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2023.06.03 13:03 FelicitySmoak_ On This Day In Michael Jackson HIStory - June 3rd
 | 1972 - "I Wanna Be Where You Are" by Michael enters the Billboard US Hot Soul Singles Chart, where it will make a 12 week run for the #2 poisiton. submitted by FelicitySmoak_ to MichaelJackson [link] [comments] 1972 - "Got To Be There", the 1st solo album by Michael, enters the UK's Top 50 albums chart, where it will peak at #37 during a fiveweek run. 1973 - "Lookin' Through the Windows" by The Jackson 5 on the Motown label hits the Billboard music charts at #94, where it peaks at #7. It remains on the chart for 33 weeks. 1979 - The Jackson perform their Destiny tour at Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, South Carolina. They give a press interview at the Carolina Inn https://preview.redd.it/pevzonw90p3b1.jpg?width=826&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4557c94ddd96d571083a69d61648f2b1da0b318 1990- Michael collapses while dancing at his Westwood condo known as 'The Hideout'. He is taken to St John Hospital of Los Angeles around 9pm where he is treated for chest pains. He gets visits from the whole Jackson family (except LaToya, who sends him a dozen black roses) .Elizabeth Taylor also visits him. She had been in the hospital undergoing treatment for a near fatal bout of pneumonia since mid April. “According to his physician, he is in stable condition and appropriate tests are being conducted", nursing officials said in a prepared statement. 1992- At the Tavern On The Green in New York City, the One To One award is given to Michael by the Operation One to One organization in charge with creating better living standards for young people, for efforts committed to helping economically disadvantaged youth. Michael attends the Operation One To One Honors dinner with friends Elizabeth Taylor and Donald Trump. https://preview.redd.it/amyehkyc0p3b1.jpg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efde03bd756b379198db612aaca5d89944821a66 https://preview.redd.it/f5wfjhke0p3b1.jpg?width=689&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab01c0a625c174290b7c7bd6b2cfca0a0ab25cf1 1992 - Crystal Cartier filed a $40 million federal lawsuit against Michael Jackson, Sony Music Entertainment, MJJ Productions and Epic Records. She alleged that she originally wrote and recorded "Dangerous." In February of 1994, a Denver Federal court jury ruled in Michael's favor 1995 - The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce rejects Michael's application to cover up the famous 'Hollywood' sign with the word 'HIStory' to promote his new compilation album 1997 - Michael Jackson plays the Mungersdorfer (now RheinEnergieStadionStadium) in Cologne, Germany, to an audience of 60,000 on the HIStory World Tour https://preview.redd.it/uvij16ug0p3b1.jpg?width=143&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=025eefd461e2750007d815abc50701398a09f4d5 https://preview.redd.it/w82z1dgh0p3b1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7f536d84b116ecb748361a7620bc030783b5dc4 https://preview.redd.it/vetxb87i0p3b1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd578aef6dc5a0aa49ffeb709f61858dd559d0d3 https://preview.redd.it/nrxko7xi0p3b1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3735e8bdfa8770c510fc9f333334a994d0b0daba 2005 - Trial Day 67 Michael goes to court with Katherine, Joe, Janet and LaToya. https://preview.redd.it/vaspltik0p3b1.jpg?width=448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=311e351bf79f39a8d48cf4681686247b2f20fb19 Michael was greeted outside court by hundreds of chanting fans. He arrived with his parents and his famous siblings - Janet, LaToya, Jermaine, Tito and Randy. They waved to the fans chants of Michael is Innocent! https://preview.redd.it/p8jtchhn0p3b1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cb1c23e69cfefb6e4608aa16b3650011976c106 Defense attorneys completed their closing arguments, labeling the Arvizo family liars and con artists trying to pull the biggest con of their careers. "They are trying to take advantage of Michael Jackson," said impassioned defense attorney Thomas Mesereau. "They are trying to profit from Michael Jackson. They think they have pulled it off. They are just waiting for one thing - your verdict." "What they are trying to do to Michael Jackson is so harmful, so brutal, so devastating if you have any reasonable doubt about the double-talk, the lies, its over. You must acquit Michael Jackson," he told the 12 jurors. Mesereau spoke about the American system of justice and said, "We have the best system in the world and ladies and gentlemen I'm begging you to honor the system. You must acquit him." He accused prosecutors of trying to "dirty up Michael" because they lack the evidence to prove their case. "The witnesses are preposterous, the perjury is everywhere," Mesereau declared. "None of it works. The only thing they've had is to throw dirt all over the place and hope it sticks." He added: "If you look in your hearts do you believe Michael Jackson is evil in that way? Is it even possible? It really is not." Mesereau then played excerpts from a video in which Jackson denies any sexual impropriety and said that he had never been betrayed or deceived by children. The defense attorney conceded that Jackson had been lax with his money and had let the wrong people into his circle. But, he said, the singer was not the monster the prosecution were trying to depict and that he was not guilty of any crime. Afterwards, prosecutor Ron Zonen delivered a brief rebuttal. He sought to answer the question of Jacksons motivation for the crime asking, "Why would Mr. Jackson do it? Because he could This child was in love with him. This child would do anything he said." Zonen reminded jurors of the past allegations made against Jackson saying that this was necessary in order to see the total picture. He claimed that Jackson was in love with his 1993 accuser and added that the current accuser is a clone of the boy in that case. After both sides rested for the last time, Judge Rodney Melville ordered the eight women and four men on the jury to begin their deliberations. He gave them a 98-page book of instructions. The Judge told Jackson that he could stay at Neverland during the proceedings but requested that the attorneys remain within 10 minutes of the courthouse in case the jurors had any questions. These deliberations are the final stage of an ordeal that began 14 weeks ago. During this time the jury has heard testimony from over 130 witnesses. A verdict was expected early next week. Court Transcript While Jury deliberations take place, the whole Jackson family waits for the verdict at Neverland. https://preview.redd.it/lh5l7gqo0p3b1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5967b6b6c73b0a56bec2b5b8e28f20e68b9ddb7 2008 - Michael has dinner with Thomas Barrack Jr, chairman and CEO of Colony Capital LLC, at the Las Vegas Hilton's Verona Sky Villa. 2009 - Michael goes to Culver Studios with Prince, Paris & Kenny Ortega, where he shoots “The Drill” 3D https://preview.redd.it/5lzzqj2t0p3b1.jpg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8747a49dd0f9c68ae73b6f93fa21e2f9e01b6a77 https://preview.redd.it/hezl4ayt0p3b1.jpg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dae7ef1a99ee196a5be6dbfb8cd5ab243856f58 He also, once again, goes to Dr Klein’s in Beverly Hills. 2013 - Jackson v AEG Trial Day 22 No Jackson family member was at the courthouse. Paul Gongaware AEG cross Putnam asked Gongaware if MJ was comfortable with all the show dates. "Yes, I went through all of the dates with him," Gongaware said. Bugzee, the tour manager, had a big calendar on the walls, Gongaware explained, saying they changed the dates of the shows four times. The jury was shown an email in which Gongaware worked with a staffer to create a calendar to show Jackson. He wanted colors changed. He wanted the calendar to be changed so that it reflected Jackson's show dates and off days differently. Gongaware email: Figure it out so it looks like he's not working so muchAs to the email, Putnam asked if he was trying to fool Michael: "No, I was trying to make it clear, trying to get it just the way I wanted it," Gongaware responded.After changing 4 show dates Gongaware said Michael was comfortable with it. He would do 8 shows in July, 10 in August, 9 in September. There would be no shows in October, November and December, resuming with 10 shows in January, 10 in February and three in March. No back-to-back shows. Gongaware said the O2 Arena had a previous commitment in Oct-Dec of 2009 and they could not have the concerts. Putnam: "Was this a rigorous schedule?"Gongaware recalled that on the HIStory tour they did 10-12 shows per month, from country to country, but this one would stay in London only. Gongaware said he wasn't concerned with Michael's age. "He seemed great to me," he said, and this was stationary show, didn't have to travel. Gongaware: The reason Michael wanted to delay the 1st show was he wanted more time to rehearse in the O2 Arena where the show would take place.He said Michael and Kenny Ortega would decide the rehearsal schedule. Gongaware explained Michael didn't have to attend rehearsals, since it was not part of his deal. He said they never require an artist to rehearse. "I didn't have any expectation," Gongaware said regarding Michael rehearsing. He said he's never seen a requirement for a musicial artist to rehearse & that during the HIStory tour, Michael didn't rehearse but nailed it. "When it was game time, he would show up," Gongaware explained. For instance, Gongaware cited an outdoor concert in Bangkok in high heat, humidity. As to the email Gongaware wrote about calling Michael lazy, he said he used unfortunate choices of words, Michael didn't like to rehearse. Talking about the elements of the show, Gongaware described what they wanted to do for the opening of the show. He said Michael would be dressed up in a LED suit, like a television, flashing on him brief movie about things that happened in history. Michael would be lowered down onto the stage. He called the LED suit a "Moon man" suit, but Ortega called it "Light man." Putnam showed a presentation of how the LED suit idea would work. Footage is not on This Is It documentary because it was early stages of prep. Gongaware said the 1st idea was to make Michael float from the audience, but they couldn't make it work. So they decided to lower him down onto the stage. Gongaware said the big screen on the back of the stage was 3D capable. The audience would be given glasses when they entered the show. The 3D songs would be Thriller, Earth Song and Smooth Criminal. "He wanted to do biggest, best show ever, live show," Gongaware said Putnam showed email chain from Ortega to Gongaware asking to make a deal with choreographer Travis Payne. Answer from Gongaware: This is not AEG money, it's Michael's money so it takes a lot of time to get approvalsDefendants were trying to establish a pattern that all the money spent was actually Michael's money, not AEG's, just like with Dr. Murray At one point Gongaware said he learned from Michael about a doctor named Murray. "He came to me and said he wanted his personal doctor on the tour". Gongaware said he suggested to Michael to get a licensed doctor in London who would know the lay of the land, in case of need. "This is the machine, we have to take care of the machine. I want Conrad," Gongaware said Michael responded. I think what he meant was his brain could create it but his body had to deliver the show every night Putnam: "Were you surprised he wanted to take his doctor on tour?"Gongaware said other artists take doctors as well, so he was not the only one and it didn't surprise him. Gongaware said he's been on tour before where an artist had chiropractors, but couldn't remember being in one with a doctor Putnam: "Did you worry Michael might have a health issue?"Gongaware said the suggestion for a London doctor was due to the cost; paying a doctor full time was much more expensive than hiring a local doctor. Gongaware said Dr. Murray treated Michael for about three years before 2009. He knew the doctor was from Las Vegas but said he was in LA. Gongaware said he then called Dr. Murray to work out a deal. Gongaware testified he didn't have Michael's direct phone number, would go through Michael Amir Williams, his personal assistant, to reach him. Gongaware called Murray on behalf of Michael saying the singer wanted to take him to London. "What do you want to be paid for that," Gongaware asked. Gongaware said he thought Dr. Murray was expecting his call and was aware of the desire to take him on tour. "He said he would need $5 million," Gongaware recalled. "He said he has 4 clinics to close, would lay off people, needs $5 million for that." Asked by Putnam if Murray's price was reasonable: "It was ridiculous," Gongaware said about the amount asked. "It was a lot of money for something like that and Michael could not afford it." Gongaware said he responded that it wasn't going to work" He said this was the first time he spoke with Dr. Murray. After that, Gongaware said he told Michael Amir and Randy Phillips what the doctor had asked. He also told Frank DiLeo. Gongaware said a lot of people who wanted to work for MJ asked for huge sums of money, thinking he had a lot. Putnam: "Would you be doing this if Michael had not asked you?""He was Michael's doctor, Michael wanted him. That was it," Gongaware said. Putnam:" Did you think about checking the doctor?"" I'm not going to tell Michael Jackson who his doctor should be," Gongaware explained. "It wasn't my place to say who his doctor was going to be," Gongaware said. "It was his decision." Gongaware said he doesn't think a doctor's financial situation has anything to do with being an ethical doctor. Gongaware said it never crossed his mind to either do a background check on Dr. Murray or to suggest to anyone to do it. "I just expect doctors to be ethical, the financial side of their lives shouldn't have an impact on their medical decision," Gongaware opined. Gongaware said he never did a background check on anyone he hired and had he done one on Dr. Murray, it would've been out of the ordinary. He also said he never considered performing background checks on Jackson's makeup artist, a choreographer who worked one-on-one with the singer or Kenny Ortega, the tour's director. "I didn't see the need for it," he said. Dr. Finkelstein, a friend of Gongaware, said a doctor should charge $10,000 a month for the tour work. But Dr. Finkelstein would've done it for free, since he was on the Dangerous tour before and had a lot of fun The second call about Dr. Murray came from Michael Amir Williams saying they were going to need to get a deal done for the doctor. Gongaware said he heard Michael in the car saying "offer 150, offer 150." Gongaware understood that to be $150k/month. Gongaware called Dr. Murray, said he was authorized to offer him $150k a month. He said Dr. Murray responded that he couldn't do it for that. Gongaware told him the offer came directly from the artist and Dr. Murray responded: "I'll take it" Gongaware said Michael approved the amount of compensation. "Michael told me offer 150," Gongaware recalled. "And that's what I did." Gongaware inquired from Dr. Murray how he would get a license in London and the doctor told him not to worry about it. They talked about Dr. Murray's request for a house in London, and the doctor said he would need a three bedroom house. Gongaware recalled Dr. Murray saying he would probably need an assistant and some equipment, but no details were given at this point. After the call, Gongaware said he let Michael Amir Williams know what the result was in a May 6th email: Done at 150k per month, per MJ. He needs about 10 days to wind down his practice then he will be full time Asked why he had negotiated with Murray, the AEG executive replied that he was "instructed to by Michael Jackson." Gongaware said there was no other reason for him to deal with the doctor. Marvin Putnam asked Gongaware why he didn't tell Jackson he couldn't take Murray on tour with him."Because he could if he wanted," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he passed Dr. Murray on to Timm Wooley, never had any other conversation with Dr. Murray about him possibly going to London. Putnam: "Do you have any understanding as to whether a contract with Dr. Murray was executed?"Gongaware said Michael was ultimately responsible for his own health: "I think everyone is responsible for their own health and well being. He was a grown man with the capability to make decisions regarding his health and medical care"Putnam showed Gongaware a frame from the This Is It film in which Jackson's manager, Frank Dileo, was sitting in on dancer auditions. Dancers auditions took place at the Nokia Theater on April 13, 14 & 15. Michael attended the last day and made the final decision, Gongaware said. He said Ortega wanted to film the audition to use fresh footage on michaeljacksonlive.com. The cost for crew to shoot the audition was very high, so Gongaware bought a couple of cameras and used his own crew to shoot the rehearsals. He said he wasn't sure what he would use the video for, but thought the website would be a good platform. Gongaware said during the period at Center Staging, Michael was good, engaging, didn't think there were any health issues or was using drugs Gongaware said the media in the UK was going wild with gossip about Michael Jackson. "They just lie about things." The Sun claimed Michael had skin cancer on his chest. "It was sport over in London," Gongaware said about stories on tabloids. Gongaware testified about emails in which UK press agents working on This Is It sent him tabloid reports on Michael's health. Gongaware said he urged the press agents not to respond. He wanted Jackson's performance to speak for itself & silence skeptics. Gongaware on 5/27/09: The Kid is healthy and rehearsing every day. He was still there at dance rehearsals at 9pm last night when I left. Our redemption will be when he does his shows, that makes all of this build up so damn sweet. We don't have to sell tickets, so we can just sit back and prove them wrong by just doing it.Gongaware said he was not concerned "If there was something going on, if he had cancer, we would've heard about it."Michael Jackson rehearsal venues:
Putnam went through a chain of emails about tabloid reports in the UK regarding Michael. In one, it said Michael had asked AEG to reduce the number of shows by half. Gongaware said that such a discussion never happened. Gongaware testified he woke up to one gossip headline pretty much every day. His idea was simply to ignore the tabloids. "An amazing show would be the answer", Gongaware said Gongaware on 6/5/09 in response to Sunday Mirror Query: "We can only make this work, of course, if MJ puts on the best show of his life. I'm here to tell you that be will. I have seen it for myself. Last night he ran 9 songs with full band, singers and dancers. Sang every one, he was amazing, captivating, riveting. And he's just getting started. Taking it one step further. When people realize that bulls**t the press has been, they will be in receptive mood for the truth Hey look. No skin cancer. He's just a good dad, loving raising his kids. His art and his craft are paramount. A gentle, loving man who does care about people"The shows were going to be spectacular," Gongaware said. Putnam showed a clip of Michael in front of a green screen with 11 dancers, who would become 11,000. Gongaware said Michael was great at this point Regarding email Phillips sent Gongaware directing to remove Michael's "skeletal" scenes Gongaware said he didn't take anything out of the movie. Putnam: "Did you remove anything from the movie?"Putnam showed a clip from This Is It with the making of "Thriller 3D" and Jackson wearing red jacket. Putnam: "Did you try to alter in anyway how Mr. Jackson looked, appeared?"Gongaware said he didn't remember any of the footage been removed because of how Michael looked. "We just let the footage speak for itself" The mini-movie of "Earth Song" a bulldozer would come out from a ramp in center stage. Putnam: "A real bulldozer?"Gongaware said they had to build the bulldozer like a prop. It would appear at the end of the song on stage. "I think the live audience would be just captivated by it," Gongaware said about the little girl running after the last plant on Earth song. End of the show would be 3D animation. An airplane taxis up, door opens, Michael entered the plane. The airplane door closes, Michael would actually take an elevator down and out of the building, but the plane would take off over the audience Gongaware said he didn't know if anyone was responsible for Michael's nourishment. Tour would be demanding and exhausting Gongaware said he met Dr. Murray once at MJ's Carolwood house and ran into him at The Forum during rehearsal. There was a meeting scheduled to discuss Michael's nutrition with Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega, Dr. Murray, Michael, Gongaware and DiLeo. Putnam: "Do you recall anyone in that meeting ever telling Dr. Murray how he should be treating Michael?"Gongaware said he didn't have any medical training and wasn't qualified to tell Conrad Murray how to treat Jackson Gongaware said neither Dr. Murray nor Michael talked about the treatment he was receiving. The meeting was about nutrition & vitamin therapy. Gongaware said he had no idea Dr. Murray was giving Michael Propofol and first heard of the anesthetic after Michael died. Gongaware said Dr. Murray was really engaged in the meeting, seemed like a very intelligent guy and wanted to take care of Michael very much. This was the first time Gongaware met with Dr. Murray. He said there were no signs of Michael being poorly treated by the doctor. "Michael was engaged in the meeting, attentive, seemed happy we were having this meeting," Gongaware opined. "He's a doctor, he'd know better than anybody how to treat his patient," Gongaware said about Dr. Murray. As to Gongaware's email saying AEG, not Michael, paid Dr Murray he said he was mistaken. "We wouldn't pay his salary, we'd advance Michael's money". Gongaware said he didn't remember writing/receiving the email, but never denied he did it. As to Michael being habitually late, Gongaware said the singer worked on his own schedule, did things his way Gongaware said his understanding was that Michael hired a trainer of his choice, Louis (Lou) Ferrigno: "I made the deal with him (Ferrigno). He was supposed to be paid a certain amount of money per session" He didn't elaborate on fee, how many times he worked with Michael. Putnam showed an email from Travis Payne, he suggested a massage chair to be put in Michael's dressing room.As to Bugzee's email saying MJ needed cheeseburgers, brats and beers, Gongaware said Bugzee was joking, Bugzee cared very much for Michael. Gongaware testified he didn't recall having any concern about Michael's health/using painkillers as of Monday 6/15/09, 10 days prior to his death Gongaware was asked about several emails that have been shown before, including messages related to MJ missing rehearsal on June 19, 2009. The executive was on the East Coast for a family wedding, but responded to one message questioning why Murray wasn't at rehearsal. Gongaware email: Take the doctor with you. Why wasn't he there last night?He then explained his thinking to the jury. Gongaware: If his patient is having a problem and he's sick, and he's his only patient, it seemed like he should be thereGongaware said on 6/19/09, he was out of town. "This is the day Michael had chills at rehearsal and was apparently sick," Gongaware recalled. "If the meeting was going to be about what happened that night, the doctor should be there," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he believed Michael wanted to go on tour. He said he doesn't remember anyone talking about pulling the plug on the shows. Putnam: "Did anyone tell you at this point that Michael needed a drug addiction specialist?"Gongaware said that on 6/20/09 he did not think Michael's health was deteriorating. With last questions of the day, Putnam asked Gongaware if he was concerned about Jackson's well-being. He said "Yes" Court Transcript |
2023.06.03 11:27 MrSmeee99 Polaris Menu FRA-IAD
Polaris menu, FRA-IAD yesterday. Thought it would be more exciting coming out of Germany, but no.
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2023.06.03 10:13 Weekly-Kiwi3625 When is it time to quit your job?
Hello everyone reading this,
I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
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I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
2023.06.03 10:08 Weekly-Kiwi3625 When is it time to quit?
Hello everyone reading this,
I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
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I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
2023.06.03 10:04 Weekly-Kiwi3625 When is it time to quit your job?
Hello everyone reading this,
I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
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I work at a small up in coming chain restaurant that is fast casual. I started working there some time last summer and it has been a consistent bumpy road. The main issue is, the restaurant only needs a few employees to run it so if you don't click with your fellow co-workers than you don't click. I'm sure to your complete surprise (/s) I didn't click.
One co-worker in particular hated me when I first started working there and they've admitted it to me on a number of different occasions. The reason for their dislike of me will be written below. Things eventually simmered down, "X" and I are usually decent when it's just the 2 of us working together, but every Friday when more of us are scheduled to work things change. I feel like "X" and the other co-workers listen to me less if at all, I feel like I become the object of teasing and poking. When I reach the point of annoyance and confront them on it or snap back I get to hear, "I was just TeAsInG", "you're the oldest you're suppose to be mature." "Why can't you handle people teasing you?" "It's just because I do a better job than you."
It drives me nuts but I don't feel like I can say anything cause I am the oldest, besides my manager. (And the cooks) I work with a bunch of highschoolers and I'm 21.
Recently our store has just traded managers, the new manager is sweet and all but they haven't seen the months of teasing and bad blood between me and "X". Tonight me and "X" really got into it cause I was trying to do "Position 1" and "X" wanted to do it. I wouldn't it give it up and it turned into bad bantering between me and him which lasted through the night, then got topped of with teasing that quickly became redundant and annoying. It wouldn't have been so bad if me and "X" were on better terms, but stuff like this has happened ever since last summer. Sometimes the way they choose to tease me kinda hurts and I'm not the greatest with comebacks. I can hold my own when it's one on one, but when it's multiple co-workers I feel less able. It doesn't stop until I reach a point of leaving the situation for a moment. (Which is immature, I know) Once I'm back then "X" usually stops. The manager left long before I took a minute to breath but she saw the squabble go down and didn't seem too impressed with how I was acting, kinda makes me think I'm not going to make it onto her favorable list.
I'm moving out of state at the end of July, so I'm torn between just sticking it out or handing in my two weeks and moving on. The job pays really well and is great with scheduling (they agree to not let me work weekends) but that's were the highlights end. Any advice?
Reason why X hated me: from what I know, when I first started working both I and "X" wanted to be managers. "X" thought I was going to replace him and that's what, I think, fueled his hatred. . . .There's a lot of background things I could write about but I'm pretty exhausted from everything that's been going on, so unfortunately a choppy reddit post is all I have in me rn.
2023.06.03 09:57 tatebrown Re:SET + Schedule 39 - a review + warning…or endorsement. Depends on your perspective.
 | This was my first experience seeing music at Frost amphitheater. What a treat kids going to Stanford are getting. You get a glimpse of many of them doing tours of the school looking forward to a bright future as me (35m) and my two degen friends(35m) and future wifey (33f) stumbled passed them with a solid buzz. Two opposite ends of the spectrum ships passing in the night. submitted by tatebrown to Coachella [link] [comments] For the purposes of this post- I’ll refer to Friend 1 as: Tuna Friend 2 as: Dan Future wifey: Savior Getting into the venue, you couldn’t ask for a more fairytale setup. Similar to Berkeley’s amphitheater setup that holds 8,000, frost amphitheater holds 6,900 so a slightly smaller feel and instead of the pure concrete steps stadium seating going up, you get grass sprinkled all over the place with trees sprinkled everywhere surrounding you. It had a very outside lands Berkeley hybrid venue feel. Starting the day off you got kicked into gear with Big Freedia to start the day off in the 4:00 slot. When I asked my buddy Dan what to expect, he said, ”bunch of energy and booty popping.” I can honestly say I’ve never seen more booty popping at a show. The sheer athleticism and stamina was impressive. Tuna had gotten us VIP tickets so there was plenty of room. We are normally in GA with our fellow peasants laughing at the gaudy VIPs wasting their shillings. All jokes aside, vip for the entrance and the standing area was worth it and would do again. Next up was IDLES at 5:00. I love me some Joe Talbot and his band of merry men. If you’ve never seen them before, it’s a great live act. The angst and energy of Joe as he spits on the stage pounding his chest as you can feel his energy surge through you. With some of my favorites of ‘mother’ which really expands on our favorite phrase ‘mother fucker’ in its literal and metaphorical meaning. Colossus to start, never fight a man with a perm and Danny Nedelko to end, it’s impossible to not be moving for the entire set. As we were getting ready to end idles, we wanted to turn up our boogey juice vibes. Me, my future wifey and Dan are all fans of mushrooms 🍄🤪. We’ve done em in small doses tried raw shrooms, chocolate bars and smoothies previously. Our friend Tuna brought a bar of 5 grams of chocolate mushrooms. Conventional wisdom would say based on previous history, one gram aka 3 chocolate pieces from this candy bar should be fine, which is what we did. This is a glowingly positive review/warning for product schedule 39. I mean goddamn slap my balls, what the actual fuck, they sent this in the mail to Tuna, good for you scientists- can’t figure out cancer - but they sure as shit figured out mushrooms motha fuckas. We had 30 minutes until jamie xx and the normal things started happening. A little queasy in the stomach. My future wifey gets excited when this happens. People ask her why? And she goes, “because I’ve Pavlov dogged myself to get excited because I’m about to go on my trip.” I too now get excited when I get my queasy stomach feeling with mushrooms. I have done mushrooms 20 + times and never had a ‘bad trip’. What ensued next was some goddamn interstellar shit. As we were into the first two songs of Jamie xx award winning hits, things started to get fuzzy. I slowly stopped being able to hear properly and images started to all look like a kaleidoscope. Huh. Well this is new. I joked with Dan, “uh yooooo- this is a lot. I can’t hear, I’m going deaf.” I’m a 250lb dude. Dan weighs 145 on a good day. Fear struck Dan in the face like Joe Talbot’s ‘Car crash’ as the shroom wave started to hit him too. I inevitably had to lay down and time travel. Tuna had only taken a small amount so he was doing okay. I learned a lot about my future wife tonight. She undoubtedly saved Dan and i’s life as I laid on the ground time traveling and helping Dan talk him through his drooling stupor. She later described it as a balloon and she was holding the string (our hands) which could not be more accurate. It felt like if she didn’t have my hand held, I would float off into a different space. I struggled to breathe, hear, and saw different worlds. Because of my experience with shrooms- I knew it would pass, but goddamn that was a lot schedule 39. The only thing that snapped me out of it was James Murphy and LCD Opening with get innocuous! He literally brought me out of that dimension. Dan was about 30 minutes behind me on his journey so he had to buckle up that seatbelt Dorothy and enjoy the ride. I’ve seen lcd 7 times. I truly think they might be the best live band I’ve ever seen- and every other time I’ve seen them Ive had 0 mushrooms. I praised savior and sweet baby Jesus I could just say words again and hear. Dan tuna and future wifey all had the same sentiments. I danced ferociously straight for the next 60 mins as lcd doesn’t really let you relax (in a good way). I’ll never forget ‘all my friends’ and dancing with my best friends and future wifey as we shouted from the top of my lungs with pure ecstasy in our hearts, “WHERE ARE YOU FRIENDS TONIGHT, IF I COULD SEE MG FRIENDS TONIGHT!!!” Thankfully, I was more grateful than I’ve ever been to be able to see, and hear my friends thanks to schedule 39.
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2023.06.03 07:20 Punycow AITA for being disappointed?
My bf (33) is responsible for sending his sister (40) to and back from work Mon-Fri and gets compensated for his time. I (27) stay and live with his family since the pandemic as its closer to work.
Previously my bf was sending me to and from work 2 days a week but since his sister switch jobs and moved back to the city, his family suggested that my bf fetch her instead since she is a person with disability (missing 1 hand + ED + mental health concerns). The mom is in the 60s and it'll take a toll on her to constantly brave rush hour traffic.
When I was told about this, I was like okay cool, I'll just drive on my own. I just needed to adjust and get up a little early to account for traffic and parking. Well that did not last long, I got sick of traffic and parking cost were too high even for 2 days a week. So I scrapped driving to work and hitched a ride with my bf in the morning when he is sending his sister to work so that he can drop me at the train station as its in the same direction, just 1 min detour. At most it'll add 5 mins to the total journey.
So his schedule revolves around the sister's schedule. So say she wants to go back at 3pm, he has to be there waiting by 3pm. If he's late and she has to wait for more than 10 mins, she's not going to be a happy camper. But on the flip side, if she says 4.30pm and he arrives sharp but she only exits the building at 5pm, you're not going to get a sorry from her and can't get angry at her or say shit.
Why? The whole family treats her with kids glove because of the disability and other issues. I usually do my best to be accomoddating too, just letting things go and be the better person since I'm technically staying in their house and eating their food. So pre-planned date nights or dinner needs to essentially be planned around her schedule especially if it's a weekday and sometimes may get interrupted/cancelled especially if she's in one of her mood or argued with the mom and wants to get off work at 8pm at night instead of in the evenings. I normally just shrug and plan for another day instead.
Now the time I leave work is pretty consistent and I reach the train station is 6.30pm on most days. Except on some Fridays which will be earlier. So yesterday is the day I get off work early since its Friday, I was told that he will be picking his sister up at 4.30pm. I thought okay, it'll take probably 45 mins for them to get home since its not rush hour yet and he'll have enough time to drop his sister back home and head back out to the train station to get me.
5.06pm and he sends me an image showing he just left his sister's work place and is stuck in traffic while I'm already in the train otw back. I thought, it's okay I'll head to the mall connected to the train station to kill time, I waited a total of 40 mins when it could have been 30mins. Why? Because he had to drop his sister home first before coming back out to fetch me. The sister's time is worth gold and mine is shit. Oh no, the sister can't wait another 5-10 mins in the car to come pick me up because of an additional turning into the train station. Nope, let others wait, sister gotta get home first.
So when I got into the car and he told me he can't leave at 4pm as the sister wants to get off work at 4.30pm next week for the trip that we have planned 2 WEEKS AGO. I lost my shit silently in the car and shut down.
It's been a while since we went out on a trip so I put in the effort to plan and paid for shit to relax, he just needs to show up and leave on time and he couldn't even do something I've repeatedly told him throughout the week. I mean I understand that you have the responsibility of chauffeuring your sister but was I really asking too much for him to have made alternative plans for her, maybe asked the mom to get her that day or pay for an uber trip for just that 1 single day
What if she takes her own sweet time and gets off at 5pm again? What time are you going to reach home with the rush hour traffic? 6.30pm? And if we were to leave at 6.30pm which is super peak hour traffic, what time do you think we're gonna reach the destination? 8-9 in the night? Do you think I will still be in the mood or have the energy to go out to even get food?
At this point I was contemplating just going on my own or going with a friend instead to actually enjoy the trip since they will make it on time, plus I get to share the cost.
So AITA for being disappointed in my bf? Or am I selfish and should I have just let it go and change the trip to another day and be more accomoddating.
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Previously my bf was sending me to and from work 2 days a week but since his sister switch jobs and moved back to the city, his family suggested that my bf fetch her instead since she is a person with disability (missing 1 hand + ED + mental health concerns). The mom is in the 60s and it'll take a toll on her to constantly brave rush hour traffic.
When I was told about this, I was like okay cool, I'll just drive on my own. I just needed to adjust and get up a little early to account for traffic and parking. Well that did not last long, I got sick of traffic and parking cost were too high even for 2 days a week. So I scrapped driving to work and hitched a ride with my bf in the morning when he is sending his sister to work so that he can drop me at the train station as its in the same direction, just 1 min detour. At most it'll add 5 mins to the total journey.
So his schedule revolves around the sister's schedule. So say she wants to go back at 3pm, he has to be there waiting by 3pm. If he's late and she has to wait for more than 10 mins, she's not going to be a happy camper. But on the flip side, if she says 4.30pm and he arrives sharp but she only exits the building at 5pm, you're not going to get a sorry from her and can't get angry at her or say shit.
Why? The whole family treats her with kids glove because of the disability and other issues. I usually do my best to be accomoddating too, just letting things go and be the better person since I'm technically staying in their house and eating their food. So pre-planned date nights or dinner needs to essentially be planned around her schedule especially if it's a weekday and sometimes may get interrupted/cancelled especially if she's in one of her mood or argued with the mom and wants to get off work at 8pm at night instead of in the evenings. I normally just shrug and plan for another day instead.
Now the time I leave work is pretty consistent and I reach the train station is 6.30pm on most days. Except on some Fridays which will be earlier. So yesterday is the day I get off work early since its Friday, I was told that he will be picking his sister up at 4.30pm. I thought okay, it'll take probably 45 mins for them to get home since its not rush hour yet and he'll have enough time to drop his sister back home and head back out to the train station to get me.
5.06pm and he sends me an image showing he just left his sister's work place and is stuck in traffic while I'm already in the train otw back. I thought, it's okay I'll head to the mall connected to the train station to kill time, I waited a total of 40 mins when it could have been 30mins. Why? Because he had to drop his sister home first before coming back out to fetch me. The sister's time is worth gold and mine is shit. Oh no, the sister can't wait another 5-10 mins in the car to come pick me up because of an additional turning into the train station. Nope, let others wait, sister gotta get home first.
So when I got into the car and he told me he can't leave at 4pm as the sister wants to get off work at 4.30pm next week for the trip that we have planned 2 WEEKS AGO. I lost my shit silently in the car and shut down.
It's been a while since we went out on a trip so I put in the effort to plan and paid for shit to relax, he just needs to show up and leave on time and he couldn't even do something I've repeatedly told him throughout the week. I mean I understand that you have the responsibility of chauffeuring your sister but was I really asking too much for him to have made alternative plans for her, maybe asked the mom to get her that day or pay for an uber trip for just that 1 single day
What if she takes her own sweet time and gets off at 5pm again? What time are you going to reach home with the rush hour traffic? 6.30pm? And if we were to leave at 6.30pm which is super peak hour traffic, what time do you think we're gonna reach the destination? 8-9 in the night? Do you think I will still be in the mood or have the energy to go out to even get food?
At this point I was contemplating just going on my own or going with a friend instead to actually enjoy the trip since they will make it on time, plus I get to share the cost.
So AITA for being disappointed in my bf? Or am I selfish and should I have just let it go and change the trip to another day and be more accomoddating.
2023.06.03 06:38 Bubbly_Pace_6675 [F4M] 49 #CA #BayArea Let’s Change Our Lives By Adding Desire and Lust
I’m married. In a DB. I'm seeking chemistry. I want to build a long term connection. Let’s change our lives by adding excitement desire lust and amazing sex.
Obviously not looking to change our home lives, just add what’s missing.
I’m not in a rush and want to develop an emotional connection first. I want to spend a decent amount of time chatting first, but I do want to meet up IRL. I want to be excited when I see a message with your name.
You: Over 40. Not your first time doing this. Height weight proportionate, fit. I’m not into dad bods. Attractive, educated, well groomed. Good sense of humor, easy going. Respectful. Kind. Have the time and means to do this. Willing to put in the effort to create amazing experiences together. Be a fun texter and sexter (when we get there)
Me: Aged 49 Married. Open. Bay Area California. HWP. Fit. Athletic. 5’8, 150 Attractive. Educated. stylish. Well groomed. Kind. Sweet. Witty. Sarcastic. I’m passionate and intense, but also don’t take myself too seriously. I laugh easily and often.
I’m in a completely DB for many years. I have had APs before. Excellent opsec. I have a flexible schedule. The time and means to do this. Willing to put in the effort to create amazing experiences together. I’m very sexual, intense, adventurous, expressive and communicative. I want passionate kisses and sex where we are present and centered on and into each others bliss.
PLEASE READ: If you’re interested and would like to chat, PLEASE respond by telling me: Your age. Location. Why you are looking? If you are in a DB tell me how dead or dying and why? You don’t have to bare your soul, Just give me an idea of what your situation is. I will respond with mine.
Let’s see if we can make it past a few days of chat, you never know, we might just change each others lives this summer.
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Obviously not looking to change our home lives, just add what’s missing.
I’m not in a rush and want to develop an emotional connection first. I want to spend a decent amount of time chatting first, but I do want to meet up IRL. I want to be excited when I see a message with your name.
You: Over 40. Not your first time doing this. Height weight proportionate, fit. I’m not into dad bods. Attractive, educated, well groomed. Good sense of humor, easy going. Respectful. Kind. Have the time and means to do this. Willing to put in the effort to create amazing experiences together. Be a fun texter and sexter (when we get there)
Me: Aged 49 Married. Open. Bay Area California. HWP. Fit. Athletic. 5’8, 150 Attractive. Educated. stylish. Well groomed. Kind. Sweet. Witty. Sarcastic. I’m passionate and intense, but also don’t take myself too seriously. I laugh easily and often.
I’m in a completely DB for many years. I have had APs before. Excellent opsec. I have a flexible schedule. The time and means to do this. Willing to put in the effort to create amazing experiences together. I’m very sexual, intense, adventurous, expressive and communicative. I want passionate kisses and sex where we are present and centered on and into each others bliss.
PLEASE READ: If you’re interested and would like to chat, PLEASE respond by telling me: Your age. Location. Why you are looking? If you are in a DB tell me how dead or dying and why? You don’t have to bare your soul, Just give me an idea of what your situation is. I will respond with mine.
Let’s see if we can make it past a few days of chat, you never know, we might just change each others lives this summer.
2023.06.03 06:24 mariiaahh64 First date with a girl
Hey everyone! Im going on my first date with a girl next week, I’ve only ever dated guys (I used to identify as bi but I think I’m gay? Who knows) Anyway. Im so freaking nervous, we’ve been talking for months but we’re both in the medical field haven’t had our schedules line up till now. She’s so sweet and pretty and I’m just so scared 🥲 idk what to wear, how to act, do I kiss her?! Ahh. Advice please 🤍
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2023.06.03 04:17 Ok_Obligation_4751 Passing it naturally, what to expect?
Can someone tell me what I'm in for? I'm sure everyone's different, but I'd like to ask anyway.
So, I've been having constant brown discharge for like 2 weeks now, and this week I've had 3 bouts of full on blood. The first 2 times, it stopped as soon as it started. Just 2 gushes and then back to brown. Today, it was one big gush with some small clots, but seems to still be going on slowly. I clocked my gestation at 8+4 yesterday at my first US. It was originally scheduled for June 5th, but after calling and telling them about the discharge, I was moved up. The doc was very sweet, but told me she saw nothing in the sac and said "no baby yet but it may be too early. Based on this, I'd say your measuring closer to 6 weeks. Let's get you back in 2 weeks for another US and run bloodwork today and Saturday, but I am concerned about miscarriage because of the discharge and mild cramping."
Yeah, no way I'm not 8 and change. Yeah, I could've ovulated late, and yeah yeah everyone's different and here's some miracle stories and blah blah blah, but it's really unlikely. So I get the blood drawn yesterday and I will again tomorrow, but I started bleeding again tonight and this time with some small clots. My boobs were aching something terrible up until about 2 or 3 days ago. Now they're totally pain free. I have accepted it and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. Right now, I cannot imagine doing this again. Getting excited, planning things, bounding with my guy, picking names- all for it to end in disappointment? Nah. I'd love to have a mini version of my guy, he'd be a great father. But I can't do this again.
Right now, I just want to know what to expect pain wise going forward. I've read that heavy cramping is common, but what about nausea? Fainting? What's been your experience?
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So, I've been having constant brown discharge for like 2 weeks now, and this week I've had 3 bouts of full on blood. The first 2 times, it stopped as soon as it started. Just 2 gushes and then back to brown. Today, it was one big gush with some small clots, but seems to still be going on slowly. I clocked my gestation at 8+4 yesterday at my first US. It was originally scheduled for June 5th, but after calling and telling them about the discharge, I was moved up. The doc was very sweet, but told me she saw nothing in the sac and said "no baby yet but it may be too early. Based on this, I'd say your measuring closer to 6 weeks. Let's get you back in 2 weeks for another US and run bloodwork today and Saturday, but I am concerned about miscarriage because of the discharge and mild cramping."
Yeah, no way I'm not 8 and change. Yeah, I could've ovulated late, and yeah yeah everyone's different and here's some miracle stories and blah blah blah, but it's really unlikely. So I get the blood drawn yesterday and I will again tomorrow, but I started bleeding again tonight and this time with some small clots. My boobs were aching something terrible up until about 2 or 3 days ago. Now they're totally pain free. I have accepted it and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. Right now, I cannot imagine doing this again. Getting excited, planning things, bounding with my guy, picking names- all for it to end in disappointment? Nah. I'd love to have a mini version of my guy, he'd be a great father. But I can't do this again.
Right now, I just want to know what to expect pain wise going forward. I've read that heavy cramping is common, but what about nausea? Fainting? What's been your experience?
2023.06.03 03:49 rkx801 [SGDQ] Kaizo Monkey Ball is breaking my brain
When I saw it coming up on the schedule, I thought "ok, I like kaizo Mario hacks and I also like MonkeyBall games, this should be interesting" but.... sweet Jeebus.... this is nuts.
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2023.06.03 01:53 MrParticular79 43 [M4F] San Jose - Sweet and sensual in an open marriage seeks similar for stable connection.
Hi there! I’m in an open marriage and I’m a Dad.
I am looking for a woman who is also in an open relationship or at least has some experience with that. I look to find someone to date and see long term in a secondary type relationship. I’m looking for emotional intimacy that feeds into physical intimacy. I’m poly in that I’m open to romantic feelings if they develop but I also am not trying to force anything. Just want someone to appreciate and feel connected to. Ideally, once we are established you enjoy texting when we can’t see each other in person and you’re available for meetups once a week-ish as schedules allow.
I’m 43, white, 6’1”, 190lbs. I workout and run regularly. I am kind of a cute nerd type in the face crossed with a surfer dude. I have jaw length ashy/brown/blonde hair (still have all of it and it’s wavy/curly and thick), blue eyes, clean shaven and I wear glasses. Personality wise I’m strong, quietly confident, laid back, sweet, and introverted.
I like nerdy stuff like board/video games and I also enjoy football (Niners!), hiking and occasionally going out to dance. I work as a lead software engineer in video games. I am a native of the Bay Area. I also enjoy weed so be friendly with it please. Generally open as well to limited use of party/psychedelic type drugs and enjoy experimenting with the right person (combine this with dancing?).
In the bedroom I have a natural, passionate and sensual way. I enjoy being the masculine one in general but I am not formally kinky or a dom type. I have a strong carnal desire, I’m sensually very intuitive and I enjoy causing pleasure. Also, I’ve had a vasectomy.
Attributes I like in a partner are short, sweet, sensual, genuine and down to earth.
A word about my relationship; we are open but not swingers. I look to find a purposeful connection with a like mind. I am not looking for something quickly or for the short term. The goal is certainly to find amazing physical chemistry, but with someone whom I know, care for and respect.
I live in San Jose and I am quite mobile and happy to drive almost anywhere within reason.
Thank you for reading this far and I hope to hear from you!
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I am looking for a woman who is also in an open relationship or at least has some experience with that. I look to find someone to date and see long term in a secondary type relationship. I’m looking for emotional intimacy that feeds into physical intimacy. I’m poly in that I’m open to romantic feelings if they develop but I also am not trying to force anything. Just want someone to appreciate and feel connected to. Ideally, once we are established you enjoy texting when we can’t see each other in person and you’re available for meetups once a week-ish as schedules allow.
I’m 43, white, 6’1”, 190lbs. I workout and run regularly. I am kind of a cute nerd type in the face crossed with a surfer dude. I have jaw length ashy/brown/blonde hair (still have all of it and it’s wavy/curly and thick), blue eyes, clean shaven and I wear glasses. Personality wise I’m strong, quietly confident, laid back, sweet, and introverted.
I like nerdy stuff like board/video games and I also enjoy football (Niners!), hiking and occasionally going out to dance. I work as a lead software engineer in video games. I am a native of the Bay Area. I also enjoy weed so be friendly with it please. Generally open as well to limited use of party/psychedelic type drugs and enjoy experimenting with the right person (combine this with dancing?).
In the bedroom I have a natural, passionate and sensual way. I enjoy being the masculine one in general but I am not formally kinky or a dom type. I have a strong carnal desire, I’m sensually very intuitive and I enjoy causing pleasure. Also, I’ve had a vasectomy.
Attributes I like in a partner are short, sweet, sensual, genuine and down to earth.
A word about my relationship; we are open but not swingers. I look to find a purposeful connection with a like mind. I am not looking for something quickly or for the short term. The goal is certainly to find amazing physical chemistry, but with someone whom I know, care for and respect.
I live in San Jose and I am quite mobile and happy to drive almost anywhere within reason.
Thank you for reading this far and I hope to hear from you!
2023.06.03 01:47 Sad_Performance_9548 I need some advice
Hello loves!
So this post is long & has nothing to do with the consumption of sweet sweet marijuana, but this thread has such inclusive & thoughtful members and ya girl needs help. I work in an office of about 8 women, and I work directly under this white woman we’ll call T. Today at work one of our clients no-showed for their appointment, and they happen to be a black family. Afterwards, T went off on a tangent while I was in her office and it was one of the most inconsiderate things I’ve ever heard. Having never met these people, she called them ghetto, “hood trash”, and a handful of other offensive things. I think she saw something in my face, because she backed off and started saying “don’t get offended!” (the client has another appointment scheduled for next week ((not entirely sure why) so I really just said “well we’ll see if they show up next week I guess.” And walked away as I wasn’t sure how to handle it. I recognize that I didn’t handle it the best, but I definitely don’t want T thinking she’s got an ally in me when it comes to bigotry. I wasn’t really encouraged to speak up for myself, so I’m trying to learn. How would you all approach the conversation? Is it “worth” bringing it back up on Monday now that we’ve left the office for the weekend? What is a “good” way to respond when coworkers are saying blatantly racist things like that? I also work directly under her, so I’m worried she will make my life hell if I confront her?
Any feedback is appreciated!
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So this post is long & has nothing to do with the consumption of sweet sweet marijuana, but this thread has such inclusive & thoughtful members and ya girl needs help. I work in an office of about 8 women, and I work directly under this white woman we’ll call T. Today at work one of our clients no-showed for their appointment, and they happen to be a black family. Afterwards, T went off on a tangent while I was in her office and it was one of the most inconsiderate things I’ve ever heard. Having never met these people, she called them ghetto, “hood trash”, and a handful of other offensive things. I think she saw something in my face, because she backed off and started saying “don’t get offended!” (the client has another appointment scheduled for next week ((not entirely sure why) so I really just said “well we’ll see if they show up next week I guess.” And walked away as I wasn’t sure how to handle it. I recognize that I didn’t handle it the best, but I definitely don’t want T thinking she’s got an ally in me when it comes to bigotry. I wasn’t really encouraged to speak up for myself, so I’m trying to learn. How would you all approach the conversation? Is it “worth” bringing it back up on Monday now that we’ve left the office for the weekend? What is a “good” way to respond when coworkers are saying blatantly racist things like that? I also work directly under her, so I’m worried she will make my life hell if I confront her?
Any feedback is appreciated!
2023.06.02 23:23 HappyForeverFree1986 The Tentacles Of The Evil Watchtower Has Even Reached The Son Of A Dear Friend
So my husband and I have a dear family that we love very much. We don't get to visit too often because this family lives about two hours away, so we only go to visit twice a year for this family's two son's birthdays.
So we were visiting this family for the oldest son's birthday...he just turned sixteen, and he is a real sweetheart!! The boy's mother was visiting in the living room with my husband and me, (everyone else was outside where the barbecue and the music was), and she was telling us about the Jehovah's Witness family that lived next door to them...
Now this dear family friend of ours had known nothing about about who or what Jehovah's Witnesses are...not even from me. This dear friend of mine never knew anything about my religious background, either, until she had told me during an earlier visit that their neighbors were witnesses, and that though they were "nice," they seemed a little "weird." My friend told me that they had tried to be friendly toward their Jehovah's Witness neighbors, but that they never felt that they could get past "neighborly politeness."
Here's the latest news on our friends JW neighbors:
So the Jehovah's Witness neighbors have a fourteen-year-old daughter that our friend's son had met at school. (He was still fifteen at the time). So the son of our friend and the Jehovah's Witness girl next door knew each other as neighbors, and as fellow school mates, and the son of our friend and this nice girl got to like each other. They began doing innocent things like hanging out a little at their school, but mostly they enjoyed walking to the local Starbucks together every once in a while, and they talked on the phone. Nothing "bad," right??
So our friends, aware that their son liked the sweet, little Jehovah's Witness girl next door, invited the JW family over for a barbecue and some beer...our dear friends are very "laid back" and friendly people, and so the JW neighbors came over...
Well, (here is where I could tell that we were getting to the point in the story where my friend was heading toward being upset), it seems that it didn't take long for this invited-next-door-JW-neighbor (female) to begin to talk about "God" and the "True Religion," blah, blah, blah, and my friend told us that she politely but firmly explained to the JW neighbor that she wasn't much on "religion," that she'd had enough of "religion" growing up. She said that she told the JW neighbor that though she believed in God and in Jesus and in the Bible, she just wasn't into "religion," and that she really didn't want to talk about "religion"; that she just wanted to enjoy the day and the company...
Our friend said that (instead of just politely excepting what our friend had said) their JW guest suddenly got an "attiude," like, "Well!!" She was suddenly "uppity" and "offeneded." (You all know just how easily Jehovah's Witnesses can get "offended" when someone dares to basically "shut them down"!! They just can't handle it!!)
Well, this is what ultimately happened, and why our friend is SO UPSET:
This stuck-up Jehovah's Witness neighbor of our dear friends decided to rip their daughter out of school in order to home-school her (code for: "Complete Control") and to make sure that our friend's sweet son had no more access to their daughter. Our friend's son is so devastated and confused...the girl is not even allowed to talk to him anymore.
Our friend said to us in retrospect over just how weird and unatural this Jehovah's Witness family's reaction was to NOTHING that she just couldn't believe how her JW neighbors could behave in such a peculiar way...
Anyway, what most struck me the most about this relation of events that our friend was telling us about was her comment regarding Jehovah's Witnessses in general, which was: "They just don't live in REALITY!! They're not normal...they don't know how to live in REALITY!! (Wow... That really struck me. That Jehovah's Witnesses don't live in reality...that they don't know HOW to live in reality!!)
Oh, and that's not all!!! I got to talking with some of the birthday boy's male friends who were there for the birthday celebration, and they related to me that they had had opportunity to speak with a few of their Jehovah's Witness friends at school who were leaving to be home-schooled, and when asked "why?" they got some crazy answers, like: "I don't want to take the chance of being shot at school." and, "I don't want to get depressed and end up committing suicide!"
There were other crazy responses from the JW kids explaining why they were leaving school to be home-schooled, but those are the two that just got "stuck" in my head. (SMH)
And so, just from this one visit, I now have the distinct impression that Watchtower is just getting crazier and CRAZIER...more and more WEIRD.
I just can't get over just how Watchtower is getting more and more FEAR MONGERING and staight-up WEIRD, CRAZY, and BIZARRE....
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So we were visiting this family for the oldest son's birthday...he just turned sixteen, and he is a real sweetheart!! The boy's mother was visiting in the living room with my husband and me, (everyone else was outside where the barbecue and the music was), and she was telling us about the Jehovah's Witness family that lived next door to them...
Now this dear family friend of ours had known nothing about about who or what Jehovah's Witnesses are...not even from me. This dear friend of mine never knew anything about my religious background, either, until she had told me during an earlier visit that their neighbors were witnesses, and that though they were "nice," they seemed a little "weird." My friend told me that they had tried to be friendly toward their Jehovah's Witness neighbors, but that they never felt that they could get past "neighborly politeness."
Here's the latest news on our friends JW neighbors:
So the Jehovah's Witness neighbors have a fourteen-year-old daughter that our friend's son had met at school. (He was still fifteen at the time). So the son of our friend and the Jehovah's Witness girl next door knew each other as neighbors, and as fellow school mates, and the son of our friend and this nice girl got to like each other. They began doing innocent things like hanging out a little at their school, but mostly they enjoyed walking to the local Starbucks together every once in a while, and they talked on the phone. Nothing "bad," right??
So our friends, aware that their son liked the sweet, little Jehovah's Witness girl next door, invited the JW family over for a barbecue and some beer...our dear friends are very "laid back" and friendly people, and so the JW neighbors came over...
Well, (here is where I could tell that we were getting to the point in the story where my friend was heading toward being upset), it seems that it didn't take long for this invited-next-door-JW-neighbor (female) to begin to talk about "God" and the "True Religion," blah, blah, blah, and my friend told us that she politely but firmly explained to the JW neighbor that she wasn't much on "religion," that she'd had enough of "religion" growing up. She said that she told the JW neighbor that though she believed in God and in Jesus and in the Bible, she just wasn't into "religion," and that she really didn't want to talk about "religion"; that she just wanted to enjoy the day and the company...
Our friend said that (instead of just politely excepting what our friend had said) their JW guest suddenly got an "attiude," like, "Well!!" She was suddenly "uppity" and "offeneded." (You all know just how easily Jehovah's Witnesses can get "offended" when someone dares to basically "shut them down"!! They just can't handle it!!)
Well, this is what ultimately happened, and why our friend is SO UPSET:
This stuck-up Jehovah's Witness neighbor of our dear friends decided to rip their daughter out of school in order to home-school her (code for: "Complete Control") and to make sure that our friend's sweet son had no more access to their daughter. Our friend's son is so devastated and confused...the girl is not even allowed to talk to him anymore.
Our friend said to us in retrospect over just how weird and unatural this Jehovah's Witness family's reaction was to NOTHING that she just couldn't believe how her JW neighbors could behave in such a peculiar way...
Anyway, what most struck me the most about this relation of events that our friend was telling us about was her comment regarding Jehovah's Witnessses in general, which was: "They just don't live in REALITY!! They're not normal...they don't know how to live in REALITY!! (Wow... That really struck me. That Jehovah's Witnesses don't live in reality...that they don't know HOW to live in reality!!)
Oh, and that's not all!!! I got to talking with some of the birthday boy's male friends who were there for the birthday celebration, and they related to me that they had had opportunity to speak with a few of their Jehovah's Witness friends at school who were leaving to be home-schooled, and when asked "why?" they got some crazy answers, like: "I don't want to take the chance of being shot at school." and, "I don't want to get depressed and end up committing suicide!"
There were other crazy responses from the JW kids explaining why they were leaving school to be home-schooled, but those are the two that just got "stuck" in my head. (SMH)
And so, just from this one visit, I now have the distinct impression that Watchtower is just getting crazier and CRAZIER...more and more WEIRD.
I just can't get over just how Watchtower is getting more and more FEAR MONGERING and staight-up WEIRD, CRAZY, and BIZARRE....
2023.06.02 23:19 orchidpetaldesign Don't call me Cinderella (p3)
Jesi had never been in a hotel before certainly not one as fine as the one Mr Ericson took her and Damion too. They had a suite all to themselves it had two bedrooms connected to a living room, and kitchen. The hotel room was larger then the apparent she used to share with her mama all those years ago. Damion shared a room with Mr. Ericson but for the first time in her life Jesi had a room all to herself. She thought it would feel secure, but she still slept with a knife under her pillow. Still the bed was so soft she felt like it was going to swallow her alive every night. Her nights were one thing but the days were another thing entirely, they were a whirlwind activity. First there was the image coach, a person that Mr. Ericson hired to find a way to make sure Damion and Jesi, both looked nicer then street kids but were still comfortable. Then there was the mountain of paper work and explanations of how her life would change once she signed the papers. Mr. Ecrison said that the press had heard there was an heir to the O’Connal empire but they didn’t have her name or face yet. He was hoping that meant they would have a quite arrival when their plane landed in upstate New York.
He realized he was wrong the moment they entered the airport. Mr. Ericson was shocked to see the number of reporters swarming the gate. He cursed under his breath he’d been so careful he’d even gone out of his way to ask O’Connal’s business partner Constance Karington if they could borrow her family’s private jet to fly the girl in under the radar. With a sigh he squared his shoulders and looked at the two young adults behind him. “You both need to stay quite they will snap photos, shout questions, and shove whatever kind of recording devices they have practically down your throats for a sound bite. Do not give them one.” Mr. Ericson commanded as he lead them toward the crowd. Airport security was already attempting to hold the crowd back. The instant the crowd caught sight of Jesi flashes began to blind them all while the questions started flying
“Miss Jahari is it true you never knew your father?”
“Miss Jahari are you going to sell the company?”
“Miss, Jahari how does it feel to be Cinderella?”
Jesi was proud of herself for not pulling her knife on any of the reporters at the airport. She didn’t like people in general and she certainly wasn’t used to crowds surrounding and recording her. Mr Ericson parted the crowd as best he could and then shoved both Jesi and Damion into a waiting black sedan, with a driver. A short ride later and the small black sedan pulled up to a set of iron gates in the center of a brick wall that surrounded a mansion as big as a castle. The street in front of the wall however was filled bumper to bumper with cars parked on the curb. As the black sedan they were in pulled up to the gates people mobbed the car banging on the windows shouting questions making it hard for the car to move. Mr. Ericson pushed a button on his phone and the gates swung inward admitting the car the driver moved forward slowly through the throng as the gates swung shut behind them. The car pulled up to the front of the house and an older matronly type woman, came rushing out, as Mr. Ericson opened Jesi’s door.
“Ah, let me look at you!” the woman cried out in a thick Irish accent as she looked at Jesi.
“Jesminda Jahari this is your father’s maid and cook Mrs. Mable Mcguil, she has served your father’s family since before I can remember.”
“Aye, your mother must have been a beauty. Why just look at ya! You did get yer Father’s hair though I see, and his eyes.” Mable said as she reached out to brush a strand of red hair from Jesi’s face
“You knew my father?’ Jesi asked
“Knew him? Why I helped his mother raise ‘im I did. Kindest boy you’d ever want to meet. Ack, but he did he ever have a stubborn streak.” Mable added with a laugh
“Mable, my dear, I know you want to get to know Miss Jahari but that’s better left inside I think as the wolves are snapping pictures at the gate.”
“Ack, of course where are my manners, get in here all of ye.” Mable said as she turned to lead the way into the house. Mr. Ericson handed Damion and Jesi the 2 small carry on bags worth of clothes they’d purchased a few days ago, and motioned the two of them to follow Mable inside while he took his own bag from the trunk.
Jesi stepped wide eyed into the large foyer, the floors were a black and gold marble. The walls were a pristine white, with a stair case on either side curving up to the open second floor but what drew Jesi’s eye was a large painting hanging on the wall between the stair cases. A small family of three with a rather severe looking man with blonde hair standing tall a woman beside him with red hair gave anyone who entered a warm welcoming smile. The boy in the front drew jesi in he was around 7 at the time of the painting. Red hair green eyes but the happy smile he gave didn’t quite make it to his eyes. Jesi walked toward the painting staring at the child.
“That’s your father.” Mabel said walking up beside Jesi. “I remember that day clear as a bell yer grandfather insisted on a family portrait sitting. Ah, but yer father little scamp that he was was having none of it. All he wanted was to go out and play in the yard. The artist finally got yer grandfather to agree to take a photo to make the painting off of. As soon as he was free Conner went out and rolled through the grass in that fancy suit you see ‘im wearing. Aye but yer Grandfather was in a snit for days over the grass stains.”
“This house is massive.” Jesi said looking around the foyer.”
“Ah, but we do agree on that. To the left You’ll find the kitchen, dinning room, ballroom, bathroom, den, and living room. Through the right door you’ll find the home theater, another bathroom, library, office, gym and indoor pool. Upstairs there are nine bedrooms each with their own on suite bathroom, And the master bedroom has exclusive access to it’s own balcony. The third floor contains the greenhouse conservatory and excellent views.”
“So many rooms for only three people.” Jesi marveled turning a slow circle around the foyer.
“Yes, that was yer Grandfather for ye. The man insisted on showing the world how successful he was by getting the best of everything privet jet, fancy yacht, all the cars, the house. Yer father was a much simpler type He would have been happy with a one room apparent in the city. That’s why he never replaced the privet jet after the crash. He didn’t see a need, said if he was gonna fly it could be commercially, with real people.”
Jesi stood staring at the painting tears burned the back of her throat, as waves of emotion beat at her. Her father sounded like such a good man she wished she could have known him, but right on the heels of that she was so angry, her father lived in such excess while she and her mother had scraped by on nothing. Yet according to Ericson her father had never known that she existed her grandfather had lied to her father to her mother. Jesi choked back the tears and clung to the only emotion that had kept her alive for so long. Anger. “I hate them.” she ground between clenched teeth.
Mabel’s face fell she seemed to be hoping for a more joyful reaction from Jesi, but to her credit she didn’t try to talk the girl out of her pain either. Damion walked over and placed an arm around Jesi’s shoulders. “Mrs. Mcguil, is there a room we can go to for rest and a little privacy?” Damion asked
As soon as the door to the large guest bedroom drifted shut behind them Jesminda let her real feelings be known. She broke into deep sobs and fell into Damion’s arms.
“I don’t- I can’t- How could he- How could they-” Jesi started so many sentences but the jumble of emotion stampeding through her.
“Easy Jes, take a breath.” Damion tried as he held her.
“Why am I morning a man I never met? A man who abandoned me?” Jesi started
“Because he didn’t abandon you not on purpose Jes.”
“I want to hate him. I need to hate him, Why can’t I hate him?” Jesi sobbed
“Your right Jes it’s not fair. None of this is fair. It’s a lot to take in, and neither of us have taken the time to really process this.”
“In the hotel he didn’t seem real, but now… He was my father, and I never knew his name.”
“I know, Jes, it’s not fair.”
“He was stolen from me!”
“Yes he was.”
“This whole life was stolen from me!” Jesi hiccuped
Damion just held her and let her cry. There was so much for them both to process. Jesi was now one of the richest women in the nation, and she had insisted that Damion share her home as the brother he’d been to her since the day they’d met.
Jesi spent the rest of the day in the guest room that was now her bedroom with Damion bouncing between sorrow and anger like a rubber ball. Eventually she cried herself to sleep. Damion had just eased her into the plush bed, when a soft knock sounded on the door.
“Hey, uumm.” Damion stammered he wished he could remember the maid’s name.
“Mabel deary. How is she?” Mabel asked as she tried to look past Daion towards Jesi.
“She’s sleeping.” Damion said protectivily blocking to door.
“I mean her no harm.” Mabel said gently
Damion winced and tried to force himself to relax “Sorry, I know you don’t it’s just…” He trailed off at a loss “I’ve protectd her since she was five. Its just really hard to let that go.”
“Ye love her then?” Mable asked
“Of course.” Damion stopped and then a thought occurred to him “Oh! Oh you mean! No, no we’re not like that. She’s basically the sister I -” he stopped.
“Yer sister?”
“The crash that took my parents. It also killed my five year old sister Amy. Three days later I met Jesi, she looks nothing like Amy, but she was the same age and well I guess I wanted to protect her the way I couldn’t protect my family.”
“Ack, ye poor dear.” Mabel said with tears pooling in her eyes. “She’s safe here though, not a sole can get past the walls without setting off the alarms.”
Damion stiffened “Jesi, doesn’t like loud noises. Not since her mother was shot.”
“She was there?” Mable asked
“I thought Mr. Ericson would have told you?” Damion asked in confusion
“No, he told me who she was and that her mother had been killed but nothing else.”
“Yeah, she was there, her mom had to take her to work that night and, she says all she remembers is her mom stuffing her in a cabinet then she heard someone yell for the manager then the shots.”
“My God! Did she see anything?”
“No the officer on the scene worked really hard to make sure she didn’t see anything, But she’s been really jumpy ever since.”
“Ack, the poor dear. Well it seems there’s nothing more You and I can do for her til she wakes come I’ll show ye to yer room you must be tired as well.”
“I-I can’t leave her I’ll just stay here with her.”
“She’s safe here. Your safe here. You need rest too.”
“And I’ll get it right here beside her.”
“Ye’ve taken care of her for thirteen years, Ye’ve earned a rest and so has she.”
“We rest better together.”
“I’m sure ye do, and you’ll be ale to hear her through the wall if there’s trouble.” Mable encouraged
“I-”
“Yer both safe. She’ll be fine.”
Damion reluctantly followed Mable from the room. Mable made a show of taking a key from her pocket and locking the door to the room she explained that she was the only one with a key to unlock the bedroom doors but that all door could be locked or unlocked from the inside.
The next morning Mable opened Jesminda’s door with a cart of food behind her. “Good moring Miss Jes-” Mable froze as Jesi lept from the bed a knife brandished in her hand it’s tip nearly rested on Mabel’s neck
“Sorry,” Jesi said as she lowered the knife. “Force of habit.”
“Well, I will say that’s a new way to get the blood runnin in the mornin.” Mabel said with a giggle “Is there a reason ye have a knife on ye?”
“I’ve slept with a knife since I was sixteen.”
“And ye haven’t cut yerself?” Mable tried to joke
“No, Sargent Mullens trained me and Damion how to defend ourselves.”
“Sargent Mullens?” Mable asked
“He was staying at the first homeless shelter we crashed at after leaving the home. I was young inexperienced in street life and so excited to have my first shower in weeks I wasn’t careful enough. After I walked into the ladies room a man grabbed me from behind. He clamped his hand over my mouth and put a knife to my throat. I tried to scream to struggle while he cut my clothes off. Sargent Mullens heard the struggle and rushed in. He pulled the man off before anything happened and called for help. The man tried to cut Mullens but he dodged the blade, disarmed him, and held him until the folks that ran the shelter arrived. He told them to bring the guy to the police for sexual assault. After he helped me and Damion disappear when the police showed up and then taught us how to survive on the streets we stayed with him for about 4 months, until he disappeared.”
“That must have been hard on ye both.” Mable said
“It’s life on the street.”
“Jesi!” Damion called out as he rushed into the room.
“Ah and that saves me the trouble of bringing breakfast to ye as well.” Mable said as she motioned to the cart behind her. “I didn’t know yer preferences, so I, well, I made yer Father’s favorites. Bacon, sausage, pancakes, as well as some fruit a selection of juices and, aspirin.”
“How did you know I have a headache?” Jesi asked
“I’ve spent more then a night or two crying meself te sleep. I know the headache ye wake with in the morin all to well. OOP!” Mable said as she pulled her phone from her pocket. “And it seems that Ericson has arrived for the day with company not far behind. Best ye eat up and prepare seems as though yer in for yoru first dose of Constance.”
“Heellloo, Constance Karington,” The tall blonde woman in her early twenties stepped up to Jesi and offered her hand “Your sister.”
“I have a sister?” Jesi asked
“No, you do not.” Ericson answered.
“Oh not a biological sister but Conner was like a second father to me.” Constance said
“That makes one of us.” Jesi griped under her breath
“Oh look at you aren’t you a vision well besides that scare on your neck but don’t you worry my step-mom knows a great plastic surgeon we’ll have that gone in days.”
Jesi rested a self conscious hand over the knife scare on her collar bone.
“I wish you had consulted with me Ms. Karington, Miss Jahri’s schedule is full today.”
“Oh, so I cleared my entire morning of running my very successful company to hang out with my new sister for nothing” Constance protested actually pouting at Ericson.
“I believe you’ll find the company belongs to both of you Ms. Karington, and as I Said if you’d checked with me I could have told you that Miss Jahari’s scheduled is full this morning.”
“Oh come on I’m sure you don’t need a stuffy old man telling you what to do Jesi. You don’t mind if I call you Jesi do you?” Constance’s words dripped with sugar.
“Actually I do mind.” Jesi wasn’t buying Constance’s act for a second. “And Ercison has a full day planned.”
“Well, what am I supposed to do with an open morning Ericson?” Constance tried again
“Since your so keen to have family time I suggest you go connect with your brother.” Ericson suggested
“I suppose I could find Skyler but I look forward to dinner tonight Jesminda.” Constance commanded
“I will contact your office and arrange for a dinner in a few weeks then.” Ericson offered.
“I look forward to it.” Constance said with a smile as she turned to go.
“Oh Ms. Karington I would like to know how our confidential flight itinerary was leaked to the press.” Ericson asked
“Oh right, I have talked to my pilot about that rest assured he’ll be disciplined for his loose lips. Ta.” Constance tossed over her shoulder as she left.
“Who was that?” Damion asked when the door closed behind Constance
“Constance Karington, she is the co CEO of O’Connal and Karington Enterprises.”
“Isn’t she kinda young to be a CEO?” Jesi asked
“She was a child prodigy she graduated high school early and earned her MBA by the time she was 20. Two years ago she convinced her father to entire and hand over his half of the company to her.”
Constance slammed the front door to her family’s home. And let out a frustrated scream.
“I take it your plan to get Cinderella to sign the papers was a bust?” her brother Skyler appeared at the top of the stairs.
“I thought you’d still be sleeping.” Constance griped
“I was until you slammed the door quite rude if I’m honest sister dear.” Skyler, said with a lazy drawl
“Well, tell whoever your current girlfriend is I’m sorry to have disturbed her.” Constance replied with a forced smile
“You can drop the loving sister routine Constance I’m alone today.”
“For once.” Constance laughed sarcastically. “What do Nora find you flirting with a waitress?”
“Her name was Ashley and no, she asked for commitment, and you know I don’t do commitment.”
“Hm. Yet another doe eyed debutante that thought she could marry New York’s most eligible bachelor?”
“Yes you’d think they’d know better by now don’t they all talk?”
“Brother this may surprise you but the world does not actually revolve around you.”
“And it doesn’t serve you sister dear. A fact it seems ‘Cinderella’ reminded you of today.” Skyer gloated
“That company is mine! Conner promised it to me! Then that worthless brainless rat shows up and takes everything from me!” Constance shouted.
“I’m not sure Cinderella showed up isn’t more like Connor hunted her down?”
“Cinderella?” Constance said as a calculating smile slid on to her face
“That look never bodes well.” Skyler observed
“Well, every Cinderella needs her Prince Charming doesn’t she.”
“As I understand it she came with hers did she not?”
“The street rat no he’s more a brother to her as I understand it, but you Brother dear are currently between lovers at the moment.”
“Ha! Don’t even try it. Your little Cinderella is no where near my type.”
“Oh please, she’s beautiful, rich, and a woman that’s exactly your type.”
“Hardly, once a street rat always a street rat!” Skyler objected
“I don’t care, you will romance her get her so infatuated with you that when you tell her it’s in her best interst to sign over the company she’ll comply.”
“And if it can’t.”
“Then you’ll keep it in your pants until you marry her! I will not let some brat swoop in and steal everything I worked my entire life to get!”
“You can’t make me do any of this.”
“Can’t I? Last I checked Brother dear I control your trust fund.”
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He realized he was wrong the moment they entered the airport. Mr. Ericson was shocked to see the number of reporters swarming the gate. He cursed under his breath he’d been so careful he’d even gone out of his way to ask O’Connal’s business partner Constance Karington if they could borrow her family’s private jet to fly the girl in under the radar. With a sigh he squared his shoulders and looked at the two young adults behind him. “You both need to stay quite they will snap photos, shout questions, and shove whatever kind of recording devices they have practically down your throats for a sound bite. Do not give them one.” Mr. Ericson commanded as he lead them toward the crowd. Airport security was already attempting to hold the crowd back. The instant the crowd caught sight of Jesi flashes began to blind them all while the questions started flying
“Miss Jahari is it true you never knew your father?”
“Miss Jahari are you going to sell the company?”
“Miss, Jahari how does it feel to be Cinderella?”
Jesi was proud of herself for not pulling her knife on any of the reporters at the airport. She didn’t like people in general and she certainly wasn’t used to crowds surrounding and recording her. Mr Ericson parted the crowd as best he could and then shoved both Jesi and Damion into a waiting black sedan, with a driver. A short ride later and the small black sedan pulled up to a set of iron gates in the center of a brick wall that surrounded a mansion as big as a castle. The street in front of the wall however was filled bumper to bumper with cars parked on the curb. As the black sedan they were in pulled up to the gates people mobbed the car banging on the windows shouting questions making it hard for the car to move. Mr. Ericson pushed a button on his phone and the gates swung inward admitting the car the driver moved forward slowly through the throng as the gates swung shut behind them. The car pulled up to the front of the house and an older matronly type woman, came rushing out, as Mr. Ericson opened Jesi’s door.
“Ah, let me look at you!” the woman cried out in a thick Irish accent as she looked at Jesi.
“Jesminda Jahari this is your father’s maid and cook Mrs. Mable Mcguil, she has served your father’s family since before I can remember.”
“Aye, your mother must have been a beauty. Why just look at ya! You did get yer Father’s hair though I see, and his eyes.” Mable said as she reached out to brush a strand of red hair from Jesi’s face
“You knew my father?’ Jesi asked
“Knew him? Why I helped his mother raise ‘im I did. Kindest boy you’d ever want to meet. Ack, but he did he ever have a stubborn streak.” Mable added with a laugh
“Mable, my dear, I know you want to get to know Miss Jahari but that’s better left inside I think as the wolves are snapping pictures at the gate.”
“Ack, of course where are my manners, get in here all of ye.” Mable said as she turned to lead the way into the house. Mr. Ericson handed Damion and Jesi the 2 small carry on bags worth of clothes they’d purchased a few days ago, and motioned the two of them to follow Mable inside while he took his own bag from the trunk.
Jesi stepped wide eyed into the large foyer, the floors were a black and gold marble. The walls were a pristine white, with a stair case on either side curving up to the open second floor but what drew Jesi’s eye was a large painting hanging on the wall between the stair cases. A small family of three with a rather severe looking man with blonde hair standing tall a woman beside him with red hair gave anyone who entered a warm welcoming smile. The boy in the front drew jesi in he was around 7 at the time of the painting. Red hair green eyes but the happy smile he gave didn’t quite make it to his eyes. Jesi walked toward the painting staring at the child.
“That’s your father.” Mabel said walking up beside Jesi. “I remember that day clear as a bell yer grandfather insisted on a family portrait sitting. Ah, but yer father little scamp that he was was having none of it. All he wanted was to go out and play in the yard. The artist finally got yer grandfather to agree to take a photo to make the painting off of. As soon as he was free Conner went out and rolled through the grass in that fancy suit you see ‘im wearing. Aye but yer Grandfather was in a snit for days over the grass stains.”
“This house is massive.” Jesi said looking around the foyer.”
“Ah, but we do agree on that. To the left You’ll find the kitchen, dinning room, ballroom, bathroom, den, and living room. Through the right door you’ll find the home theater, another bathroom, library, office, gym and indoor pool. Upstairs there are nine bedrooms each with their own on suite bathroom, And the master bedroom has exclusive access to it’s own balcony. The third floor contains the greenhouse conservatory and excellent views.”
“So many rooms for only three people.” Jesi marveled turning a slow circle around the foyer.
“Yes, that was yer Grandfather for ye. The man insisted on showing the world how successful he was by getting the best of everything privet jet, fancy yacht, all the cars, the house. Yer father was a much simpler type He would have been happy with a one room apparent in the city. That’s why he never replaced the privet jet after the crash. He didn’t see a need, said if he was gonna fly it could be commercially, with real people.”
Jesi stood staring at the painting tears burned the back of her throat, as waves of emotion beat at her. Her father sounded like such a good man she wished she could have known him, but right on the heels of that she was so angry, her father lived in such excess while she and her mother had scraped by on nothing. Yet according to Ericson her father had never known that she existed her grandfather had lied to her father to her mother. Jesi choked back the tears and clung to the only emotion that had kept her alive for so long. Anger. “I hate them.” she ground between clenched teeth.
Mabel’s face fell she seemed to be hoping for a more joyful reaction from Jesi, but to her credit she didn’t try to talk the girl out of her pain either. Damion walked over and placed an arm around Jesi’s shoulders. “Mrs. Mcguil, is there a room we can go to for rest and a little privacy?” Damion asked
As soon as the door to the large guest bedroom drifted shut behind them Jesminda let her real feelings be known. She broke into deep sobs and fell into Damion’s arms.
“I don’t- I can’t- How could he- How could they-” Jesi started so many sentences but the jumble of emotion stampeding through her.
“Easy Jes, take a breath.” Damion tried as he held her.
“Why am I morning a man I never met? A man who abandoned me?” Jesi started
“Because he didn’t abandon you not on purpose Jes.”
“I want to hate him. I need to hate him, Why can’t I hate him?” Jesi sobbed
“Your right Jes it’s not fair. None of this is fair. It’s a lot to take in, and neither of us have taken the time to really process this.”
“In the hotel he didn’t seem real, but now… He was my father, and I never knew his name.”
“I know, Jes, it’s not fair.”
“He was stolen from me!”
“Yes he was.”
“This whole life was stolen from me!” Jesi hiccuped
Damion just held her and let her cry. There was so much for them both to process. Jesi was now one of the richest women in the nation, and she had insisted that Damion share her home as the brother he’d been to her since the day they’d met.
Jesi spent the rest of the day in the guest room that was now her bedroom with Damion bouncing between sorrow and anger like a rubber ball. Eventually she cried herself to sleep. Damion had just eased her into the plush bed, when a soft knock sounded on the door.
“Hey, uumm.” Damion stammered he wished he could remember the maid’s name.
“Mabel deary. How is she?” Mabel asked as she tried to look past Daion towards Jesi.
“She’s sleeping.” Damion said protectivily blocking to door.
“I mean her no harm.” Mabel said gently
Damion winced and tried to force himself to relax “Sorry, I know you don’t it’s just…” He trailed off at a loss “I’ve protectd her since she was five. Its just really hard to let that go.”
“Ye love her then?” Mable asked
“Of course.” Damion stopped and then a thought occurred to him “Oh! Oh you mean! No, no we’re not like that. She’s basically the sister I -” he stopped.
“Yer sister?”
“The crash that took my parents. It also killed my five year old sister Amy. Three days later I met Jesi, she looks nothing like Amy, but she was the same age and well I guess I wanted to protect her the way I couldn’t protect my family.”
“Ack, ye poor dear.” Mabel said with tears pooling in her eyes. “She’s safe here though, not a sole can get past the walls without setting off the alarms.”
Damion stiffened “Jesi, doesn’t like loud noises. Not since her mother was shot.”
“She was there?” Mable asked
“I thought Mr. Ericson would have told you?” Damion asked in confusion
“No, he told me who she was and that her mother had been killed but nothing else.”
“Yeah, she was there, her mom had to take her to work that night and, she says all she remembers is her mom stuffing her in a cabinet then she heard someone yell for the manager then the shots.”
“My God! Did she see anything?”
“No the officer on the scene worked really hard to make sure she didn’t see anything, But she’s been really jumpy ever since.”
“Ack, the poor dear. Well it seems there’s nothing more You and I can do for her til she wakes come I’ll show ye to yer room you must be tired as well.”
“I-I can’t leave her I’ll just stay here with her.”
“She’s safe here. Your safe here. You need rest too.”
“And I’ll get it right here beside her.”
“Ye’ve taken care of her for thirteen years, Ye’ve earned a rest and so has she.”
“We rest better together.”
“I’m sure ye do, and you’ll be ale to hear her through the wall if there’s trouble.” Mable encouraged
“I-”
“Yer both safe. She’ll be fine.”
Damion reluctantly followed Mable from the room. Mable made a show of taking a key from her pocket and locking the door to the room she explained that she was the only one with a key to unlock the bedroom doors but that all door could be locked or unlocked from the inside.
The next morning Mable opened Jesminda’s door with a cart of food behind her. “Good moring Miss Jes-” Mable froze as Jesi lept from the bed a knife brandished in her hand it’s tip nearly rested on Mabel’s neck
“Sorry,” Jesi said as she lowered the knife. “Force of habit.”
“Well, I will say that’s a new way to get the blood runnin in the mornin.” Mabel said with a giggle “Is there a reason ye have a knife on ye?”
“I’ve slept with a knife since I was sixteen.”
“And ye haven’t cut yerself?” Mable tried to joke
“No, Sargent Mullens trained me and Damion how to defend ourselves.”
“Sargent Mullens?” Mable asked
“He was staying at the first homeless shelter we crashed at after leaving the home. I was young inexperienced in street life and so excited to have my first shower in weeks I wasn’t careful enough. After I walked into the ladies room a man grabbed me from behind. He clamped his hand over my mouth and put a knife to my throat. I tried to scream to struggle while he cut my clothes off. Sargent Mullens heard the struggle and rushed in. He pulled the man off before anything happened and called for help. The man tried to cut Mullens but he dodged the blade, disarmed him, and held him until the folks that ran the shelter arrived. He told them to bring the guy to the police for sexual assault. After he helped me and Damion disappear when the police showed up and then taught us how to survive on the streets we stayed with him for about 4 months, until he disappeared.”
“That must have been hard on ye both.” Mable said
“It’s life on the street.”
“Jesi!” Damion called out as he rushed into the room.
“Ah and that saves me the trouble of bringing breakfast to ye as well.” Mable said as she motioned to the cart behind her. “I didn’t know yer preferences, so I, well, I made yer Father’s favorites. Bacon, sausage, pancakes, as well as some fruit a selection of juices and, aspirin.”
“How did you know I have a headache?” Jesi asked
“I’ve spent more then a night or two crying meself te sleep. I know the headache ye wake with in the morin all to well. OOP!” Mable said as she pulled her phone from her pocket. “And it seems that Ericson has arrived for the day with company not far behind. Best ye eat up and prepare seems as though yer in for yoru first dose of Constance.”
“Heellloo, Constance Karington,” The tall blonde woman in her early twenties stepped up to Jesi and offered her hand “Your sister.”
“I have a sister?” Jesi asked
“No, you do not.” Ericson answered.
“Oh not a biological sister but Conner was like a second father to me.” Constance said
“That makes one of us.” Jesi griped under her breath
“Oh look at you aren’t you a vision well besides that scare on your neck but don’t you worry my step-mom knows a great plastic surgeon we’ll have that gone in days.”
Jesi rested a self conscious hand over the knife scare on her collar bone.
“I wish you had consulted with me Ms. Karington, Miss Jahri’s schedule is full today.”
“Oh, so I cleared my entire morning of running my very successful company to hang out with my new sister for nothing” Constance protested actually pouting at Ericson.
“I believe you’ll find the company belongs to both of you Ms. Karington, and as I Said if you’d checked with me I could have told you that Miss Jahari’s scheduled is full this morning.”
“Oh come on I’m sure you don’t need a stuffy old man telling you what to do Jesi. You don’t mind if I call you Jesi do you?” Constance’s words dripped with sugar.
“Actually I do mind.” Jesi wasn’t buying Constance’s act for a second. “And Ercison has a full day planned.”
“Well, what am I supposed to do with an open morning Ericson?” Constance tried again
“Since your so keen to have family time I suggest you go connect with your brother.” Ericson suggested
“I suppose I could find Skyler but I look forward to dinner tonight Jesminda.” Constance commanded
“I will contact your office and arrange for a dinner in a few weeks then.” Ericson offered.
“I look forward to it.” Constance said with a smile as she turned to go.
“Oh Ms. Karington I would like to know how our confidential flight itinerary was leaked to the press.” Ericson asked
“Oh right, I have talked to my pilot about that rest assured he’ll be disciplined for his loose lips. Ta.” Constance tossed over her shoulder as she left.
“Who was that?” Damion asked when the door closed behind Constance
“Constance Karington, she is the co CEO of O’Connal and Karington Enterprises.”
“Isn’t she kinda young to be a CEO?” Jesi asked
“She was a child prodigy she graduated high school early and earned her MBA by the time she was 20. Two years ago she convinced her father to entire and hand over his half of the company to her.”
Constance slammed the front door to her family’s home. And let out a frustrated scream.
“I take it your plan to get Cinderella to sign the papers was a bust?” her brother Skyler appeared at the top of the stairs.
“I thought you’d still be sleeping.” Constance griped
“I was until you slammed the door quite rude if I’m honest sister dear.” Skyler, said with a lazy drawl
“Well, tell whoever your current girlfriend is I’m sorry to have disturbed her.” Constance replied with a forced smile
“You can drop the loving sister routine Constance I’m alone today.”
“For once.” Constance laughed sarcastically. “What do Nora find you flirting with a waitress?”
“Her name was Ashley and no, she asked for commitment, and you know I don’t do commitment.”
“Hm. Yet another doe eyed debutante that thought she could marry New York’s most eligible bachelor?”
“Yes you’d think they’d know better by now don’t they all talk?”
“Brother this may surprise you but the world does not actually revolve around you.”
“And it doesn’t serve you sister dear. A fact it seems ‘Cinderella’ reminded you of today.” Skyer gloated
“That company is mine! Conner promised it to me! Then that worthless brainless rat shows up and takes everything from me!” Constance shouted.
“I’m not sure Cinderella showed up isn’t more like Connor hunted her down?”
“Cinderella?” Constance said as a calculating smile slid on to her face
“That look never bodes well.” Skyler observed
“Well, every Cinderella needs her Prince Charming doesn’t she.”
“As I understand it she came with hers did she not?”
“The street rat no he’s more a brother to her as I understand it, but you Brother dear are currently between lovers at the moment.”
“Ha! Don’t even try it. Your little Cinderella is no where near my type.”
“Oh please, she’s beautiful, rich, and a woman that’s exactly your type.”
“Hardly, once a street rat always a street rat!” Skyler objected
“I don’t care, you will romance her get her so infatuated with you that when you tell her it’s in her best interst to sign over the company she’ll comply.”
“And if it can’t.”
“Then you’ll keep it in your pants until you marry her! I will not let some brat swoop in and steal everything I worked my entire life to get!”
“You can’t make me do any of this.”
“Can’t I? Last I checked Brother dear I control your trust fund.”
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2023.06.02 22:57 terberberb A dumb review of all my old perfumes which I have lost the notes for and are now discontinued
Hello. I have been lurking around here for many years under several different usernames (like a creep). I really love this reddit! It's what always drags me back after I have deleted my account in a fit of pique. I think you're all amazing, creative, supportive and wonderful people, and some of you are very very funny. I thought I'd try and contribute.
I also love weird perfume and strange concoctions of all kinds, but I have a very small, mostly old collection for two reasons.
Alkemia - Desiderata
Desiderata is the first perfume I ever bought, after it was the only scent in a pack of samples that didn't make me smell like a burning tyre. Alkemia and I do not get along. It smells like.... honeysuckle? I think? maybe dandelions. Floral and green (my general jam), and a little bit bitter. It's nice but I don't wear it very often because it gives me a headache about 2 times out of 5. Also when I'm on my period it smells like decaying plastic for some reason.
Common Brimstone - Druid
This one's very resin-y and spicy, and a bit like actual jam. Spicy jam being eaten by a wealthy older woman who thinks you're the hotel staff and wants you to move her bags to the tesla waiting outside. She will not tip you. Common brimstone was a UK house that went out of business ages ago. I don't know why I bought this. Also 2 out of 5 headaches.
Sixteen 92 - Eternal Return
When I was a kid my dad had a vege garden where he grew cherry tomatoes and those little squash that look like UFOs. There was a huge lavender bush in the corner which was always swarming with bumblebees. This perfume smells like lying in the grass beside that garden on a hot day, hiding from your dumb siblings while you eat tomatoes straight off the plant and listen to Blink-182 on your iPod mini. It's 2005. Your sister suuucks. Only gives me a headache if I already have a headache.
Sixteen 92 - Southern Gothic
I love magnolias. Even though they remind me of that very depressing Nina Simone song. They smell so nice. Their flower buds look like darling little mice. This perfume smells like perfect rich syrupy magnolia and a bunch of other flowers that I don't care about. Unfortunately its a 5 out of 5 headacher. It smells so good for ten seconds after putting it on and then its like someone is applying a power drill right between my eyes. I think I thought that maybe I would get over the pain it causes me if I FSd it but that did not, alas, happen.
One Hand Washes The Other - Talisman Solid Scent
Picture me (if you wish to picture me as the grandma from the Addams Family, I will not mind) in my ideal place. This is a light, airy, greenhouse/shed/craft room, with terracotta floor tiles, herbs hanging from the beamed ceiling and beeswax candles burning everywhere. Picture me cackling as I pound spices and weird bitter herbs in a huge mortar and pestle. What am I making? Is it a poison? a potion? a spice rub for a lamb roast? It's this perfume. It's great. 0 headaches. Would probably smell super sexy on my partner but I don't want to waste it on him, it smells too good on me.
Darling Clandestine - Tapadero
This smells like a lady gunslinger taking potshots at her ex-lover as he rides away on a stolen horse. No it doesn't really, it smells like sage and roses and a bit of smoke. But that's how it feels. It's the only rose scent I have ever come across which doesn't give me an instant headache. I once wore it to a Catholic wedding at which I drank too much, took my bra off and swing danced with the best man. I left town soon after for unrelated reasons. 3 out of 5 headaches but worth it.
Darling Clandestine - Bicep of the Parrot Number 42
I really do love DC. This smells like the Winter Garden at Auckland Domain. Its a big glass and steel room filled with weird tropical plants, dripping water and moss. There's a pond with Amazonian giant waterlilies. There's one of those flowers that smells like rotten meat. Thankfully on the particular day that this perfume smells like, the meat flower is asleep. Headache free.
Special Mention Darling Clandestine - Baby Bankrupt
I no longer have this perfume because it went rancid during a heatwave, but I mourn it every date night. It was sexy and made me feel like fighting people and I loved it. Evonne from DC if you're reading this please bring it back I will pay many dollars.
Death and Floral - It's all in your head
I blind bought this because it was a charity scent donating money to an OCD organisation. I have OCD myself and occasionally like to give money to other people with it. The perfume smells sweet and bready in the bottle, but when I put it on my skin, it smells of nothing. Nothing at all. None of the samples I got with it smelled of anything either. On the plus side none of them gave me a headache.
Anyway I'm currently looking for a sexy but appropriate to wear in front of grandmother-in-law perfume to get married in so suggestions welcome! I've got some Crow and Pebble samples in the post and here's hoping! (only $10 for postage?!!? SIgn Me UP)
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I also love weird perfume and strange concoctions of all kinds, but I have a very small, mostly old collection for two reasons.
- I live in New Zealand. New Zealand is very far away from almost everywhere. Shipping is so very painful and local retailers are slim pickings. The despair of spending $$$ for a small pack of Death and Floral samples only to have them completely disappear as soon as they touch your skin is enough to make anyone quit indies.
- My mother's bloodline was cursed by a wizard in the distant past and all the women in my family have PICKY and SENSITIVE noses. We also can't make scones.
Alkemia - Desiderata
Desiderata is the first perfume I ever bought, after it was the only scent in a pack of samples that didn't make me smell like a burning tyre. Alkemia and I do not get along. It smells like.... honeysuckle? I think? maybe dandelions. Floral and green (my general jam), and a little bit bitter. It's nice but I don't wear it very often because it gives me a headache about 2 times out of 5. Also when I'm on my period it smells like decaying plastic for some reason.
Common Brimstone - Druid
This one's very resin-y and spicy, and a bit like actual jam. Spicy jam being eaten by a wealthy older woman who thinks you're the hotel staff and wants you to move her bags to the tesla waiting outside. She will not tip you. Common brimstone was a UK house that went out of business ages ago. I don't know why I bought this. Also 2 out of 5 headaches.
Sixteen 92 - Eternal Return
When I was a kid my dad had a vege garden where he grew cherry tomatoes and those little squash that look like UFOs. There was a huge lavender bush in the corner which was always swarming with bumblebees. This perfume smells like lying in the grass beside that garden on a hot day, hiding from your dumb siblings while you eat tomatoes straight off the plant and listen to Blink-182 on your iPod mini. It's 2005. Your sister suuucks. Only gives me a headache if I already have a headache.
Sixteen 92 - Southern Gothic
I love magnolias. Even though they remind me of that very depressing Nina Simone song. They smell so nice. Their flower buds look like darling little mice. This perfume smells like perfect rich syrupy magnolia and a bunch of other flowers that I don't care about. Unfortunately its a 5 out of 5 headacher. It smells so good for ten seconds after putting it on and then its like someone is applying a power drill right between my eyes. I think I thought that maybe I would get over the pain it causes me if I FSd it but that did not, alas, happen.
One Hand Washes The Other - Talisman Solid Scent
Picture me (if you wish to picture me as the grandma from the Addams Family, I will not mind) in my ideal place. This is a light, airy, greenhouse/shed/craft room, with terracotta floor tiles, herbs hanging from the beamed ceiling and beeswax candles burning everywhere. Picture me cackling as I pound spices and weird bitter herbs in a huge mortar and pestle. What am I making? Is it a poison? a potion? a spice rub for a lamb roast? It's this perfume. It's great. 0 headaches. Would probably smell super sexy on my partner but I don't want to waste it on him, it smells too good on me.
Darling Clandestine - Tapadero
This smells like a lady gunslinger taking potshots at her ex-lover as he rides away on a stolen horse. No it doesn't really, it smells like sage and roses and a bit of smoke. But that's how it feels. It's the only rose scent I have ever come across which doesn't give me an instant headache. I once wore it to a Catholic wedding at which I drank too much, took my bra off and swing danced with the best man. I left town soon after for unrelated reasons. 3 out of 5 headaches but worth it.
Darling Clandestine - Bicep of the Parrot Number 42
I really do love DC. This smells like the Winter Garden at Auckland Domain. Its a big glass and steel room filled with weird tropical plants, dripping water and moss. There's a pond with Amazonian giant waterlilies. There's one of those flowers that smells like rotten meat. Thankfully on the particular day that this perfume smells like, the meat flower is asleep. Headache free.
Special Mention Darling Clandestine - Baby Bankrupt
I no longer have this perfume because it went rancid during a heatwave, but I mourn it every date night. It was sexy and made me feel like fighting people and I loved it. Evonne from DC if you're reading this please bring it back I will pay many dollars.
Death and Floral - It's all in your head
I blind bought this because it was a charity scent donating money to an OCD organisation. I have OCD myself and occasionally like to give money to other people with it. The perfume smells sweet and bready in the bottle, but when I put it on my skin, it smells of nothing. Nothing at all. None of the samples I got with it smelled of anything either. On the plus side none of them gave me a headache.
Anyway I'm currently looking for a sexy but appropriate to wear in front of grandmother-in-law perfume to get married in so suggestions welcome! I've got some Crow and Pebble samples in the post and here's hoping! (only $10 for postage?!!? SIgn Me UP)
2023.06.02 22:49 Alternative-Cat9174 how to lose 30-50 pounds in 5 months?
general information: 15F, 4’10/4’11 and a half, and 195 pounds
hi y’all! so i want to know how to lose 30-50 pounds in about 5 months for my sweet 16. i also want to keep losing weight as i’m obese for my height.
anyways, i have an issue with food. i legit cannot stop eating food. whenever i’m bored, i’m hungry so i eat. i eat when i’m stressed as well. whenever there’s food, i jus eat it. i also crave junk food a lot. i practically think abt food 24/7 lol. i also have a shitty sleep schedule, so that obviously doesn’t help either. it’s like my body survives off of junk food.
anyways, how do i implement a healthy lifestyle? how do i make my body crave healthy food instead of junk food? how do i healthily lose between 30-50 pounds in jus 5 months?
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hi y’all! so i want to know how to lose 30-50 pounds in about 5 months for my sweet 16. i also want to keep losing weight as i’m obese for my height.
anyways, i have an issue with food. i legit cannot stop eating food. whenever i’m bored, i’m hungry so i eat. i eat when i’m stressed as well. whenever there’s food, i jus eat it. i also crave junk food a lot. i practically think abt food 24/7 lol. i also have a shitty sleep schedule, so that obviously doesn’t help either. it’s like my body survives off of junk food.
anyways, how do i implement a healthy lifestyle? how do i make my body crave healthy food instead of junk food? how do i healthily lose between 30-50 pounds in jus 5 months?
2023.06.02 21:29 OverTadpole5056 Boyfriend’s Birthday in anchorage
I’m from the Midwest but my family is traveling to Alaska next week. My boyfriend is also coming but isn’t super thrilled about traveling on his birthday (he’s rather do nothing, but this was the only time we could make work with flights and schedules).
I want to do something extra for him that morning (a Wednesday) before we drive to Homer, or the night before. He loves sweets and candy, is there any awesome local place that has great dessert or a candy/chocolate shop with unique items??
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I want to do something extra for him that morning (a Wednesday) before we drive to Homer, or the night before. He loves sweets and candy, is there any awesome local place that has great dessert or a candy/chocolate shop with unique items??
2023.06.02 19:55 dysonsphere87 Decided on Enchanter. Looking for some tips / friends in game
Made an enchanter on the Green Server (name is Ryzana if anyone wants to be friends). I can play usually from 7pm mountain time till whenever. Have a young child so a lot of my schedule revolves around that.
I'm currently 6.5 and hanging around orc hill. It's been literally decades since I played EQ so I'm a bit curious about what the most optimal leveling path is. I'm not in a huge hurry but I am curious if anyone has any suggestions on where to go to level initially as a High Elf Enchanter? I'm interested in earning to plat and also curious what items I should keep instead of selling off to merchants due to player interest?
Is it worth just heading out to Freeport so I can have close proximity to North Ro / Oasis, and the EC Tunnel? I think that's what I did back in the day but it's been a looooong time. Back in the day I leveled an Enchanter to 25 then ditched it due to not really understanding the class (I was about 12 years old and wanted to hit things in the game). I ended up going with a rogue and loved that.
The game is as overwhelming as it was then and I'm surprised at all the great documentation on it but even with the documentation it can feel like drinking from a fire hydrant.
Also one thing I'm curious about - I know Velious is considered the sweet spot of EQ. I started playing around the time Kunark released. That said I really actually enjoyed Planes of Power a lot (Luclin was meh to me). I loved the unique sound track each plane got and I guess POP was a spot in my memory where I was finally mature enough to understand the game a bit more, and socialize in a non-off-putting way. I also got really involved in my guild then. I'm curious if the general consensus here is that anything beyond Velious sucked? Don't get me wrong. I will take P1999 where it is over the over-inflated mess the current live servers are (I leveled an SK to 100 about 10 or so years ago). Just curious what other's thoughts are on this?
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I'm currently 6.5 and hanging around orc hill. It's been literally decades since I played EQ so I'm a bit curious about what the most optimal leveling path is. I'm not in a huge hurry but I am curious if anyone has any suggestions on where to go to level initially as a High Elf Enchanter? I'm interested in earning to plat and also curious what items I should keep instead of selling off to merchants due to player interest?
Is it worth just heading out to Freeport so I can have close proximity to North Ro / Oasis, and the EC Tunnel? I think that's what I did back in the day but it's been a looooong time. Back in the day I leveled an Enchanter to 25 then ditched it due to not really understanding the class (I was about 12 years old and wanted to hit things in the game). I ended up going with a rogue and loved that.
The game is as overwhelming as it was then and I'm surprised at all the great documentation on it but even with the documentation it can feel like drinking from a fire hydrant.
Also one thing I'm curious about - I know Velious is considered the sweet spot of EQ. I started playing around the time Kunark released. That said I really actually enjoyed Planes of Power a lot (Luclin was meh to me). I loved the unique sound track each plane got and I guess POP was a spot in my memory where I was finally mature enough to understand the game a bit more, and socialize in a non-off-putting way. I also got really involved in my guild then. I'm curious if the general consensus here is that anything beyond Velious sucked? Don't get me wrong. I will take P1999 where it is over the over-inflated mess the current live servers are (I leveled an SK to 100 about 10 or so years ago). Just curious what other's thoughts are on this?
2023.06.02 19:54 DopeZorak No Holiday pay, Can't use accrued time off...
I work as a janitor for a Lockheed Martin facility in upstate NY. I'm employed by a company that Lockheed contracts to clean. Before the current company won the contract bid, I worked for a different one obviously. They weren't the greatest, but I had a boss who was genuinely great, the workload wasn't crazy, and eventually I decided fuck it, let's actually try and move up. I was sick of jumping job to job, I had recently gotten married, and with no real career path I thought maybe now is the time I really put some effort into a job.
So, I did. I got shift lead.. then basically 2 weeks after (before my lead pay was instated), I come to learn that a new company has underbid our contract and we'd all be employed by this new company. Hooray! We don't have to worry about our jobs and we get the same pay? Sweet deal.. except I had to have my boss, and HER boss, to fight HR to still give me my pay raise I was promised. I got A raise.. but it was a whole dollar less than we discussed, but it was the best her and her boss could do for me, god bless em cause they really did try for me and I appreciate the hell out of them for it.
Cut to the present.... My old boss is still the supervisor, so that's good, but her boss from this new company we work for is a FUCKING ASSHOLE. He's added MORE work on to our plates, he's trying to cut everyone's hours while simultaneously not understanding why "everything isn't getting done", my boss is getting paid an entire SIX DOLLARS LESS then what she originally was told, our equipment fucking sucks, he will come in and change everyones scheduled runs around and confuse the absolute shit out of me and my boss, took 2 people from full time to part time, is hiring new staff for HIGHER WAGES than the people who have been here already for seemingly no reason, we have no training on things we need training on... this job has turned into an absolute stress factory for me. My boss gets zero respect, neither do I. We can't make decisions we know would be better for us because the new guy has an iron hold on everything, and he's a fucking MORON to boot. He doesn't even have experience in this line of work.. I don't understand how he even got to his position.
Now here's the fuckin kicker.. we we're informed right before Memorial Day, that we WERE NOT receiving holiday pay. In fact, NO ONE gets holiday pay for anything until we've worked there for A YEAR.. what about your accrued time off you earn?... same thing. We accrue time off.. that we can't use for an entire fucking year. I have worked for some awful fucking people, and awful companies.. they ALL paid us holiday time, they ALL let us use our accrued time off as soon as we needed to. Even places I worked off the books did this for us..
I'm completely checked out. I'm doing less than bare minimum, and on most nights I don't even stay the full 8 hours cause I can't bear wasting my fucking life in that Lockheed Martin building. I can't stand cleaning for these people that build parts for fucking missiles and planes we send overseas to spread our particular brand of American misery around, and I was complacent staying here when I thought maybe, just maybe if I stick this one out I'll finally land that """career""" I've been seeking for so long, but I can't do it anymore.
I'm not sure exactly why I'm posting this, but I'm 30, I have a wife, and I have no fucking career. I was working towards what I thought could be something truly good for me and her, and it was ripped out from under me and now I'm here. On Reddit. Bitching and moaning into the aether because I just need to get this out. How do you find a job you love at fuckin 30 years old?
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So, I did. I got shift lead.. then basically 2 weeks after (before my lead pay was instated), I come to learn that a new company has underbid our contract and we'd all be employed by this new company. Hooray! We don't have to worry about our jobs and we get the same pay? Sweet deal.. except I had to have my boss, and HER boss, to fight HR to still give me my pay raise I was promised. I got A raise.. but it was a whole dollar less than we discussed, but it was the best her and her boss could do for me, god bless em cause they really did try for me and I appreciate the hell out of them for it.
Cut to the present.... My old boss is still the supervisor, so that's good, but her boss from this new company we work for is a FUCKING ASSHOLE. He's added MORE work on to our plates, he's trying to cut everyone's hours while simultaneously not understanding why "everything isn't getting done", my boss is getting paid an entire SIX DOLLARS LESS then what she originally was told, our equipment fucking sucks, he will come in and change everyones scheduled runs around and confuse the absolute shit out of me and my boss, took 2 people from full time to part time, is hiring new staff for HIGHER WAGES than the people who have been here already for seemingly no reason, we have no training on things we need training on... this job has turned into an absolute stress factory for me. My boss gets zero respect, neither do I. We can't make decisions we know would be better for us because the new guy has an iron hold on everything, and he's a fucking MORON to boot. He doesn't even have experience in this line of work.. I don't understand how he even got to his position.
Now here's the fuckin kicker.. we we're informed right before Memorial Day, that we WERE NOT receiving holiday pay. In fact, NO ONE gets holiday pay for anything until we've worked there for A YEAR.. what about your accrued time off you earn?... same thing. We accrue time off.. that we can't use for an entire fucking year. I have worked for some awful fucking people, and awful companies.. they ALL paid us holiday time, they ALL let us use our accrued time off as soon as we needed to. Even places I worked off the books did this for us..
I'm completely checked out. I'm doing less than bare minimum, and on most nights I don't even stay the full 8 hours cause I can't bear wasting my fucking life in that Lockheed Martin building. I can't stand cleaning for these people that build parts for fucking missiles and planes we send overseas to spread our particular brand of American misery around, and I was complacent staying here when I thought maybe, just maybe if I stick this one out I'll finally land that """career""" I've been seeking for so long, but I can't do it anymore.
I'm not sure exactly why I'm posting this, but I'm 30, I have a wife, and I have no fucking career. I was working towards what I thought could be something truly good for me and her, and it was ripped out from under me and now I'm here. On Reddit. Bitching and moaning into the aether because I just need to get this out. How do you find a job you love at fuckin 30 years old?