greenmangostudio

Never felt older in my life. Me (late 20sF) and my two friends J and A (30sF) were talking in our group chat about Halloween plans. We go to this event every year, and the tickets just released. J pointed out prices increased quite a bit this year. I responded and said I haven’t even figured out what I’m going to be. And I ended that message with “Sybau.” Now, I consider myself to be chronically online. I pride myself on being on top of the latest references, pop culture trends, etc. And as the youngest in our trio, it usually falls on me to explain some of the younger references to my friends. Not in this case. Guys, the entire time I’ve seen this word, the hundreds of comments I’ve seen using it, I’ve always thought it was a made up word. Like skibidi. Just gibberish that meant “boohoo” or something along those lines. And I said it in my message directing it at myself. Like, “I haven’t even figured out what I’m going to be. Boohoo. Woe is me.” For context, J and I just ha...

A guy approached me on the street today talking very fast and gesturing at something. My brain completely shut down so instead of saying "I don't understand" I just went into default customer service mode: intense eye contact, polite smiles, nodding and dropping a confident "Yeah exactly absolutely". We stood there for a full two minutes having a completely one-sided highly emotional exchange where I was aggressively validating statements I couldn't comprehend. Right as he shook my hand and walked away looking deeply moved I realized he was speaking a language I don't even share a single root word with. I just stood there on the pavement staring at my hand wondering what profound life agreement I just unwittingly signed. TL;DR: Pretended to understand a tourist speaking a foreign language by nodding and agreeing for two minutes and now I have no idea what I committed to.

First time posting here so here goes. Over the past few months I've been trying to bulk up more. I don't have a huge appetite so I've been researching small ways to increase my calorie consumption in ways that I could tolerate it. Some of these small hacks included adding condiments and sides to meals, having dense snacks throughout the day, or replacing water with juices or smoothies. The last one produced this wonderful story. I'd gone grocery store shopping to pick up my protein powder, frozen fruits, and juice, yes, apple juice specifically. Anyway, one day work I came home feeling so thirsty. It was a hot day in the middle of summer which didnt help. Got dinner ready, and as I was taking a glass out of the cabinet, I thought to myself "you know what, this would be a good time to do what the internet recommended" Put my water pitcher back in the fridge and got out the apple juice. Ended up drinking 4, maybe 5 good-sized glasses of juice and felt pr...

As the title says. I'm going out of town for the night, and was throwing a bag of cat litter away into my apartments dumpster before I left. It was heavy, and the dumpster lip is high. I was wearing my keys on a lanyard around my neck because I don't have pockets. The bag is too heavy for me to lift above my head, so I always get some momentum going by swinging and tossing it in. Well, today the bag somehow caught some of my keys, and I think the ring that was holding my car key, my apartment key, and mailbox key broke. I felt it catch my lanyard, but the momentum was already in full swing. It was too late to stop. As I finished the toss, I saw a few small objects go flying into the trash. Immediately checked my lanyard, and sure enough. My work keys are still there thankfully. We don't have a maintenance line to call at my building (only email or paperwork at the office) so I called the office building. It was closed because its Sunday, but I decided to connect to the ...

Hi Reddit For begin i am a french student with Autism Spectrum Disorder so i apologie if i dont speak english correctly. I wanted to talk about a controversial practice I engaged in: using a voice recorder to capture classes, discussions, and conversations, and what that experience was like for me. First of all, I am aware that this practice is illegal something I realized only later. It all started during my final year of middle school and the transition to high school. A naughty friend told me about the possibility of recording things, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. It wasn't until I entered my three last years year of high school after being held back a year due to academic struggles that I really dove into it. As an adolescent growing and hot-headead, I found pleasure in recording everything I heard to fill a void of loneliness. I was caught several times and told that it was strictly forbidden; these difficult incidents only reinforced my ad...

This actually happened on Thursday but I’m still dealing with the aftermath today. I had to go in for a root canal. Everything went great there. Afterward practically the entire left side of my face was numb. I have pretty bad unmedicated ADHD and one of the things I do to keep focus is bite or chew the inside of my cheek or lips. I was absentmindedly doing this for a couple hours while my face was numb. I knew it bled a couple times but I didn’t realize just how much I had bit off. I am part of the other 90+% of people that get canker sores so now I just have this massive canker sore right inside my mouth. It stings. I hope it goes away within the next couple days. Tl;dr: had some dental work done, face was numbed, bit big piece of the inside of my mouth now dealing with giant canker sore for the last 3 days. Anyways, I hope yall enjoyed reading about my mess up. Have a great Sunday!