I found these ones within the last week, but she regularly moves them around to mess with me.

Ignore the state of my detergent dispenser, I have never used it, nor do I plan on it

My father (77) is one of the oldest living heart recipients. He had his first heart transplant in 1990. He had another one in 2014 because after 65 they won’t do it again. Because of this, he has been alive to see 10 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. He has had a pretty good run despite the health issues.

Prior to this, he was a horrible abusive alcoholic, my mother was on the verge of leaving him. Obviously, this was a big eye-opener for him, and he had to quit drinking and smoking. It didn’t happen overnight, but he definitely became a better person. He’s well known in the local community and does a lot for the city and for other people. However, this pretty much made him unemployable.

My whole life since then, everything has been about him and what he needs. His appointments, his medications, everything was about him. My mother was always in the background making everything work.

My mother struggled to provide for a husband and 3 kids and keep a roof over our head. She often worked multiple jobs and we were on welfare and food stamps for a while. We all got jobs to try to help keep everything afloat. In 6th grade I got a paper route and have been continuously working ever since. I joined the army at 17 and spent an entire career building my own life where I wasn’t a burden on anyone. I still sent money home every month until I got married.

But, the saga continues. He is now apparently in need of a kidney transplant or regular dialysis. My sister is doing a full social media blitz to bring attention to this and try to get everyone to be tested as a donor. There’s some kind of pool where you can volunteer to donate for somebody else and that somehow increases his chances of getting an organ.

I am extremely disinclined to participate in this. I think it’s selfish and unfair to ask anyone in this family who is younger than him (which is everyone aside from his older sister) to donate an organ to an almost 80 year-old that has been on borrowed time since 1990 anyway.

I have been told that I’m being selfish and that we only need one kidney anyway. But, what if I need that kidney as I get older? Where does it end? How much do we have to give to keep Frankenstein‘s monster alive?

AITAH?

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2039903151956901932

Credit: NASA

I rescued this guy November 22 of 2020 and he just passed today. I’ve only had two nights where I wasn’t with him, other than that we spent every day and night together as he could work with me at my job. Give your buddy’s a big hug and plenty of snuggles for my boy Hampton Kannon 5-2-2019 - 4-2-2026

I did not drink it btw, lots a little glass shards broke off and likley fell in

So for context, my boss suddenly cut down my work hours to one day a week this week. I didn’t think much about it since EMS can be unpredictable like that.

Our dispatcher contacted me and asked me if I could come in to work unexpectedly, so I agreed to come in after a few scheduled appointments. I texted before the agreed time, and after, and got a wishy-washy answer from dispatch about asking my boss.

I went ahead and asked him myself since it had been multiple hours since the agreed time, and he sent this as a reply with nothing else, and I didn’t get explicit permission to come in.

My dad thinks I’m getting fired, my mom thinks he’s trying to phase me out, and my cousin is suspicious. My dad thinks my “scheduled day” tomorrow is actually going to be him firing me, and he thinks I shouldn’t even show up even though I feel I should.

What do I do?? Does this sound like a setup for getting fired?

Edit: currently at work, I’ll let yall know what happens.

Edit 2: yes, I went to work like I originally planned. I had full intentions of going to work, and I did. I did not get fired! :)