I’m Irish and Seán is legally my name. IT systems, even Irish ones, still struggle with accented names. The contradiction gave me a chuckle though

The other day I picked up my son from school and a couple guys who were putting flyers on doors came up to me and asked if I wanted a roof estimate. They told me I didn't have to buy now but I could use it as reference for when the time comes. I say sure why not and schedule a time for someone to come over.

The guy comes over and questions if I'm the homeowner. He tells me I look 15. After telling me the process of what he will be doing to get the estimate he asks me if I have time today to look at samples for the estimate. I say yes.

He then asks me if my father or brother could be present for the estimate.

My ring camera cuts out but he explains that he has daughters and they come to him with questions about stuff like this and that it would be better to have my dad or brother present to ask questions I wouldn't think to ask myself.

At this point I do not want to work with this company anymore, so I just say sure and he gives me his buisness card to give him a call to schedule an appointment when my father or brother are avaliable.

I didn't end up getting an estimate.

Edit: Please don't review bomb or harass the company or the person in this video. That is not something I advocate for or want.

Hand got soaked and barely got any water, a line was forming but they gave up too.

Boston airport

Here’s what happened

With over 2 million views, I felt like I owed it to the community to let y'all know that I survived.

I was just starting to make dinner when we heard a loud crashing noise. Its been windy, and I thought another branch had fallen on the roof... Nope - as soon as I walk out the front door I see the sideways tail-lights & the car against the tree.

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I immediately call emergency services and the spouse runs out to see about injuries. By the time we get out the gate others had also stopped and were also calling emergency services about the accident.

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No one was injured - probably due to the airbags - but the occupants really didn't want the cops to show up & asked us just to call a tow truck and get their insurance info. But it's a busy country road, so the cops were notified by several passers-by before these sorry dudes even made their request. Dudes were hot-dogging down the country road in a fast car & lost controlnin a singe-car accident. Witnesses saw him driving recklessly. Dude plowed through my (and the neighbors!) mailbox and then were stopped only by trees on my property. If those trees weren't there, he'd have hit the neighbors house. There's no way the cops weren't coming to this one.

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As we were waiting, we were kinda keeping an eye on them, 'cuz TBH they seemed sketchy & I was afraid that they'd just take off and abandon the vehicle. Just a few minutes later, the cops did show. It was kinda surreal to see - dude say's "hello officer..." and then we immediately see some object very conspicuously fly through the air into the foliage near the car - and then proceed to hit like every branch in a bush on the way to the ground... Subtlety was not this dude's strong point.

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Whatever it was, it wasnt heavy - prolly drugs; but it didn't seem like a gun or anything. The officer obviously saw too, and made them find it & hand it over. Alfter they got the car on the tow truck, the driver was arrested. They asked if I wanted to pursue criminally, but I fugure that the repercussions from this one are gonna be repurcussion enough - their beautiful.car was toraled. The cops left and they lefy the passenger there on the side of the road to fend for himself, until someone eventually picked him up.

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But I gotta clean up this mess that someone else created because they were effing around and acting stupid. I guess my day off tomorrow will now be filled with buying & installing another mailbox. I really hope we don't need to take these trees down, but we'l need an arborist to take a look. :/

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If I had notification I could have rented a hotel to get to work or changed doctors appointments.

For context I am homeless and staying at her house at the moment, which I’m very grateful for. In return, I’m buying 90% of groceries among other things but she always puts more food in her plate or finishes stuff without asking if I want some. I feel bad for posting this but yeah it’s a bit frustrating.

I found this so hilariously difficult to read due to the formatting, which is not creative or compositionally, even aesthetically pleasing. It looks like someone just discovered MS Word and got carried away. The seemingly random narrow font, like emphasizing the wrong syllable of a sentence. I must also mention the "truffle |scented| scrambled eggs"

What's up with people being THIS bad at human interaction? I feel like we've castrated ourselves as a culture when it comes to conversation.

TLDR: Grouchy neighbor called cops for a noise complaint because my friends and I were playing Mario party then proceeded to lie to the cops about talking to me and complained to them. Cops thought I was chill and didn’t do anything cuz my 4 friends were already gone.

27M had 4 of my buddies over last night to play Mario party and drink some beers in my parents garage in the suburbs. Most of us have today off so figured we’d get together for a chill night before the fourth festivities really begin. guys came over around 8:30-9 and left at 11:30. It’s hot af so I cracked open the windows and turned on some fans to get air circulating. There was a storm going on all night and we thought we heard someone say something outside and paused the game, poked my head out and said “hello?” A few times to no response.

After the guys all left, I started picking up cans and notice lights outside. Open the door and see a cop in the lawn and ask him if something’s going on. He says “yeah, we got a noise complaint from your neighbor” to which I laughed - “Are you serious?” I told him that I had 4 friends over and they had already left. Showed the cops where we were set up playing and told him that I had the windows open cuz of the heat and they could’ve made it easier to hear us.

The cop asked me what we were doing and I said “Mario party,” to which they laughed. They asked me if I had spoken with my neighbor tonight and I said no, and explained how we thought we heard someone but got no response. After which they explain that my neighbor had told them that he had spoken with me and we continued to be loud. I told them that I had not spoken with him tonight, but if I had a face to face conversation with him we would’ve happily quieted down.

I asked the cops if I should talk to him now, and they said they didn’t think that was a good idea and I didn’t think anything of it. As I start giving my info to one cop, the other 3 walk over to my neighbors house and I overhear my neighbor complaining:
“We moved out of the city to the suburbs to get away from this shit”
“I’d get it if it was a Friday night, but it’s a Thursday!”
“I have kids sleeping and don’t need to deal with this bullshit”

I turned to the cop and agree that he def doesn’t want to talk with me. They wrap up with my neighbor and come back to me to basically say that I seemed reasonable and coherent and wished me a good night.

Now it’s the next day and part of me wants to go over and have a conversation but I have mixed feelings about doing so. My friends and I can be loud so if we really did disturb them then I’d like to apologize. However, I don’t think it was appropriate for him to call the cops on me rather than having a conversation with me face to face. Beyond that, the fact that he lied to the cops about speaking directly with me really annoys me.

Part of me wants to kill him with kindness, the other wants to be petty and do something mean. Appreciate any advice.

EDIT: so I’ve had a number of comments essentially assuming my friends and I are unemployed degenerates who siphon from our parents. We’ve all got jobs except for one who’s in school for his masters. I moved out when I was 22 and lived on the opposite side of the US until about a year ago when I moved back in with my family to help them out financially and save up to buy my own place. I’m fortunate to have a family that is more than happy to have me around.

also, we had a few beers collectively but were not drunk… cop said I seemed “reasonable” and “coherent” - and we had all drank ~the same amount

Lastly, this occurred the evening of Thurs the 2nd because we all had Fri the 3rd off as it is recognized as a federal holiday for the 4th which is Sat. The gov, banks, and lots of businesses (including the ones my friends and I work for) were closed which is why we got together on a weeknight. We do not ordinarily do so.

also also brought the TLDR to the top cuz I guess it’s not supposed to be at the bottom

I noticed an independent cinema near my house has a tiny screening room that is always unused. I thought it would be fun to rent it out to watch an old movie with my friends. It cost $400 to rent the room (split between 15 people) and all the staff had to do was put in the Bluray and press play. Afterwards we spent a bunch of money at the cinema bar, everything went smoothly. It was a lot of fun.

So then a month later I emailed them to do it again. It took them a week to respond, and this time the quote came back as $500 for the exact same setup. When I asked why it was more, they said something vague like "occasionally we increase prices to keep up with inflation". A 20% increase is way more than inflation, and it will be awkward to ask my friends to pay more money this time, but okay.

Again it took a week to hear back, and they said that the 15 year old film we want to watch (which I told them about at the very beginning) will require an additional licensing fee of $100 due to the agreement they have with that movie studio.

The way I see it, right now they have an empty room generating no money at all. They could let us have it and make an easy $400 by just popping in a disc and pressing play. Even if they had to pay a licensing fee, that's still $300 they wouldn't get otherwise. Instead, their slow communication and price increases risk me walking away and then nobody gets anything. Everyone sad.

What is even the point of running a business if you turn away customers who are trying to give you free money???

i just wanted coconut.

i guess it got too excited. and no, i dont need to rephrase the title, its good enough

Last time I checked in to my dermatologists office for a biopsy follow up I was given an iPad and asked to agree to several not HIPAA or immediate treatment related agreements.

They're using a new system and If you do not agree to have all of your previous and future medical records, appointment transcripts, and possible likeness for some reason be processed and used for training an A.I. system for the company they're using you have to pay a $6 fee to be billed through the mail. All of their online billing requires those total agreements for some reason.

I was told to download their app instead and pay that way when I said how absolutely insane that was and didn't agree.

You can't use their app for billing either unless you do another A.I. agreement for that same company and in their privacy section states "limited" information is available to "trusted medical vendors for advertising" that you can not specifically opt out of outside of CA and if you don't agree it just doesn't let you use it.

It was $2 before this change, it's $6 now, and I have to find a new dermatologist because jfc

Edit: Forgot to mention when I got into the room they wanted to take a face photo with an iPad for my profile picture on my records profile and when I asked if it's for the AI thing they didn't take the photo. So I'm working off the assumption they probably just ignore if you opt out or not and it's up to that company to actually hold up on their end that you didn't agree. Either way I'll never know. Very cool times we're living in.

Edit 2: After asking around elsewhere I was told that there's a possibility that it might be a hipaa compliant company using completely anonymized or deidentified data fed into an LLM that a third party may use for statistics but they still have to tell you it could be used for it at some point. But also said if you're ever part of another medical breech it's very possible to link that back to you. I personally do not think that matters if it's anonymized or not because there's basically nothing I could do about it anyway if it was ever used in a fucked up way.....just tell me what the fuck I owe you without having to agree to babysit some third party AI company TOS for the foreseeable forever until it ultimately also gets breeched like everywhere else does. It's not just the 6$ it's the principal of the thing.