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Cake day: March 8th, 2025

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  • I had an upstairs neighbor who wore doc martens around every damn morning around 8 am. I didn’t get up until 9 so I found this awful.

    Anywho. I met her in the elevator. And took a peak at her footwear and that’s when I confirmed she was in fact wearing big ass boots. Even in the damn summer!

    Anyway. I’m also a woman and a decent judge of foot size. So I ordered her some foam slippers. Size 8. Which is average women’s size and I thought was pretty close.

    But I ended up chatting her up a bit about some issue with someone stealing both of ours mail packages. And we decided to grab each other’s mail if one of us was around. We exchanged numbers.

    And magically the boot stomping stopped before I could figure out how to offer her the slippers. I had this whole story how I was going to say I ordered them and they sent me the wrong size and yada yada.

    I ended up giving them to my sister.

    But my point is.

    Make semi friends with them. And maybe they will naturally start being more considerate because then they know the person below them.

    It’s an accountability thing.

    And if that doesn’t work. At least then you are on friendly terms and you can bring up the issues with suggestions on solutions like bumpers for the doors.

    You can say “yeah mine are also loud as hell and I added bumpers, I have a pack of them if you want me to bring them by”.

    I also got a neighbor’s kid to stop letting his dog poop on my grass. Not by bitching him out but going out and being nice and asking him about his dog. Introducing myself.

    It’s a manipulation tactic. But it honestly works very well. They feel guilt instead of feeling vindictive for your hostility.











  • I’ll tell you something embarrassing about a guy I dated instead.

    This was some time ago and I only dated him for like 2 months.

    I can’t recall exactly what happened but I think he clogged my toilet and I used the plunger and qtips came up and I was like.

    “Why did you flush qtips. ?”

    And then it came out that he uses q tips to clean his butt after a dump.

    Yes you heard me.

    Q tips.

    And he said something about his mom saying it was okay to flush them.

    Which I then realized his mom taught him to clean his butt hole with qtips.

    And …this had me thinking all sorts of weird things about their relationship.

    He was definitely a momma’s boy. But maybe a little extreme.

    For instance his mother managed his bank account. Made sure his truck payment was made every month. (We were both in our mid 20s). He still lived with his parents but he was finishing up electrician school.That seemed okay since he was in school. 🤷

    And so this guy , btw, was like 6ft 5. He was huge in height. (I’m 5ft 3).

    His mom was my size and he would like sit in her lap on the sofa. Like he would sit in front of her on the floor and cuddle him. You know. I thought that was weird. But every family has weird quirks. Plus men who have good relationships with their moms are less likely to be misogynist. Right?

    He did introduce me to some great books like Raw Shark Text and Blindsight (two of my top favorite books) And that almost made it worth dating him.

    He was just a weirdo. And when I broke up with him he asked me to marry him. (2 months of dating).

    Just…no.