Hi everyone!
Food truck owner here, adding a lot of Vietnamese food to my menu for a catering event with a lot of people attending.
‘Summer rolls’ will be on the menu, but nervous we will fall behind in service making them to order.
Any advice on either storing them, making them quick to order, rolling techniques, etc would be really helpful thank you!
Hi everyone!
Food truck owner here, adding a lot of Vietnamese food to my menu for a catering event with a lot of people attending.
‘Summer rolls’ will be one the menu, but nervous we will fall behind in service making them to order.
Any advice on either storing them, making them quick to order, rolling techniques, etc would be really helpful thank you!
My (25F) friend group from high school included one person that I never liked. I will call them B for the story, B is a very affectionate person which I don’t judge, I always made it known that I am not whatsoever.
All through high school B would poke, hug me randomly and not let go, squeeze my waist, even simple things like sitting extremely close and refusing to move. If asked not to do these things B would put on a baby voice and whine about it.
I was visibly distressed & would tell B to stop cause it made me uncomfortable, B would laugh it off pretend to agree
After two years B got worse would joke insulting my intelligence or my family.
I tried so many times to talk to B in a mature way, I even went to my school for help, nothing worked.
B would always try and play trauma olympics with me, to prove her life or her day was so much harder than mine. I don’t believe in comparing trauma, the problem was this girl could not compete since my life drama was generally worse by far if you want to be technical.
Left high school and didn’t look back, only saw them for my other friend’s bdays. Went to my friend’s 21st, when playing games, B was laying in their partners lap and started giving me these weird looks and started stroking my leg with their toes. I moved back but B didn’t stop until I was too far away
Next morning B trapped me in a chair bear hugging me while sloppy kissing the top of my head and hair. I loudly to stop and it took me physically fighting back to get out of B’s arms.
A couple months later I explained to my other friends how B made me feel uncomfortable when I last saw them
My friends were sympathetic and suggested they both talk with B about boundaries
B said something like ‘I’m sorry that you have a problem with physical touch and I didn’t mean to make you uncomfy”
This kind of answer is textbook B as she never places blame on themselves. I cut contact and explained to my friends that I wish B the best but I do not want them in my life anymore.
I feel guilty for my actual friends but I am so relieved to not deal with B anymore. I started therapy but it’s been months and I still can’t talk about B without panicking.
My friends barely speak to me now but when they do they pretend nothing is wrong and seem happy to talk to me. Sometimes they bring up B, and they still invite me to group calls with B. One of my friends I can tell is passive aggressive about it, asking things like ‘we can all hang out like normal next year right?’ When I repeated I didn’t ever want to see B again, my friend had only messaged me a few times in the year, someone who used to be my best friend. My other friend seems okay with my decision but I can still feel like she’s sad the friend group can’t be together.
Sometimes I reacted in anger towards B but I tried the mature road so many times and it never worked. I feel like I lost my friends & I don’t have other friends, AITA?
PS sorry for such a long post
I (25F) live at my parents property. I have my own small container home which I am very grateful for. I am currently trying to get a catering business off the ground, and I can’t afford to move, plus there is nowhere suitable near enough to my parents. I have a sibling who is physically disabled and requires full time care, my mother is her primary caregiver, I am the second. I help out with her basic needs, and I enjoy spending time with my sister because we are very close.
But I am exhausted. I am basically on call and have to drop whatever I am doing when my parents decide to do something and I have to look after her. My parents also stress me out in general, they come over to my house unannounced among many things.
We live in the countryside so all my friends are hours away and I never see them. I am so isolated, and my doctors have warned that I am dealing with an extreme amount of long term stress to the point it is affecting my body.
I feel like I have wasted the last five years of my life, I never got to move away and chase my dreams. But I also feel like there was no point because in a certain amount of years, my sibling’s care will pass to me when my parents can no longer do it.
I have no savings because of my small business, but it’s hard to get it off the ground where I live.
I am angry and upset all the time. I have been taking care of my sibling since I was a kid, my parents worked hard and I had to step in. My parents rely on me yet do not have any respect for my input and ideas for my sibling’s care. I do not resent my sibling, I love my sibling, but I resent the situation I am in. I genuinely do not know how to be happy with my life, I should be happy with a great small house and very low rent, but I’m not. I’ve been to therapy and done the work, tried to set boundaries, try to make time for myself and things I enjoy. Nothing works and I’m miserable.
Honestly don’t know what advice I’m looking for.