips, we would detour to state parks for a hike and picnic (e.g.) or stop at any restaurant we wanted, whereas we felt a lot of pressure with the Bolt (for time-efficiency's sake) to make our charging stops our only eating/rest-stops because of how long they were. (To be clear, not all charging stops are long.)
5) Plugshare will also generally give you info on hotel chargers (Kayak and other platforms will let you filter hotels in an area by "EV Charging" amenity), typically level 2 ClipperCreek chargers that will get you a full charge overnight. They are not reservable in advance, and hotels don't always enforce a policy not to park ICE cars there. The first time we stayed at one, four Tesla spots and two ClipperCreek spots right by the entrance were taken up by ICE cars, and we arrived late (after 11PM)... luckily while I was unloading, I happened to notice someone come out for a smoke by his car and he moved it to another spot. The second time, there was clearer signage and the EV spots were less conveniently located so the spot was open despite arriving late in the evening. But if two people happened to need a single charger overnight, there is no obvious way to communicate with one another (perhaps through actively checking in on the Plugshare app and DMing there, leaving a note with the front-desk or a sign on your dashboard with your phone number). It worked out for us this time but I would not rely on getting a full charge at such places in the future.
6) We had no problem stuffing the trunk with enough stuff for a week: three carry-on suitcases, plus bags of books, board-games, sports-gear, swimming/snorkel gear, a couple of violins). We could probably pack more efficiently so I don't see cargo-space as the limiting factor for the trip for a family of four.
Tl;dr. Overall, the trip went well - but I don't think we will be taking the Bolt on a multi-day road trip (400+ mi). Its principally the flexibility of being able to take our long stops wherever we would like that I miss about our ICE road-trips, as well as sleep wherever we would like. Everything worked out as well as it could have for us in every other respect, and obviously we saved a great deal on gas even with paid DCFC. So while I feel slightly uneasy about how close we might have been to losing a few hours here or there due to charging issues (waiting, technical issues, not getting a hotel EV spot etc.), I think the infrastructure is already good enough and improving fast enough, that those concerns are not really the constraint.
What I'd love to see across the South are multiple (2-4) L3 chargers at every interstate rest stop, in main streets in towns on state highways/routes that are not interstates, and at local/state/national parks, as well as at more hotels - that is, enough density of chargers that one can be nearly as thoughtless about them as we are as ICE drivers about plotting routes without thinking of gas station. Neither commercial demand nor local/state/federal policy seem to be quite there yet but as EV adoption continues (esp. of non-Teslas!), I feel optimistic.
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2023.03.20 19:08 EmpressVxctorxa eye opening

i just stumbled across this page and i can’t believe y’all have been here the whole time! i fell off the bandwagon around her benefit launch party because something about it rubbed me the wrong way. well originally it was when she got the same car i can only dream about, the G wagon, but i felt like i was being anti-feminist. she just seemed too flashy for my lifestyle and the whole debacle with her palette collab with morphe got her looking sus. the lipstick scandal confirmed everything. i also couldn’t stand the fact that she would cry every other freaking video but she would turn around and show off all her wealth. i’m glad i wasn’t being petty at someone else’s success. i have been scrolling for hours looking at all these posts because i can’t believe how much gas changed since i stopped following most beauty gurus. when did y’all fall off? what gave you the ick that made you decide she wasn’t your while?
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2023.03.20 18:39 catluvr3443 I feel like I am doing wayyy too much driving. Advice please?

So, I have a few families I work for, all part time. I usually have no problem with picking up and dropping off kids however my new NF has got me driving across the state at this point and I don't know how much longer I can sustainably do it. I have been with this new family for about a month now. The arrangement is pretty simple.. I pick the 10 year old son up from the bus stop once a week, bring him home, and stay there until bed time. On Thursdays I pick the kid up from his after school program which is nearly an hour away from me, and bring him to their house where we remain for the night. Totally fine, no issues there. I am scheduled each week to be with them for about 4 hours for two days out of the week... I took this job because I really really needed the immediate cash, but I am beginning to become a bit jaded because I am being paid $16 an hour to do all of this driving. My usual rate is much higher. And for context, I drive a shitty 15 year old car. But really guys, that's all besides the point. What I am annoyed about is that my MB is getting a procedure done this Wednesday and I guess her mother is coming to take care of her and my NK...so my MB asked me to pick up NK from his after school program (which is an hour away) for $30..... I initially agreed but like I don't want to do it. I'm going to be doing basically 2 hours of driving for $30.... Like that just feels dumb and I feel like an idiot because I have backed myself into a corner where I am spending so much money on gas for this job that I am not even profiting. I've been super lucky with my other jobs, this is the first time in a few years I feel like I got the shit end of the stick for a job. Idk what do yall think. Feel free to call me a dumbass for accepting when I knew I wasn't going to be profiting but make sure you give me advice too..
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2023.03.20 18:14 Jimithyashford Just Finished In Defense of Bread as a Neo Lib

TL:DR - Book has great insight into why Capitalism sucks, and is an interesting snapshot of a political moment in time that I only had a superficial sense of, but fails miserably in providing a functional sense of how the new post-revolution world would function.

Preface: I call myself a Neo-Lib here just to give you a general sense of the political leanings I tend to vote for. What I am not is ideologically aligned to Neo Liberalism, or if I am, only very lightly out of habit and convention.
What I really am is, first and foremost, a "whatever works ist". I have a general set of goals, and I tend to support whatever political positions I am convinced work best towards those ends for the time and place we are talking about.
Those goals are, in rough order of priority, 1- Societal Stability, 2- Material security for the broad base of the population, 3- Material Prosperity for some.

A while back I was engaging in some debate with anarchists online and basically complained that anarchism did not have a functional model of the world to offer, that anarchists know what they want to tear down, but have nothing functional to replace it with.
I was accused of being ignorant of Anarchism and told that I needed to go educate myself. Fair critique. I had debated Anarchism with people online, but not really read any of their texts. So I asked for a book recommendation, what book would give me the best overall idea of the future world anarchists want, some practical in-the-trenches type discussion of the world they want to build, what they would replace Capitalism with.
The most recommended book was In Defense of Bread, which I finally got around to reading a few weeks ago.

Best part of the book by far was his critique of Capitalism, its inherent flaws, the abuses it is intrinsically subject to no matter how good intentions may be, and how exploitation and suffering are innate to the system.
A well spoken, well informed, and insightful chapter or two laying out the problem with capitalism.
But of course this part of Anarchism is where they have always excelled. So this part of the book was very good and compelling, but also I feel it was the easiest lift.
Intellectually lazy people (I feel) usually stop right there, and have no further interest. They know what they hate, what they want to criticize. Hating and criticizing is cheap and easy, but they don't want to the do the hard intellectual work of answering "ok, what would I like to see done instead though?"
To his credit Kropotkin does engage in that task, he goes there.....but man does it go downhill fast.


The rest of the book is an agonizing cascade of ridiculous assertions that had me asking every two pages or so "Has Kropotkin every actually met people?" or maybe more specifically "Has Kropotkin ever socialized with the average working class schmoe?" All of his assumptions of human behavior seem to be based on the notion that the entire population is comprised of noble young idealists who live and breathe for "the cause" and would happily structure their wholes lives around it, or that those who are not so would very quickly begin to act that way as the magical tailwinds of freedom and revolution lifted them. But of course that only gets you through the actual revolution. For the generations to come he must imagine an entire population who continues to behave that way, generation after generation, in perpetuity, all without any governing force besides, essentially peer pressure and shunning, to keep them in line.
Utopian? Naively idealistic? It's almost like reading a crappy fan fiction where the entire French Working Class is a badly written Mary Sue.
His insight into the flaws of capitalism is exceeded by his lack of insight into how human beings function, especially how they function in times of strife, especially especially how they function in times of lawlessness and disorder, especially especially especially how they function in time of strife and lawlessness and disorder when no obligatory hierarchy or power structure binds them to anything beyond what is personally dictated by a loose sense of fraternal altruism.

Let me give just two examples of times where Kropotkin's vision of future depends on human beings acting in a manner utterly incongruous with the species I am familiar with.

In his chapter on how food would be secured and distributed following the general uprising, he proposes that the people, organized informally among themselves without any over-arching management, purely out of communal response to the emerging need, would take stock of the food stores of the city, set about doling out the food with neighborhood level organizing, seeing to it that everyone is fairly fed and has what they need in the immediate short term. All with nobody taking advantage of this to enrich or empower themselves. In the longer term they would then send delegations to the rural farmers to ask what manufactured goods they would be willing to exchange for food, which of course the rural farmers would say yes to for reasons, then set the people in the city to manufacturing those goods in order to establish a permanent food source, all without money, not even with bartering as such, entirely based on everyone making what is needed but no more and taking what they need but no more in a big koombaya circle of selfless reciprocity. No government or obligatory hierarchy or threat of violence needed.
Of course this strikes me as utter crap, and completely divorced from the reality of how masses act in times of great unrest and violence and fear and uncertainty, let alone oppurtunity.
A second great example of his world populated by idealized fantasy humans, is how science is to be conducted. In this example we are well past the instability of the days of revolution, and deep into the stable functioning of the new world.
He discusses how the average man, now divorced from the 40 hour work week, left with more time to pursue his passions, and also freed from the wealth check needed to access the training and equipment to pursue more advanced studies, such as science, will now be free to pursue those passions. He describes a world in which the laboratories and workshops are all thrown open, a whole population of people working now only maybe 5 days a week for half the year, and the rest of their time free to go enter the lab or the engineering bay and set themselves to learning and experimentation, no longer with checks or permissions or degrees or certifications to stop them, and a golden age of discovery and innovation would ensure, worker scientists. Blue collar experts, new age where you pump port-a-potties in the morning and then go do cancer research in the afternoon.
Bollocks, just utter and completely bollocks. What would happen if you really opened up the labs and said "anyone with an interest in science, these facilities are now free public use, come pursue your passion"? Within a fortnight a bunch of bumbling idiots with no idea what they are doing will have ruined the equipment, wasted the chemicals, broken or contaminated most of the samples and containers, and having put themselves and others in considerable danger while doing so. You'd have several people with their faces melted off cause they didn't know what those two chemicals would do, have a city block with permanent lung damage cause Billy thought he could home-brew some fertilizer and accidentally doused the neighborhood in toxic gas. You'd be left with a ruined and functionless lab, a bunch of hurt people, and your only discovery to show for it being that no, scientific labs do not serve well as a public resource for hobby and recreation.
But of course that is not what Kropotkin is imagining, because his world is populated by idealized fantasy humans, who would have the discipline and insight and patience required to find a mentor and spend several years assisting and in deep study in the library before ever touching an alembic themselves, and when finally doing so, using the utmost respect and care for the difficult to replace and sensitive equipment and chemicals. His world doesn't account for John Q Idiot who thinks the periodic table satanic lie and that surely he doesn't need to read the instructions he can just figure the electron microscope out on his own and the best science is done when you've got a bit of a buzz, don't worry about it.

It's all very disappointing, and reinforced to an extreme degree my impression that anarchists know what they hate, they know their enemy, but are woefully unequipped to replace it.
And the real disappointment is that I was told I can't judge anarchism by the people online ranting about it, I need to go read the foundational texts by luminaries of the movement, educate myself on the subject.....
Well I did, and I can say that this book was only very marginally more insightful than a series of ranty reddit posts. The real place the book shines, from an academic perspective, is in it's very intense interest in the history of 19th century politics. That was fascinating. But it leads to conclusions no better than what I'd expect from a college Sophomore who just recently got really into Pot and thinks "but like...what if we all just worked together instead of fighting?" is a mind blowing revelation.
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2023.03.20 17:43 StabbyMcTickles Too early?

Hi all! So for a bit of backstory, this is my second flare-up. My first time was well over 6 years ago but I recognized the symptoms immediately: nausea, left abdominal pain, thinner stool/less stool/ diarrhea, etc.
Around March 7th, I felt all of this but I caught it early and immediately started on the liquid diet. Water, water, water, broth, broth, broth. After 3 days, I started adding crackers to my meals. A few days after that, I started adding applesauce and rice.
All was fine. I eventually tried chicken. At this point, I had no more side pain. Poop was far and few between but solid.
Fast forward to today, the 20th. I decided to have milk in my coffee. Whole milk, maybe about 2 tablespoons worth in my coffee. My breakfast consisted of turmeric eggs, half an avocado and a small (3 tbs) of greek yogurt. The eggs, avocado, and yogurt have been fine so I don't think those were issues but shortly after my cup of coffee, I started cramping again and immediately had to poop. Solid at first followed by lots of gas and then, boom! Diarrhea. I know coffee makes most folks poop but this was... Different.
Shortly after pooping, I started feeling that nauseous feeling again and had to lay down. I've been sipping water every hour since. The queasiness feeling has subsided but I feel bloated.
Did I fudge up? Was it too early for milk? 6 years ago when I was hospitalized, they didn't give me any antibiotics and basically told me to do that diet. It worked and I was back to eating somewhat normally after two weeks. This time around, I don't really know...
I didn't go to the hospital this time because I caught it in time before it got that bad. It has been about 13 days since it happened. Was that not enough time to introduce "normal" stuff back? Did I just make it to where I need to start back on broth again? I have had it twice now in my life but I still feel very ignorant to this issue. I just want to start eating normal foods again so I can start putting more fiber back in. I miss veggies. :(
I am giving myself bad anxiety wondering if I messed up.
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2023.03.20 17:31 CostcoEmployee256 Has anybody worked in the bakery?

There's a full time baker position that opened up in my wearhouse. Currently I'm pharmacy, so I'll lose my $2.00 differential from my current position, but it's guaranteed hours. I worked in a mom and pop bakery before Costco, so not really sure how much it differs.
Any insight to share?
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2023.03.20 17:03 return_to_chef5 Am I able to change my service radius for just drop-ins?

I have two drop-ins today for the same household and they’re scheduled about 4 hours apart. The drive to and from my house is 30 minutes. I’d like to continue having my service radius larger for housesitting but don’t want to drive as far for drop-ins to save on gas. Any advice? Thanks in advance!
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2023.03.20 17:01 lewdypebbles Travel CC Recommendations!

Hi everyone!
I’ve been wanting to do more travel and am looking for a travel card. Home airport is LAX. Lounge access would be nice, but if a card doesn’t offer it that’s fine.
What cards would you recommend?
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2023.03.20 16:58 typeltrs New Jersey Registration

Got my registration and tag today. Not much more different than any other. At first they said they didn't have sondors as a manufacturer. I let them know I had a picture of the vin tag that said geely made it for them. I had to email the picture to them. When all the paperwork was done there was sales tax. I question it as EVs are tax exempt in NJ. She said it comes up as gas powered. Once again I was prepared with the emissions sticker saying electric. Email again and they removed tax. All toll under one hour. Now to go play
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2023.03.20 16:37 musicwho7 AITA for exposing my bio dad on tiktok?

AITA for exposing my bio dad on tiktok?
Sorry in advanced, this story is a bit long from all the Tea in it. Ill include pictures if i can. Gowing up my dad and I were best friends. I was his mini me. My mom was always on the computer and was a bit addicted, so in my eyes she was neglectful. Around middle school, my parents divorced. My dad and I would trash talk my mom together. When I was 18 he started dating his friend and work partner he'd known for almost 10 years. She moved in with us. She was close to my age then his. 220 years older than me, 11 years younger than him. It was around that time he suggested to me that we get an RV for me to live in so I can learn to budget and live on my own, as well as have my own space. I thought that sounded great. The deal was I wasn't allowed to work cause I was in college, and he would give me a budget every 2 weeks of $170 for food and gas. Sounded good to me. I got a job anyways and lied telling him it was under the table pay, and he was okay with that. It was a mom and pop Italian restruant as I'd gone to culinary school. My previous job as a Sous Chef for a wedding catering company was paid under the table so it was easy for him to believe I found another job like that. The first time we hooked up the water in the RV, I'd come home from classes and the floor was flooded. The pipe was burst underneath shooting water into the floor. So we disconnected it and I had to use the bathroom inside. I couldn't cook in there either, nor wash my dishes. My Father claimed I could always use the kitchen in the house, I just had to ask his girlfriend first. She ALWAYS sad no. I started washing my dishes in a bin in the driveway. I was quickly told to stop because it made us looke "trashy". So I used my budget to get disposable plates and utensils. Since I couldn't use the kitchen I bought microwave meals and fast food. He said an adult needs to meal plan and since I wasn't doing that, he stopped giving me my budget. I was really glad I had a job, that also fed me. One night shortly after this, they showed up at my work to try to get me to quit. I went crying to the owner, I didn't want to quit and I needed money. Luckily she was a very strong persuasive woman so she went out on my behalf, lied saying they're paying me under the table. And convinced them to let me keep my job. The winter was cold, the bottom 1/3rd of the door was missing and he said I'm only allowed to have the heat on when I'm home. So it was always freezing and I used a heated blanket. It's around this time we barely spoke. I didn't really get to see him at home and he stopped answering my calls and replying to my texts. But made sure to brag about how he talks to his gf on the phone 5 times a day. He also made sure to tell me that if my bf loved me he would answer the phone always. When people love you they give you all the attention they can. Should have realized then his love started to fade. After a VERY hot summer in a metal RV woth no AC, I reached out to my mom. My mental state was awful living there. She helped me get a new phone not on his plan (before the phone he gave me I'd paid my own bill on my own plan for 2 years) and she said I could move in with her and my step dad. The way my father had me move out of her house, was to pack everything quietly and just leave. So that's what I did again. Him and his gf pulled me in when they caught all my friends and I moving all my stuff. They told me how rude, cowardly, and disrespectful it was of me to move out the way I was. I tried pointing out they had me move out this way before and said it was great. But they cut me off and wouldn't let me speak. Kept shaming me as I held back tears like my life depended on it. The lyrics of 'Let you down' by NF blasting in my brain. He told me since I was being so rude, he was keeping the car. My whole family pitched in to but me that car as a Christmas gift for getting my liscence. He only paid for a portion of it. But he said "fuck you, my name is on the title". I wasn't gunna fight it, my mom had an extra car I could drive. So I left. I tried to keep a relationship with him. He asked me to come back and deep clean the RV so he could sell it. I saw no issue so I came to do so. But I had a PTSD breakdown, him and his gf had to pull me out of there. I had been SA'd in there and it all came back. He told me he "didn't ever want to see me relive that so him and his girlfriend would take care of it". He assured me not to worry. I moved an hour away. We only met when I was out there for something. Like seeing my friends. He'd plan something with me that would overlap and he would just say "when your friends show up, have them join us!" That backfired on me real fast. Around a year later I wouldn't get replies to calls or texts for months. At one point I came over and noticed they'd taken every trace of me out of that house. They had pictures lining most of the walls, but taken down any with me in it. Like I'd never existed. He didn't tell me he was getting married, or invite me to his wedding. He invited me to the reception, a week beforehand. I ended up coming and when I got there he ran up to me and said "I'm so happy you're here! We need help in the kitchen!". And I spent most of the reception in the kitchen and feeling severely out of place. I felt like he was trying to start his life over without me. I didn't mind that, I just wanted him happy. I tried to call and talk to him about how I felt, weeks went by with no answer or returned calls. So I finally just texted him. I was met with gaslighting. (Refer to the first set of text messages) he tried to bring up the RV, then blamed me for my own [email protected] in the same text message. I tried to cut him off. But my grandpa kept pestering me to keep the relationship. So I tried. A fee years later I ended up buying my old car off him. He tried to swindle my bf and I for more money after our first payment by sending a screenshot of when we originally got the math wrong, but conveniently didn't screenshot that part where he said that in hopes to get more money. I stood my ground. Around 2 payments later we ended up with barely enough money to pay our rent so I called him. He said "don't worry about it, just let me know when you can get back on your payment plan. I don't want you guys to have to struggle with something like this". I told him I would. TWO DAYS LATER he calls yelling at me, telling me how irresponsible it is to not make our payments. I tried to re explain what we had previously talked about. But he cut me off yelling that I either needed to pay him, or the car needed to be back in his driveway tomorrow. I decided then and there that after we get the car paid off, I would go no contact. I was having breakdowns over just text messages and my mental health was so bad. My grandparents on my moms side heard about this and said they would lend us the money and we could pay them back when we were stable. I brought him the money order next day. He seemed extatic that he got it all at once. I didn't stay long, I knew this was goodbye. I was going no contact without telling him. I'd decided months prior he would never be invited to my wedding. I left his house, and blocked him everywhere. I was on trauma tiktok and people were exposing the shotty things people did to free themselves. After all, if you have proof that they said or did something, they can't deny it. I took part. Probably shouldn't have, but it felt so freeing not to keep it in anymore. Eventually he found my tiktok, started harassing me in my comments while i was at work, and went crying to his parents that "I'm talking shit about him on the internet" and I explained to them later that I posted what he said. If he thinks that makes him look like a bad person, then he shouldn't have said it. My grandma really tried to defend him. But I told him about my SA, the things he said and did. I found out around this time he had been abusing my mom when I was young, the reason she was always on the computer is cause that's the only time he would leave her alone. I could go on about the things that started clicking for me that I didn't realize was messed up. But that's for another time. My therapist supported me exposing him on tiktok. After a year and a half of going no contact, and old friend was coming to town. We worked a mission in India (IIMC mission) and the director was coming up and wanted to see me. His daughter and I are still friends and wanted to send things back and forth. Problem was, he was staying with my dad. He asked if I could plan something woth my father since he was in charge of the itinerary. I attempted through email, hadn't blocked him there. You can look at the pictured to see the horrible response I was given. I sent a further response but knew he would never care enough about me to read it. I wrote a song about all this, it's sad, but good. Anyways, am I the asshole for exposing the things he did and said on tik tok?
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2023.03.20 16:02 Hyacinth048 Please help, so much job stress

If anyone could offer insight, I’d really appreciate it. I feel so stressed for jobs on top of everything else as a first year teacher (not a student teacher anymore but I don’t know how to change my flair). I am a LTS currently at a school that I like, but it’s a 45-minute each way commute on a good day, meaning I spend about an hour and a half to two hours in the car each day. It’s putting a ton of miles on my car, which costs a lot in gas, oil changes, you name it.
The school I am currently at is a middle school, but they recently had a position open up at the high school. It was recommended to me to apply, but since it was so early in the year that I had not yet collected my new letters of rec, brushed up my resume, etc. With all of that combined with the drive, the crazy workload I was having at the time, and the worry that if I got the job I’d be locked in, I didn’t end up applying for the job. Now, I understand the importance of getting a job, but since then all I have been hearing is that I made the wrong choice. But the job just didn’t feel right to me, it’s a good district but the drive is awful and I found myself having little to no time between waking up at crazy hours and getting home later. My mom has been guilting me and saying the drive shouldn’t be a factor, which is leading me to feel a lot of regret.
I have to believe this wasn’t my only chance, right? I feel like I’m driving myself crazy with guilt and regret, but I feel so overworked with everything happening right now. I don’t want to believe that I blew my only chance.
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2023.03.20 15:56 mouse-in-a-tophat Drop your favorite tips for new parents.

There is so much Goggle can tell you, but what are some tips you can share with others that you may not find online?
My tips: 1- for young kids, keep adventures to 2 hour windows, and leave when you're still having fun. An over-tired kid is hell to pay.
2- If your baby is fussy till the point you're going bonkers, throw them in the belly carrier and run the vacuum. Being close to you, upright in case of gas or reflux, and the droning noise some how knocks them out.
Money tips:
3- BEFORE GETTING PREGNANT, if your job doesnt offer maternity leave, take out short term disability through Colonial. My experience was they paid my full time off a month before because of complications and then covered my 6 weeks. I highly reccomend. They are also affordable. Less than $100/m. (Texas)
4- little rascal diapers from walmart are the cheapest and best. Hands down
Im interested to see what tips and advice other parents have about all things parenting from thrifting, bullying, self confidence... Just all the stuff.
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2023.03.20 15:53 Kervon37 My wife is leaving me because I'm disabled.

Last Tuesday my wife of 18 years (married 16) came to me out of the blue and said she wants a divorce, citing the lack of romance in our marriage. After pointing out all the things I do for her that I consider romantic. I'll 3D print cute things for her, put actual thought into various gifts (her gifts are generic most of the time), etc. She admitted that the things I do are actually romantic and switched to saying that it was the sexual side of things that are lacking.
A bit of backstory to explain this. She was a victim of sexual abuse as a child and on top of that has taken anti-depression meds in the past that, as she claimed, killed her libido. Early on in our marriage I would try to "get her in the mood" at various times only to be told "no, stop". I'm not talking that giggly "no...stop it", I mean the hard, solid "No. Stop it". This continued until she started taking the meds I mentioned. Folks of Reddit, how many times can a man be told No before he just stops? Eventually I got to the point mentally that I couldn't bring myself to try to initiate anything for fear of hearing the No, opting instead to respect her wishes and let her come to me when she wanted anything sexual.
I won't say I'm totally blameless either, I know I've fucked up royally in our sex lives. For one, I used to go down on her when she asked but for various reasons I stopped. It wasn't until this last week that I really looked back and realized my other failures. We had a discussion a few months back where she said she wanted to start having sex again so I told her that whenever she wants to, I'm more than willing. I've even tried to initiate a few times, rubbing her thigh while we're in bed or scratching her back like she likes, but my attempts were ignored (or got the solid No again) so we fell right back into our old habits.
Little more backstory, I've always been a tall, heavy set guy. Back in Feb '21 I slipped on some ice that was on our porch in a way that caused me to break my hip in 2 places. Because of my size and the nature of the breaks, the surgeon pretty much said he'd do more damage trying to fix it than if it healed naturally so for almost 2 months I was laid up (couldn't even stand up until 6 1/2 weeks). When I did start walking again, it was discovered that I had both nerve and muscle damage in my leg (you can feel the indent on the side of my hip). Last year I filed for and got disability because I can't walk more than 10 feet without the aid of a cane. The one thing she kept bringing up against sex was the fact that "I'm always in pain", which is true. There's never a point where my leg doesn't have some sort of pain running through it. I don't accept this as a valid excuse though because I do other things with the pain.
Jumping back to this past Saturday night (the 18th), I wrote a letter to my wife outlaying pretty much everything. How we're both horrible at communicating, how I love her, and how I would do anything to try to rekindle the spark between us. I even said that if she wanted to bring another woman home (no guys though, that's a hill I'll die on) that I would be ok with it. Gave her the letter then went to bed (it was almost 2am).
Yesterday broke me both physically & mentally. We went to go pick up her meds and while she was in the store I went to get gas. Pulled up the Walmart app only to see a thing that said "Your order is on it's way" with a picture of a box of condoms below it. I held my tongue when she got back in the car and we headed back to the house. A few hours later I was in the garage when the delivery driver showed up with her order. She came out, took the package (with a smile on her face) and went back in the house.
I followed and went into the bedroom and sat in the darkness just staring out into nothing. 20 minutes later she came in there and asked me what's wrong (seriously...that's a stupid question in this situation). I said I wanted to talk about the letter. She said that she agrees with everything I wrote but for her the spark is completely gone but "she still loves me". She then talked about how she felt like I never wanted to go out and if I did it was she wanted it but I won't enjoy myself (which has never been the case), that she didn't realize how bad it was until she started going out with friends from work, then...she casually dropped the big bomb on me. She doesn't want to spend the rest of her life helping someone who's disabled. Folks...I'm the type of person that doesn't ask for help until I'm well past the point of needing it. One thing she does semi-regularly for me clip my toe nails & put on socks (I can't maneuver my bad leg enough to get them myself). Other than that, the only help I've asked for was when I hurt my back last month and couldn't get into bed thanks to the pain shooting down my back & hip. Roughly 4-5 times she had to lift my bad leg into the bed and stand next to it while I tried in pain to scoot further into bed.
After she pretty much said that I'm just a roommate at this point, I asked "if there's nobody else, why did you buy condoms." We'd agreed that, while still married we wouldn't see anyone else then after the divorce nobody would enter this house (we still have to live together for now until she learns to finally drive and I find somewhere to go). She just answered with "just in case".
With that, I'm now numb inside. The moment she has her license I'll be leaving this house one way or another. I want so badly to scream and yell, to let my anger out over everything but I can't. Both because I'm afraid of fucking up whatever civility we still have and because deep down, I still love her.
Edit* I know 100% that she's not cheating on me. Between this last week and previous conversations we've had, she knows my feelings & past. It's not something either of us would do.
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2023.03.20 15:52 Briellewannabe What would you have done (11 month old night waking)?

11 month old is sleep trained. She typically sleeps 11 hours at night (though she past few days she work about 15 minutes earlier than she had been). No night feedings since 4 months (with the exception of a dozen times or so for illness/teething).
Wake windows are: 3/3.5/3 hr 50 minutes. Naps capped to 1.25 and 1 hr 5-10 minutes.
Quick background - she’s not had a night waking in 8 days, but the last night waking she was up 2 hours while we tried to figure out what was wrong (we’re pretty sure it was gas… she had a bunch of Lima beans for lunch).
7:15pm - bed (she was so tired she actually nursed to sleep, which is fairly rare these days).
11:51pm-12:44am - she started crying, but it didn’t intensify with the exception of a few cries. I let her cry for 20 minutes then got her up. When I held her, she burped and I thought that was it. I put her down a couple minutes later and she cried hysterically so I got her up after 5 minutes and fed her, then put her back to sleep. She cried briefly but was out by 12:44am.
1:11am-1:55am - started crying, with some hysterical bursts but also some brief silence here and there. Checked the monitor and it looked like she was eating her fingers and her sleep sack, and she kept looking up at the baby monitor. After 15 minutes I gave her Motrin, though we’ve only seen minimal signs that she might be teething, I wasn’t sure what else to do. I nursed her again and put her to bed. She cried briefly and then slept at 1:55am.
6am - I heard her, and got her up at 6:15 (or start time, she wasn’t fussing or anything).
After nursing she started crawling around and farted some.
So I am second guessing everything I did and I still don’t feel confident in how to respond to her at night. What would you have done? I’m not sure it was gas keeping her up, as we cut out gassy foods for the time being.
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2023.03.20 15:26 Dunjindad Zion (part 2)

Last night I admit i allowed my paranoia to get the best of me. The figure I had seen out my window turned up to he a member of the housekeeping staff checking to see if I had... escaped from my mortal coil as I imagine many patrons of such a motel do. Forgive me while I attempt to wright my recollection of My horrible epic. I gave a hard time remembering what portions of the tale are necessary and wich are mundane so I'll just start from the drive to my nightmarish destination. Feel free to ask me questions. I will answer to the best of my memory
The trip to West Virginia was, for the most part, uneventful and mind-numbing. I've always despised long car rides, despite being on the road so often when going from job to job. After an extended period on the road, my mind spins into an unconscious void and it becomes hard to determine where I've been. There are often times when I completely lose myself in the sea of vehicles in a never-ending stop and go only to find myself becoming aware an hour later. What little entertainment I had on hand usually prevented me from falling asleep or completely disconnecting from the human world on my thousandth 14-hour trip to the middle of nowhere. This trip, however, was different; I didn't find myself dissociating, nor did it feel like the run of the mill from point a to point b. I was nervous and the further I made in to my destination the more I felt as if I had made a grave mistake. Despite being a 28-year-old teacher with very little adult social skills, I couldn't help but feel that a 5-year contract with some pseudo-cult in the heart of West Virginia might have been a bit of an impulsive call even with the paycheck, and every time I thought of cryptic emails, I could feel my stomach constrict and knot at the very premise of meeting the strangers in person.
I found myself in one of my few "coming to reality" moments of the trip when I turned into a small town. I was surprised by the smell I was immediately greeted with; the distinct smell of mildew assaulted my senses at the very moment I passed a pale green and mildly vandalized billboard posted on the side of the road that read "Welcome to Dawson," scrawled in a cheesey font that made all the letters look like logs. The town itself was placed in a valley of some sort, almost completely enveloped by mountains on three sides, as if Mother Nature had left this perfect little alcove in the center just for this hidden civilization. On top of the distant, albeit ever-present, ranges sat hundreds of thousands of trees that wrapped the elevation in a verdant cocoon. The town itself was small compared to Tampa, as all the others were. There weren't any towers climbing towards the sky with an impossible number of floors; the pavement of the underutilized roads was a soft gray color, void of any fresh pavement, but the surface was laid bare of any faults as if it had been used, if only just enough to keep the earth from forcing its way back through the laid concrete. As I pulled up to what I can only imagine was the only stoplight in the town, my hands fumbled for my phone in order to check the status of my journey. 1 minute to destination was plastered at the top of the screen, leaving me in a state of confusion as the only things in sight seemed to be a few stores and what looked to be a small cafe on a road that stretched toward the horizon with no apparent end. The light turned green, and my GPS sent me to an immediate left to a small, run-down store just off the entrance that brought me into the mountain asylum. The store was decrepit; the paint was peeling from its decorative siding, creating a splotchy pattern of dingy blue and an aging off white. One of the large windows looking into the store had a sheet of wood crudely nailed over it, and an awning stretched from the end of the parking lot directly to the roof of the gas station as if whatever contractors built this were trying to deplorably hide the abomination from God himself. The store had no sign or title other than an LED fixture that indicated that the nameless fuel depot was open.
"You have arrived at your destination," the droning voice said through the speakers of my car as I came to a reluctant stop. I looked down at my phone to be certain the GPS wasn't struggling to find a pathway yet to be discovered by anyone except for those who had lived there their whole lives, but according to the directions, this was indeed my "intended" destination. Immediately checking my surroundings, I took note of the road that carved its way through the center of the poor excuse for a town ahead of me, sparsely decorated with various local stores and venues. According to my map the road didn't break off from this central strip for another 5 miles.
I buried my head in my hands after begrudgingly throwing my car into park and let out an exasperated sigh. I frantically flipped through the emails I had passed back and forth to my usual benefactor to find any messages concerning the exact location of my job site aside from the address I had been given.
"A fucking gas station, they gave me the address of a fucking gas station" I groaned as I came apon an email that had been sent...5 minutes ago. The subject line read "Apon Arival."
"When you arrive in Dawson, be sure to contact me at the number posted below so I may provide additional instruction on how to safely make it to Fairhaven. "Zion can be dangerous."
I felt my heart drop when my tired eyes made contact with the message below. My heart once again began to slam against my chest—was I lied to? Up to this point, the mystery man who had been detailing the project had alluded to my final stop being in Dawson. It was common to be sent to offshoots of towns that were far removed from modern commodities and human development, yet it was also common that whoever had hired me would be upfront and rather specific in telling me that my location wasn't so much a town as it was a "community" beyond the confines of city streets, so I wouldn't be surprised when I found myself over an hour away from the nearest comfort. I had also been warned of a place's dangers before; the last time I sat down to write, I mentioned that on a trip to the Congo, I was directly informed of the dangers of leaving my protective shell, but in those cases, safety was often typed in bold so that I knew what to expect from the start.
I was plagued with despondence as I slammed my phone into my pocket before forcing the door of my car open with an angry grunt. My brisk and heavy footfall fell onto the cement with intent, regardless of my clulessness. I pushed my way through the gas station's rusted door, which would have welded itself to the frame of the building if not for the little traffic that passed through it, when I was greeted with a poorly lit convenience store. The hum of aging fluorescent lights sang through the quite store. Web-like cracks formed on the yellowing stone as if the walls themselves were trying to escape from the neglected mess, the white panels on the ceiling were rife with black and brown spots indicating frequent leaks and water damage, and the smell was ungodly. I would have gone insane if I was forced to work in a room that had that pestilential smell glued to it. The shelves laid not quite bear but with just enough product on them that for the place to still be listed as a buisness that caused the aluminum casings to bend downward like they where struggling to hold the weight of a finite amount of light snacks.
I locked eyes with a surly man with ash and gray hair who sat behind the counter with a dejected stare. He wore a stained shirt and wrinkled jeans. His unkind eyes were bloodshot and glazed over with age, which seemed to break him, and his lips sat inward to indicate the lack of teeth in his sunken face.
"I can help you," he mumbled with a thick draw that I would have not understood if I hadn't met plenty of people of his likeness prior.
"Yeah, I'm... looking for Fairhaven?"
The grouchy old cashier scratched at his knife like whiskers and leaned onto the counter. "Fayrehayven?" He said obviously perplexed
I gathered what little skills of human interaction I had beyond lecturing a room full of students as I approached the man "right, I'm a teacher and..."
The old man quickly cut me off with little regard for or interest in my oncoming and admittedly pretentious elevator pitch, which I often gave to anyone who asked. "Yer in Dawson, gottanuff teachers last I heard."
"Yeah, well I'm not supposed to be in Dawson." I'm looking for Fairhaven. I interjected
The man responded with an apparent tone of disdain: "Ain't never heard of no FayreHayven; I've been here fiftee sebn years and ain't never heard of no FayreHayven."
I took a deep breath in an attempt to carry the conversation, but I've learned to count my losses when they make themselves known.
"Well, I suppose I'm lost then," I said, holding my hands up.
He grumbled once again and looked me up and down with his hateful glare before forcing out a slight "mmhmm."
I turned and rolled my eyes a bit before walking out of the store, completely defeated. I contemplated for quite some time before reaching back for my phone to examine the cryptic message that overtook my screen. I faltered only slightly before pressing my finger to the highlighted blue digits pasted at the end of the digital letter. The dial tone chimed for longer than expected, and right before the all-too-common voice mailbox message played, I heard a barely audible click before a voice came over the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Hayes," the man spoke in a scratchy, almost strained voice, as if he were exerting himself even while speaking.
The way the man spoke was just as unsettling as the emails we had passed back and forth previously, and without thinking, I responded with a little more panic in my voice than I care to admit, "How did you know it was me?"
The man retorted immediately. "I don't know many with a Tampa area code, my friend; call it intuition."
I kicked myself for being so skeptical after his truthfully sound logic connected with the bundle of nerves that was my mind before I mustered the confidence to say, "Sorry, I'm a bit on edge." "I think you might have given me the wrong address; I'm at a gas station just off the entrance to Dawson."
I waited for a moment before the man spoke once again. "The address we provided was correct; there are no pathways to Fairhaven, and we have attempted to remain secretive as to avoid the judgment of the individuals that may regard us as an unsavory commune." If you look to your right you will see a small path cut into the trees just beyond the convince store. "If you follow this path by foot, we will see to it that a member of the congregation greets you so that you can arrive safely."
I looked back towards the blue Honda Accord I had arrived in and argued, "All of my equipment is in my vehicle—my notes and laptop, my clothes, and I'm certainly not equipped to be hiking in dress shoes." I.."
The hoarse growl of the man rather shot back with an audatory shot of aggressive air: "We will see to it that your things arrive at the Fairhaven Community." I implore you to make your way onto the trail before nightfall. "The forest can be very dangerous without the sanctum of sunlight."
I glanced over at what I could infer was the overgrown pathway he was referring to with a shaky breath.
"I can understand your hesitancy; fear is a powerful emotion, but do not allow it to cloud your judgment." "The walk shouldn't take longer than a quarter of an hour." He spoke calmly now, but there was no comfort in his voice, rather a malignant vexation, as if it were meant to be a threat.
I gripped My phone white-knuckled at the accuracy of his statement. His perception of me was correct because I was not only terrified of the situation but also beyond frustrated at the thought of taking a hike up a mountain directly after a 14-hour trip with nothing but a 2-hour rest in a motel at the halfway mark.
"Guess I'll be there soon," I said, despite my mind showering him with a barrage of heinous insults. He hung up the phone without saying another word.
I gathered a few small commodities from my vehicle before turning towards the cutout hidden within the expanse of millions of trees that ascended to the summit of the gargantuan elevation ahead of me. It was overstated when the man labeled the cocofany of unkempt foliage a pathway; there was hardly even enough of an opening to make my way into the bramble, let alone not be perpetually scratched by the harsh and apathetic thorns that various plants had developed for occasions such as these. The slope that the natural alleyway was built on very quickly turned from a steady incline to a steep, near-vertical hill void of foothold, and I had to rely on my softened hands, which grasped desperately at the closest trees. It didn't take long for my feet to ache and burn. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've never been an outdoorsman. I was often poked fun at by the locals for being a city dweller when I gave a common toad a look of disgust, so it could automatically be assumed that I'm hardly the hiking type either.
The aforementioned 45-minute walk turned into an hour and then two before My knees buckled from beneath me. I was told that someone was to meet me at the point between the gas station and the community, and I was certain that I had to have made the trek to their standards regardless of my excessive stops. I laid my back against the trunk of a large tree before looking toward the sky. The faint glow of a reddening sky was barely visible through the canopy above before my dismay began to settle in. Nightfall was coming, and in the state I was in, I had no hope of making my way to the destination in the next 6 hours, let alone before nightfall. I closed my eyes tight and buried my head into my blistered hands, I could feel my brisk beating heart in my palms when the deafening roar of an engine rocketed my senses into overdrive. My head shot upward toward the golden beams of light, obscuring their source entirely.
"What in God's name is a fella like you doing way out here?" The voice wasn't the same as the man I had spoken to on the phone. It was just as old and eroded, but it held much more of the thick twang of a local.
"I'm looking for fairhaven." "They said they were sending someone to get me!" I shouted back over the boisterous hum of idling machinery.
"Well then, it's best to hop on." "Ain't a shot in hell in making any further in your condition."
I was in no position to argue, so I clasped my hands on a low-hanging branch and lifted myself upright before closing in on what seemed to be a crude attempt at an ATV. On top of the buggy was a middle-aged man with salt and pepper hair and an ice white goatee. He was draped in a flannel shirt and blue jeans that have seen their share of hard times. He wore glasses that fell to the tip of his nose in order to examine me further as I approached. I boarded my saviors vessel and caught a whiff of what I knew to be the pungent odor of illicit alcohol. This man wasn't what I expected from the conversations I had prior with the eccentric leader of the religious movement, but the thought was pushed to the back of my mind as the contraption immediately spun its tires against the leaves and dirt of the forest floor, kicking back a blast of woodland scrap backward as it twisted one hundred and eighty degrees to face parrallel with the pathway that I thought to be my demise, only to scream up the hillside with unexpected force.
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2023.03.20 15:25 Dunjindad Zion (part 2)

Last night I admit i allowed my paranoia to get the best of me. The figure I had seen out my window turned up to he a member of the housekeeping staff checking to see if I had... escaped from my mortal coil as I imagine many patrons of such a motel do. Forgive me while I attempt to wright my recollection of My horrible epic. I gave a hard time remembering what portions of the tale are necessary and wich are mundane so I'll just start from the drive to my nightmarish destination. Feel free to ask me questions. I will answer to the best of my memory
The trip to West Virginia was, for the most part, uneventful and mind-numbing. I've always despised long car rides, despite being on the road so often when going from job to job. After an extended period on the road, my mind spins into an unconscious void and it becomes hard to determine where I've been. There are often times when I completely lose myself in the sea of vehicles in a never-ending stop and go only to find myself becoming aware an hour later. What little entertainment I had on hand usually prevented me from falling asleep or completely disconnecting from the human world on my thousandth 14-hour trip to the middle of nowhere. This trip, however, was different; I didn't find myself dissociating, nor did it feel like the run of the mill from point a to point b. I was nervous and the further I made in to my destination the more I felt as if I had made a grave mistake. Despite being a 28-year-old teacher with very little adult social skills, I couldn't help but feel that a 5-year contract with some pseudo-cult in the heart of West Virginia might have been a bit of an impulsive call even with the paycheck, and every time I thought of cryptic emails, I could feel my stomach constrict and knot at the very premise of meeting the strangers in person.
I found myself in one of my few "coming to reality" moments of the trip when I turned into a small town. I was surprised by the smell I was immediately greeted with; the distinct smell of mildew assaulted my senses at the very moment I passed a pale green and mildly vandalized billboard posted on the side of the road that read "Welcome to Dawson," scrawled in a cheesey font that made all the letters look like logs. The town itself was placed in a valley of some sort, almost completely enveloped by mountains on three sides, as if Mother Nature had left this perfect little alcove in the center just for this hidden civilization. On top of the distant, albeit ever-present, ranges sat hundreds of thousands of trees that wrapped the elevation in a verdant cocoon. The town itself was small compared to Tampa, as all the others were. There weren't any towers climbing towards the sky with an impossible number of floors; the pavement of the underutilized roads was a soft gray color, void of any fresh pavement, but the surface was laid bare of any faults as if it had been used, if only just enough to keep the earth from forcing its way back through the laid concrete. As I pulled up to what I can only imagine was the only stoplight in the town, my hands fumbled for my phone in order to check the status of my journey. 1 minute to destination was plastered at the top of the screen, leaving me in a state of confusion as the only things in sight seemed to be a few stores and what looked to be a small cafe on a road that stretched toward the horizon with no apparent end. The light turned green, and my GPS sent me to an immediate left to a small, run-down store just off the entrance that brought me into the mountain asylum. The store was decrepit; the paint was peeling from its decorative siding, creating a splotchy pattern of dingy blue and an aging off white. One of the large windows looking into the store had a sheet of wood crudely nailed over it, and an awning stretched from the end of the parking lot directly to the roof of the gas station as if whatever contractors built this were trying to deplorably hide the abomination from God himself. The store had no sign or title other than an LED fixture that indicated that the nameless fuel depot was open.
"You have arrived at your destination," the droning voice said through the speakers of my car as I came to a reluctant stop. I looked down at my phone to be certain the GPS wasn't struggling to find a pathway yet to be discovered by anyone except for those who had lived there their whole lives, but according to the directions, this was indeed my "intended" destination. Immediately checking my surroundings, I took note of the road that carved its way through the center of the poor excuse for a town ahead of me, sparsely decorated with various local stores and venues. According to my map the road didn't break off from this central strip for another 5 miles.
I buried my head in my hands after begrudgingly throwing my car into park and let out an exasperated sigh. I frantically flipped through the emails I had passed back and forth to my usual benefactor to find any messages concerning the exact location of my job site aside from the address I had been given.
"A fucking gas station, they gave me the address of a fucking gas station" I groaned as I came apon an email that had been sent...5 minutes ago. The subject line read "Apon Arival."
"When you arrive in Dawson, be sure to contact me at the number posted below so I may provide additional instruction on how to safely make it to Fairhaven. "Zion can be dangerous."
I felt my heart drop when my tired eyes made contact with the message below. My heart once again began to slam against my chest—was I lied to? Up to this point, the mystery man who had been detailing the project had alluded to my final stop being in Dawson. It was common to be sent to offshoots of towns that were far removed from modern commodities and human development, yet it was also common that whoever had hired me would be upfront and rather specific in telling me that my location wasn't so much a town as it was a "community" beyond the confines of city streets, so I wouldn't be surprised when I found myself over an hour away from the nearest comfort. I had also been warned of a place's dangers before; the last time I sat down to write, I mentioned that on a trip to the Congo, I was directly informed of the dangers of leaving my protective shell, but in those cases, safety was often typed in bold so that I knew what to expect from the start.
I was plagued with despondence as I slammed my phone into my pocket before forcing the door of my car open with an angry grunt. My brisk and heavy footfall fell onto the cement with intent, regardless of my clulessness. I pushed my way through the gas station's rusted door, which would have welded itself to the frame of the building if not for the little traffic that passed through it, when I was greeted with a poorly lit convenience store. The hum of aging fluorescent lights sang through the quite store. Web-like cracks formed on the yellowing stone as if the walls themselves were trying to escape from the neglected mess, the white panels on the ceiling were rife with black and brown spots indicating frequent leaks and water damage, and the smell was ungodly. I would have gone insane if I was forced to work in a room that had that pestilential smell glued to it. The shelves laid not quite bear but with just enough product on them that for the place to still be listed as a buisness that caused the aluminum casings to bend downward like they where struggling to hold the weight of a finite amount of light snacks.
I locked eyes with a surly man with ash and gray hair who sat behind the counter with a dejected stare. He wore a stained shirt and wrinkled jeans. His unkind eyes were bloodshot and glazed over with age, which seemed to break him, and his lips sat inward to indicate the lack of teeth in his sunken face.
"I can help you," he mumbled with a thick draw that I would have not understood if I hadn't met plenty of people of his likeness prior.
"Yeah, I'm... looking for Fairhaven?"
The grouchy old cashier scratched at his knife like whiskers and leaned onto the counter. "Fayrehayven?" He said obviously perplexed
I gathered what little skills of human interaction I had beyond lecturing a room full of students as I approached the man "right, I'm a teacher and..."
The old man quickly cut me off with little regard for or interest in my oncoming and admittedly pretentious elevator pitch, which I often gave to anyone who asked. "Yer in Dawson, gottanuff teachers last I heard."
"Yeah, well I'm not supposed to be in Dawson." I'm looking for Fairhaven. I interjected
The man responded with an apparent tone of disdain: "Ain't never heard of no FayreHayven; I've been here fiftee sebn years and ain't never heard of no FayreHayven."
I took a deep breath in an attempt to carry the conversation, but I've learned to count my losses when they make themselves known.
"Well, I suppose I'm lost then," I said, holding my hands up.
He grumbled once again and looked me up and down with his hateful glare before forcing out a slight "mmhmm."
I turned and rolled my eyes a bit before walking out of the store, completely defeated. I contemplated for quite some time before reaching back for my phone to examine the cryptic message that overtook my screen. I faltered only slightly before pressing my finger to the highlighted blue digits pasted at the end of the digital letter. The dial tone chimed for longer than expected, and right before the all-too-common voice mailbox message played, I heard a barely audible click before a voice came over the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Hayes," the man spoke in a scratchy, almost strained voice, as if he were exerting himself even while speaking.
The way the man spoke was just as unsettling as the emails we had passed back and forth previously, and without thinking, I responded with a little more panic in my voice than I care to admit, "How did you know it was me?"
The man retorted immediately. "I don't know many with a Tampa area code, my friend; call it intuition."
I kicked myself for being so skeptical after his truthfully sound logic connected with the bundle of nerves that was my mind before I mustered the confidence to say, "Sorry, I'm a bit on edge." "I think you might have given me the wrong address; I'm at a gas station just off the entrance to Dawson."
I waited for a moment before the man spoke once again. "The address we provided was correct; there are no pathways to Fairhaven, and we have attempted to remain secretive as to avoid the judgment of the individuals that may regard us as an unsavory commune." If you look to your right you will see a small path cut into the trees just beyond the convince store. "If you follow this path by foot, we will see to it that a member of the congregation greets you so that you can arrive safely."
I looked back towards the blue Honda Accord I had arrived in and argued, "All of my equipment is in my vehicle—my notes and laptop, my clothes, and I'm certainly not equipped to be hiking in dress shoes." I.."
The hoarse growl of the man rather shot back with an audatory shot of aggressive air: "We will see to it that your things arrive at the Fairhaven Community." I implore you to make your way onto the trail before nightfall. "The forest can be very dangerous without the sanctum of sunlight."
I glanced over at what I could infer was the overgrown pathway he was referring to with a shaky breath.
"I can understand your hesitancy; fear is a powerful emotion, but do not allow it to cloud your judgment." "The walk shouldn't take longer than a quarter of an hour." He spoke calmly now, but there was no comfort in his voice, rather a malignant vexation, as if it were meant to be a threat.
I gripped My phone white-knuckled at the accuracy of his statement. His perception of me was correct because I was not only terrified of the situation but also beyond frustrated at the thought of taking a hike up a mountain directly after a 14-hour trip with nothing but a 2-hour rest in a motel at the halfway mark.
"Guess I'll be there soon," I said, despite my mind showering him with a barrage of heinous insults. He hung up the phone without saying another word.
I gathered a few small commodities from my vehicle before turning towards the cutout hidden within the expanse of millions of trees that ascended to the summit of the gargantuan elevation ahead of me. It was overstated when the man labeled the cocofany of unkempt foliage a pathway; there was hardly even enough of an opening to make my way into the bramble, let alone not be perpetually scratched by the harsh and apathetic thorns that various plants had developed for occasions such as these. The slope that the natural alleyway was built on very quickly turned from a steady incline to a steep, near-vertical hill void of foothold, and I had to rely on my softened hands, which grasped desperately at the closest trees. It didn't take long for my feet to ache and burn. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've never been an outdoorsman. I was often poked fun at by the locals for being a city dweller when I gave a common toad a look of disgust, so it could automatically be assumed that I'm hardly the hiking type either.
The aforementioned 45-minute walk turned into an hour and then two before My knees buckled from beneath me. I was told that someone was to meet me at the point between the gas station and the community, and I was certain that I had to have made the trek to their standards regardless of my excessive stops. I laid my back against the trunk of a large tree before looking toward the sky. The faint glow of a reddening sky was barely visible through the canopy above before my dismay began to settle in. Nightfall was coming, and in the state I was in, I had no hope of making my way to the destination in the next 6 hours, let alone before nightfall. I closed my eyes tight and buried my head into my blistered hands, I could feel my brisk beating heart in my palms when the deafening roar of an engine rocketed my senses into overdrive. My head shot upward toward the golden beams of light, obscuring their source entirely.
"What in God's name is a fella like you doing way out here?" The voice wasn't the same as the man I had spoken to on the phone. It was just as old and eroded, but it held much more of the thick twang of a local.
"I'm looking for fairhaven." "They said they were sending someone to get me!" I shouted back over the boisterous hum of idling machinery.
"Well then, it's best to hop on." "Ain't a shot in hell in making any further in your condition."
I was in no position to argue, so I clasped my hands on a low-hanging branch and lifted myself upright before closing in on what seemed to be a crude attempt at an ATV. On top of the buggy was a middle-aged man with salt and pepper hair and an ice white goatee. He was draped in a flannel shirt and blue jeans that have seen their share of hard times. He wore glasses that fell to the tip of his nose in order to examine me further as I approached. I boarded my saviors vessel and caught a whiff of what I knew to be the pungent odor of illicit alcohol. This man wasn't what I expected from the conversations I had prior with the eccentric leader of the religious movement, but the thought was pushed to the back of my mind as the contraption immediately spun its tires against the leaves and dirt of the forest floor, kicking back a blast of woodland scrap backward as it twisted one hundred and eighty degrees to face parrallel with the pathway that I thought to be my demise, only to scream up the hillside with unexpected force.
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2023.03.20 15:24 BoringFly8845 Is there anything I need to know as an independent volunteer?

Hi, is there anything I should know when volunteering independently and can you please share your experience when doing so? Wondering about anything as far as documentation of hours and money spent on printed resources and gas for tax resons, keeping logs, organization tips, things like that and I really need to know what I'm missing or if there is anything legally I need to be aware of.
I've been having a bit of trouble finding places to volunteer so I decided to start offering free help directly with the following:
•Learning basic computer literacy skills •Resume, interview, and job search help •Grocery shopping and delivery for the elderly and disabled on the weekends •Resources for gaining access to medications at a price you can afford
In my experience, these are some of the biggest hurdles affecting people's everyday lives and I hate the idea of anyone feeling stuck. People need to know there is help out there and I'm willing to be a part of that help.
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2023.03.20 15:16 Onehitwonder2022 Please Help Me

I have been suffering from this unknown disease for over two years now and it is taking a toll on quality of my life. Some day I feel good, some day I feel bad, but I never feel great.
Two years ago, I suddenly started having frequent heartburn and gas issue from overeating. Then one day I wake up from sleep with this sensation of extreme tightness on my rectum. this is followed by skinny pellet stool and abdominal gas and cramping. for next few months, this persisted but eventually my rectal pressure started to decrease, but stool consistency never went back to normal. stool was always skinny too.
I went to doctor, did colonoscopy, CT scan, Endoscopy, and bunch of tests. everything came back normal, with only EPI coming back low (125) and mild gastritis.
To this day, my stool is skinny. most of the time, its long. from time to time, its long and thick after which I feel good and feel relieved for few hours. but almost 24/7 I feel this dull sensation in my tailbone like something is pressing against it, I feel constipated, and there is excessive gas ad flatulence (most time it feels like gas is trapped and have to struggle to come out).
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2023.03.20 14:55 nstauder2 Costco Washer/Dryer Delivery Saga

I gotta share this somewhere, because I feel like I'm going crazy. Here's my timeline of events as I try to get a new washedryer installed:
2/20: Ordered LG WashTower online.
3/9: Delivery #1: Employee asks where the unit is to be installed and states that they cannot do it when I tell him it’s on the 2nd floor, despite Costco’s website stating that they will go up/down one story. Does not enter to inspect anything.
3/9: I speak with Costco support and they say that they should have been able to deliver and install, so another attempt is scheduled for 3/11.
3/11: Delivery #2: Employee enters, looks at stairs and says that they will not be able to get the LG WashTower up due to it being one inseparable unit. He tells me to get a refund and order a separate, stackable unit. Does not inspect the old, current unit.
3/11: I speak with Costco support and cancel the current order and order a new LG washedryer combo WITH stacking kit.
3/15: Delivery #3: Employees enter, remove the current washedryer from the closet on the 2nd floor, attempt to separate them (they cannot), and decide that they can’t get it down the stairs. They put the unit back in place and state that they will try again and send another team capable of doing so. A delivery is scheduled for 3/17.
3/16: Costco support calls me and asks questions about the situation, which I answer. He says he will call me back with more information in an hour. He does not.
3/17: Costco support calls me at 7AM, waking me up, and informs me that they will not be able to remove the old unit. At this point I’m pretty upset and ask for a manager. He says a manager will call me back (they did not)
3/17: Delivery #4: Despite the morning call, employees show up and attempt to deliver the washedryer. Employee inspects the current unit, thinks he can remove it, but then informs me that the new unit does not have a stacking kit (despite my order including one). I refuse removal of the current unit because I do not want to be left without a washedryer.
3/17: After failed delivery #4, I speak with Costco support and let them know I want to speak with someone higher up. I am assured that a manager has been alerted and will call back ASAP. (Nobody did)
3/17 3:30 PM: I call Costco support and ask to speak to a manager and I will hold. After about 20 minutes I speak to a manager that listens to my story and says she will email me with an update before she leaves for the day.
3/17 5:47 PM: I get an email from the manager that says she is ordering the missing stacking kit and the next delivery date is the 22nd, but she will try to get a sooner date.
3/18: I am called twice regarding the delivery of the new kit, and the earliest they can schedule it is the 25th, far later than what was promised by the manager. I tell them that I want to get it installed on the 22nd as promised (I will be away starting the 25th), and they say I’ll be contacted when the manager is back (on the 21st). There is apparently nobody else that can deal with this over the weekend. In every call, I have to explain the whole situation over again because the agent cannot read notes before the call (huh?)
3/19: I am called twice more, with the same outcome.
And now I have to wait until tomorrow to maybe get the install scheduled? The lack of internal communication/note-taking is astounding, really.
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2023.03.20 14:48 dinkomaricic [H] Satisfactory, Mordhau, Empyrion, Kartkraft, Call To Arms, Slay The Spire, Pathfinder WotR, Hell Let Loose, SCUM, Gotham Knights, Back 4 Blood, ETS2, Obduction, State Of Decay 2 Juggernaut, Tower Unite, Man Of Medan & Little Hope, Friday 13th & 100's more [W] Wishlist, Paypal (EU)

I'm from EU,so GAMES SHOULD work pretty much anywhere
NOT BUYING GAMES,ONLY TRADES - games for games or selling for paypal
No interest in TF2 keys
BUYER covers the FEES (if outside EU,EU F&F only)
My Steam account so you don't offer me something I own
My Wishlist
My SGSRep
My IGSRep


Only looking for Steam games - so don't offer origin,uplay,rockstar,bnet or ANY other launcher
100% of my games keys are bought by me from official stores & I expect the same in return,so don't offer me keyshop games or game keys you got in a trade as I will decline
I retain the right to ask for proof of ownership for ANY game I want - just like you have the right to ask me the same
Don't offer me VR games as I don't own a VR headset


List of games I have:
Also have the Earthquake Relief bundle,but reddit wont let me write all the games cause my topic would be too big - just ask
7 Billion Humans
8Doors Arum's Afterlife Adventure
10 Second Ninja X
60 Seconds!
112 Operator
140
198X
911 Operator
A Case Of Distrust
A Year Of Rain
Absolver
Aeolis Tournament
Age Of Wonders III
Ageless
Airport CEO
AI War 2
Alien Spidy
Aliens Vs Predator Collection
All You Can Eat
Almost There The Platformer
American Fugitive
Amnesia A Machine For Pigs + The Dark Descent (1 key for both games)
Amnesia Fortnight 2012
Amnesia Fortnight 2014
Amnesia Fortnight 2017
Amnesia Rebirth (X2)
Among Us (X2)
Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey (EU & Africa lock)
Aragami (X2)
Archamon
Armello
Army Men RTS
Attack Of The Earthlings
Automobilista
Aven Colony
Avernum 3 Ruined World
Azkend 2 The World Beneath
Back 4 Blood (EU region lock)
Backbone
Band Of Defenders
Banished
Baseball Riot
Batora Lost Haven NEW
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Beholder 2
Bendy And The Dark Revival
Bendy And The Ink Machine
Betrayer (delisted)
Between The Stars (X2)
Beyond Eyes
Beyond The Wire
Biomutant NEW
Bionic Commando
Bird Of Light
Black Paradox
Blade Assault
Blasphemous
Bohemian Killing
Book Of Demons
Bomber Crew Deluxe
Borderlands 3 + Director's Cut (EMEA region lock)
Boreal Blade
Bridge Constructor The Walking Dead
Broken Age (X2)
Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons (X2)
Butcher
Call Of Juarez
Call Of The Sea (X2)
Call To Arms Basic Edition
Call To Arms Gates Of Hell Ostfront
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition (X2)
Cities In Motion 2
CivCity Rome
Clone Drone In The Danger Zone
Clouds & Sheep 2
Coffin Dodgers
Cook Serve Delicious 3
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (Origin key)
Company Of Heroes Complete Edition
Control Ultimate Edition NEW
Corridor Z
Cosmic Osmo And The World Beyond The Mackerel
Crash Drive 3
Creatures Inc
Crookz The Big Heist
Crossbow Bloodnight
Crusader Kings Complete
Crying Suns
Dagon The Eldritch Box
Danger Scavenger
Day Of Infamy
Dead Age
Dead By Daylight
Dead In Vinland
Deadly Premonition Director's Cut
Deadbeat Heroes (X2)
Dear Ester Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Deep Dungeons Of Doom
Deep Sky Derelicts
Demon Turf NEW
Deployment
Desert Child
Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor
Dicey Dungeons (X2)
Dimension Drifter
Distraint 2 + Soundtrack
Divekick
Dog Sled Saga
Double Fine Adventures Complete Series Deluxe
Downwell
Drawful 2
Draw Slasher
Dreadlands
Dread Templar
Dread X Collection
Dreamscaper NEW
Driftland The Magic Revival
Dry Downing
Duke Nukem Forever Collection
Dungeon Marathon
Dungeon Of The Endless
Dungeons 2
Dungeons 2 Complete
Dungeons 3
Dusk
Dwarfs!?
Eador Imperium
EarthX
Eastside Hockey Manager
ECHO
Edge Of Eternity NEW
Effie
Elderborn
Eldest Souls
Elden Path Of The Forgotten
Embr
Emily Is Away
Empyrion Galactic Survival
Epic Manager
E.T. Armies Deluxe Edition
Etherborn (X2)
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Europa Universalis IV
Evergarden
Expeditions Viking
F1 2018 (delisted)
Family Man
Fantasy Blacksmith
Fantasy Versus
Farmer's Dynasty
Farming Simulator 17
FIA European Truck Racing
Figment (X2)
Finding Paradise
Fire Ungh's Quest
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling To The Finish
Fluffy Horde
Fobia St. Dinfna Hotel
Forgive Me Father
Framed Collection (X2)
Friday the 13th: The Game (X2)
Frog Detective 1 The Haunted Island (X2)
Full Throttle Remastered
Fun With Ragdolls The Game
Fury Unleashed (X2)
Gang Beasts
Garage Bad Trip (X2)
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Gas Station Simulator
Gauge
Genesis Noir
Ghostrunner
Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams + Rise Of The Owlverlord
GNOG
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Goat Of Duty
Goetia (X2)
Going Under (X2)
Golden Light
Golf Gang
GoNNER
Gotham Knights
Grand Ages Medieval
Grand Pigeon's Duty
Greak Memories Of Azur
Gremlins Inc.
Grip Combat Racing + Cygon + Nyvoss + Terra + Vintek DLC (X2)
Guts And Glory (X2)
Hack'n'Slash
Haiku The Robot (X2)
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hammerfight
Headlander
Heal
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Let Loose
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice NEW
Hello Neighbor
Hellbound
Hero Defense
Hero's Hour NEW (EU region lock)
Hexologic
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2 Courage Under Fire
Hive Jump (X2)
Hiveswap Act 2
Hiveswap Friend Sim
Hiveswap Friend Sim Complete
Homeworld Deserts Of Kharak
Hotshot Racing
Hot Tin Roof The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hover (X2)
Human Resource Machine
Hurtworld
I Am Bread
I Am Not A Monster First Contact
Ice Lakes
If Found...
Ikenfell
Impact Winter (delisted)
In Between
Industria
Infinite Air With Mark McMorris (delisted)
Inmost
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition
Intruder
Ion Fury
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Jack Axe
Jalopy
Jet Set Knights
Juanito Arcade Mayhem
Jump Stars
Jurassic World Evolution
Jurassic World Evolution 2 NEW
Just Die Already
KartKraft
Kathy Rain Directors Cut
Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (X2)
Kill To Collect
Kingdom Classic (X2)
Kingdom New Lands
Kingdoms Of Amalur Re-Reckoning Fate Edition
King Oddball
Last Oasis
Last Tide
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Lead And Gold Gangs Of Wild West (X2)
Legacy Of Dorn Herald Of Oblivion (delisted)
Legend Of Keepers Career Of A Dungeon Master
LEGO Movie Videogame
Leisure Suit Larry Retro Bundle (1 to 7)
Lethal League Blaze
Liberated (GOG key)
Lifeless Planet Premium Edition
Light Fall
Little Big Workshop
Love Is Dead
Lust For Darkness
Lust From Beyond M Edition
Magicka
Magrunner Dark Pulse
Maid Of Sker
Main Assembly (X2)
Mainlining
Mars Horizon
Masquerade The Baubles Of Doom
Max Payne 3 (Rockstar Launcher)
Midnight Protocol
Mind Scanners
Mini Metro
Miscreated (X2)
Monster Crown NEW
Monster Train Collectors Edition
Moon Hunters
Morbid The Seven Acolytes
Mordhau
Mosaic
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Motorsport Manager
Mount And Blade Warband
Mountain
My Lovely Daughter
Nairi Tower Of Shirin
Naruto To Boruto Shinobi Striker
Nascar Heat 5 Ultimate
Nebuchadnezzar
NecroVisioN Lost Company
NecroWorn
Neighbours Back From Hell
Neo Cab
Neon Abyss
NeuroVoider
Neverout
Niche
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl (X2)
Ninjin Clash Of Carrots
No Time To Relax
Not Tonight
Numba Deluxe
Obduction
Observation
Octahedron
Odyssey The Story Of Science
Of Orcs And Men
Old School Musical
OlliOlli World Rad Edition
On Rusty Trails
One Finger Death Punch 2
Onikira Demon Killer
Orbital Racer
Orcs Must Die 2 Complete
Original War
Orwell Ignorance Is Strength
Out Of Reach Treasure Royal
Overlord II
Overpass
Override Mech City Brawl
Oxenfree
Pacer
Paint The Town Red
Paper Fire Rookie
Paradise Lost
Pathfinder Wrath Of The Righteous
Pathologic 2
Path Of Giants
Paw Paw Paw
Payday 2 + Big Mike mask
Peaky Blinders Mastermind (delisted)
Penarium
People Playground (X2)
Per Aspera
Perfect Heist 2
PGA Tour 2K21 (X2)
Phoenix Point Year One Edition
Pikuniku
Pine
Pinstripe (X2)
Pixplode
Plane Mechanic Simulator
Playne The Meditation Game
Poöf
Popup Dungeon
Post Void
Pound Of Ground (X2)
PowerSlave Exhumed
Prehistoric Kingdom
Primal Carnage Extinction (X2)
Project Cars GOTY (delisted)
Project Hospital
Project Warlock
Pumped BMX+
Punch Club
Purrfect Date
Quest Of Dungeons
RAD (X2)
Radio Commander
Rad Rodgers Radical Edition
Railroad Tycoon 2
Railroad Tycoon 3
Railway Empire
Raji An Ancient Epic
Rebel Cops
Rec Center Tycoon
Red Faction Armageddon
Red Solstice 2 Survivors
Redeemer Enhanced Edition
Redout Enhanced Edition
Re-Legion
Relicta
Remothered Broken Porcelain
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil Revelations (X2)
Resident Evil Revelation 2 Deluxe Edition
Retimed
Retrowave
Reventure
Ring Of Pain
Rings Of Saturn
Riot Civil Unrest
Rise Of Industry
Rise Of Insanity
Riven The Sequel To MYST
Roarr! The Adventures Of Rampage Rex
Roboquest
Rogue Heroes Ruins Of Tasos
Rogue Lords NEW
Rogue Stormers
Rover Mechanic Simulator
RPG Maker VX
Rustler
Sable NEW
Salt And Sanctuary
Satellite Reign
Satisfactory
Saturday Morning RPG
Say No! More
SCUM (X2)
ScourgeBringer
Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam BFE (X2)
Serious Sam Classics Revolution
Serious Sam Double D XXL
Serious Sam HD The First & Second Encounter (1 key for both)
Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter Legend Of The Beast
Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter Serious 8
Serious Sam Kamikaze Attack
Serious Sam The Random Encounter
Serious Sam Bogus Detour
Shadow Tactics Aiko's Choice
Shady Part Of Me
She Remembered Caterpillars
She Will Punish Them
Shing!
Shock Troopers
Shuyan Saga
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Sid Meier's Railroads
Simulacra Collection
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Skully
Slay The Spire
Slime Rancher
Slinger VR
Smoke And Sacrifice (X2)
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe + Season Pass
SOMA
Song Of Iron
Soulblight
Spacebase DF-9
Space Hulk Ascension (delisted)
Sparkle 2
Sparkle Unleashed
Spellcaster University
Spelunx And The Caves Of Mr. Seudo
Stacking
Starsand (X2)
Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy
Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic
Stasis
State Of Decay 2 Juggernaut Edition (X2)
State Of Mind
Stealth Inc 2 A Game Of Clones
Steel Rats
Stick Fight The Game (X3)
Stories Untold
Streets Of Fury EX
Strider
Struggling
Stubbs The Zombie
Styx Shards Of Darkness
Submerged Hidden Depths
Suchart Genius Artist Simulator NEW
Super Indie Carts
Super Magbot
Supraland
SurrounDead (X2)
Surviving The Aftermath
Suzerain
Swag And Sorcery
Sword Legacy Omen
Swords And Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
Swords And Souls Neverseen (X2)
Syberia II
Syberia 3 Deluxe Edition
Syberia The World Before NEW
Syndrome
System Shock Enhanced Edition
Table Manners The Physics-Based Dating Game
Tabletop Playground
Tacoma
Take On Helicopters
Take That
Tales From Candlekeep Tomb Of Annihilation (delisted)
Tales Of Monkey Island Complete
Talisman Digital Edition + City,Frostmarch,Sacred Pool (trading only as a bundle)
Talisman Origins
Tank Mechanic Simulator
Tannenberg
Telefrag VR
Teleglitch Die More Edition
Tennis In The Face
Tennis World Tour (X2)
Tesla Vs Lovecraft
Tharsis (X2)
The Amazing American Circus
The Ambassador Fractured Timelines
The Adventure Pals
The Battle Of Polytopia
The Battle Of Polytopia Moonrise Deluxe
The Count Lucador
The Dark Pictures Anthology Little Hope
The Dark Pictures Anthology Man Of Medan
The Free Ones (delisted)
The Golf Club 2019 featuring PGA Tour
theHunter Call Of The Wild (X3)
The Journey Down Chapter Three
The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
The Last Blade
The Long Dark Survival Edition (X2)
The Manhole Masterpiece Edition
The Mims Beginning
The Night Of The Rabbit
The Serpent Rogue
The Signifier Director's Cut
The Textorcist The Story of Ray Bibbia (X2)
The Uncertain Last Quiet Day (X2)
The USB Stick Found In The Grass
The Walking Dead Season 1 + 400 Days
The Wild Eight (X2)
There Is No Game Wrong Dimension
They Bleed Pixels
Think Of The Children
This War Of Mine
Thronebreaker The Witcher Tales
THOTH
Through The Darkest Of Times
Timeshift
Time Recoil
Titan Quest Anniversary
Toejam & Earl Back In The Groove
TOEM
Tohu
Tools Up
Tooth And Tail (X2)
Torchlight (X2)
Total Tank Simulator
Toto Temple Deluxe
Tower Of Time (X2)
Tower Unite
Townscaper (X2)
Townsmen A Kingdom Rebuilt
Toybox Turbos
Tracks The Train Set Game
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator (X2)
Tribes Of Midgard
Tropico 4
True Fear Forsaken Souls Part 1
Tyranny Deluxe Edition
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Unexplored
Unloved
Unmetal
Uru Complete Chronicles
Vambrace Cold Soul
Vane
Velocibox
Verdun (X2)
Vikings Wolves Of Midgard
Volcanoids (X2)
V Rally 4
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
Wandersong
Warhammer End Times Vermintide
Warlock Master Of The Arcane
Warpips
Warsaw
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut NEW
We Are The Dwarves
We Should Talk
West Of Dead
Western Press
We Were Here Together
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
While True: Learn() Chief Technology Officer Edition
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Wooden Sen'SeY
Worms Rumble + Legends DLC
Wrath Aeon Of Ruin
WRC 7 World Rally Championship
XCOM Complete Pack
XCOM Ultimate Collection
Xenoraid The First Space War
X Morph Defense + European Assault + Last Bastion + Survival Of The Fittest (1 key for all)
XIII Classic
Xuan-Yuan Sword The Gate Of Firmament
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
Ylands Exploration Pack
Yoku's Island Express
Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair
Zack 2 Celestine's Map
Zombie Kill Of The Week Reborn


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2023.03.20 14:45 dinkomaricic [H] Satisfactory, Mordhau, Empyrion, Kartkraft, Call To Arms, Slay The Spire, Pathfinder WotR, Hell Let Loose, SCUM, Gotham Knights, Back 4 Blood, ETS2, Obduction, State Of Decay 2 Juggernaut, Tower Unite, Man Of Medan & Little Hope, Friday 13th & 100's more [W] Wishlist, Paypal (EU)

I'm from EU,so GAMES SHOULD work pretty much anywhere
NOT BUYING GAMES,ONLY TRADES - games for games or selling for paypal
No interest in TF2 keys
BUYER covers the FEES (if outside EU,EU F&F only)
My Steam account so you don't offer me something I own
My Wishlist
My SGSRep
My IGSRep


Only looking for Steam games - so don't offer origin,uplay,rockstar,bnet or ANY other launcher
100% of my games keys are bought by me from official stores & I expect the same in return,so don't offer me keyshop games or game keys you got in a trade as I will decline
I retain the right to ask for proof of ownership for ANY game I want - just like you have the right to ask me the same
Don't offer me VR games as I don't own a VR headset


List of games I have:
Also have the Earthquake Relief bundle,but reddit wont let me write all the games cause my topic would be too big - just ask
7 Billion Humans
8Doors Arum's Afterlife Adventure
10 Second Ninja X
60 Seconds!
112 Operator
140
198X
911 Operator
A Case Of Distrust
A Year Of Rain
Absolver
Aeolis Tournament
Age Of Wonders III
Ageless
Airport CEO
AI War 2
Alien Spidy
Aliens Vs Predator Collection
All You Can Eat
Almost There The Platformer
American Fugitive
Amnesia A Machine For Pigs + The Dark Descent (1 key for both games)
Amnesia Fortnight 2012
Amnesia Fortnight 2014
Amnesia Fortnight 2017
Amnesia Rebirth (X2)
Among Us (X2)
Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey (EU & Africa lock)
Aragami (X2)
Archamon
Armello
Army Men RTS
Attack Of The Earthlings
Automobilista
Aven Colony
Avernum 3 Ruined World
Azkend 2 The World Beneath
Back 4 Blood (EU region lock)
Backbone
Band Of Defenders
Banished
Baseball Riot
Batora Lost Haven NEW
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Beholder 2
Bendy And The Dark Revival
Bendy And The Ink Machine
Betrayer (delisted)
Between The Stars (X2)
Beyond Eyes
Beyond The Wire
Biomutant NEW
Bionic Commando
Bird Of Light
Black Paradox
Blade Assault
Blasphemous
Bohemian Killing
Book Of Demons
Bomber Crew Deluxe
Borderlands 3 + Director's Cut (EMEA region lock)
Boreal Blade
Bridge Constructor The Walking Dead
Broken Age (X2)
Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons (X2)
Butcher
Call Of Juarez
Call Of The Sea (X2)
Call To Arms Basic Edition
Call To Arms Gates Of Hell Ostfront
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition (X2)
Cities In Motion 2
CivCity Rome
Clone Drone In The Danger Zone
Clouds & Sheep 2
Coffin Dodgers
Cook Serve Delicious 3
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (Origin key)
Company Of Heroes Complete Edition
Control Ultimate Edition NEW
Corridor Z
Cosmic Osmo And The World Beyond The Mackerel
Crash Drive 3
Creatures Inc
Crookz The Big Heist
Crossbow Bloodnight
Crusader Kings Complete
Crying Suns
Dagon The Eldritch Box
Danger Scavenger
Day Of Infamy
Dead Age
Dead By Daylight
Dead In Vinland
Deadly Premonition Director's Cut
Deadbeat Heroes (X2)
Dear Ester Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Deep Dungeons Of Doom
Deep Sky Derelicts
Demon Turf NEW
Deployment
Desert Child
Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor
Dicey Dungeons (X2)
Dimension Drifter
Distraint 2 + Soundtrack
Divekick
Dog Sled Saga
Double Fine Adventures Complete Series Deluxe
Downwell
Drawful 2
Draw Slasher
Dreadlands
Dread Templar
Dread X Collection
Dreamscaper NEW
Driftland The Magic Revival
Dry Downing
Duke Nukem Forever Collection
Dungeon Marathon
Dungeon Of The Endless
Dungeons 2
Dungeons 2 Complete
Dungeons 3
Dusk
Dwarfs!?
Eador Imperium
EarthX
Eastside Hockey Manager
ECHO
Edge Of Eternity NEW
Effie
Elderborn
Eldest Souls
Elden Path Of The Forgotten
Embr
Emily Is Away
Empyrion Galactic Survival
Epic Manager
E.T. Armies Deluxe Edition
Etherborn (X2)
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Europa Universalis IV
Evergarden
Expeditions Viking
F1 2018 (delisted)
Family Man
Fantasy Blacksmith
Fantasy Versus
Farmer's Dynasty
Farming Simulator 17
FIA European Truck Racing
Figment (X2)
Finding Paradise
Fire Ungh's Quest
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling To The Finish
Fluffy Horde
Fobia St. Dinfna Hotel
Forgive Me Father
Framed Collection (X2)
Friday the 13th: The Game (X2)
Frog Detective 1 The Haunted Island (X2)
Full Throttle Remastered
Fun With Ragdolls The Game
Fury Unleashed (X2)
Gang Beasts
Garage Bad Trip (X2)
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Gas Station Simulator
Gauge
Genesis Noir
Ghostrunner
Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams + Rise Of The Owlverlord
GNOG
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Goat Of Duty
Goetia (X2)
Going Under (X2)
Golden Light
Golf Gang
GoNNER
Gotham Knights
Grand Ages Medieval
Grand Pigeon's Duty
Greak Memories Of Azur
Gremlins Inc.
Grip Combat Racing + Cygon + Nyvoss + Terra + Vintek DLC (X2)
Guts And Glory (X2)
Hack'n'Slash
Haiku The Robot (X2)
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hammerfight
Headlander
Heal
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Let Loose
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice NEW
Hello Neighbor
Hellbound
Hero Defense
Hero's Hour NEW (EU region lock)
Hexologic
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2 Courage Under Fire
Hive Jump (X2)
Hiveswap Act 2
Hiveswap Friend Sim
Hiveswap Friend Sim Complete
Homeworld Deserts Of Kharak
Hotshot Racing
Hot Tin Roof The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hover (X2)
Human Resource Machine
Hurtworld
I Am Bread
I Am Not A Monster First Contact
Ice Lakes
If Found...
Ikenfell
Impact Winter (delisted)
In Between
Industria
Infinite Air With Mark McMorris (delisted)
Inmost
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition
Intruder
Ion Fury
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Jack Axe
Jalopy
Jet Set Knights
Juanito Arcade Mayhem
Jump Stars
Jurassic World Evolution
Jurassic World Evolution 2 NEW
Just Die Already
KartKraft
Kathy Rain Directors Cut
Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (X2)
Kill To Collect
Kingdom Classic (X2)
Kingdom New Lands
Kingdoms Of Amalur Re-Reckoning Fate Edition
King Oddball
Last Oasis
Last Tide
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Lead And Gold Gangs Of Wild West (X2)
Legacy Of Dorn Herald Of Oblivion (delisted)
Legend Of Keepers Career Of A Dungeon Master
LEGO Movie Videogame
Leisure Suit Larry Retro Bundle (1 to 7)
Lethal League Blaze
Liberated (GOG key)
Lifeless Planet Premium Edition
Light Fall
Little Big Workshop
Love Is Dead
Lust For Darkness
Lust From Beyond M Edition
Magicka
Magrunner Dark Pulse
Maid Of Sker
Main Assembly (X2)
Mainlining
Mars Horizon
Masquerade The Baubles Of Doom
Max Payne 3 (Rockstar Launcher)
Midnight Protocol
Mind Scanners
Mini Metro
Miscreated (X2)
Monster Crown NEW
Monster Train Collectors Edition
Moon Hunters
Morbid The Seven Acolytes
Mordhau
Mosaic
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Motorsport Manager
Mount And Blade Warband
Mountain
My Lovely Daughter
Nairi Tower Of Shirin
Naruto To Boruto Shinobi Striker
Nascar Heat 5 Ultimate
Nebuchadnezzar
NecroVisioN Lost Company
NecroWorn
Neighbours Back From Hell
Neo Cab
Neon Abyss
NeuroVoider
Neverout
Niche
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl (X2)
Ninjin Clash Of Carrots
No Time To Relax
Not Tonight
Numba Deluxe
Obduction
Observation
Octahedron
Odyssey The Story Of Science
Of Orcs And Men
Old School Musical
OlliOlli World Rad Edition
On Rusty Trails
One Finger Death Punch 2
Onikira Demon Killer
Orbital Racer
Orcs Must Die 2 Complete
Original War
Orwell Ignorance Is Strength
Out Of Reach Treasure Royal
Overlord II
Overpass
Override Mech City Brawl
Oxenfree
Pacer
Paint The Town Red
Paper Fire Rookie
Paradise Lost
Pathfinder Wrath Of The Righteous
Pathologic 2
Path Of Giants
Paw Paw Paw
Payday 2 + Big Mike mask
Peaky Blinders Mastermind (delisted)
Penarium
People Playground (X2)
Per Aspera
Perfect Heist 2
PGA Tour 2K21 (X2)
Phoenix Point Year One Edition
Pikuniku
Pine
Pinstripe (X2)
Pixplode
Plane Mechanic Simulator
Playne The Meditation Game
Poöf
Popup Dungeon
Post Void
Pound Of Ground (X2)
PowerSlave Exhumed
Prehistoric Kingdom
Primal Carnage Extinction (X2)
Project Cars GOTY (delisted)
Project Hospital
Project Warlock
Pumped BMX+
Punch Club
Purrfect Date
Quest Of Dungeons
RAD (X2)
Radio Commander
Rad Rodgers Radical Edition
Railroad Tycoon 2
Railroad Tycoon 3
Railway Empire
Raji An Ancient Epic
Rebel Cops
Rec Center Tycoon
Red Faction Armageddon
Red Solstice 2 Survivors
Redeemer Enhanced Edition
Redout Enhanced Edition
Re-Legion
Relicta
Remothered Broken Porcelain
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil Revelations (X2)
Resident Evil Revelation 2 Deluxe Edition
Retimed
Retrowave
Reventure
Ring Of Pain
Rings Of Saturn
Riot Civil Unrest
Rise Of Industry
Rise Of Insanity
Riven The Sequel To MYST
Roarr! The Adventures Of Rampage Rex
Roboquest
Rogue Heroes Ruins Of Tasos
Rogue Lords NEW
Rogue Stormers
Rover Mechanic Simulator
RPG Maker VX
Rustler
Sable NEW
Salt And Sanctuary
Satellite Reign
Satisfactory
Saturday Morning RPG
Say No! More
SCUM (X2)
ScourgeBringer
Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam BFE (X2)
Serious Sam Classics Revolution
Serious Sam Double D XXL
Serious Sam HD The First & Second Encounter (1 key for both)
Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter Legend Of The Beast
Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter Serious 8
Serious Sam Kamikaze Attack
Serious Sam The Random Encounter
Serious Sam Bogus Detour
Shadow Tactics Aiko's Choice
Shady Part Of Me
She Remembered Caterpillars
She Will Punish Them
Shing!
Shock Troopers
Shuyan Saga
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Sid Meier's Railroads
Simulacra Collection
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Skully
Slay The Spire
Slime Rancher
Slinger VR
Smoke And Sacrifice (X2)
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe + Season Pass
SOMA
Song Of Iron
Soulblight
Spacebase DF-9
Space Hulk Ascension (delisted)
Sparkle 2
Sparkle Unleashed
Spellcaster University
Spelunx And The Caves Of Mr. Seudo
Stacking
Starsand (X2)
Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy
Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic
Stasis
State Of Decay 2 Juggernaut Edition (X2)
State Of Mind
Stealth Inc 2 A Game Of Clones
Steel Rats
Stick Fight The Game (X3)
Stories Untold
Streets Of Fury EX
Strider
Struggling
Stubbs The Zombie
Styx Shards Of Darkness
Submerged Hidden Depths
Suchart Genius Artist Simulator NEW
Super Indie Carts
Super Magbot
Supraland
SurrounDead (X2)
Surviving The Aftermath
Suzerain
Swag And Sorcery
Sword Legacy Omen
Swords And Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
Swords And Souls Neverseen (X2)
Syberia II
Syberia 3 Deluxe Edition
Syberia The World Before NEW
Syndrome
System Shock Enhanced Edition
Table Manners The Physics-Based Dating Game
Tabletop Playground
Tacoma
Take On Helicopters
Take That
Tales From Candlekeep Tomb Of Annihilation (delisted)
Tales Of Monkey Island Complete
Talisman Digital Edition + City,Frostmarch,Sacred Pool (trading only as a bundle)
Talisman Origins
Tank Mechanic Simulator
Tannenberg
Telefrag VR
Teleglitch Die More Edition
Tennis In The Face
Tennis World Tour (X2)
Tesla Vs Lovecraft
Tharsis (X2)
The Amazing American Circus
The Ambassador Fractured Timelines
The Adventure Pals
The Battle Of Polytopia
The Battle Of Polytopia Moonrise Deluxe
The Count Lucador
The Dark Pictures Anthology Little Hope
The Dark Pictures Anthology Man Of Medan
The Free Ones (delisted)
The Golf Club 2019 featuring PGA Tour
theHunter Call Of The Wild (X3)
The Journey Down Chapter Three
The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
The Last Blade
The Long Dark Survival Edition (X2)
The Manhole Masterpiece Edition
The Mims Beginning
The Night Of The Rabbit
The Serpent Rogue
The Signifier Director's Cut
The Textorcist The Story of Ray Bibbia (X2)
The Uncertain Last Quiet Day (X2)
The USB Stick Found In The Grass
The Walking Dead Season 1 + 400 Days
The Wild Eight (X2)
There Is No Game Wrong Dimension
They Bleed Pixels
Think Of The Children
This War Of Mine
Thronebreaker The Witcher Tales
THOTH
Through The Darkest Of Times
Timeshift
Time Recoil
Titan Quest Anniversary
Toejam & Earl Back In The Groove
TOEM
Tohu
Tools Up
Tooth And Tail (X2)
Torchlight (X2)
Total Tank Simulator
Toto Temple Deluxe
Tower Of Time (X2)
Tower Unite
Townscaper (X2)
Townsmen A Kingdom Rebuilt
Toybox Turbos
Tracks The Train Set Game
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator (X2)
Tribes Of Midgard
Tropico 4
True Fear Forsaken Souls Part 1
Tyranny Deluxe Edition
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Unexplored
Unloved
Unmetal
Uru Complete Chronicles
Vambrace Cold Soul
Vane
Velocibox
Verdun (X2)
Vikings Wolves Of Midgard
Volcanoids (X2)
V Rally 4
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
Wandersong
Warhammer End Times Vermintide
Warlock Master Of The Arcane
Warpips
Warsaw
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut NEW
We Are The Dwarves
We Should Talk
West Of Dead
Western Press
We Were Here Together
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
While True: Learn() Chief Technology Officer Edition
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Wooden Sen'SeY
Worms Rumble + Legends DLC
Wrath Aeon Of Ruin
WRC 7 World Rally Championship
XCOM Complete Pack
XCOM Ultimate Collection
Xenoraid The First Space War
X Morph Defense + European Assault + Last Bastion + Survival Of The Fittest (1 key for all)
XIII Classic
Xuan-Yuan Sword The Gate Of Firmament
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
Ylands Exploration Pack
Yoku's Island Express
Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair
Zack 2 Celestine's Map
Zombie Kill Of The Week Reborn


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