Anonymous wrote:I realized I spent too much money on going out or ordering in, i feel AWFUL for the bartenders and restaurant workers but I'm curious if this will cause a shift in quality and pricing, at least in the DC area. I haven't ordered in or picked up takeout in over a month, I want to support the local restaurants, but I'm not paying $70 for subpar food between the food and the delivery. There's this constant guilt-tripping about taking care of our local businesses, but no one takes care of us when we're well or in a bad shape.

I feel the same way. I'm hoping that after all this is said and done, we'll limit our eating out.

Anonymous wrote:I am single and have three kids. I am getting D on the reg from a great boyfriend after a terrible divorce.
I am in absolute heaven and know with 100% certainty that if I was still married to that abusive drunk my life would be in danger through this quarantine - this is heaven.

Happy for you! So glad you are safe and loved.

I realized I spent too much money on going out or ordering in, i feel AWFUL for the bartenders and restaurant workers but I'm curious if this will cause a shift in quality and pricing, at least in the DC area. I haven't ordered in or picked up takeout in over a month, I want to support the local restaurants, but I'm not paying $70 for subpar food between the food and the delivery. There's this constant guilt-tripping about taking care of our local businesses, but no one takes care of us when we're well or in a bad shape.

Capitalism is ugly, and all of those using these dire times to make money are just crappy people. (outside of stocks, I'm talking buying all the Nintendos or all the chest freezers to resell at a profit).

I haven't missed many people and they likely haven't missed me, this makes me think it's time to find a better community.

People complaining are incredibly annoying. You have food, water, electricity, it's good weather so you're not dying of heat or cold, you have internet and can keep in touch with everyone at ANY time, and yet people are SO bored, they need connection. FT someone. You have ANY idea how lucky you are?

My teen just keeps baking, out of boredom. She is 5'2" and weighs maybe 105? I on the other hand, at 5'5" am now topping 180. And she keeps baking and I keep eating. I look like crap but everything she makes tastes so good.

I haven’t been pregnant for over three years, but I have been wearing maternity clothes this whole time.

There is a whole lot of people who hate their husband and wives,
then there is another whole lot of people who are lonely and can not
find one of those.

Here is the idea. Why don't they all meat and swap.
Everybody happy.

I was just opened a certain online store to shop for some clothing..
Next minute I realized I might not need any of those for longer then the season will last...

Getting me much closer to my teenage kids. To the spouse, not so much.

I’ve eaten an indecent amount of fresh mozzarella today (not anything fancy, it’s from Aldi) #firstworldproblems

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Anonymous wrote:How did you not notice he was ugly, when you first met him?

I knew it. I needed a husband.

Now he’s my tiny fugly husband that I hate.

You needed a husband? Expand on this for us?

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Anonymous wrote:I confess that when my parent lingered in a nursing home for 4 years, Coronavirus would have been a blessing. You get to the point where your parent is legally alive, but not living.

There are entire communities where the elderly are kind of warehoused and dependent upon aides to dress, bathe, move, toilet, diaper change, feed and otherwise attend to and it’s all impersonal and isolating. My parent was in a lauded, expensive facility in a private room and it was beyond depressing and dire. We hired a private duty aide and visited to ensure our parent was rarely alone. Otherwise, the frail elderly are left alone for hours. Call buttons ignored.

My parent literally wasted away and died while sleeping. I’ve changed my medical directive that I am not be be kept alive by any extraordinary means/DNR.

This. I think coronvirus in nursing homes is an act of kindness from the universe.

We are all not so secretly hoping this takes my 99 year old grandfather with "the stats of a high school athlete!" and very limited mental capacity...

Won’t the Coronavirus kill him with pneumonia? Is that really the cause of death you want for him? That’s an amazing hope for you to have, if I take you right.

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to applaud for the 99 year old lady and the 103 year old lady who recovered from corona. Ran up a huge hospital bill for someone else to pay.

??? Huh???

Lots and lots of . . um, “me time.”

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Anonymous wrote:People who judge single and only children suck. My son has two deceased siblings....

+ a million! Not as tragic as your situation, but I had four miscarriages, including one after a strong heartbeat was found. Do, my DD is an only child. At a school event, another parent literally laughed at me for having only one child and how I never had any right to complain about parenthood (I never do anyway because I don’t want to be judged) and how easy it must be. Sometimes I just want to tell people like this about the miscarriages so they feel like sh!t.

With you both. I smile blandly through the comments that people make about my "easy only" and how I have no idea "what it's really like," whatever that means. I know everyone has their own crap that they deal with, but I definitely don't have an only by choice and the parents rich with more children can be weirdly and sometimes hurtfully smug.

I fully support your right to shut that sh*t down immediately. An inappropriate comment gets an inappropriate reply. "Yeah, you're right! It is easy! Sucks about all my dead babies, but I'm really making out on the workload front child-wise!" Let them stumble over their words and feel like crap. They should learn to think twice before making those kinds of comments.

Yikes. Who is saying that stuff? I was thinking about having a second, but after this experience my DS is likely to be an only. Even if I did have a second kid, I could never imagine saying anything remotely like that to somebody.

More people than you think. I have one DD and I have heard so many boneheaded comments over the years. I think that some people are just always looking for something that they have over someone else or a way to feel superior.

I don't want to applaud for the 99 year old lady and the 103 year old lady who recovered from corona. Ran up a huge hospital bill for someone else to pay.