greenmangostudio

This happened on the train ride home today and I’m still cringing thinking about it. I got on a pretty packed train after classes and managed to grab one of those side-facing seats near the doors. Across from me, maybe like 15 feet away, was this girl around my age sitting with her friend. A few minutes into the ride, I look up from my phone and notice her smiling and waving in my direction. Now let me be clear: I am NOT the type of person random strangers wave at. So I did the universal “look behind me to make sure it’s not someone else” move. Nobody behind me. So I awkwardly wave back. She smiles bigger. At this point I’m thinking maybe I know her from somewhere and just forgot. So every few minutes we make accidental eye contact and I do that little awkward nod/smile thing humans do in public when they’ve already acknowledged each other once. Then it escalated. At one stop, she mouthed something and pointed toward me while laughing with her friend. I couldn’t hear because of t...

so this happened friday and i still physically cringe every time i think about it. there's this girl at my gym i've been talking to for a few weeks. nothing serious, just flirting, some late night texting, that kind of thing. she texted me asking what i was doing after my workout. i had just finished lifting and for the first time in my life i looked in the mirror and thought okay wow i actually dont look terrible. so like an idiot i took one of those shirtless locker room mirror pics. trying to look casual even though i was obviously trying way too hard. i sent it with the message Just finished, little sweaty. the second i hit send my stomach dropped so hard i thought i was gonna puke. because i did not send it to her. i sent it to my boss. my actual boss. Kevin. 54, married, has two grown kids, signs every email with "Best Regards," like a robot trying to seem polite. i just sat there staring at my phone thinking maybe if i didnt move reality would und...

Well, this didn't happened today, but today was the day it finally hit me. I (F) was bullied for being ugly when I was 12 or 13, especially by the boys in my class. Still, I had a great friend the same age as me who was the sweetest boy in my eyes. He was a really kind guy to everyone and because of that I had a huge crush on him. Today, while I was looking at some photos with my husband and talking about them, I remembered three specific times: 1) some classmates started making fun of my widow's peak, which made me feel terrible until my friend heard them and told everyone he thought it was actually kind of cute. 2) He asked me to see a movie with just the two of us, emphasizing that he would pay for everything. I declined because I had just watched it with my cousin. 3) After he changed schools, he came back for a school fair just because I was doing a presentation. He literally got on one knee in front of everybody, kissed my hand and said I was awesome. I just laughed and t...

Something messed up happened at work and I spoke up about it, and because people started walking on eggshells around me and asking me if I'm okay I panicked and backtracked minimizing it, now I look like a liar who exaggerated and it feels awful, I should have just let it go, but now I'm just going to suffer mobbing and I'm probably going to be the laughing stock of the company, I ruined my credibility too and my relationship with the person who believed me (but shouldn't have said anything to other people on my back especially when I told her to not say anything). I'm pissed, and sad, and heartbroken because I betrayed myself, but having people walking on eggshells around me was driving me crazy. I don't know what to think or feel about anything. I'm sad, I just felt like I was going to get fired and I just wanted to last ten more days. What if people actually believed me and I fucked up by backtracking? What if this person doesn't get fired now? Pe...

Like, I met a girl this year. She was my junior (-1). She randomly texted me about some society/club joining requirement. I didn’t know much about her at first, but from January we started texting. Then she sent me an Insta request. We used to talk sometimes not very much, mostly related to branch future scope, jobs, and all that stuff. I had never seen her properly before, but after her Insta request I saw her and man she is sooo pretty. Just wowww. 2 months passed, we still talked occasionally. I didn’t try to make much effort from my side as a senior because uska approach karke apne lawde nhi lagana the. Then one day I was sitting at college CCD on a bench, my face towards the cafe entry gate. She walked in with her friend and we both knew each other’s faces very well by then.Her friend was ordering something and she was looking at me, and I was also looking at her. Suddenly she got a little smile on her face, and my stupid brain kept saying:😭Don’t say hi, let her say hi first...

My (40M) girlfriend (36F) asked for one specific thing for mother's day. A ring from Pandora engraved with her daughter's hand writing. So this morning I took her 5 year old to the mall to get this done while mom got a pedicure. I tried repeatedly to get her daughter to write her name in the small space but she's 5... letter sizing and spacing ain't her forte. So we pivoted and she wrote "I ❤️you mom" it took the whole space but somehow she could pull that off but not her name. So, we picked up my girlfriend and her daughter wanted to give her the ring early. My girlfriend opened the box and just the tone in her voice told me she was mad that it wasn't exactly what she wanted and she started acting angry and pissy. I know she's had some bad mother's days and I'm broke but trying to make it work, spent $110 of my last $190 dollars to get this done. This was the best I could pull off and thought this would be good... so I swallowed my anger a...