Ruthie is having a hard time learning, so I’ve started documenting how long it takes her to catch literally anything lol
She’s 130 pounds of optimism and absolutely no hand-eye coordination.
Please tell me: is this a Berner thing, or is Ruthie uniquely untalented?
Damn, that escalated.
TikTok removed the message before I could screenshot it, but I recovered it through my downloaded chat history.
Ruthie has reviewed the feedback and decided to remain alive and enormous out of spite.
Original post for those of you wondering how Ruthie became so controversial in the first place!
She had just gone through what we thought was her first heat, so I booked her spay.
While she was on the operating table, the vet called and asked, “Did you know she was pregnant?”
No. No I did not.
She had never escaped, was always supervised, and had never knowingly been around an intact male. The only possible opportunity we could think of was the dog park before her first heat had even started. I never saw her get mounted or anything happen.
So here is the face of an 11-month-old who apparently had a secret boyfriend.
The father remains at large.
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EDIT: Due to overwhelming public interest in this scandal, Ruthie has retained representation. Her TikTok is @ruthiethesaintbernese. She will not be taking questions about the father at this time.
I ordered Uber Eats with “Leave at Door.” The app said it was delivered, but there was no food at my front door and no delivery photo.
I contacted support because I just wanted to know where the driver left it so I could go find it.
They kept explaining why I wasn’t eligible for a refund.
I had not asked for a refund.
Never found the food.
Still hungry.
Just purchased a 1940s house. We recently had part of the finished basement opened up after discovering water intrusion and found this behind the wall.
There’s a diagonal crack, significant staining, and several small white pieces sticking out of the foundation that make me wonder if this crack was previously repaired/injected.
For the contractors here:
Does the staining suggest water has continued coming through after the repair?
Is anything in this photo particularly concerning from a structural standpoint, or does this look more like a water-management issue?
Obviously I know you can’t diagnose a foundation from one photo, mostly curious what you see here and what type of contractor/professional you’d call next.
I ordered a smoked pork hash at a restaurant and bit down hard on a large, solid piece of bone about an inch across. It hurt my back molar enough that I stopped eating.
We showed the bone to our server. She said she’d take it to the kitchen and walked away.
About five minutes later, she returned with our bill and the payment machine, even though we hadn’t asked for the bill yet. She didn’t tell us what the kitchen had said, offer to remake the meal, apologize, or mention any kind of resolution.
She stood there with the machine while I looked over the bill. I felt put on the spot and just paid, leaving an 18% tip, which was the lowest option other than “custom”.
After I had already paid, my partner asked her what had happened with the bone because we’d never actually gotten an answer. She told us that “bones happen” and are a risk with some meals.
My partner asked if they could at least remake the meal or do something about it. She walked away and never came back.
We spoke to the manager essentially immediately afterward. She offered $5 off the meal. When my partner explained that we hadn’t even been able to finish it (about 2/3 done), the manager responded, “Well, it looked pretty done to me.”
At that point, the $5 wasn’t really the issue anymore. I realized I’d just left an 18% tip despite being unhappy with how the server had handled the situation, so we asked for the tip to be removed.
When the bill was adjusted ($5 off), the tip wasn’t refunded. We pointed that out and the manager pushed back, asking, “Well, did she do a bad job?”
We said that regardless, we no longer wanted to leave the gratuity. The manager became visibly frustrated and eventually smacked a $10 bill on the counter as an estimate of the tip.
For context, I worked in restaurants for about a decade. I understand that mistakes happen and that the server obviously wasn’t responsible for a bone accidentally making it into the food. Had she apologized, explained what the kitchen said, or helped get the meal remade, I would’ve happily left the tip.
What bothered us was how dismissively the situation was handled after we brought it up, especially after I’d actually hurt my tooth.
So AIO for removing the tip and being bothered by how the restaurant handled it?
Curious what people here think about this one…
I ordered a smoked pork hash at a restaurant and bit down on a piece of bone roughly the size of a toonie (Canadian $2 coin/about an inch across). I bit it hard enough that my back molar hurt afterward.
We brought it to the restaurant’s attention and were told that bones are a risk with some of their meals. There was initially no discount or offer to replace the meal.
I eventually spoke to the manager, who offered me $5 off. When I told her I hadn’t even finished my meal, she responded, “Well, it looked pretty done to me.”
At that point we left, but I decided I wanted to go back, accept the $5 discount, and also remove the tip because I was unhappy with how the entire situation had been handled.
They processed a new transaction/refund, but I realized afterward that the original tip hadn’t been refunded. When I pointed this out and said I wanted the gratuity back too, the manager pushed back and asked me, “Well, did she do a bad job?”
That’s where I’m curious what this sub thinks.
The server herself wasn’t responsible for a bone being in the food, obviously. But from my perspective, I tipped based on the overall dining experience, and by the end of it I was extremely unhappy with how my legitimate complaint, and the fact that I’d hurt my tooth, had been handled.
I reiterated that I wanted the tip refunded. The manager argued with me about it and eventually became visibly angry and smacked a $10 bill on the counter as an estimate of the tip.
I understand that an accidental bone can make it through when preparing meat. That wasn’t really why I wanted the tip back. It was the dismissive and confrontational way the situation was handled afterward.
So: was I wrong to take back the tip?
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EDIT/CLARIFICATION: Reading the comments, I realize I did a pretty terrible job explaining the timeline and the server interaction, and I can understand why some people interpreted this as us being happy with the server and then later taking her tip back because we were angry with management. That’s not what happened.
The server had actually been fairly dismissive throughout our interaction.
When we showed her the bone, a thick chunk about an inch across, she said, “Okay, I’ll go show the kitchen.” About five minutes later, she returned with our bill without us asking for it, put the payment machine on the table at the same time, and stood there waiting while I tried to look over the bill. She hadn’t told us what the kitchen said, whether she’d spoken to a manager, or offered any kind of resolution.
With her standing there waiting with the machine, I felt awkward and pressured to just pay. I selected an 18% tip pretty much automatically.
Immediately afterward, my partner asked, “Wait, what happened with the bone?” That’s when she told us that “bones happen” and that they’re a risk with some meals. He asked whether they could at least remake the meal or do something about it. She left and never came back to us.
We eventually spoke to the manager, which led to the $5 offer and the “well, it looked pretty done to me” comment described in the original post.
Another thing I worded badly: when I said we “left and went back,” I don’t mean we went home, cooled off, reconsidered the tip and returned later. We walked out the door and literally turned around about five seconds later. I don’t think anyone inside even noticed we’d left. I immediately realized I’d just tipped 18% out of habit/social pressure despite being unhappy with the service and how the situation had been handled, so we turned around and asked for it to be reversed.
Obviously the server didn’t put the bone in the food, and I never blamed her for that. My issue with her service was how she handled it after we brought it to her attention: no follow-up from the kitchen, bringing us the bill before the issue had been addressed, dismissing the bone as an expected risk when we asked what happened, and then disappearing after we asked whether the meal could be remade.
For some additional context, I worked in restaurants for about a decade. I completely understand that mistakes happen and that an occasional bone fragment can make it through when meat is being prepared. The bone itself wasn’t what made us so upset. What surprised me was a thick piece of bone about an inch across being treated as an expected part of the dish rather than something that had accidentally been missed, particularly after bitting down on it and hurting a molar. In all my years working in restaurants, I can’t imagine responding to a customer in that situation by simply telling them that “bones happen.”
I’m not adding this because I expect everyone to agree that taking the tip back was the right call, that’s literally why I posted in a tipping subreddit. I just realized from the responses that I left out context that substantially changes why I immediately regretted leaving the tip in the first place.