u/Hour_Amount1881

got a walmart grocery delivery about an hour ago. the driver didnt say a word when we greeted him, and when he came back from his car to give us the last bag, he dropped our mailbox cover (pride flag) in our driveway and said it went against his religion.

“all are welcome here” does not apply to this man.

edit: My mom is currently talking to walmart and she also called state troopers. she does NOT play with this stuff 😭

edit 2: the man did specify his religion, but im not going to because it’s not relevant to the situation.

i’ve never shared a story here before, but i realized i’ve only ever shared this with a handful of people and was curious if anyone had any similar experiences. this is a bit long, i’m sorry!

about 4 years ago, in the summer of 2022, i had been graduated from high school since january (early graduation), and had no job, no obligations, no car.

i occupied myself by pacing the long hallway on the top floor of my home literally all day, for 13 hours straight.

because of this, i became very used to what things looked like out of the corner of my eye, what shadows looked like at different time in the day, etc.

i had set my phone down to charge so i was sorta just spacing out while i was pacing. it was the middle of the day, the hallway was well-lit, and i was home alone per usual.

the hallways is set up so the stairs going up to the second floor face a bedroom, you turn right, and go down the rest of the hallways to the other rooms.

i was at the farther end of the hall, when i turned around and suddenly stepped back slightly. it was like i was witnessing the environment around me me so than being a part of it. it’s a feeling i’ve felt before when odd things happen.

my vision sort of changed in a way I’d describe like this: a plastic, see through sheet being placed on top of a vivid picture, like those projectors they used with us in elementary school when going over work sheets, so the teacher could write on the plastic, it would appear like it was actually being written on the sheet beneath it, but the paper was never actually written on.

i felt that feeling and started seeing things through that ‘lense’.

at the end of the hall, where the stairs opened to the hallway, was a ‘dog’ that was positioned like it had stopped walking when it’s front legs had reached the second floor, with its back legs a couple stairs down. this would have been spooky enough, but that’s not even considering the fact that it had a HUMAN FACE. this large dog had a fully fledged human face of a man.

it didn’t look shocked, it looked more annoyed? it stared at me with the same expression as someone might have if they had been sleeping downstairs and were woken up by my constant pacing. like not angry, just annoyed.

i saw it through the ‘lens’ I described earlier, like the house around me was more real, and although i saw it so vividly, it was like it was an image sort of layered on top if that makes any sense at all.

we stared at each other for maybe 5 seconds before i was suddenly aware of my surroundings again and it was gone.

i had no pets, and was completely alone. i’d never seen anything like it before. i wasnt scared or threatened so much as shocked.

the only thing I’ve ever seen or heard of that i could compare it to is the yokai that is quite literally a dog with a human face (if anyone knows the name of that specific yokai, lmk!). at that point, my only exposure to yokai was the tv show/game yokai watch, and this experience is the reason why i started researching them and learned they were real folklore and not just a tv show gimmick, so i truly don’t believe i could have had it sitting in the back of my mind somehow and “projected” it into my environment.

i’m not japanese, nor am i japan, which is why I think it’d be odd for it to be a yokai. i have very little knowledge of yokai, so i have no idea if they have any sort of cultural or physical boundaries, maybe it’s not that weird for them lol.

but i’d be open to any other ideas or explanations! apologies that this is so long, i just wanted to get this experience out there to get some fresh perspectives and ideas!

my cat is a male, 14-15lb (he’s physically larger, not morbidly obese), assumed to be american short hair (he was a stray), and he’s neutered.

he has issues with one of his paws, and we suspect it’s pillow foot. he has a vet appointment next monday for his afflicted paw, but this morning we noticed he was limping on his other paw. it’s not hot or cold, so i don’t think it’s an infection or blood clot, it’s a little flat (which could be the pillow foot, though his other paw puffed up greatly), and he doesn’t make any noise when i try to look at it, just typical fuss of trying to move away, not like it hurts. i cant see any cuts or points that look inured, i checked his claws and he didn’t seem to mind, so I don’t think it’s an ingrown claw.

we live in connecticut and over the past week i’ve started taking him outside on a leash and harness. the yard isn’t sprayed with anything.

he walks on it, and scratches with it, but tuck only the new problem paw under him when he loafs and holds it up when he’s sitting upright. Hes licking it a bit and purrs like normal when I sit by him or pet him but I know cats are terrible at expressing when they’re in pain.

like I mentioned, he has an appointment on the 29th, i just need to know if I should bring him in sooner. the 29th was the closest i could get, and most places are closed because it’s Sunday, but if it’s an emergency I will absolutely figure something out.

I left my job about a month ago (I was basically bullied out, long story). I’ve been applying to pretty much every job opening I’ve come across. I’ve gotten one interview out of god knows how many applications. I just moved near Mansfield and thought thered be more job opportunities than there are, but I’ve basically been told that jobs are biased towards UConn students.

A family member travels to Manchester from here everyday for work, so that area along with south Windsor is an option too.

If anyone has literally any place they know is hiring, please let me know. Literally desperate at this point.

It’s been about a month since I walked out of the store I had transferred to. literally was there for my first shift and left during my half, because I had a manic episode from the environment of this store.

I transferred from a store that had the old system, ice buckets, different shakers, etc. This store had the siren system and I had never been in a store that used that system. It’s a lot to get used to.

I brought donuts for everyone to try and get off on a good foot with my coworkers and manager. Everyone in this store aside from one guy were all major jerks. I’d use stronger language but whatever.

The manager explained the siren system, which is kind of a huge thing to get used to (why does the ice come from the ceiling at only one spot??? why not have two/three ice spots so baristas arent lining up for ice??). She put me on bar and bullied me for pretty much the entire shift (youre too slow, I shouldn’t have to have other baristas help you, told me I made drinks wrong multiple times when I did not).

At one point i made a matcha with cold foam, put it on the drivethru shelf, and when she went to hand it out, she huffed loudly, dumped it out, asked who made the drink (knowing damn well it was me), and proceeded to ask how I made it, if I’d ever made one before, and I replied with how I had made it and the entire time she was shaking her head going “no. Nope. No you didn’t. You absolutely did not make this correctly” and couldn’t give me an answer when I had asked her what was wrong with it.

The rest of the staff were insanely cliquey. Anytime I tried to be part of whatever random conversation they were having, they’d stop talking, look at me, and then ignore me.

I called my mom crying during my 10, and she encouraged me to try and ride it out, but I ended up going into an actual manic episode from how terrible the environment was. getting yelled at by managers, having other coworkers make snide and passive aggressive comments if I messed up one of the new drinks i was never trained properly on, being talked to like an idiot for not nailing an entirely new system, etc. everyone at this store was straight up horrible. Ive never felt so disrespected and looked down upon in my life. im so fucking over getting consistently abused for a minimum wage job. it’s not worth it. it’s not worth my mental health. If yall are getting treated like shit too, youre worth more than that and I hope you get out too.

I know this might seem like a dumb question, but the Hermes listed in the playbill didn’t look like the hermes who was on stage yesterday at the Walter Kerr theatre on Broadway, and I can’t seem to figure out who it was. Maybe Im dumb and the playbill was correct, if someone could lmk if appreciate it!!