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My name is Brian, Iâm 35, and I live in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Indianapolis. Itâs the kind of place where people wave when they drive by, kids ride …
My neighbor in suburban Indianapolis mows his lawn at 7:15 a.m. every Sunday â today I âtestedâ my new car alarm at 6:58 a.m. for exactly 45 seconds Read More
My name is Liam, Iâm 30, and I live in Seattle. Like most people here, I drink a lot of coffee. Not just occasionally â Iâm talking about the kind …
TIFU by telling my barista in Seattle I âlike it extra hotâ and now every single latte comes out scalding enough to remove paint Read More
My name is Ryan, Iâm 40, and I live in Phoenix, Arizona. If youâve ever experienced summer here, you know the air conditioner isnât just a convenience â itâs basically …
Paid to have my ancient AC unit fixed in Phoenix during a 112° heat wave only for the tech to tell me the problem was that a family of quail had built a nest inside the condenser â $875 later and I still hear chirping Read More
My name is Aaron, Iâm 35, and I recently married into a very proud Louisiana family. If youâve ever been to Louisiana, you probably know that food there isnât just …
Told my very proud Louisiana mother-in-law I donât eat crawfish and she spent the entire crawfish boil trying to âsneakâ pieces onto my plate labeled as âfancy green beansâ Read More
My name is Jake, Iâm 33, and I live in Columbus, Ohio. Earlier this year I made the decision to stop drinking. It wasnât because of some dramatic rock-bottom moment. …
Quietly unsubscribed from every group text with my high-school friends after they moved the reunion to a brewery in Columbus and I said Iâm sober now â they started a new one called âThe Sober One Isnât Invitedâ Read More
My name is Karen, Iâm 36, and I work remotely from Raleigh, North Carolina. Like a lot of people since the pandemic, my job shifted to mostly online meetings, Slack …
My boss in Raleigh keeps scheduling 8 a.m. âstand-upâ meetings on Teams while Iâm still on the school drop-off run â today I joined from the McDonaldâs drive-thru with the kids yelling in the background Read More
My name is Alex, Iâm 32, and I live in San Francisco. If youâve ever parked a car in this city, you already know itâs basically a competitive sport. Between …
Got a parking ticket in San Francisco for âblocking the sidewalkâ even though my car was fully in the spot â the ticket was written on a Post-it note stuck to my windshield wiper Read More
My name is Michael, Iâm 37, and I live in Pittsburgh with my wife, Anna. If you know anything about Pittsburgh, you know that pierogies are practically a local religion. …
I (37M) finally admitted to my wife in Pittsburgh that I hate her familyâs annual pierogi-making marathon and she cried for two days straight Read More
My name is Nate, Iâm 34, and I live in Memphis, Tennessee. My neighborhood is usually pretty quiet, especially on weekends. Except for one very specific problem. My neighbor across …
Neighbor in Memphis has been power-washing his driveway at 7 a.m. every Saturday for six months â today I âaccidentallyâ left my leaf blower running against the shared fence at 6:45 Read More
My name is Daniel, Iâm 29, and I live in Austin, Texas. Last weekend a group of friends decided to meet up for dinner at a popular taco place downtown. …
AITAH for refusing to split the bill evenly at a group dinner in Austin when I only had water and one taco while everyone else ordered three rounds of margaritas? Read More