u/SkoilerDaaaaan

Note: I'm half considering just taking him to court for defamation, but if that isn't an option, here's the story:

Sometime in 2012-2013, when I was still in high school, I made a comment about a girls body that I thought was a joke, but she did not take it that way. She slapped me in the face and nothing further happened (can be verified by at least 2 people that I could contact immediately who were \*right there\*) we never even spoke until HS graduation and have not seen each other since...

(Note, this girls grandfather and my uncle are good friends, leading to...)

However, last Christmas, my mom and grandmother asked me about some kind of confrontation between the two of us, mentioning that my uncle (a 65 year old man who has been unmarried his whole life) was claiming that things had escalated way further, and that what I did to her wad a felony, and that I should be in jail. This is obviously an extreme stretching of the truth

I believe he's only doing this because both of my grandparents are approaching their 90s and he wants to ensure I get as little inheritance as possible. He doesn't speak with my grandmother and has not in about a decade for several reasons. Without getting too deep into things, he (36 years older than me) bullied me quite a bit when I was a kid - and I never let it go, which led to a lot of tension... but when I was 16 and got a car, he apparently tried to convince my parents that I shouldn't be driving, wasn't mature enough, etc, and that really frustrated my mother + grandmother - this apparently led to the big blow up between my grandmother and my uncle.

I fully believe that he's making these comments to turn my grandparents and maybe other family against me. What do I do here if I don't have grounds for a lawsuit? I do understand that I'm emotional about this (I hate him, have for nearly 20 years, and frankly I want to hurt him in some way, and I do understand that may be clouding my judgment here) but this isn't something I should just let go... right?

I swear I've been cut off by LAPD cruisers multiple times without them using a blinker. Happened on La Cienega, Pico, Venice, La Brea, and Beverly within the last few months. Are they aware that nothing will happen to them if they don't use the signal, so they just merge with reckless abandon? Am I just insane?

This can be city or nature (I'm a much bigger fan of nature though and I figure Norway is probably the best fit for my travel preferences as a whole, but that's less important here) but I'm wanting the under-the-radar places that you *almost* would rather gatekeep

I'm sure there are plenty of people who do, say, boat rentals in the summer and snow removal in the winter and that may just be the normal thing, but I see enough places closed for the season even in early May that I'm curious

Title explains it, I want to visit all 50 states but I'm not keen on just checking a state off a box

(side tangent, I've driven through Minnesota twice, but in the ~9 hours I've been there, I've maybe seen 45 minutes of daylight in MN... meaning I certainly haven't done anything interesting there, but I know I'd love the North Shore, plenty of things in Minneapolis/Duluth, etc, if that helps explain what I'm asking here)

Working Night Audit, it sort of comes with the territory that you'll encounter intoxicated people. Last Saturday, 2 pretty large men returned from an Uber and sat in our lobby chairs. Natural thing to do, but after about 2 minutes both of them were asleep. Can't have that at 1 am.

I called security (3rd party company, which I'm pretty sure is industry standard) to help assist, yet all she did was say "excuse me" about 15 times in a row at various volumes. The drunks ignored her, and there's no way either her (~5'6 ish woman) or myself (6'0 man, still noticeably smaller than both of the guys in question) are moving these guys unless they cooperate. So... what to do in this situation?

I looked security in the eye, and said "hey, I think they're having a medical emergency, think we should call an ambulance?", and thankfully she caught where I was going with it and said "good idea, I'll call 911", and sure enough... one of the guys just slowly says "no... no ambulance", and within about 20-30 seconds, they both get up and stumble their way to the elevators without further issue.

Anyone else ever deal with something like this? Was I wrong? I'm not even sure if I was bluffing or serious tbh, and idk if the EMTs would have given me hell for making a call like this had I gone through with it, but I'm sure glad it worked in this instance.

Not looking to move, just generally curious. Speaking as someone who's never actually been in Alaska in the winter (only Anchorage+Kenai+Seward areas last August, obviously loved it tho), but spent 24 years in Central+West Michigan, my biggest issues with long winters have always been:

1. Too much cloud cover for too many days in a row.

I know Anchorage being a coastal city deals with plenty of that as well, but does Fairbanks being so far inland make a notable difference in how much sun there is in the winter? Even in Michigan it's not exactly uncommon to go 2-ish weeks without seeing the sun in November-March

2. The freaking wind.

I can handle subzero F if there's not so much wind (just did a drive of the Northern Lake Michigan Coast last December and, because it was without a bunch of wind *or* crowds when I was either on a beach or hiking, it was absolutely perfect), and I know that Fairbanks has generally low amounts of wind. Of course the temperature gets way lower in Fairbanks than I've ever experienced, but how does -40F at 3mph wind feel compared to -10F at 35mph wind, for example?

Spent 3 days in Truckee last weekend, did the full loop around the lake on Monday and obviously noticed how jam packed the parking areas around Emerald Bay and other spots get, along with the "parking restrictions strictly enforced" signs. That has to mean tow trucks are going nonstop, right? That's not even taking into account winter incidents requiring a tow.

I'm sure there are plenty of towing companies and *starting one* wouldn't exactly be easy, but ones that are already operating have to be printing money, no?

Context: I work with a guy who seems to mention suing an awful lot of companies (2 different housing companies, his mechanic, a different employer who fired him, someone who rear ended him, etc) yet his job isn't one that leads to lawsuits. Is he just the type of guy to stick up for himself if he feels wronged, or should I see it as questionable? I am 30 years old and can only even *think* of one time where I'd even have had the chance to sue someone

Title explains it mostly. Obviously that's a near decades worth of teams that pretty much every year were thought of as Cup contenders, and on paper they should be. Obviously 2016 was the closest they got, but given how good the Sharks were year after year, the fact they only even made 1 SCF is insane to me even as a neutral onlooker. Feel free to answer the questions below, or just give general thoughts. Apologies in advance if this brings up painful memories.

1. What years Sharks team from that era is the one you're still shocked never got it done?

2. Besides the blown 3-0 lead in 2014, which team made you the most angry *at the time* after they lost in the playoffs? Not necessarily the best team of that stretch

3. Do you believe any of these teams were 1 bad call/1 unlucky bounce from getting it done?

So as someone who grew up in Michigan, I've had plenty of experience driving in icy, whiteout conditions, but as many of you already know Michigan doesn't have near the elevation changes of a California, Colorado, Montana, etc. Of course I'm aware to always yield to the vehicle going up the mountain, always be sure the tires are good, keep chains on you, and downshift when going downhill, but what's something that I likely wouldn't know what to do that I absolutely need to be aware of?

I figure the rural parts of West Texas/New Mexico with the sky could be pretty sick. East of Bend, Oregon in by the Badlands was pretty cool for the same reason although that's not better than the area during the day. I80 and I70 through Nebraska and Kansas may be easy choices too

So as someone who grew up in Michigan, I've had plenty of experience driving in icy, whiteout conditions, but as many of you already know Michigan doesn't have near the elevation changes of a California, Colorado, Montana, etc. Of course I'm aware to always yield to the vehicle going up the mountain, always be sure the tires are good, keep chains on you, and downshift when going downhill, but what's something that I likely wouldn't know what to do that I absolutely need to be aware of?

So I'm a Night Auditor at a near 300 room hotel in one of the 2 biggest cities in the US. We have caller ID on our phones that only shows phone numbers from non-guest phones (no names unless it's an in house guest call). Whenever someone is calling from a blocked number, something like '7003' or '7009' will be the number that shows up, but it is *never* shown in the call history, regardless of if the call is answered or not.

With that said, a few examples of my previous experiences from blocked numbers are:

Someone (likely an ex coworker) just making sexual comments

Someone trying to impersonate the GM and asking me for money

Angry man repeatedly asking for a woman who literally wasn't even in house

Is there any legitimate reason to have your number blocked when calling a hotel in the middle of the night? Am I just jaded? Either way, I've gotten to the point where I just ignore blocked numbers. Been that way for 6+ months, but someone tried 4-5 times last night and now it's on my mind here. Never had any complaints about missing calls 🤷

So, April 2025 I was driving from the UP of Michigan to Las Vegas, and as the 3rd leg was Spearfish SD to Salt Lake City UT, I had the pleasure of a morning in Spearfish Canyon + a detour at Devils Tower before heading through the center of Wyoming. Clear day the whole way through, was 50% beautiful, 50% jarring emptiness. Even made it to that overly expensive gas station in Muddy Gap!

Anyway, I'm not sure if it was on 387 or 220 (probably 220, pretty sure it was after Casper) but eventually there was a stoplight for construction with "expect a 2-5 minute stop" posted. Sure, whatever, I'm on a 10+ hour drive anyway. There's a big work truck and a diesel Volkswagen Passat in front of me. I feel safe in assuming that the Passat was an oil/ranch worker who would drive this route every day, because once the light went green, the car zoomed off kept continually pulling away from me. I was definitely in a high plains area because all I could see was flatness + road curves ahead. It was so empty, and the Passat was still noticeably pulling away from me, I never looked down to see how fast I myself was going...

*I had lead footed to 113 mph, without noticing*

That Passat had to have been going 135, maybe more. I had an out of state plate so of course I slowed down to 90-95 ish just in case. But I've never had something like this happen before or since.

So the question(s) I have: do locals who drive through those Wyoming Death Storms just loosen up once conditions are clear, particularly if they have a long drive back home? I'm well aware that the roads in the winter are among the most dangerous in the country, and I also get that there's notably long commutes here, so was what I encountered anything close to normal? I can see why Montana had "reasonable and prudent" as a speed limit for a few years