Who do you mean when you say "y'all"? Either way, I've faced enough adversity that I've overcome to laugh at your comment, and I bet people reading this have, too. Your comment might make you feel better about yourself, but it has very little to do with the realities of the people reading it. I'm sorry you're not as insightful as you hoped.

If you keep othering people and making assumptions, you'll stay as ignorant as you seem. That's not a very productive way to be. I hope it gets better for you.

Neat opinion. Bye.

WTF, Wisconsin?! We were proud to welcome among the highest numbers of people from Laos, and our agriculture depends on immigrants to function. This state is so divided against itself.

I haven't had this experience, thankfully. I usually have the opposite problem where I need assistance, and I look around helplessly as I wait for someone to notice me.

You can pull the self checkout option out of my rigid, dead, introverted hands.

You're very welcome, and please don't hesitate to get in touch. Sometimes just talking about these things in a nonjudgmental space can make all the difference. I'm glad you shared. You never know who you may have helped feel less alone by speaking out, too, which is wonderful.

I'll be thinking about you. Please take care.

I'm so sorry. Please don't blame yourself for "missing signs". Abusers are very good at hiding their true selves and actions. When they start getting caught, they gaslight, like you experienced. People like Daniel take advantage of others artfully. It is not an indictment on you that you took him at his word and believed in him, so please try to be kind to yourself.

I survived an abusive relationship that took many years and extreme events to unravel. Even after I got out, it took years of therapy and finding him after he disappeared to finalize my divorce and officially be free. It was hard work, but things were finalized just this month.

I am stronger now than I ever would have been had I not been in a relationship with that man, and my life is so much better in a number of ways I didn't expect. While incredibly painful and unfair, you, too will come out of this with gifts you didn't expect. Perhaps you already have. Just know that things can and do get better. You have such value as a person, and your son loves and needs you. Please message me any time if you want to rant or talk.

I'm a pet product specialist for a pet food manufacturer. I respond to customer emails, calls, and chats about our products. This could mean assisting pet owners in selecting products based on their pets' unique medical or physiological needs, answering nutritional questions, handling complaints, and more. In my downtime I work on reference materials for the rest of the team, continuing education on animal nutrition (my last class was on avian flu in pet foods), and prepare promotional materials for expos and trade shows.

On light days we do a lot of sharing memes, shit talking in group chat, dicking around on the Internet, and finding other creative ways to fuck off.

Satirizing something and making light of something are different things.

Cats, very much so, for most of my life. I've enjoyed dogs, but cats have been my heart. While I was working at a shelter one of the dogs that arrived to us from a southern transport was a quiet, shy, but very sweet German Shepherd. It was love at first sight, and she never hit the adoption floor.

We were nervous to bring her home, because we didn't know how she would react to the cats. It was seamless, and now she enjoys fussing over foster kittens when I have them. She's opened my heart to dogs in a way I didn't think was possible. We're thankful for Ferda every day.

I do still categorize myself as a cat person, though.

We're not entitled to anything. If other countries don't feel up to enthusiastically hosting people from the US right now, that's their right. This kind of attitude is proving the broader point.

Vulva for sure.

I don't think that would be the general case with humans under these kinds of circumstances. For most of history, women had many more children on average than we see in most of the world today. It was expected that many wouldn't live past three years old in much of known, recorded history. I can only imagine in circumstances even more primitive than what we know of, something like this wouldn't be as unthinkable as you're describing.

Terminally stupid in this case.

That is absolutely adorable. Great job!

This is important to bring up. If we want to stop being subjected to this kind of fuckery, we need to unite and vote with our dollars. I love making egg-based dishes, but there are other options. The real problem is most people struggle with the idea of making sacrifices to get what they want later. Just don't buy eggs as an average consumer if they are that unaffordable.

In the United States, we are spoiled for choice when we shop. We're used to being able to get what we want when we want it, and that's led to a sense of entitlement. Eat other things, get creative. Look up effective substitutions for eggs in baking.

We don't have to take this. So don't.

No. Working in retail is a direct exchange of goods for money. You follow the policies of that establishment, or you take your business elsewhere. You don't have an actual tantrum over something so trivial and get catered to.

I'm now in a position where I have autonomy over what I offer to customers, and I agree with your principle. It doesn't apply in this situation, though.

Yes, let's reward that behavior with a treat in front of other people.

This is a situation that's a one-off where someone not used to the normal customer experience reacted unreasonably. If you give in and allow their behavior to override the rules of doing business with that establishment, you not only encourage that person to continue acting out to get their way, but you also send a problematic message to the customers watching this interaction.

I'm glad it was helpful! Staying zen in the face of an irate or confrontational customer isn't easy, but it's the most effective way I have found to manage these types of situations. Rules and policies are in place for a reason, and I'm not going to be bullied into unfairly breaking rules for an asshole. If people are nice and respectful I will do everything in my power to assist however I can, but entitled people need to stop being catered to. The fact that their behavior gets them what they want is exactly why they treat people this way.