greenmangostudio

​It all started the day after I got a massive sunburn from swimming in saltwater at the beach. My shoulders turned bright red, and my left shoulder completely broke out in blisters. It literally looks like military epaulets. My face also turned crimson and swelled up like crazy, but that was nothing compared to what happened next. ​On the second day of my tomato-like existence, my eyes started hurting sharply. It was tolerable though, so I just blinked it off. Closer to lunchtime, my mom noticed what she thought were signs of conjunctivitis (spoiler: it wasn't, just a side effect of my face being burnt to a crisp). But the real issue wasn't her diagnosis—it was how she decided to treat it. ​My mom asked me for my pocket money, claiming it was for my own health, and sent my younger brother to the pharmacy to get Motherwort tincture (a common herbal remedy here). After we had lunch, she dropped it straight into my eyes. ​They started burning insanely. I immediately ran to w...

So this actually happened a few months ago, but the story just got brought up again and I wanted to share it with you all. I (26m) used to work at a major retail mobile phone network provider. I was a sales rep and we were having a friendly competition to sell air pods with iPhone upgrades. This older couple, maybe late 40's to mid 50's come in and they are looking to upgrade their iPhones. I walk through the newest iPhone models and discuss storage and all the works. After picking out the iPhones I help them with the upgrade and transfer, at this point the wife seemed to be antsy to leave and the husband was kind of a stonewall. Usually during the transfer process is where I try to pitch the air pods but the wife cut me off on any pitch before I could get past any sort of "would you be interested in". As the phones finish updating the husband asks something along the lines of "do you recommend any headphones?" Naturally I am excited by this perfec...

Throw away, it's a long post. I fucked up massively, I don't know how to fix it and just need it off my chest before I go insane or jump off a bridge. The backstory: I (29F) agreed to get a loan out in my name to support my mom's house project. She lives in another country with her partner (different nationality to me and mom) and they had decided to come back to our country to live out his retirement. My mom had found a cheap piece of land in a small town and it seemed like a lot of people were showing interest so she made the decision to buy it out right. She then found a company that builds prefabricated houses for a good price but she and her husband couldn't get the rest of their savings accross. (They live in Switzerland and the law on how much you can legally take out of the county is very tight) So in the beginning of last year she asked me if I would be willing to take out a €25k loan to cover the upcoming expenses on the start-up house purchase wit...

My room isn't square, it's shaped like an elongated rectangle. And to save space, my bed is pushed up against the wall, and the nightstand is right next to my head when I'm lying down. The socket closest to me is right above this nightstand, and I usually stand up to reach it over the nightstand. But 10 minutes ago, I was too lazy to get up, so I decided to plug the charger into the socket by feel. I missed on the first try, so I decided to feel for the holes with my fingers. I felt around, missed again, but out of laziness and sleepiness, I decided to rely on touch and placed my fingers right on the charger’s plug. Then I brought my hand toward the outlet. The shock wasn’t very strong, but it was unexpected (I know, I’m stupid), and it made me jump right back to a standing position. I drank some water, looked out the window thinking what a dummy I was, sat down at my laptop, and started writing this post for you. Never be too lazy to check for potential hazards, even if th...

Does it really matter to guys how you look in a bikini? This is a little bit irrational and I know I sound like an anxious loser. Let me preface this by saying he is wonderful and did nothing wrong. Okok so basically my bf which I am very much in love with invited me to go with him and his whole friend group to this lake/pool situation , and I’m super stokeddd. I have a new bikini I’m so excited to wear. I’m not sure if any other girls have been through this, but my bf has literally never seen me in a bikini. It’s what I usually wear to swim, and All the other girls will be in one too. I can’t but help to feel a bit nervous about him seeing me. Despite being pretty fit, Im afraid he will be nitpicking me and picking out every flaw. Im a bit self conscious about my freckles also. He’s only really ever seen me in normal clothes up until this point. Is it irrational, or do guys really nitpick? He’s only every been great and reassuring so idk why im nervous, I guess any tips or insight...

I 18f asked to meet up with this woman whom I thought was around my age group but she's much older and is both married with two kids. I started talking to her last semester we shared around 3 classes and she's very pretty and like decisive. (We were in a group together and the lecturer almost failed us but she confronted them) any who we weren't really super duper close aside from a few greetings and playful rants about uni. Today I thought you know what the semester over why not ask her to hang so I did and she took a while to answer so got scared she thought I was weird so I deleted it but since it's WhatsApp she saw it and sent a question mark. So I said oh I just asked if we could meet up but since we're not very close I thought you would think it was weird. She said it was no problem and asked if I went out during evenings I said no cause my dad was super strict. This when she told me that I should tell my dad I was with a married woman so he shouldn't ...