u/AGuyInSoCal

There used to be a Chinese restaurant next to me and the owners were from China and they were I think classically trained or they mentioned that they were kind of a big deal in China. Anyway, their food was amazing and flavorful and nothing like anything I’ve ever had in any other Chinese restaurant. The restaurant was called. Chinez, in Irvine CA by the way so if they are reading this or if anybody knows them, please get me in touch with them or let me know where they went. They should remember me. I was one of their biggest customers.

Anyway, they made this really good yellow seafood curry. And all the flavors were right, and I can’t find anything comparable anywhere. The Thai Curry’s are too sweet and have too much coconut flavor and not enough actual curry Flavor. The Chinese curries restaurantsare very salty and More Brown and they don’t come anywhere near this. They made a seafood curry, using fish fillet, , scallops, shrimp, and squid. The Curry itself had lots of onions and I believe some carrots too. I don’t remember if they were potatoes but It’s not something I remember. But the curry itself was incredible. I could taste the turmeric and the curry flavors and it was a very bright, yellow vibrant, curry brighter than a yellow crayon. It was very rich and creamy without that coconut flavor you got from Thai curry am sure there was some sweetness in it to balance it out, but it was not overly sweet. It was more savory and creamy.

If anyone knows a recipe that might match this, can you please share it with me? I haven’t had this food in over 20 years and I am still thinking about it. I have dying at dozens and dozens of restaurants across the West Coast and I have not found anywhere that does food as good as this.

I am 41 years old. I’ve been severely disabled my whole life. I’ve never had stable housing and I’ve reached a crisis point. The only affordable housing in my area(southern ca) is beautiful senior condos. I would be very comfortable in. I want to buy one. And I want it to be my forever home. I will eventually grow old and become 55 in just 10 more years but if I don’t get into stable Housing now I might not make it to 55.

So I was wondering, I know I can’t live there myself but what if I had my mom who is 76 buy the condo and list me as a cohabitant as a disabled adult dependent. I know it’s allowed, but my mom wouldn’t actually live with there. she can make appearances. Would they find out? Are they very vigilant in keeping track of stuff like this? Will they start questioning if they don’t see my mother around?

If Amazon wants your ID, it would make sense for them to ask you to verify your identity when you create your account. If this is something they only want to impose on suspicious users then it would make sense that they would ask you to verify your identity before you can make any future purchases.

But when they ask you for your ID before they will refund you on an order you’ve made a refund request on, isn’t that kind of extorting you for your Personal information by holding your funds hostage?

I have a pretty good established account history with amazon with just a few hiccups along the way but of recent orders the only refunds ive made was when I was shopping for a laptop bag I ordered 3 bags and returned 2 in perfect condition. recently a bought a small $50 item that didnt assemble correctly and returned it in the condition I got it.

I ordered some nutritional shakes today and they arrived leaking out of the box. they were busted. which I dont understand how because they are in pretty sturdy packaging. but none the less, amazon wouldn't even let me connect to an agent it the ai chat just said that they had sent me an email which asked me to send them my ID due to suspicious activity.

I eventually got through customer service and there was nothing they could do they couldn't even escalate it or connect me to the people who locked my account. but I dont think my activity was suspicious and I wont send my ID. If they think my activity is fraudulent, they can cancel my account. I don't understand what good it does for them to have my ID. Can someone explain that to me? No other retailer asks for this information and I don't know where they are going to store it and for how long, how they are going to use it and who they are going to share it with. It's not acceptable to me

So they say I can continue making purchases, but I won't be eligible for any refunds. And I mostly just buy my medical supplies off Amazon it's cheaper and easier and quicker that way. It's a valuable service for me, but is my established customer relationship not valuable to them? I understand that they're dealing with a lot of rampant fraud, but why was my account flagged?

I’m in California and the average houses here are $800,000 and up. My brother and I have inherited a house that is worth about $900,000 obviously I can’t take it for myself so I was thinking of Using the house as collateral for A 10 year mortgage on my own home where I can also rent out the house to pay for that mortgage while I also rent out rooms in my new house to help pay the mortgage as well to get this all paid off very quickly. And once it is all paid for brother wants to sell the we can sell the house but for this reason, I don’t think he would go for a 15 or 30 year mortgage.

Would this be a good idea? Does anyone else have any better ideas?

I placed an order for one item from Staples that was 1 mile away from me, after I placed the order, DoorDash automatically rerouted the order to a further away store to ensure that the item was going to be in stock. Well, it wasn’t. The fact that DoorDash took the liberty of rerouting my order to another store because there might be a better chance that it would be in stock and then it was out of stock was obnoxious. The shopper cancels the order.

I get a notification that the order is canceled and that I was not charged. I place a new order for the same item at the original store again, And as the new shopper arrives at the store, I get another notification that another shopper has arrived at another store and now I look and there’s two active orders going on. Since the order that was canceled was marked out of stock, DoorDash took the liberty of re-ordering it for me without asking me if I wanted them to do that. My orders are being automatically rerouted and re-ordered and I didn’t approve if any of it.

I messaged the Dasher and let them know that the item was out of stock And not to bother. And to please cancel the order. And they did. I had called DoorDash and they had told me that the order was canceled and I won’t be charged. one shopper finally delivered my item and then I noticed again another notification of a shopper going to the store. And I tell them just cancel the order. Again, I get a notification that the order is canceled, but then one hour later someone shows up at my door with the order, now I have two of the same item and have been charged twice.

When I called DoorDash support instead of providing me with a resolution, they were Feeding me crap about How they know how important it is for me to receive my orders that’s why DoorDash reroutes and re-orders automatically. But plain and simple, I asked to cancel the order. It was out of stock. I received multiple notifications that it was canceled and I won’t be charged and DoorDash still quietly and secretly kept re-ordering. I have never experienced this before

I have spent nearly 3 years in and out of hospitals. when you're in the hospital you're a prisoner. You cant get out of bed without permission. you cant eat what you want you cant go out for some sunshine. everything is against policy. but what's most intolerable is theres NEVER ANY OPEN WINDOWS OR FRESH AIR.

I get transferred out to nursing homes and they are worse. just 4 sick people per room and no air flow ever. I had to "break the rules" and get in my wheelchair and force my way to spend my days outside in the courtyard where I was then seen as an intolerable disobedient nuisance to the staff.

I am finally free of all that, but I have to stay in hotels now until I can find permanent housing and all these hotels have bolted their windows shut. it's some law or something. I live in the safest city in America so I dont buy that it's for safety at all

I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE HATES FRESH AIR. AT THIS POINT LIVING IN A TENT OUT IN A NICE FIELD SOMEWHERE IS A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE BUT EVERYONE THINKS ITS BETTER TO BE IN THESE SHIT HOLES THAT ARE ASBESTOS RIDDEN AND HAVE NO FRESH AIR. I WANT TO DIE I DONT WANT TO LIVE THIS WAY . FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING WINDOWOPEN THE FUCKING WINDOWS

I need something as a main source of power for my electronics, laptop tablet phone, some medical equipment like a nebuluzer air compressor. I would also like it to have(but lower priority) the ability to power a tv and a PlayStation console wifi-router, hot plate, microwave, mini fridge. Priority on it must be portable enough that I can move it around without a car or a vehicle and I need it to be able to charge quickly as I only get a few hours of direct sunlight every day and then it’s all in indirect sunlight. let’s say if you were living out of a tent.

I know there are a bunch of different kinds. Smaller ones that take forever to charge and larger ones that might be too heavy duty. Can anyone recommend one that might be just right?

I’m 41 and when I was younger, I was very attractive and flirting was easy. Just giving a look was often enough. Now. I’m old and out of shape and I’m not really someone you look at an immediately think of in that way so flirting is awkward now people are not generally looking at me in that kind of way.

But sometimes I meet people that I think they are attractive in more ways than just physically. And sometimes those kinds of connections are more important than physical appearance, and people can surprise you.

Right now I’ve been staying in a hotel for a few weeks and the guy at the front desk has been helping me out because I am in a wheelchair and I don’t wanna confuse kindness with attraction and I don’t want to come off as a creep but at first I thought it was physically attractive, but I wasn’t really excited because there’s a lot of physically attractive people out there but I’m noticing more and more as we have conversations and as I interact with him that I lm attracted to him as a person. Maybe emotionally attracted.

I don’t expect anything. Likely he’s straight even if he’s not likely he’s not interested. But I don’t wanna assume anything because when there’s a chemistry, romantic connections, can sneak up on you and surprise you without even realizing it so I feel like flirting is harder when it comes to two guys. And I don’t wanna be awkward and inappropriate, especially since he’s a hotel staff, but if how can I flirt in a very gentle charming way that it doesn’t necessarily require a response from him, but just let him know that if he wanted to he could respond that way

P.s. Speech to text kind of butchered that a little bit, but please try to read with your best comprehension skills. Thank you.

do you not read the delivery instructions? In 10 months not once have you delivered directly to my apartment but you keep leaving my packages in the leasing office. My apartment is easy to access faces. The parking lot is first floor easy to find. I even leave clear directions. Why out of eight months and dozens of you have not read the delivery instructions and followed them one time? You’re not supposed to deliver to the leasing office. I don’t need them to know my business and see everything I’m getting so that stuff is sensitive and it’s delivered and it’s original packaging..

And no matter where I go, whether I’m staying in a hotel wherever I am delivering instructions are never followed

whether I login with username or phone number when I enter my password, it wants to send me a text message to verify a code, but then it says it won’t send the code because there has been too many attempts. It has said this since the very first attempt before I made any attempts at all so I waited a couple days and I came back and I tried it again and it says the same thing what is going on?

I have 2 very insecure parents. it's really sad. their parents didn't show them love? but they are both emotional children and extremely insecure and get very aggressive and threatening.

Just like the stereotype of an insecure manchild being afraid to lose his wife becaUSE OF HIS SHORT COMINGS ends up, beating her and making her feel little.

My dad was insecure and would hit me when iw as an infant and toddler instead of taking care of me I think, because of my crying triggered insecurities of whether he was neglecting me or not, and he ended up telling himself that I was misbehaving so that he wouldn't have to feel that way. my mom just watched him do it . She didn't think that one of those times he might kill me, and that she should take me away from him, and the time came where he almost did kill me and it ruined my life

My mom is extremely insecure. She is emotionally needy and then she gets really angry and aggressive. I think because she gets insecure that no one would love her so she starts blaming everyone else for everything. It's everyone else who has the problem, not her. And then imagine putting these two insecure people together who blame everyone else but themselves because they can't handle responsibility and then they sit there and they blame each other. It was a recipe for disaster.

Ultimately, both of these people weren't terrible people at all they are just hurting struggling people and they are insecure, and if they didn't struggle so much with that insecurity and weren't so emotionally and physically and psychologically abusive, they would have been very likable and lovable people. but they ended up having children and neglecting them and severely abusing them. Being a victim of that abuse and trying to process it I don't feel like it's as easy as just hating them and condemning them. although its not excusable any of what they did to me, it is really tough when your life and your survival depends on these people and then you grow up severely disabled and dependent because they crippled you I am 41 years old now still struggling with the abuse emotionally and psychologically and life is already tough so my sister just died. I've spent a year in the hospital which was really traumatic and I am crumbling and I can't keep myself up and I can't keep myself straight. I need emotional support and my sister was the biggest support in that when I have all these people around me acting like this abuse is normal. She was the only one who made me feel validated infeeling that it's not. And it gave me strength to stand up to it, but now she's gone and it's not going well for me

I know, theres not many places like Tahoe. I lived there for 3 years and I loved it. the fresh alpine air, the meadow and wildflowers in the summer, the snow covered mountains in the winter. I would drive down to these other beautiful lakes and meadows in the surrounding areas and I was in heaven.

unfortunately the elevation took a toll on my health and I developed respiratory failure. I cant live in that altitude and I am kind of devastated. I feel like my life is wasted in a congested city with cement and smog.

can anyone recommend low altitude areas that are similar to Tahoe and its beauty?? with meadows and trees and wildlife and fresh air and fresh water and everything being so pure and crisp?. snow is not necessary, but is a plus and it can be anywhere in America. just not Oregon and Washington. those states are cursed to a year long cloud of doom only parting briefly in the summer.

im 41 and grew up in the beach and spent alot of Time in places with fresh clean air away from congested cities and poor air quality. I am most comfortable sleeping out in a field or on the sand in the beach. I always had places with lots of windows and always leave the doors open for more airflow. and I always get bothered for it.

at home cops would always show up saying people passing by calling the police out of concern. renting apartments, neighbors and the landlords often expressed dislike and one even tried go evict me for it.

but ive spent alot of time in hotels lately and they REALLY dont like it. specifically exterior hotels with just a small window and a door to the parking lot. I either leave he door ajar a little or leave it wide open. even when sleeping. but even when I leave it cracked open, people drive by and yell at me frothier cars to get my attention only to tell me my door is open. like obviously yea it is, im sitting right next to it and am aware of it so why are they so bothered by it? the management at night really doesn't like it and is constantly coming and shutting my door saying many people are complaining and " when they see an open door they get scared"

so all safety arguments aside, why is everyone so bothered by it? why are people going as far as pulling over to yell at me and going to the front office to complain? I am tucked away in the back and theres not alot of traffic and not alot of people can even see me over here.

If seasoned nurse is getting paid $100+ a hour, and they work double shifts(6 days a week 12hrs a day) they will make around $40,000 a month? I know its a lot of work but my old roommate was an RN sand she worked 6 days a week I had no idea she was taking that much money.i even if she was only getting 50 an h9ur that's still 20k a month but she was an icu night nurse so I imagine she was getting paid on the higher end of 100an hour.

does anybody actually do this and make this much? you can pay off a low interest short term mortgage in 5 years, and retire in another 5.

I am trying to play civilization five on a iPad Pro streaming from the MacBook Air over Steam Link. I have fiddled with the touch controls, searching between touchpad and mouse, cursor and touchscreen controls and even using a controller, but it doesn’t do anything to the game. For this game, I prefer to use the mouse and the mouse cursor moves around with my touch, but when I tap things, it doesn’t click it in the game. how do I fix this