u/idontknow000-

I am done being the cool guy about people enjoying their fireworks. I don't care that it is America's 250th. I don't care that is a "time honored tradition." Nothing about these are good.

Every year we scream about the same things. It scares the shit out of the veterans, animals, and the elderly. It creates litter constantly that ends up in our waterways and kills animals. It pollutes our air (especially in neighborhoods like those in Omaha and Lincoln). It injures countless stupid people because 'MERICA. Oh! And this year the state experienced some of the worst wildfires in our history because people are too stupid to follow rules and worry about things like red flag warnings.

As I sit next to Fontenelle forest (who has had two brush fires of its own this year), watching human garbage let their kids set off fireworks IN THE GRASS NEXT TO OUR WOOD FENCES and wait for the cops to come, all I can think of is why in the flying fuck do we do this every year? So that some drunk frat bros can cosplay that they are "real men" in Fallujah? So that families can bond over kids blowing their fingers off? What the fuck is this for every year?

I want to preface this by saying that there is nothing in this world easy about being a new mom. Trying to juggle six different crises a day, while trying to keep a small human alive, while also trying to keep your identity? You are all far better humans than I am. That said, I do have a request...

You can't use the sanitary boxes in the bathroom stalls as your own personal trashcans.

I know that bad days happen. You are standing in the handicap stall, changing your baby on the changing table because they had a blowout and suddenly your toddler starts crying because, for a completely unknown reason they have just wet themselves. You handed the toddler a cookie and are doing your best to change them both and get to your doctor's appointment on time. But the trash can is all of three feet away. PLEASE throw the diaper, the underoos, and the half of the cookie your toddler didn't eat into the trash. I know you are flustered, I know you are just trying to get out of Dodge. But by putting that all in the sanitary box, you have created a chain reaction that is going to ruin my shift. Suddenly, for some women, it is monkey see, monkey do. Now they are going to put candy wrappers, makeup wipes, and half an ice cream cone in the box and I can't get it out to clean it properly because it is too crammed full. Others will, not wanting to touch a diaper or pee soaked clothes (fair enough), will set their used sanitary products on the floor, on the back of the toilet, or try to flush them. Now that entire stall is less sanitary.

Please, please, please use the box for what it was intended for. It makes all of our lives easier.

P.S. I am aware that none of this will ever happen. I was lucky a kid didn't just back up to the wall and shit on it and try to write the alphabet in it. But a man can have his really sad dreams, can't he?

Sturgeons have often been pointed to as possible explanations for river/lake monsters. Though, not 40 or 50 feet often reported, you take a half ton fish, throw in a little distance, and some fear, now we may be onto something…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WofnKIxL0vs&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D&ra=m

I know there are a ton of people on this feed that are incredibly proud of their work and go above and beyond every day to make the world a cleaner and shinier place. I salute you all.

But for the rest of us… It is okay to be miserable. Or upset. Or stressed. Or to hate every minute we are working. Nothing about this is fun. We are scrubbing shit stains out of toilets (and sometimes carpet). We are fighting trash bags filled with coffee and glitter. We are dealing with people that don’t see us as people and coworkers that act like we are insane for not wanting to be excited to be here. It sucks. I see you. Let’s do the bare minimum and run out that door together. Don’t let the bastards get you down!