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We paid for premium because it makes travel smoother and less stressful with kids, among other reasons. We arrived 70 minutes before our flight, stood in line for a few minutes, and then probably started the checkin process around 62 or 63 minutes before. Close, but also, fine. After weighing and processing our bags, printing 4 tags, when she goes to print the 5th, she glances at the clock declares, "it's past the baggage cutoff, I can't continue". And then no shitting you, proceeds to walk around to where the done bags are and rips off the tags.

I've never had someone cancel a checkin partway because they ran out of time. The rule we've always adhered to is that as long as you make it to the agent in time, it's fine, and if they're slow it's a them problem.

Add this to all the other reasons WestJet has gone to sh*t, and I think I will be going out of my way to avoid them from now on.

My husband has a conference in Rome next month, it's completely my call if the kids and I want to go. Initially I said no, as I've been to rome before and my husband can only add an exta 3-4 days after so we'd only be there a week total so it's not like we could even do a side trip somewhere else in Italy instead.

But since then we've discovered my underweight one year old LOOOVES italian food, so I've been joking that I wanna go even though I initially said it wasn't worth it.

In your opinion is the hassle of switching continents worth it for just a week?

I bought a pack of chicken drumsticks on Wednesday. I did not put it in the freezer, even though I'd didn't plan on cooking it for a few days specifically because the expiry said Sept 3. ie. a week plus a day.

Today I took it out to cook, and it's hella slimy and smells vaguely like farts. How TF would this be safe to eat if I waited another four days? As it is this is borderline for if I should.

I started https://www.reddit.com/r/Dying/ to post my fiber arts projects (ie. tie dying), but it ended up that most of the posts were about terminal diagnosis, palliative care, etc. So someone had messaged and asked if it would be okay to officially change the meaning/direction of the subreddit. Which I was okay with.

However our content has evolved to almost entirely suicide posts. And I have no idea how to handle this, nor does our other mod.

Does anyone have any experience with this or feel it in their heart to take this on? It's a heavy subject and I don't have any formal training on suicide, palliative care, or death counselling so someone with that interest or skillset would be ideal.

My son refuses all bottles and is underweight, so I have to breastfeed. He recently had all 4 front teeth come in at once, and now I have no way to safely remove my nipple from his mouth. Inserting a finger just makes him chomp down harder.

I have no idea what to do. I'm in pain, my nipples are bruised, he's drawn blood. But I do t know how to get him to stop biting.... Because I dont think it's intentional or he's even aware that he's doing it.

I'm looking for investors.

I made brisket last night and it was good, tasted correct, but now I have a giant jar of cho huo paste. I don't see myself making brisket more than like once a year at best (not that we don't like it, but brisket isn't a usual item where I get groceries), so any other recipes that use it?

We came back from 4 weeks away to find our ice maker no longer working as expected. It's turned on, but just in standby mode with no ice coming out or chilling happening. Just sitting there with the light on. This has periodically happened in the past, the solution is to just pull out and replace the ice drawer to trigger it to go back into ice making mode. But this time it's not doing anything. It turns on and runs for a bit but shuts off again just as the first halfway frozen cubes come out.

• It's been descaled.

• The drawer sensor has been cleaned.

• I've unplugged and replugged it.

• It's got lots of breathing space and there are no signs of overheating.

I'm out of ideas. This thing wasn't cheap so I don't think it's right that it's broken after only 3 years, but I'm at a complete loss as to what else to try.

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Update: I opened up the machine to discover that the internal hoses were absolutely clogged with calcium. Despite running the cleaning cycle many times, using descaler, not even having particularly hard water etc. It just wasn't enough.

I used CLR and let it soak all day, manually kneading the tubes to break up the calcium (super satisfying), using a toothbrush and CLR to scrub any areas I saw calcium crusts, and running the cleaning cycle over and over again with the CLR in it.

I opened up the internal reservoir (surprisingly almost perfectly clean inside), but otherwise didn't take apart any of the internal mechanisms.

Eventually the ice started working again.

I think something internal was probably clogged with calcium. Either the pump, or the part where the ice gets made. Or an internal sensor was crusted over. Either way, the solution was just more hardcore descaling. CLR (I'm not sure if that's a Canadian only brand? But it's a pretty intense descaler. Much stronger than vinegar or coffee machine descaling solution), CLR and time was what solved the problem. For the future I won't even bother opening the machine, I'll just pour in the CLR and go to bed.

TL;DR: you may think your machine has been adequately descaled, but you are wrong. Use the harshest acid you can get your hands on.

In 2025, the national average cost for a new vehicle in Canada was roughly $63,439. But most credit cards offering rental car insurance will limit coverage to only cars under 65k (or 85K if you're lucky). And this number has not been adjusted in over a decade, to reflect the new reality of car values. Which means that if you choose a minivan, or get randomly upgraded to a bigger or nicer SUV, the insurance you thought you had through your credit card is moot.

We got rear ended in France, and the credit card we assumed would cover the damages was just like "nah, vehicle assigned at random to you was too expensive once you factor in local prices converted to CAD."

And now looking back on cars we've rented recently, a good portion of them were technically not covered, because cars just cost too much these days.

So are there any cards that cover rental cars worth more than 85k? Our Mariott Amex seems to be the best at 85k, but most are only 65k. We travel a lot so this is an important benefit to us.

Just trying to figure out if this is normal procedure for abandoned bags and happens all the time when people accidentally get separated from their bags, or if there's actually something sinister up today.

Chinese zodiac says that today is an extremely inauspicious day, and the only "safe" thing to do today is take a bath: We missed our flight this morning because Google maps directions didn't account for a massive traffic jam. Also we read on the BA website that short haul baggage cutoff is 45 minutes, long haul is an hour. And we figured this flight was short, so we figured we were safe, but we missed the footnote that nice airport specifically is an hour.

We rebooked ourselves for an easyJet flight tonight, wrnt to a hotel to rest, and then on the walk back the the airport got stuck in a massive downpour.

Now we're checked in for the next flight, just waiting to go through security, but the gate is closed, a massive crowd had formed and then.... BOOM.

I don't believe in astrology, but oof. It's been a day.

Beach includes playing in sand, running around, but then also splashing around and sitting in water.

For the former I think regular diapers would be best, but then for the latter swim diapers would. So idk if I should be swapping diapers depending on what the child is doing. Or if there's some sort of hack where their diaper wouldn't get soggy from exposure to water, but wouldn't just leak everywhere like a swim diaper out of water would.

I saw someone else walk up to the counter and return theirs, buy we're taking our stuff to go, so would have to hold onto it all day to do so. We will be returning this way tonight (our hotel is nearby), so it's possible but slightly inconvenient.

In my mind weck jars are kinda expensive, so putting it in the trash in the park seems like the wrong thing to do. But also, I have no desire to keep it.

Did I sign some sort of social contract that I'm not fully aware of?

I've had to remove 3 reed diffusers (one of which my toddler found and then instantly spilled on the bed), a vase of pampas grass which was shedding everywhere, a dried flower arrangements that was decorating the stove for some reason, some sort of faux fur coaster thingy, and half a dozen fake succulent pots.

I don't really mind the succulents, they're small and don't hurt anything. But good lord, use some common sense. I need to have surfaces to throw my keys and charge my phone. To set up my laptop. To lay out my suitcase and toiletries case. Adding aesthetic items to every single god damn surface might look good in photos, but serve no purpose but creating additional clutter.

There were no available slots for the Louvre unless we had a Paris museum pass, so we have purchased a 48 hour one.

What's the best thing to use the pass for that is accessable/kid friendly (we have a baby and a toddler and a stroller), that will get us closer to using the max value of the pass?

Because of the kids, we will not just be able to museum hop and make up the value in quantity. I'm hoping to figure out a singular museum that will make me feel like we didn't just spend €85 for only the Louvre.

(But if it comes down to that, the Louvre was the only thing I really really wanted to do, so I know we will not be saving money with the PMP, but rather it's getting us access to something otherwise sold out)

Forgive me, Canadian so I'm not super familiar with how European telecoms operate.

I have a tesco mobile sim purchased in the czech Republic back in February. I'm on my way to France right now. If I were to top up the sim card would I automatically have access to data roaming in France? Or would I have to pay additionally or do extra steps?

Even if it's a bit more expensive, it would be easier for me to just use the sim I already have instead of finding a French one.

Just curious if a standard, normal rental car will have locking belts so I can install our bucket seat in travel mode, with only a seatbelt and no latch/isofix.

I don't want to have to bring our car seat base.