greenmangostudio

A neighbor in my building group asked if anyone had a tiny screwdriver for his coffee grinder. I had one, went downstairs and helped him tighten a loose part. Took 30 seconds. He posted in the group thanking me for fixing it, so I joked that my repair shop was officially open and I accepted payment in coffee. A woman from the third floor messaged me almost immediately asking if I could look at her flickering lamp. I told her I was kidding and had no idea how lamps worked, but she said it was probably something simple. Then another guy asked about his toaster. Someone else sent me a photo of a desk fan making a weird noise. The original neighbor kept replying to people saying I was being modest because I saved him money on a new grinder. By the evening three different people were trying to arrange times to bring things over for me to fix. I turned them all down and explained that I literally just tightened one screw, but one of them still replied with “no worries, whenever you h...

So it wasn’t actually today, it was the other day. Again, I’m admitting I messed up. Please keep that in mind when commenting. I’ve been talking to this guy for a while now, probably since like fall of last year. He has been a bit emotionally unavailable, and I do know why, thought I don’t think it’s important to the story. Over the course of a few months we’ve gotten closer, he’s made it clear that he’s interested in me too, or at least that’s what I’m reading. The other day a personal female friend of mine who he does not know, and hasn’t met messaged me asking so this particular person on instagram was. I told her it was him (she knows a little bit about him) then asked why she asked. She said he sent her an instagram follow request. Now looking back I understand there could be many completely benign reasons for this, but I wasn’t thinking that at the time. A bit after I sent a message. It wasn’t bad, it was more playful like “Hey, my friend so and so said you added her on insta...

I've had the biggest crush on my friend's dad for what feels like forever, and yes, I already know how bad that sounds. He's been divorced for a few years, and every time I've been over at my friend's house, I've secretly thought he was ridiculously attractive. Not just because of how he looks, but because he's funny, easy to talk to, and has that calm, mature energy that's honestly way more attractive to me than guys my age. A few days ago I bumped into him while I was out shopping. We ended up sitting down for coffee, and I swear we talked for almost two hours without it ever feeling awkward. When I left, I couldn't stop smiling. That conversation was replaying in my head for days, and I convinced myself maybe there was something there. So... I did something incredibly stupid. I messaged him on Instagram. I told him he looked really good in one of his recent photos and asked if he'd like to go out to dinner sometime. He replied saying t...

I'm an Operations manager for a shipping warehouse for flashlights. We got a customer who emailed in, he was saying his flashlight wasn't working properly, though it seemed to the tech that he simply hadn't locked it out properly. The guy wasn't super nice in his email but he was upset, so the warranty guy changed the subject line before he sent it to me, along with a snarky message. I deleted the message... but not the subject line which, as you can see, isn't exactly flattering. I'm a fucking idiot, it turns out. Well, turns out the customer didn't appreciate it too much either. His original message had no subject line, but what he got back was "Baby doesn't know his flashlight has a lockout." The customer was not amused, but everyone in my office is now talking to me in baby speak and it's sending me. I mean, it's kind of funny and kind of not, and it's maybe not 100% my fault... but I definitely fucked up here. TL,DR: I se...

Dude what was i thinking???? So I (25M) went to the mall to pick up some sneakers at Dicks sporting goods and since I didn't have anything else to do that day I look around and browse before heading off to the food court or something. I look at the driveway basketball hoops, i don't need one as I already have one but I am looking for a ball to take to the park or the gym. I see this kid(maybe 11M) shooting around and just testing out the hoop with some of the balls they allow you to shoot with. For some reason it was just so tempting to run over and block one of his attempts, but obviously i would never do that right? Yeah I thought so too until next thing I know I'm sprinting towards him while he's gearing up to shoot and I jump in front of him and swat away his shot, shouting "BLOCKED BY JAMES" my name isn't even James who the hell was I feeling like?? The kid looked terrified, and just froze in place. I quickly apologized and told him I have no idea why...

So this happened many years ago. I was an exchange student living in the UK with a host family, consisting of a single mother with two daughters around ages 8-10. First week in the house I got my period. At home I usually keep a bin next to the toilet for disposing of sanitary pads and such, but in this home they clearly didn't, so when I went to the bathroom to change my pad I didn't know what to do. Didn't want to flush it and risk causing a clog. I was really shy and didn't feel comfortable asking the host mother, so I wrapped it thoroughly in tp and threw it in the bin under the desk in my room. Later that day we were having dinner and one of the daughters said, pointing at their dog fiddling with something in a corner. "Mum, she's got one of your uh... thingies." Turns out their dog found it extremely interesting, to the point where he had managed to pick it out of my bin, unwrapped it and lay there LICKING it. Ew. I didn't say a word, bu...