greenmangostudio

18M Context is Culinary Arts college. I am by no means a straight A student but I regularly get there on time. I am a afternoon student, the teachers recommend getting there at 12:15 but I get there at exactly 12:20 (or 12:09 the earliest) when class starts i woke up at 11:45am. There is a required course called commissary, where you make food the students buy in the lounge and need a specific amount of hours to pass. Instead of the normal 12:20pm I have to get there by 8:30am. Day 1, my friend went homeless for 2-3 weeks after his parents kicked him out, i ended up being so exhausted after dropping him off at the local homeless shelter near my apartment. We were actually there first and there was only 3 spots left. His phone was acting up and he couldn’t make calls so I didn’t leave until he could 100% contacted me in an emergency despite him telling me not to. I was 40 minutes late. I then called an old teacher I knew still worked at my high school. I had her number because she s...

This actually happened a year ago, but I only found out about it today. On my 16th birthday I asked my parents if I could go out all night with my friends. Before leaving the house, I randomly decided it was a good time to do some “personal grooming”. I hadn’t shaved down there in a long time, so there was… a lot. Usually I just flush the hair down the toilet and then go take a shower. Pretty simple system. Except apparently on that day I forgot to flush. After my birthday nobody said anything. My parents acted completely normal. So I lived my life for an entire year thinking nothing happened. Today my little brother told me the full story. Apparently sometime later my mom and grandma were cleaning the bathroom and saw a toilet full of hair. They were confused and called my dad to look at it. My dad apparently looked at it for a second and said: “Relax. He’s a big boy now. Let him have fun.” TL;DR: On my 16th birthday I shaved and forgot to flush the hair. My parents found it...

This FU unfolded over the course of the last two weeks. It all started when I got home to a mess on my floors. I sprang into action and grabbed my swiffer wetjet to dispatch with the mess, when I noticed it wasn't spraying despite having just refilled the juice. I looked up how to replace the batteries, assuming this must be the malfunction, and put four batteries in the mop that I found still in the pack in my bedroom. Much to my chagrin, the spray button still wasn't working, so I assumed the mop itself must be broken and upgraded my house to the swiffer powermop via a timely amazon order. I also got to work cleaning the mess manually since the new mop wouldn't be to me anytime soon. Fast forward to today, I got a new deadbolt for my back door. Since the members of my household are terrible at keeping track of keys, I opted for one of the electric ones with a pinpad that allows you to come and go key free. After searching for batteries and finding none, I suddenly remem...

It’s taking me a bit to actually face this truth. If I think about it too much I’ll break down crying but I’ve been pushing it out of my mind. When my one and only child was baby, I look hundreds of photos. So much that my Mac book’s memory disk was full. So when I needed my laptop when I went back to finish school, I had to delete stuff. I very carefully moved the all the photos from the first two years of my kid’s life to a 1tb hard drive. Then, deleted them off my MacBook, then didn’t think about it for a decade. Whenever the photos crossed my mind, I’d think “they are safe on a hard drive somewhere.” Today, I went looking for that hard drive…. I found it, the hard drive was EMPTY. There were a couple hard drives there too that have things like my grandparents black and white family photos. That one was there and had photos. But the one that was supposed to have my kids photos was completely empty. It’s my only child and I’m a single mom and have always been. His dad has some pho...

I’m really upset about what happened when I introduced a girl I’ve been seeing to my family. She’s kind, gentle, and understanding, and I wanted the meeting to go well, but it was a complete disaster. Here’s what happened: • My mum asked her, “Why are you with a Black man?” • She said she doesn’t eat certain foods, but my mum kept insisting she eat it. • My sister laughed when the girl talked about her grandmother’s death. • My dad made comments about marriage roles, saying the man should be the head of the family. • My mum spoke in our language to my sister while ignoring her, and then stopped my sister from translating what was being said. • On top of that, my mum compared her to another person’s “bad experience” and acted annoyed and resentful toward her. By the end of it, she felt unwelcome, uncomfortable, and possibly judged. I was embarrassed, frustrated, and honestly angry at my family for treating a guest like this. I supported her through all of this and told her I a...

Obligatory it wasn’t today it was last summer. I drove a couple hundred miles to an awesome fishing spot in Seward Alaska for the weekend to catch some Sockeye Salmon. My car radiator exploded 75 miles or so out of town around midnight on a stretch of road with zero cell phone service. I put on my hazards and hoped for the best. I was really lucky a state worker drove by and followed me all the way into town while I kept stopping to fill the radiator with water (the cap was bad so wouldn’t seal). Of course I drove right to the fishing hole and went right to work fishing. Got my limit for the day and limped my car into town and made it to the repair shop. They got to work fixing the problem but it was going to be a few days for parts and labor so I was stuck in Seward for a while. I had my dog, all my fishing gear and my beach wagon I use when fishing on the beach to get all my gear around. So I loaded up the wagon, and hoofed it into town, leaving my car at the shop. I had a la...