The children in the unit below have found a space in their unit that causes an echo in mine. It must be small because I can hear them very, very clear (even shuffling around) in that space and virtually not at all other times. Unless they’re shouting loudly etc.

They have decided to use this space to convince me that my apartment is haunted. And it lights up my life. I play into it. It goes something like this:

Them: “OoooooOOOoooo we’re ghoooooosts!”

Me: Oh my gosh! ghosts!

muffled giggling

Them: We are haunting yooouuuu!

Me: What do you want, foul spirits?!

Them: We want reveeeeeeeenge!

Me: I’ll have to get a priest!

And so on. Usually once each weekend during the morning. As far as I can tell they genuinely believe I am bamboozled, which makes it even MORE entertaining for me. When I see them outside on my way in from work I go out of my way to mention that I’ve been hearing ghosts lately and they should be careful etc.

One time I had a guy over when I heard them starting up and was like “Look, this is important to me. You can play along or you can be quiet, but I need to go into the living room and deal with this.” He got a kick out of it.

When I was about 15 my grandmother died. We were really close.. and I took her death pretty hard. She died on the toilet, and to make light of the situation I would joke that she went out like Elvis.

Well a few days after she died, I was on the toilet when the bathroom lights turned off. Not a burned bulb. Something physically flipped the switch.

As I sat there.. I saw a faint blue light look as though it shot out the window. I was kind of spooked. But welcomed all paranormal activity.

When I walked out of the bathroom my 5 year old sister looked at me and said, “grandma was just at the end of the bed, she told me to tell you she said hi and she is sorry for turning off the lights.”

I will never forget that moment. It is one of my favorite memories.

Netizens’ comments

• I wonder how many times my Grandma has watched me poop. Hopefully she hasn’t watched me do… other things.

• It’s nice to know she was still with you

• absolutely lovely story! Nothing spooky, and evidence that she is watching and will keep watching over you girls.

Hey guys, if you can’t tell, this story is about a siam bu. I went to a Siam pub in town area with friends, we’ve never been to one, so it was kind of like why not.

The two friends who I went with to the club were, let’s say a little more experienced since they’ve actually done the deed unlike myself, so while they seemed calm when we were actually at the siam diu, I was nervous as hell. Like I was darting my eyes back and forth when I saw the girl walking towards us, and I just looked like the perfect example of a guy who’s never gone to a siam diu or never seen a girl.

It was apparent to both the siam bus and my friends, so I ended up being coddled literally and figuratively. Now, this is where I really get into the story.

I stupidly ended up being infatuated with the siam bu from who sat with me since she kind of talked to me more, it seemed like we hit it off, and we talked about the gym, normal life, etc. It was cool although she is so much older than me, but then closing time happened, and this is where I felt like I needed to post it somewhere and kinda talk about this whole situation.

My friends kinda saw us talking and that we were having a good time, so they egged me on a little as she was leaving from talking to us/hugging goodbye, and I tried to ask her for her number, she didn’t hear me when I said her name as she was walking away, and I walked out cause I felt stupid. Then I ended up going back, and the bouncer said no I couldn’t ask her when I came back a minute later, so yea…

Ultimately, I think it was a fun experience, and it was cool to go to a club and enjoy my vacation doing stupid stuff, but it kinda messed with my head. Immediately after, I kind of just felt stupid and embarrassed, something along the lines of, “why did I go and do that,” “this is just her job, I definitely shouldn’t have asked,” and, “why didn’t I just call out louder or ask when we were saying goodbye,” It seems like a funny, stupid story, but I felt really bad because I realized just how much attention from a hot girl influenced me, how much I lack romance in my life, and just how I could’ve been bolder, and at least gotten rejected by the siam bu instead of the bouncer, although if I would’ve been creepy, then hell nah, ty to the bouncer for the kind rejection.

Ultimately, I just want to hear what others think, and how I should move forward from this. My idea is to just forget or think of it as a fun albeit embarrassing story.

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I’m stupid and I hate myself. I’m writing this to vent my emotions right now for being so dumb. And I guess I hope that this post could also serve as a lesson to my fellow gamers out there.

First off, I’m a father of 3 wonderful kids and I’m kinda a gamer dad. I’ve been playing this game called Genshin Impact the past 15 months or so. (If ur a gamer I’m sure you’ve heard it). We’re not rich, average is what I would describe our life. Not lacking but not excessive to have a lot in the bank.

Before you say anything. This isn’t concerning my gambling addiction. Never spent money on the game that I regreted. I have control over my impulses over these things.

As a gamer dad who deals with real-life issues, I had sold my game accounts occasionally. It’s not “legal” to do so but It’s a painful sacrifice that I do from time to time. This time around, my 2nd daughter had been sick the past couple of days, been vomiting a lot of what she eats and pooping abnormally. Normally this wouldn’t be much of an issue for us, but this time around my wife just gave birth about a month ago which depleted every extra money we had put aside.

In this kind of situation is when I make difficult decisions, last night with a heavy heart I posted my genshin account on this buy and sell forum. Having a loaded account with lots of love, I figured that this would be worth around $400 or so. Just a good portion of what I had spent on the game (again at this point, I would reiterate that my spending on this game was justified and never was an issue). I figured i had my fun, would’ve love to have more fun with the account but family first and it’s time to let go.

After a couple of hours of posting I got a discord Friend request from 3 separate people all wanting to buy the account. We had our conversation, he asked for screen shots, at this point he looked like a legit buyer.

Now here’s where my FU begin. Usually in these types of transactions. Someone would need to go first and in case no one wants to, they hire / use a middleman to secure the transaction.

Neither I nor the buyer trusted each other, i’ve done this before, i’m not sending mine first. i didn’t want to go first nor did the buyer wanted to go first. Understandably both of us were very cautious with a possibility of scam.

So what’s the best way to go about when you dont trust each other? Use a middleman. Normally, i would be on top of this situation, i’ve been scammed before albeit smaller ($30) i know and learned my lessons of not giving the goods first before payment. But the combination of the stress of having to work, care for a sick toddler, lack of money for medical stuff and a newborn in the house left me on a very vulnerable situation that I bit the fastest way possible to have the resources to pay for my daughter’s medical expenses.

In the 5 years when I first did this. I had never used a middleman before, every successful transaction that I did was money first always. So naturally, i didn’t know how it worked nor knew reputable ones. This buyer suggested a trello board where it blacklists discord scammers and lists “trusted” middlemen. One of these “trusted” middleman was initated by my buyer and started to contact me.

I’m not gonna lie, I was very skeptic… i was on the fence but the pressure of needing the money that badly pushed me to overlook any kind of logic in this situation.

The middleman asked for my account details so that he can secure it for the buyer. I gave it to him, he initiated to change the email and asked for the verification to do so…. i hesitated, he said it’s how it’s really done. Blablabla… again my needs, stress and sleeplessness got into me, i gave in. He changed my email and lost complete access to my account. At this point, ok that’s it, in the next 2 mins either I lose everything or I solve my problems.

After they secured my account, the Buyer messaged me one last time before dissapearing into the abbyss. He said “$400 right? Give me a min” and that my folks is the longest 1 minute in my life, a minute that 11 hours after still hasn’t passed yet. Both the middleman and the buyer blocked me, couldn’t message them, couldn’t reach them in anyway. The best thing I could’ve done was to report my account was stolen but i have very little hopes for it.

Also, it’s good to note that These scammers know about my situation as I’ve been stress talking about my reason of selling and didn’t give a F about it.

So my fellow gamers out there. I highly suggest against doing what I did. But when you are put into a situation like where I am right now and really need to do so, please watch out, they’re good at screwing people over. Never ever fully trust somebody else with your property when you have nothing to hold onto. Some people are complete pieces of shit and I wish hell is real for them.

I thought that sleeping through my FU would make things better, but nope, haven’t slept a minute, daughter is still sick, lost my account and here I am wallowing on how useless and stupid of a father I am.

I’ve been with my husband for 7 years and used to tell people that we have a storybook romance. We care for each other, talked endlessly, great friends and traveled a lot.

For the last several years I supported him while he went through school and finally he landed his dream job and I could relax a bit. I still work a full time job, but I could work less overtime and relax a bit

Flash forward ~1 year and he’s not loving his job at all and he’s already burnt out. He eventually decided to take some time off and soul search about his next career move.

During this time off he decided to take a week away overseas to just clear his mind. When he got home he was acting so strangely and was very distant.

When I confronted him about it the next day he admitted that he fell in love with someone else and when I asked him to stop talking to this person he refused. He wouldn’t stop talking to a person that he had only known for 7 days to preserve his marriage with someone that has loved him unconditionally for 7 YEARS.

I went home to my parents for a week to soul search and while on our laptop I found journal entry’s, intended for his therapist, he had written while on vacation about these affairs he’s been having with the other man without me knowing at all.

He also wrote about how he has never felt passion with me, and how he doesn’t think our love is compatible.

After reading this I called him and told him we need to split. These many betrayals and lies were beyond my capacity to forgive and I could never trust or be vulnerable with him again.

I am still in shock a month later. I had to scramble find a new place to live, move all our stuff alone, take care of the divorce settlement and work a full time job.

I feel broken, used and completely alone. I keep reliving the last 7 years and I can’t see how I could have seen this coming. He told me every day how much he loved me, and how he would do anything for our love.

How do you go from fighting over who will die first so we don’t have to live without the other, and him telling me he wants to have kids- to this?

Better question, how do I ever trust someone again? I’m 30 years old and can’t see myself ever investing in a long relationship like this again after sinking my literal heart and soul into this marriage and being tossed aside like a fool.

I went out a couple of times with this guy, but I think we both knew we shouldn’t be a thing, amicably called it off, said we’d stay friends, and naturally never talked again.

I started using LinkedIn to get more job opportunities around the same time and he came up as a suggested connection. I remembered this was his only sort of social media and clicked on his profile. I checked out his profile a few more times whenever he popped into my mind for some reason with the most recent being today. I told myself it was kinda weird and decided to stop. About an hour later I get a connection request from him. Why would he think it’s a good idea?

Then it hits me: LinkedIn notifies people when someone views their profile. He got a notification, Every. Single. Time. Also turns out that there’s a private mode and this could’ve all been avoided. I don’t know what to do now besides simmer in the embarrassment.

He then text me last week asking me if we should talk, I think I might have gave him the wrong signal by stalking his Linkedin profile.

What should I do? If I meet him, he will get awkward if I don’t meet him he will think I’m some creep hiding behind my computer and looking at his photos.

I had to go through a miscarriage that had to be induced by pills. The pain that I experienced was not human, IMO. And I had to take some pretty strong medicine to help me out.

While i was on the floor, screaming in pain, losing control of my sphincters, he held my hand.

The entire time my partner held my hand. He cleaned me up, made sure i was hydrated and as comfortable as possible.

And whenever i looked at him, he gave me a smile. This was not a 20-30 minute thing. This went on for 5 long hours…

Why am I telling you all this? Coz every woman deserves a partner to stick by her while going through the worst parts of womanhood.

Netizen’s comments

• I’m sorry you had to go through that.

He sounds like a guy that truly loves you and has empathy for what you experienced.

This is what partners do, and they don’t question if this is really what they want. You just hate seeing your partner in pain and agony and want to help where possible

He moved in with me a few weeks ago, and asked me to help him ‘learn’ how to certain things.

I started with cooking, I figured that would be one of the most useful skills to know for him. So every night when I’m cooking he ‘helped’ a bit, with me explaining why and how I do things. That has been the first two weeks or so. This week I told him to try himself without help, I found some easy recipes of foods that he likes, and left him to try things out.

Every single night this week I’ve had to do a big part of the cooking. Because he “doesn’t know how to cut this”, “doesn’t know how to do this”, or “it tastes better when you do it.” I’m tired of it. And that’s just cooking, I’ve been doing almost all the other chores myself too.

So I told him I’m done. That he’ll do his own laundry, cook every other day, and do the dishes on the days he doesn’t cook. That he can ask certain things, but only if he can’t find the answer himself, and I won’t show him / do it for him.

He got upset because ‘relationships are about helping each other’, but I feel like he doesn’t want to learn and just push things off on me. I’ve shown him how to make French toast twice, but he still claims he ‘doesn’t know how to do it’. I even wrote down the recipe! I just want him to put in some effort instead of expecting me to do it all.

I’ve talked this over with my mom, and she said I should be grateful he’s even asking to learn. My boyfriend thinks I don’t want to help him with anything. I think he’s a grown man and shouldn’t need his hand held the entire way, especially with simpler stuff.

To keep the story short, recently i drank with my girl best friend at my place and we were watching shows together. One thing led to another and we ended up making out and sleeping together while drunk

We have been friends for 6 years and she’s one of my closest friends. I would be lying if i said i hadn’t thought of wanting to “get it on” with her.

However, i only treat her as a very close friend and do not have any romantic feelings for her.

I feel that what we did that day was wrong and i feel now she is distancing herself from me.

I wanted to go and talk to her about this issue but she just keeps pushing me away and saying she’s busy. At this rate, i feel that our friendship is going to end and i will lose someone i treasure a lot.

I really need some advice now. Thank you

Netizens’ comments

• just back off. She’s probably confused and what the hell happened and doesn’t want to deal with you right now. The more you try to talk to her, the worse you’re making the situation. So… just back off.

• Give her some time to wrap her head about what happened and to consolidate her feelings. There’s no time limit anyone can give you but you just have to read the situation. The more you try to contact her, the further she’ll drift away. Go take some time to yourself and try to forget about it. When she’s ready to talk, she will