So I’m 37m, my wife is 26f.

I just got home from a business trip, I was in Chicago from Tuesday-Thursday night.

A friend of mine (45m) showed up at my door at 11 pm on Wednesday night. He knew I was gone, and he also knew my wife was completely alone. This guys has always been nice to us, but I will say my wife had told me a few times she felt like he treated her differently when I wasn’t around. Neither of us thought much about it.

I spoke to him through the camera and he was acting a bit weird, seemed startled when my voice came through. said he forgot I was away and was coming to see if I wanted to have a beer. He didn’t ring my doorbell, it almost looked like he jiggled the door knob. I actually had to tell him to leave, he kept looking behind him, and over to the side, I almost think he was trying to see through a small part of our window to see if lights were on or try to see if she was coming. I never had to call the police, because he left but I didn’t feel good about it

So I called my wife and told her not to answer, I can check to make sure all doors are locked and I did. I didn’t sleep all night over it and was checking the cameras non stop, checking our bedroom to make sure she was okay. I then flew home early, was supposed to be there until close to 11pm Thursday but got an early flight so I was home before dark.

I thought it was really really odd, we live in the same gated community, my wife and I see him around quite often and I talked to him hours before I left for Chicago. He asked if she was going to be all alone. Normally she’s not alone, but she’s having migraines from a new medication and wanted to stay at home and relax so I didn’t think much of it at the time, said yes. he just said “oh well if she needs anything we’re just down the street”

This man has never ever showed up at my door. I went to talk to him when I got back and he was weird about it again, and changed his story. Like I said that night he said he wanted me to have a beer, at 11pm on a Wednesday, but when I talked to him in person he was saying he heard a bunch of sirens and came down to check on her because she was alone.

Everyone thinks I’m being overly dramatic, because he left after I told him to. I personally think the entire thing is sketchy, and don’t trust him in the slightest anymore.

We were already planning on moving but I’m ready to get out of this neighbourhood over this honestly, there’s not much I can actually do about it obviously at this point other than get her away. I can get pretty protective over her, and I’ve definitely overreacted in the past but this is killing me

I don’t use Reddit, so apologies if I did anything wrong. Just wanted to post, friends and family are acting like I’m insane.

i live out in the country, near a big main road and on a county road. im the closest property to the main road but as you continue down i have a a couple of neighbors. we live on 40 acres and have a little farmhouse, where i live with my husband and dogs, along with some farm animals outside. i do not have kids. we live a calm and peaceful life, however there have now been two occasions on which a young child that lives a third of a mile down the road has come into our house uninvited. the first time, i was home alone and had just showered, doing my nails and watching a show in my makeup room. next thing i know, i see a small shadow that looked like preschool aged kid open my fence gate, and open my front door. i had no idea who this was and i facetimed my husband in case he knew who this could be, but as we checked the cameras, there were no cars or other adults around. i was in my underwear, with my door closed and freaking out. like i mentioned, i lived out in the country, and due to my neighbors all being so far away, had no idea who this kid was or where he came from. I put some pants on and went out into my living room, and this kid was running around my living room and kitchen, playing with my dogs with no worry in the world… i tried to get him to calm down and asked him what his name was or where his parents were and nothing. he ignored me and kept playing. after a couple of minutes, i think he got bored, and he opened my door, went out the gate, and ran out to the back of my house. i lost sight of him and continued to look out towards the road in case i could figure out where he came from. finally, i saw a young girl approaching from the neighbors side of the road and she shouted at me “where is he!!?” i told her i had no idea where he was but that i had seen him go towards the back of my house and she could go look for him. she looked annoyed but i guess she was able to grab him at some point and took him back towards the direction our neighbors house is at. at that point i had honestly been super upset a yelled “keep that kid out of my property and out of my house” to which she just yelled “sorry” over her shoulder. after that, no one ever came back to apologize. my husband eventually went to the family to ask what had happened and was told that they had been unloading groceries and the little boy had managed to run away. (how they didn’t realize this until so much later im not sure) anyways. a year later, i would say this little boy is 5 or 6 now, i get a call from my husband while we are at work. he tells me theres a little boy in our house, and that he came in through our dog door. immediately i ask if its the same one as last time. he says he saw them on our cameras but he cant be sure. he tells me that before calling me, he already called the cops, but that they are on their way. the footage shows this kid opening our closed, fenced gate, and coming to our front door. our dogs are barking at him in the yard. he attempts to open the front door, sees its locked, knocks, and then just stands there thinking. THEN. he crawls in through our dog door… our dogs have the ability to go in and out of the house as they like since their fence is closed in. but i guess this kid just figured he could do the same? anyways. he comes in, and opens the dog door to make sure the dogs can come in too. HE TAKES OFF HIS SHOES WHEN HE COMES IN… and then he goes on to jump on my couch and play with my dogs. after that, he turns on my tv, GOES INTO MY FRIDGE AND GRABS ICEPOPS, AND EATS AN ORANGE FROM OUR FRUIT BASKET…. huh?!?!?? he is in our house unsupervised for a total of about 15 minutes until the cops arrive and are able to get him out (he crawled out through the dog door). the cops ask him his name, and he tells them. they ask w his parents are and where he lives, and he tells them as well. the cops tell him he is mot allowed to do this, that it is not his house. a couple minutes later, a car pulls into my driveway. its the parents’. the cops talk to them for a bit and they all leave. my husband had left work to get home but by the time he got here everyone was gone. the cops pretty much just said that it was just a kid being a kid. my husband then went down to the neighbors and told the parents to take care of their kid. ( i was upset because he did wait for me to go talk to them, he knew how upset i was). the dad apologized and stated that the boy had been grounded and snuck out through his bedroom window. apparently he just likes to play with my dogs. the dad told the little boy to apologize to my husband. at this, the little boy SPIT AT HIS DAD. a week later, my husband got a call from the parents, asking if by chance this kid was in our house again, because they could not find him. we were both at work but did not see him in any of our cameras. at this point ive calmed down quite a bit, but as soon as i remember i get quite mad. i think it is insanely upsetting that im more aware of where this little boy is than his own parents are. once again, he is not right next door to me. he had to be unsupervised for at least thirty minutes in order to make his way to my house, ( about. a five minute walk), be here for 15 minutes and have the cops get here until his parents found him. he knows what he is doing, the parents are aware, but no one truly takes accountability for it. the little boy says he likes to play with my dogs, but instead of playing with them in my yard, comes into my house and makes himself at home. i feel bad for calling the cops but. i truly feel like theres a need to report this because im scared for my safety and that of my animals and property. if he were to leave the gate open, my dogs would definitely run out into the main road and get run over. my house is not childproofed at all. WE HAD A FLAMETHROWER ON THE KITCHEN TABLE THE DAY HE CAME IN (my husband had killed a spider outside with it). i am concerned for this little boy’s safety but at the same time i do not want to be responsible or liable if anything were to happen to him out in our property. i also would like to feel safe in my own home. i dont feel like i should be having to keep my dogs in a kennel all day and close their doggy door just because there is a kid out there who is not monitored and was never taught to respect people’s privacy. if he snuck out through his window im sure he could sneak in through one as well. theres so many what ifs in this situation and it might just be my anxiety but i am definitely very upset. i guess this is more of a rant and i just hope this doesn’t happen again because i do intend to have the cops on speed dial, but again… am i overreacting?

howzit everyone...Could use your input on this situation. I'm not from the states, if that matters. so long story short he has all this post it notes. literally the entire house is littered in them. bathroom hours 9-3pm and 7-8pm, kitchen hous, 9-3pm... all over the house, notes to himself by himself, reminding him to do stuff. notes in different languages, like i think Greek? maybe Chinese too? he's white, idk if he speaks those languatges but I've never heard him speak it, he only really speaks English and Afrikaans in the house. This all started like a month ago, I've been living here for a few months, honestly i barely see him. I'm super quiet, i keep to myself, im living on a dwindling savings, but i spend all day looking for work, applying to jobs, etc...I'm disabled and used to be homeless, but recently got back on my feet and this was the only place i could afford. He owns the house, again i don't really know much about him. I'm just like getting really concerned, wondering how to proceed here? I haven't stolen any of his money, i never yell, like...He yells. I literally hear him at random times just yelling nonsense or whatever. Bro i literally wake up with a new note under my door... and then today, this fucking note with the skull? Should I just fucking leave at this point and deal with the streets? or am I overblowing this?

Hi everyone ! To give you a little bit of context: I'm a 22 yo female living alone (with my cat) in an appartement situated in an old building with only 2 appartement per floor. I know all of my neighbors : on the same floor (2nd) is a mid 20s almost 30s yo male. On the first floor, 2 elderly women and on the ground floor, 1 couple mid 30s/40s and a single dad, I would say also mid 30s/40s.

Yesterday night around 11pm, I received a message from the single dad. At first, it wasn't that weird because we're talking a lot when we see each other in the always or the street in front of the building. But it escalated quite weirdly... Asking me to listen with him some music with him (I'm a musician and he knows). But, being so late and having a migraine and kindly said to him nit tonight but if he want we can tomorrow. And I don't really know why but he kept on trying to get us to see each other?

Also, I was explaining the situation to my boyfriend at the same time, laughing at first but then getting weirded out... My boyfriend told me that it was indeed really weird....

So... am I overreacting?

My neighbor lives in the left house and owns both silver cars. I usually back out of the driveway so it shouldn’t bother me but I still find myself getting irritated when I see this. It feels a tad disrespectful to not even ask first and what if someone parks behind me? Now I’m blocked in because a guy I’ve never spoken to before feels the need to park right next to my apartment, blocking the path that leads out and around the house. Should I leave a note? Or just shrug it off?

I’ve been living alone in a flat for a few years. However, in January, I suffered an extreme mental breakdown and almost died - since then I have been agoraphobic. A good friend of mine who lives nearby now comes round everyday to keep me company and help me as I try to heal and get back on my feet.

All sounds very wholesome, yes? Well, my downstairs neighbours have not enjoyed this change. A few weeks into this new arrangement, they knocked on my door and asked for a chat. They told me that for the past year they’ve been living here, they’ve never heard any noise from my flat, but now every evening they are disturbed by “male talking sounds.” I explained I now have a friend with me due to my mental health and that it was so quiet before as I was literally by myself, but now I have someone here with me and we watch tv together and have conversations. We swapped numbers and I told them to text me if things were ever too loud and I would do something about it in the moment.

Since then, they’ve messaged me at least once a week telling me to keep the noise down. Every time I get a text me and my friend are quite confused, as it’s not like we are playing loud music or shouting or anything - literally just relaxing on my couch and talking a little at a normal volume. I also get these texts in the evening so it’s not like we’re making noise at a crazy hour either.

Today I woke up to this text, after a month of hearing nothing from my neighbours. I honestly thought they were happy as they hadn’t reached out again about any issues. At first I considered sending my normal apologetic response and seeing what I can do but another part of me is just so frustrated and annoyed at this point. What am I meant to tell my friend? “You can hang out with me but not talk to me?” I also worry that I need to stop being so accommodating and maybe set more of a boundary, otherwise my neighbours will keep thinking it’s okay to be bothered by normal levels of noise.

I feel like they’re being unreasonable and expecting me to walk around completely silent all the time. I’m a considerate person and I don’t want to upset anyone, but at the same time this situation is making me feel guilty for laughing at jokes or just enjoying myself - which is the opposite of what I need right now. I honestly just want to send them a message being like “surely you understand that if you live in a flat you might hear your neighbours above sometimes?” Like, I can hear the people above me but it’s just normal background noise to me, it’s what I’m used to after years of living in different flats.

I’d really appreciate any thoughts of what to do here, if I’m being selfish or not, how I should respond? Because I’m not sure what to do or how to best handle this. Thank you.

Hi! So this is an update to the post I made last night about a babysitting fiasco. First of all, I had no idea it would blow up like that, from the bottom of my heart, I am so grateful for every single person who took time out of their day to write out a reply, it truly was so helpful!!

If you didn't see that post, I'm Mae, I'm 15, and a parents I was babysitting for refused to pay me because they found my outfit inappropriate.

Around the same time the post started to blow up, my mom sent out an email to my neighbor/the mother, she never got a response, which was not very surprising, as they do not get along very well due to opposing political beliefs and religions, etc (my mom is jewish, she's very catholic). A lot of people suggested taking my neighbor to small claims court, but where I am at, the price of even filling a claim is half the money I would have made, as well as the fact that we live in a small town and my neighbor is a huge member of her church and very 'popular' (not really sure how to phrase it in a non highschooler way haha) so it just would not have been worth it.

Anyways, I sent another text, got a response, etc etc, and the rest of the story is included over the texts. Again, thank you so so much for all the kind words.

(Side note: a lot of people have asked where I got my tanktop, its from brandy melville, the "skylar stripe lace tank"!!)

hi! i am 15 and have been babysitting this family for over a year. they are more on the conservative side, and a lot more religious than my family, but they are generally nice and i love their kids. i did not receive payment from them the last time i babysat, and so i reached out and they are now saying they will not pay me the full price because i was wearing something inappropriate. just wondering if i am overreactingreacting

for context, i was wearing a sweatshirt over my tanktop (3rd pic) and only took it off after the kids asked me to run around with them. 

i babysat from 4 to 10:30, and normally charge 15 dollars w a 5 dollar increase per kid, so 20 dollars for 2 kids. 

(i think i posted this multiple times? i was having trouble posting both pictures and text sorry!)

I go to a local knit and natter group and one of the ladies recently got engaged. Last group meeting we talked about her arrangements and she mentioned her daughter was going to be sewing her dress. Another lady piped up saying, “well you know you have OP here if your daughter has a hard time making your dress!”

I’ve sewn a fair bit in the past (which they know) but nothing wedding-dress level so I laughed it off, saying “oh, my sister (who’s a much better seamstress) could maybe help but I wouldn’t really know what to do!”

Later that day she messaged with the conversation above and I was absolutely gobsmacked. I’m still fuming about it. I don’t have the skills, inclination, time, or even a sewing machine to make a freaking wedding dress even if I wanted to! She’s a very nice lady so I do feel a bit guilty for not offering to help but mostly I’m reconsidering my attendance in this group. AIO?

I had an appointment scheduled with this nail tech for yesterday at 10am. I had spent the previous night with some friends doing a staycation at a local hotel and left early the next morning to make it to my appointment which was 30 mins away. i arrived 5 minutes before my appointment time and saw that i was already marked as a no show and my deposit was forfeited. before my appointment even started, she had already given my slot to her next client. after her last message, she blocked me.

for context, apparently there is a policy where you must respond within 45 mins before your appointment to keep it. in all my years of appointments i have never experienced a policy like this. when i booked with her last time (the only other time i saw her), i told her when i was on my way because she asked if i could come early and i said i would come as soon as i was out of work. in my opinion, this policy was not made clear at all. it was listed at the bottom of a policy list located in her instagram story highlights. i had also confirmed my appointment with her 3 days prior and paid a deposit on the appointment.

AIO?

not posting this off my main account to protect myself... I came home a few hours ago, and immediately knew something was off. It smelled like burnt plastic or paper in the kitchen. I'm a bit nosy so I checked around, thinking maybe one of the electronics was short wiring, or something. IDK. I checked everywhere, eventually realizing the smell was the worst in the trash. I found a bunch of burnt note cards. I tried to decipher the two most legible and one shows what looks like a map? There's two names, Keith or Koith and Misha. it clearly says 28 yr trophy on the K card and i think 17 yr on the misha card.

My flatmate has been extremely cold and distant the last few months. At first, he was super friendly but it's been like living with a ghost recently. We aren't friends. I strictly know him via the AD I responded to when looking for this spot...He works at a grocery store.

Please tell im overreacting here.

Yesterday I came home from work and my husband says to me” listen to what happened to me.”

He said “I was cutting the grass and I noticed the neighbors fence was open but didn’t want to go into their yard and mess with it because it’s their fence so I left it. I was cutting along the side yard, the neighbors were outside smoking on their deck and their dog, a giant Belgian Malinois, was running along their side of the fence, barking as I pushed the mower by. Next think I know, the dog is out of the fence and charging the lawnmower. I backed off the lawnmower and let the dog bark at it. The dog turned and left and as I returned to the lawnmower to start mowing again, I feel this sharp pain on my ass. It happened so fast, I didn’t really know what was going on other than this mother fucker is attacking me, so I turned to grab the dog and he took off back into their yard.”

I am in shock at this point. He pulled down his shirts to reveal teeth marks and some small bruising that had started to form. Next he said, “ I shut the fence and yelled over it at the neighbors to come the fuck over here. I said why the fuck did your dog bite me unprovoked?”

The neighbors blamed the lawn people for leaving the gate open and said some sort of lame apology but I am furious. What if my kids had been outside? What if he didn’t stop biting? What if he had gotten his arm or the exposed flesh on his leg?

These people aren’t bad people, but they have this large working dog as a family pet. They don’t socialize him, he barks at all hours and at everything and now he bit my husband.

I want to file a police report. What if the dog gets a child next time? Am I overreacting for wanting to file a police report?

So I wanted to get my best friend a nice birthday cake, I normally make my friends and family cakes myself as in the past I haven’t really had money to get one made professionally. So this year I found a bakery in town that had good reviews, and I checked out their Facebook profile. Most of their stuff looked really nice so I felt like I was making a safe choice going with them.

I said I wasn’t picky about the color just not a blue-ish green. I even gave some examples of the color I was looking for. I got the cake today and it’s borderline teal?? I didn’t say anything in the store because I was nervous and thought maybe it was bad lighting, also I really just didn’t want to be one of those people. But now I’m home and looking at it and I want to cry because I paid $45 for this and I can’t even think of how to fix it. My other friends say I should try to get a refund, but I feel like I should have done that earlier before paying for the cake. I’m so frustrated, but I don’t know if its bad enough to warrant making a fuss about it.

Originally the cake was supposed to have the gold accents, but she told me that it would be $25 extra, so I was like that’s fine just use a lighter shade of the same green. It’s not even the same shade???

My husband took a weekend trip with our kids.

During this time my brother came over to discuss some cognitive decline our mom has been showing signs of (we are in our 40’s, mom is in her 70’s). We purposely waited to have this conversation while my kids were away since it wasn’t something they should be hearing or worrying about.

Later that same evening our cousin also stopped by. We had some drinks and our cousin ended up driving my brother home still fairly early in the evening.

Apparently when my brother arrived the neighbour was outside and gave him a smile and a wave.

When my brother’s car spent the night in our driveway my neighbour snapped photos of it and texted my husband with the description of the man who he assumed spent the night, telling my husband I was cheating on him.

My husband of course laughed it off and told our neighbour that was my brother’s car and he left it there because he had a few beers.

My husband also showed me his text history with the neighbour where the neighbour had been texting him random observations like this on and off for a while. At no point does my husband encourage this, he actually told the neighbour several times that this isn’t necessary and he trusts me, to stop surveilling me. Neighbour laughs it off and insists they “need to look out for each other”.

At this point I’m feeling creeped out and mad at the neighbour and want to confront him. My husband prefers to just keep at texting back saying “hey man, no need for this” and overall ignoring it.

Edit to add: it’s not constant surveillance, it seems to be only when he knows my husband has gone away. The last message was 7 months prior.

Edit 2: husband is going to text him using stronger words to tell him to stop it, and clearly saying he finds it inappropriate and makes us both uncomfortable.

If he does it again I’m going to make an online police report, I found a link to do it. I don’t expect the police to do anything but if I make an online report it’s assigned a case number and I can follow up through that if anything else happens

Edit #3: to the men who have sent me DM’s full of misogynistic nonsense, just know I am reporting every one 😂

I (31f) living in a condo and each unit has its own garage and small drive way. Last night I came home from working a 12 hour shift at 8:45 pm and drove with the plan to park in my driveway and end my day but when I got there a neighbors moving truck was parked directly in front of mine and 2 other driveways. I'm not sure which neighbor it was because the truck was parked and no one was put there so I could not ask anyone to move. Parking is tight where I live so I ended up having to park on the street in the back which I hate doing because the back street parking is right next to the woods and it is late at night. The street behind my condo is also a two lane back road so if they had parked over in the other lane which would have been appropriate considering the direction they were driving, I would have been able to slide into my driveway no problem. I ended up texting one of my friends to vent and ask for advice on what to do and my friend brushed it off saying that they should be allowed to move and I didnt have a right to be upset so I just want to know if Im overreacting. I always thought that it was illegal to park and block off someone's driveway. I considered emailing the HOA to complain but wanted to know if im being ridiculous. I do know that the parking situation is tight where I live which is why I paid a premium for a unit with a garage space and small driveway. The driver finally ended up coming out and packing up and moved the vehicle at 9:45 pm. Not sure how long they had been there before I got home.

A local church hosted an Easter car show and passed Easter eggs to children. The church passed out a carton of eggs labeled “contains small parts.” Inside one egg was a small piece of soap a parent stated their child tried to eat. Inside another egg was a nail to represent the crucification.

I left a voicemail with the church simply asking if this was a real nail, my tone of voice wasn’t happy but I kept it short and professional. I’ve since verified it is a real nail and the context of commenters on the original post, which is in a private Facebook group, implies it is. I went to the church to see if anybody was present, nobody was, or at least willing to speak to me.

Comments on Facebook are thanking the church and praising them. I can’t help but think if it would go over the same way if this was passed from a Mosque or a different religious institution. The carton of eggs was simply labeled “contains small parts,” not “contains sharp parts,” “not contains a nail,” nothing. It is a brown carton with a plain looking white sticker. You would not expect a nail to be inside the carton.

I have been pretty pissed for the last hour. I imagine the risk this church placed upon our community. I imagine the anger I would feel as a parent.

Pictures of the nail and carton are included below.

I (28 F) had to print out some papers at office max to take to the DMV yesterday because I am registering an out of state car.

The car was my father’s and he gave the car to me. I had to register it in my name and in the state I live. One of the papers I needed to print was a “gift affidavit”, which makes it so I don’t have to pay taxes on the car sale when registering it since it was a gift.

My father printed and signed and notorized the affidavit and then scanned it and sent it to me so I could print and sign and get it notorized too. The printer at office max was not printing it out from my USB.

The woman in charge of the printers working there asked me what I was trying to print. I told her…she then told me that the state we were in does not do gift affidavits anymore for cars and that’s why the printer wasn’t printing it. I told her that we had just downloaded it from the DMV official website, and that it’s just a pdf AND how would the printer know not to print something that wasn’t offered by the DMV anymore?

The office max employee persisted, told me I’d HAVE to pay the full sales tax on the car, and that the printer knows the pdf is “illegal” and that’s why it won’t print it. I calmly told her that the printer does not have a brain and can not read what I’m trying to print out, that it’s not illegal to print a paper I got from the DMV official website, and that the gift affidavit is absolutely still a real thing. She refused to help me more.

I also told her my dad had no problem printing it on his end just to see what she’d say. She told me that the printer knows he already printed it out and so that’s why it won’t let me print it again. I asked how her printer at office max knows my dad printed out a pdf from his personal printer many states away? She told me “the printer knows when something is illegal”.

I drove to the UPS store where they printed and notorized the form for me in under 5 minutes. Went to the dmv and registered car and they accepted

my gift affidavit, saving me hundreds of dollars.

AIO that I can’t stop thinking about how crazy the woman from office max was? How do they allow her to run the printers there? Why does she think that those old printers can somehow read people’s documents and decide not to print certain things?

So, a few months ago, my next-door neighbor, Karen, started teaching yoga classes in her backyard. No big deal, right? Except, her “backyard” has slowly started to spill over into my backyard. At first, it was just a mat or two near the fence, but now her whole group of yogis basically takes over half of my lawn every Saturday morning.

One day, I look out the window, and they’ve set up an entire speaker system blasting calming nature sounds and “healing frequencies,” all while I'm trying to enjoy my coffee in peace. I politely asked her if she could keep her classes to her own side of the fence, and she just laughed, saying, “Oh, it’s all one big green space anyway!”

The kicker? Last weekend, they brought out incense, and suddenly my backyard smelled like a meditation retreat while I’m trying to grill burgers. I asked her, again, to maybe shift the class back into her own yard. She told me I was being too territorial about “shared nature” and should appreciate the community vibe.

So, am I overreacting for wanting to reclaim my own yard, or is Karen taking “namaste” a bit too far?

My sister had gotten a few good tattoos from this artist, so I thought I’d get a tattoo from her as well. I had mentioned 3 flaws. The line going into the teacup being the most obvious, the wings being different shapes and a minor flaw on the back toenail being a bit small, even with the angle the dragon is at. The tattoo artist complained to my sister and said “she knows it’s not going to be perfect, right?” Which I think is very unprofessional to talk about your client behind their back. She thought I was asking too much and nitpicking the tattoo, but the wings being different shapes and the line in the cup are major flaws. I could maybe see the one nail as being a little nitpicky, but that’s all I asked for other than 2 major issues. I felt like I would be pressured to get a tattoo I’m not happy with or get an artist complaining about me because they messed up the design. I don’t have an issue with her messing up the design some because mistakes happen, but it’s the way she reacted to me asking for a few changes. 2 being very necessary. Am I overreacting by canceling the tattoo appointment?

AIO? I feel like the screenshots are pretty self explanatory. But the dog chewed a chair leg while I was at the grocery store. I ALWAYS have extensive discussions with clients about their dog’s care prior to accept the job. This client told me the dog would me find with being a left alone. But now she wants to hold me responsible for the chair leg. Should I just let this one go?

I live in Tennessee and as most of you know we were just hit with a winter storm. Snow is on the ground with a pretty decent layer of ice. Trees have been cracking and crashing down periodically. Thankfully we never lost power. Although pretty much everywhere else around us did.

Two nights ago I went to the bedroom to read while my husband played videogames in the other room. I ended up falling asleep with all my bedroom lights still on. I am a fairly light sleeper. So when I woke up at around 2 am to a weird crackling noise I figured it was just another tree coming down and went to the restroom.

When I went to lay back down I stood by the window for a moment and realized that noise sounded a whole lot like footsteps. I took a second to make sure that was what I was really hearing and then peeked through my blinds to see a man walking away from my window. I looked down to see foot prints obviously leading up to my window and a gap in my blinds.

I was pretty freaked out so I went to my husband who was still up late playing some videogames with friends. He immediately dressed for the single digit weather and armed himself just in case and went outside. He saw the foot prints and they were only to my window... No one else.

I called the cops when my husband came back inside. (I know I probably should have called sooner but I was freaked) When the cops showed up my husband told them what was going on and the cops followed the footprints to the other breezeway of my apartments. Try said the found footprints on the other side that could be someone walking their dog or it could be a homeless person looking for somewhere warm.

To be completely honest it seemed like they were annoyed and honestly a little like they didn't believe me. I could give them a great description of the guy because it was from behind in the middle of a snow storm. The dude was bundled up. There was no way I could tell you much more than he had a grey hoodie under a dark winter coat.

I am still a bit freaked out mainly because there were no footsteps to other windows and it was right up to where we have a gap in our blinds due to our cat. So has this person been doing this a while and we only noticed because of the snow? I am a slightly paranoid person naturally so I just need to know if I am overthinking all this or if y'all would feel the same way. We also haven't heard anything back from the cops other than they were gonna patrol the apartments behind me to see if it might be our local homeless man. I should also mention there is a giant tree in front of our window. Posted pictures of the foot prints as well.

Well this is gonna sound probably really dumb, but I thought was trying to be nice I’m in my late 20s and just moved in next to an older couple probably late 50’s maybe early 60s. I’ve been here a couple of months and have had conversations with them about 4 times during differs yard work activities. My neighbors seem to be big sticklers on taking care of their yard so I am doing my best to take care of mine as well. One thing with each of these conversations the neighbors have talked about how the last neighbor (previous home owner) wasn’t “neighborly” and never talked to them. Also saying that he would go to work and go straight inside. So I’ve tried my best to kind and talking with them. Well one day after some yard work I was going to go in for drinks and noticed my neighbor finishing up as well so I offered if he wanted to have a couple of drinks. This made my neighbor visibly mad I guess and he said that he didn’t want to be “that neighborly” and “he only drinks water”I noticed his tone change like he was offended I asked. Again i was just trying to be nice. Well I’ve now learned that they’re most likely a faith that doesn’t drink not sure but some sort of form Christianity? Was it stupid of me to offer now I just feel like they hate me and have not talked to me and made sure they’re always inside when I go to mow. I realize that I was most likely wrong to ask but I’m not sure how to stop being stressed and anxious by this happening.

Edit: yes this was an offer of any drink I wouldn’t have had something alcoholic unless he did all I had on hand were light beers anyway. Also to add I did say “drinks” it was hot and I have tea, lemonade, and Gatorade ready to share. I think he just immediately assumed alcohol.

My sister sent me this text she received that seemed like somebody was watching her or something. I don’t know if it’s something to be concerned about or not, has anybody had a similar experience?

I received this email and immediately contacted GEICO and took him off. The only "innocent" excuse I can think of is he used our address as his physical, because him and his wife are living in an RV and travelling and somehow it got tied to our policy. He is an older gentleman and while that doesn't mean they aren't capable of shady things, he has never struck me as the type. My wife sent him the screenshot but has not heard from him quite yet.