u/Kale_bean

Dudeeee. Partner and I are at a five day house sit with a golden retriever and a Bernese mountain dog and we let them out in their fenced backyard tonight and ten minutes later we smell skunk and we’re like OH GOD. we look through the glass door and the golden is staring at us and foaming at the mouth and we start freaking out and try to call the HO, no answer because it’s late. We call emergency vet but they can’t do anything. So we splash some water in their faces to help them because they are freaking out. And we hose down their faces for awhile so they aren’t irritated. We messaged the HO about what happened and we’re leaving them outside I guess.

What do you think the cleaning expectation for us as sitters is?? Like idk what they will say but are we obligated to give them like five baths or whatever they need? Would we ask for payment if so?

I just took an uber and this lady was driving at 70 mph with no hands at all. Just arms crossed and I was like wtf. Is this a justified reason to leave a bad review or not?

My gf (23f) and I (22f) went to a restaurant today and this family (looked like parents and two kids around 14 and 8 and the grandparents) was behind us and the mom told the 14 yr old daughter “you’re so bad at math” and she kinda sadly said “no I’m not…” and she was like “well then why can’t you pass your test??” And it went back and forth until the daughter said “can we please change the subject…” and then she just looked kinda shut down and I genuinely got so much fucking rage in my bones I felt my chest tighten up. And I decided I had to say something to them because I knew how she felt and I wish I had someone to stand up for me when I was younger! I waited until we got the check and then walked up to them and the whole room went quiet and I said “can I ask you something? Is this your daughter?” And she said “uhm. I’m her stepmom” and I said “i just want to say that raising your kid through shame is not the right way to parent” and she just scoffed and laughed in my face. I continued and said “as someone who was heavily traumatized I know how that feels and your kids will grow up to resent you and hate themselves” and the dad stepped in and was like “hey wtf, go raise your own kids!!!” And I said “I don’t have any” and he was like “WELL THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE. MIND YOUR BUSINESS” and I really wasn’t phased at all cuz like wth you gonna do with your family at brunch. And then I just said “I’m just saying your kids will resent you…” and we walk out. My gf said the girl was hugging her grandma and crying, probably because she felt emotional about being shamed and then it got brought up again. I was very calm and non reactive the whole time and the father just proved my point. I wonder what happened the rest of the meal…

It’s so fucking hard to exist during luteal. Like all I’ve been doing today is going out of my room to interact with my gf and then one of us misunderstands eachother or I mistakenly get annoyed or distracted or a million other things and then we get into a huge fight over semantics and over explaining feelings and trying to both get understood and then I end up shutting down and being so exhausted and then isolating again and doomscrolling this has happened like four times today and I’m done being stuck in this hell cycle.

I’m curious if anyone has seen improvements in PMDD from leaving my the USA and going to a different country. I ask this because I know a lot of the food here is highly processed and contain inflammatory compounds. Would it be better somewhere else? Even “organic” doesn’t mean much anymore

As a sitter, I’ve always wondered: do homeowners meticulously clean their houses before someone comes to sit or are they just normally that clean or do yall hire maids or what? It’s like crazy how clean some of these places will be.

I’ve been at a house sit for a bit over a month with 6 cats and he showed us around his VERY clean house and all seemed good. There’s four litter boxes, two of them are smart. So we assumed it would be pretty chill…. We were WRONG. Almost every day one of the cats will leave liquid shit on the carpet, WHITE carpet bro! When she easily has access to the litter boxes and they’re clean. And one time we left a small pile of clothes on the floor for a week and when I picked them up they were SOAKED in piss and had turds in them. And yesterday I went in the bathroom to grab a freshly folded and clean towel and there was piss and shit on it. And we’re obviously not getting paid. WWYD??!