greenmangostudio

So, on Tuesday, my dad (67) was in the bathroom. I heard his phone ringing, and glanced at it - see, I thought it was a legit call as the phone is set to block calls from non-verified / unknown numbers. It got through, but sometimes spam gets through. The caller ID said it was verified - and the number was from the medical centre in town..So I think “Oh crap. I better take this and hand it to him” so I answer the phone for him so I can say I can put him on. …What was on the other side was an obvious deepfake promoting someone's election run. It isn't even a person on the other side, so I don't get the fun of putting the phone under a metal bowl and banging the bowl with a spoon. However, that was all it took to apparently get my dad’s phone number put onto a database of “A real person answered this number - Spam them". Because within a few hours, my dad's phone got another call from the same number and it was more political canvassing. He hangs up and then anot...

This happened today and I've learned my lesson! This also probably isn't as serious as some other fuck ups, and the only consequences were to myself. Hopefully I'll be able to laugh about this later, but right now, I'm definitely frustrated. I was updating my budget tracker, looking through my recent purchases, when I noticed one that I was pretty sure I didn't actually make. I had come across this before, but brushed it off. Turns out that was a mistake. 💀 Today however, my brain finally rang an alarm bell. I had purchased, in May of this year, a plushie Artemis 2 mascot from this website called GetVanoir. They had repeatedly been charging me $29.99 on a monthly basis. Now, you can probably see where this is going. I did some investigating today, as my friend had also purchased one, and asked her to see if she'd recently come across any charges. She said she had and that they'd been charging her for a membership. She'd had to cancel it via thei...

I started smoking about a year ago because I was stressed out and, honestly, thought it looked cool. But after this, I might’ve been scared straight. I genuinely almost killed everybody. So, I got home and lit a cigarette, but I didn’t finish it because I got distracted thinking about playing Red Dead Online. I hopped on for about 30 minutes, yada yada, went downstairs and talked to my gramma about politics and whatnot. Everything was still fine. Eventually, I put on some music, threw on my headphones, and went out back to smoke another cigarette because I’m a fiend. I had a full, proper smoke session, put the cigarette out in the ashtray, and headed back inside. As I walked past the family room window on my way upstairs, I caught the tiniest glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. A wisp. A little flicker. The smallest hint of a flame. It’s like someone was telling me “LOOK! LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!” And I knew. I ran outside, and both of our recycling bins were up in fl...

So I am 15, I have a problem with substances tbh. I recently finally got un grounded after being grounded for around 6 months or smth. I was grounded because I was smoking weed so much, I could never pass a drug test and I was always sleeping in class and just high all the time. I am doing a lot better now, i still smoke weed often, not all day everyday, but still everyday. I have been using other people's pee to pass my drug tests, as I have been getting good grades, and keeping up with my responsibilities. Until a few weeks ago I decided to try benadryl again. It was good like I remeberd, so I stole a bottle from my grandmas house. Which leads to me doing it a few times and ultimately taking 24 of the pills after school on Wednesday afternoon, and blacking out. I am genuinely so done with everything, I just was finally able to hangout, I had just ordered my e bike, it's coming in 6 days. I was going to be able to ride it to my friends houses, I was being trusted again. Then I...

One thing about me is that I love any and every spicy  food. So I recently learned how to make xocolatl cookies, which are basically molasses cookies with cocoa powder, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper. They’re delicious and IMO the hotter the better, so I’ve been baking my batches pretty spicy. I didn’t expect this to be a problem since I’m the only person who eats my cooking. So yesterday I had two cookies in my lunchbox and I had put my lunchbox in the fridge at my work, as you do. Middle of the afternoon, before I even had a chance to take lunch, I heard a whole bunch of freaking out happening in the break room. Because apparently one of my coworkers, Todd, stole one of my cookies out of the fridge, and then had a bad reaction to the cayenne and threw up on the floor. Todd was saying that someone pranked him, so I said that it wasn’t a prank and asked why he would be eating my cookies. He didn’t really answer and just kept talking about how I made them spicy on purpose to prank him, ...

Edit:non-cdl but big I’m not a truck driver. I’m just an operations manager for a small company. I’ve only been working there for a month, and I’ve already relocated for the job ahead of my wife and kids. This is only the second time I’ve ever driven a big (non-cdl) reefer truck. The first time, my employer asked me to drive across town to pick up a pallet of product. This time, my employer had promised that we’d have product delivered to the airport early in the morning. He hadn’t booked a truck and was desperate to get it there. The airport is 1 hour and 45 minutes away. Well, he finally asked me if I’d do it, and I reluctantly said yes. I have absolutely zero truck-driving training and know nothing about driving these things. I made it to the airport, but when I was leaving, I missed my turn. My GPS routed me in a different direction. I was just cruising along when, all of a sudden, I felt a huge lurch. I had driven under a train bridge, and it quite literally ripped the top ...