greenmangostudio

I’m a female sophomore in high school and I’ve been talking to this guy, also a sophomore at my school, for about a month. We text and call a lot and the conversations flow, but in person he’s totally different: super shy, awkward, and quiet around me but normal with his friends. Yesterday, my town had the annual fun fair, and he asked me to go with him so I accepted. When we met up, we shared an awkward hug (made more awkward by the fact that it was our first hug). So we got to the fair and did one ride before leaving to go get some food which he paid for. After that, we met up with a couple who we’re both friends with, and I told him we should stick with them just to make it a little less awkward, as I’ve noticed that being around his friends really makes him open up, so we stayed with them the whole night. As the fair ended and the four of us walked out, it started to pour really hard, and we had gotten separated, so it was just me and the guy I’m talking to. Since I live walking ...

Today we went into town to buy some crickets for our pet leopard gecko, Bossk. He is growing fast and has a voracious appetite. Crickets are his favorite. I secured 50 crickets from the nice dude at the bait store, which he put into the small tank I provided. My wife was driving, and we set off back home. My 11 year old son wanted to look at the crickets so I handed him the tank. Curiosity satisfied, he tried to hand the tank back to me. Before I could say "don't pick it up by the lid or it will fall off", he picked it up by the lid. And it fell off. He panicked and tried to grab the falling tank, but only succeeded in batting it up into the air. It span wildly and sprayed 50 crickets all around the car. My wife is certainly not squeamish about bugs, but when you're driving through town and it suddenly starts raining crickets inside the vehicle you're currently operating, things get wild. Fast. My son had the door partially open and seemed ready to head on out...

This morning was a real cluster between getting myself ready for work and wrangling a cranky toddler with intense separation anxiety and a festering grudge because I've been betraying him this week by trying to make him sleep in his own bed. We were running late but in a moment of mom self care I decided I could still take my vitamins on our way out the door because surely I had 0.2 seconds to spare for myself. So I chugged them with a little water. Too little, as it turned out. I take a multivitamin and a turmeric supplement, and as you can imagine the latter has a kick to it. Any other day that manifests as a slight aftertaste. But while I was driving my kid to daycare I felt a sudden, urgent need to vomit accompanied by my mouth being on fire. There was no time to pull over and we were already late as it was, so cue the turmeric self-ejecting from my body. All over my scrubs, lunch bag on the passenger seat, and car dashboard. It tingled, but worse than that, I knew it was go...

This happened a few months ago but it hit me again today. My dad used to call me randomly in the evenings just to talk about nothing. Weather, work, some neighbor drama, whatever was on TV. I’d usually answer, but sometimes I’d let it ring and text him later. One night he called while I was out with friends. It wasn’t anything important, so I declined it and sent, “Can I call you tomorrow?” He replied with a thumbs up.Tomorrow never really came. He ended up in the hospital that night. It wasn’t instant, it wasn’t dramatic, but things went downhill fast. By the time I saw him again, he couldn’t really talk. We had a few quiet moments, but not a real conversation. Today I was going through old photos and saw a screenshot of a random meme he sent me. Under it was that missed call. It wasn’t some huge final speech. He probably just wanted to talk about something small and forgettable. And that’s the part that hurts the most. It was an ordinary moment I treated like it would always be t...

I’ve always described myself as someone who “can cook.” What I really mean is I can follow a recipe if I read it carefully and nothing unexpected happens. But when the person I’ve been seeing mentioned they love homemade Italian food, I confidently said, “I’ll cook for you sometime.” I do not cook Italian food. Instead of picking something safe I decided to go all in. Fresh pasta,. slow simmered sauce. The kind of meal that suggests I own multiple wooden spoons and say things like “let it reduce.” I also got her a gift, some roses from 1800flowers and luckily managed to get them with a discount code. I was hoping that would save me in case the cooking did not turn out well, which it didn’t. The dough started off sticky, then it became dry, then it became something that could probably survive a minor natural disaster. I kept adding flour like that would fix my emotional state. The sauce splattered everywhere. She showed up and I was pretending everything was under control. The kitch...

So this happened today and I still feel sick thinking about it. We had a Zoom class and the professor asked me to present my project. I clicked “share screen” without checking anything because I thought I was ready. About 20 seconds later I saw people typing “wrong tab” in the chat and my stomach just dropped. I wasn’t showing my presentation. I was showing a Reddit thread about my relationship problems and my username was clearly visible at the top for everyone to see. I completely panicked and tried to switch tabs fast, but instead I accidentally stopped sharing my screen completely, so now everyone was just staring at me in silence. The professor said “take your time,” which somehow made it even worse. I finally fixed it and finished the presentation like nothing happened, but I know they saw exactly what I didn’t want them to see . I’m never sharing my screen again without checking every single tab five times. TL;DR Shared the wrong tab in class and accidentally showed somethin...