u/SandiegoJack

Probably one of my favorite lines to randomly bust out in purely humorous situations. It’s just so……dismissive.

“But if we do this then we won’t have enough cheese for the orphans”

“Their sacrifice will be remembered in the coming empire”

“I over clipped my toe nails”

“Your sacrifice will be remembered in the coming empire”

“Honey, I didn’t finish”

“Your sacrifice will be remembered in the cumming empire”.

guess what I feel is often overlooked in these conversations is that the grandparent your kids is missing is the parent your spouse never got. What I mean by that is I think most people would agree that how they show up as grandparents is how they were as parents.

Like becoming a parent made me realize how bad my parents were in ways that people genuinely don’t believe. To put it in perspective: The first words to my first born were not “I love you” or “Hello”, they were “I will never let anyone treat you like they treated me”.

They were that perfect middle ground of abuse that doesn’t leave evidence. They were the abuse where they don’t kill you, but do everything they can to get you to do it yourself.

My partner genuinely didnt believe how bad they were until we got married and they started treating her “like one of the family” and so didnt feel like they had to hold back on their treatment of me in front of her. She immediately became much more understanding, took things way less personally, and understood why I made such a big deal out of specific things for how we treated our kids.

She still has a hard time with a lot of it, but I think she is getting better at understanding that it’s me processing grief from the same age our kids are.

Somehow lost my phone in my house on Friday, I stored my ID and credit cards in it.

Been using an expired license I had for most purposes, but some places require a non-expired ID to buy booze.

Been using cash, went to the store and just grabbed things like normal. Got to check out and had exactly 26 cents left over from the cash I brought with me.

Cant log into many of my accounts because they require a text be sent to my phone, won’t let me use my e-mail.

It’s mind blowing how much literally cant work without a phone.

So on and so forth.

It legit feels like a huge burden to not have a phone, where as it used to be a luxury.

However my spending has fucking plummeted because whatever it is must be worth driving to the bank to get first. Definitely feels like a wake up call for how much my budget is getting killed by those small purchases. 10 bucks here, 20 there. A lot of stuff is worth it when it’s easy, but the second it takes effort? Not worth the money.

Edit:Samsung customer support is aids. Literally cant access my account for two weeks because they require two factor to login, and it takes two weeks to change the phone number.

Literally faster to just get a new phone.

Samsung is cancer. Avoid.

I feel like we got to enjoy understanding WHY political correctness is a thing, so we inherently get the nuance of what separates something funny from offensive.

Like we can tell jokes that other generations cant get away with because we understand the nuance.

For example:

I was talking about doing electrical work during a DIY remodel and said “O yeah, electrical is easy once you treat it like segregation. Blacks with blacks, whites with whites, and we don’t talk about those filthy neutrals”.

It’s a joke that talks about a sensitive topic where there is no actual punching down and it’s actually accurate.

I was at the store buying a pregnancy test for my wife and a dude said “I didn’t think guys needed those, times have changed” (was going for the anti-trans angle).

Rather than be offended I said “yeah, I was trying to decide if I should buy a coat hanger to save time while I was here”.

Shut his ass up quick while still being social