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I can understand speeding, I don’t know where you’re going it might be important. But something I will never wrap my brain around is people running red lights. Somebody came not even maybe 1.5 ft from t boning my car because they ran a red light. We stopped at another stop light further down the road and they ran that one too, blatantly cutting other people off again.

I really truly don’t hate many people but I do deep down hate people who run red lights. Did you save the extra 5 seconds? Did you get to Walmart on time? Bc we got there at the same exact time even though I waited.

If you want to risk your life I can’t stop you, but don’t risk other people’s lives by blowing a light. It’s embarrassing seeing somebody’s lack of self control.

Anyways just ranting, I really don’t feel like being in the hospital tonight because you wanted pizza rolls or some shit.

I’ve had panic attacks before, not often at all, and usually more of a “my life is a lie everybody hates me” kinda thing.

Well tonight I was sitting on the couch and I twitched involuntarily, just like a normal little twinge. It was fine until my brain told me “what if you’re gonna have a seizure” (I’ve never had a seizure in my life.)

I freaked myself out so bad in seconds that I got tunnel vision and felt like I was going to pass out. I got up off of the couch so fast I knocked everything off of the coffee table. Literally could not catch my breath I thought I was going to have to call 911, heart pounding like I ran a marathon. I’m still trembling to an extent, probably a pretty big adrenaline dump.

I have OCD and most of my anxiety is because of that, and I was just sitting on the couch drawing watching YouTube not a care in the world. The mind is a powerful thing. It could be related to me starting a new medication, probably.

Anyways, just venting. Have a good night everybody.

So I heard whistling in the stairwell of my apartment complex. I ignored it, kinda late but pretty normal and I had 1 side of my headphones on. Well about 10 minutes later my bf brings up the whistling, it was STILL happening. Suddenly it went from whistling to guttural grunts and gasping/ crying sounds. We looked at each other like 😬.

We listened as this person swapped from gasping for air crying, to whistling, to gasping for air, to grudge-like long groaning clicking sounds. It was one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard. Right as we decided maybe we should call for help, not even maybe 3 minutes into this, we heard them walk out the front door.

Like…what was that! I would’ve went out to see if it sounded like somebody just crying, but the switching to cheerful whistling like it was at something, and the groaning clicking sounds, and the (ALMOST) overdose-sounding gasping sounds? (You could hear them walking around, wasn’t that.) To make it worse we were winding down for the night and I had taken a gummy, and this was the worst occurrence that could’ve happened after lol.

This is my first real at home safety concern I guess? On the west side.

I can’t help but think we should’ve called somebody, but if it was somebody crying I don’t want to make it worse with 911. Not only did we not even have enough time to weigh the options, but they wouldn’t have come soon enough anyways I feel. Have a good night all

Hello! My bf and I are excited to get our 18 month sobriety tags/coins soon. We’ve been to so many meetings in the area but we don’t have a home meeting. My bf doesn’t like the hug lines most meetings form for clean time anniversaries (I don’t mind it). I was wondering if anybody knows of any not “huggy” meetings? I’ve only come across meetings that are huggy, or meetings that don’t do clean time.

Thank you!

So I’m from the southern part of WV originally, lived there for the first 22 years of my life. Eventually I went to rehab in Parkersburg (2 yrs ago) that gave me the option to do PHP and IOP in another state (OH, FL, NJ, or CA.) I chose Cincinnati, OH because I already knew I liked it. After a few months in the rehab I decided to fully move here.

Don’t get me wrong I love it here, there’s so much stuff to do, everywhere has a sidewalk, 24/7 stores, etc. but I can’t lie, I miss WV every day. With every rude person, every bad driver, every time people don’t do small talk…there’s so much about WV that I took for granted when it was all I knew.

My plan when I first moved here was to live here for a few years until I figured out where I wanted to go, but moving back to WV was never in my plan…until now. I’m honestly starting to get anger issues living here, a fault of my own not the city.

I just miss the small talk with strangers, the waving when you let somebody go on the road, the mountains, the drivers,…but most of all? The people.

I’ve been thinking about this today especially because I left space for somebody pull out of a Starbucks onto the road earlier, and she gave me not only a wave but a thumbs up too. I realized how much I miss that, seeing as that’s the first person to have acknowledged something like that this month (from what I can remember).

Anyways, I’m just rambling. I took WV for granted when I was so determined to move out, until I realized what actually makes the state great is the people.

Saturday night my boyfriend and I went to an Ethel Cain concert at MegaCorp pavilion. The concert was a blast! We decided to drive and park at the Newport levee parking garage instead of taking an uber.

The aquarium parking garage is the most confusing garage I’ve ever driven in, there’s so many twists and turns and kinda tough to find the stairs to get out. We had never been before, the rates aren’t bad and the arcade seems neat.

After the concert we get back to the car…and just sit there. The traffic behind us was terrible, we couldn’t even back out into the line because it was at a complete standstill, and we were far from the only ones. At an intersection closer to the exit nobody was letting the lower levels go. After almost 2 hours of nobody moving we just took an uber and came back the next day to get the car.

I have never seen such bad traffic in a garage, I was honestly kinda panicking because we couldn’t get out, and the gas smell from all of the cars was giving me a headache. I think there was a school dance nearby too because everybody behind us was dressed up, throwing a football, and playing music while in traffic. Honestly that was the only silver lining in this, it was nice seeing people making the most of it.

Now I know not to park on the lower levels during busy events, I don’t even want to know how long people were stuck after we left. I expected plenty of traffic but I definitely didn’t expect complete standstill traffic. Maybe somebody else on here was in the garage too

Thanks!