greenmangostudio

I had an Amazon return and stopped at one of those lockers inside a grocery store on my way home. The locker opened, I had my phone in one hand and the box in the other, so I put my keys down inside the compartment for literally two seconds while I scanned everything. Put the box in, closed the door, return confirmed. Then I reached into my pocket for my keys. I just stared at the locker. My car key and apartment key were sitting inside the compartment I had just permanently closed. I asked an employee if they could open it and apparently the store has zero control over the Amazon lockers. Called Amazon and after getting transferred around I was told they couldn't remotely reopen a completed return either. So my keys were now sitting inside a metal box waiting to be collected with a phone case I didn't want anymore. I had to Uber home, get my spare apartment key from my sister, grab my spare car key, Uber back and leave a note with the store in case the Amazon d...

Obligatory 'this happened a few years ago' when I first moved into my new house, but I just thought about it today and realized how dumb it was. It had been a few months in my new house, I live alone, but my parents come by every so often to help me with some house stuff, painting, gardening, that kind of thing. One day we're working outside and suddenly I notice something odd. A clear smell of what reminds me of methane gas, or some sort of gas. I ask my parents to come over to the side of my house and see if they smell anything. They instantly notice it too. I did recently have some plumbing work done where they had to reroute piping under the house due to roots and old pipes, so I was concerned something could have happened with a gas line. I decide to call the gas company out, and within the hour a guy is in my yard with a gas detecting device. It's not picking anything up, but he also smells gas on one side of my house. We are walking all round it, pinpoint...