(Reasons We're Probably Not) Dating Or In A Relationship Thread NSFW • Page 271

I would be super paranoid of losing them or them getting snatched.

 

Kids are ridic. Some need help or else they bolt. I wouldn't be opposed to a kid leash. And they bite and kick and scratch you like a cat when they're angry. I had a rough day lol.

 

"kids are gross" is our office moto. We frequently have screaming children that come in with their parents to City Hall. most of the people I work with are 50+y/o married women that never had kids and I've never felt more at home with a group of people in my life.

i really dont plan on having kids myself either.

 

I wish my happiness didn't rest so much on boys, but it's always been that way. I just like liking people, having crushes, expressing love, etc!! And I have been caught in a dumb cycle with this dumb guy and I know that it's better to get out now because it's not going to end any better but I can't bring myself to so ha-ha-ha I guess

 

Yep. I totally understand.

 

I wish my jealousy wasn't so intensely raging but I think my ex shot that whole thing in the face.

 

I still remember this one time at my work where this lady had a half full cart of food. Her son started crying so loud that she just did the biggest screw it and grabbed the kid out of the cart and just walked out.

I was like whoa.

 

I used to be a leash kid.

 

If my child is one of those kids who tries to run off in to traffic, little shit is going on a leash.

 

I had no supervision as a child.

 

You can always bury them in the pet cemetery.

 

I got lost in stores all the time. My mom knew I was in one of the racks hiding and would leave me anyway. I did it on purpose and I would have ditched me too. You didn't really have to worry about snatching as much as you do now. She always had to be called over the intercom to come get me from the front.

 

I think my mom always assumed I'd return for dinner time anyway. Which makes sense cause ya know... I gotta eat.

She basically raised me like a cat.

 

My daughter is nearly perfectly behaved. She talks a lot but that's about it

 

I used to get lost all the time, too. But, I went up to the customer's service desk and gave them my mother's entire name, including her full middle name, and had them page her, so she'd come find me. I was a handful. Ha.

 

I once asked to go to the toy section on my own in a Target and my mom said okay. But then I had to go to the bathroom really bad so I just went to the bathroom and my mom kinda freaked when she couldn't find me. I also never responded when a worker asked if there was a Mike in the bathroom. So my mom was pretty livid when I walked out afterwards.

I also remember being in the mall and my mom came up behind me and put her hand over my mouth and started pulling me away from a store in a fake kidnapping thing. Then got mad when I just stood there and didn't fight back. Like, i'm seven mom. I am part of the family of whoever steals me at that point.

 

I've always wondered if a child has ever gotten lost at the store and used the intercom to ask for new parents

 

I would always go to the toy department by myself and within 10 minutes be bawling for help because I'd completely forget where my mom was or where I was supposed to meet her. She loooooved taking me to the store, obviously.

The other week I watched the documentary "Who Took Johnny?" And it's amazing how different things were just in 1982 when Johnny was taken. No Amber Alert, no real big news when a kid went missing, still had the 72 hour wait before it being reported as a missing person. Just crazy to think about how far we've come (or fallen since all of these changes happen because of terrible things).

 

I got lost sometimes cause I'd stop to look at something and I'm super quiet so my mom would keep walking and not realize I was left behind. When I'd refocus she'd be gone lol.


One time I freaked out cause I thought a kid was going to run into the street but he just ran to the sidewalk and knelt down to touch the weeds in the cement and say "ooh broccoli"

 

I got lost at the San Diego Zoo at like the age of 8 and my parents were freaking out hard.

I'm pretty sure some worker found me just walking alone and took me back to the front until they could find my parents.

 

not sure this belongs here but not sure where else to put it. sorry for being a vibe killer.

so tomorrow is 10/15/16 which will be the tenth anniversary of my two best friends from high school dying in a car accident. myself and two other friends were also in the truck when we crashed, but i was the only one to come out without any significant injuries (just cuts and scrapes).

i haven't been to the spot where it happened since the 5-year anniversary, but i feel like it's time to go back, maybe for the last time. we / i didn't / don't live anywhere close to where the accident happened (about a 4-5 hour car ride north) so i have no reason to be there and am never around the area, but i feel kind of oddly sentimental about it and like it's necessary. i visit their graves every year on their birthday and sometimes find myself there at other times or important moments, catching them up on new stuff going on. maybe that seems weird.

the other two friends who survived i don't really keep in contact with anymore, so it will just be me going, but some other friends keep saying they want to come along, but i've told them i don't want them to / they can't. it would just be weird / awkward to bring them along to something for people they never met and they are part of a completely different portion of my life. i don't like the idea of blurring that line.

 

I remember the only time my dad cussed at me (and the only time I heard either of them cuss) I was playing around on pallets in Sam's and he told me to come on, I don't remember what I said or did but his response was "then don't ask me for a damn thing!"

Anyway that's a story about my childhood that's not really relevant to anything

 

Take them if you want, or don't take them. This is for you and your grieving and closure (potentially) and not theirs. While thoughtful and awesome of them to want to be supportive, if you don't want them to go, then that is your choice.

 

I have never and probably will never bring anyone to my best friends grave that did not know her. It's really nice that your current friends are so supportive though and willing to drive out with you. I feel similarly to you though, it just doesn't seem "right" to have people who never met them standing there, the person isn't significant to them and meant so much to you.

 

Wtf even is my dating life. After a pretty weird/awkward/somewhat icy night hanging out with the guy, I stopped by his house today and he was so affectionate and SUPER casually/offhandedly referred to me as his girlfriend??? (Like along the lines of "what do I do when my girlfriend is mad at me?") and I was SO AWKWARD and in shock that I didn't say anything and I'm so mad at myself because like?? what??? That was the perfect time to ~define the relationship~ or at least be like wtf are you talking about but I LET IT PASS and now I'm certain I will never in my life know. Lol

edited to add: Relevant information: we have never talked about what it is we are doing, we have pretty much said that we aren't exclusive, we have each hooked up with other people, and I know he is still pursuing others on dating sites/social media/whatever so like WHAT