I Was In Line At Aldi And This Girl With Two Toddlers In Front Of Me Had Her Card Declined And She Looked

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

DO NOT DO THIS.

This makes me so angry.

If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.

My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.

When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.

If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.

Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.

Please signal boost this so people know.

Ok folks big ol life update and new e-spanging campaign time.

We still don't have the kid, which is not ideal for us or her but it's time for us to buckle the fuck down and put on our own oxygen masks first.

Attempts to find work camping or trailer park spots all failed, BUT our axle finally came in so we're getting that replaced soon.

We're going to be homeless beginning July 12 but NOT living only in the pickup truck, so that's a plus. We'll mostly just be boondocking with the trailer on public forest land for the most part.

Unemployment has fucked us, we're at 5 weeks without payments coming through, and attempts to contact them get either a flat busy signal or disconnected before we ever get through to anyone. Money is now A Problem, especially since one of our tires on the trailer is fucked and will need to be replaced before we can take the trailer to Portland to have the axle done.

The good:

Some friends want to get a place with us, and are willing to be homeless with us in the interim. This means we can go in to town work odd jobs, panhandle and apply for jobs and look for housing while still having someone back at camp keeping an eye on things (this was a huge concern for us before, as we are firm believers in both the buddy system and Murphy's law in regards to doing shit and leaving our stuff unattended.).

A few incredibly generous folks have helped us out some, and we *think* we have enough money for the tire replacement and the axle replacement as long as neither goes very much over the quoted cost. (It will still take us dangerously close to zero though)

We have a truck, and since it's summer we should be able to find some gigs helping people move or hauling junk to the dump or whatever.

The ugly:

Offering skillshare services for donations online is probably off the table for now, as most of the places we're going to be able to set up camp are outside of cell service areas. In person skillshare for folks in Oregon and Washington is 100% still a possibility. (Cooking, camping, bdsm, fishing, outdoors stuff, car stuff, trailer life stuff, homelessness tips, dog training, etc. My skills are varied.)

That means that unfortunately for the online crowd we're now straight up begging. We're hoping to figure out jobs and a place as soon as possible but realistically expect getting housed to probably take until September because there is currently a massive rental shortage in the pnw. We need to get by until then, and anything helps.

If anyone has temporary yard space for a trailer and some crustyish queers in nw Oregon/SW Washington that's super helpful too.

Also if anyone knows anyone in Oregon or Washington with a 3-5 bedroom house for rent (with space for a trailer in either the yard or the driveway- just for parking not living, we actually need to do some repairs that require us to not live in it while we do them) please get in touch with us.

paypal.me/daveigh

Venmo: @v0id-queen (with a zero)

Y'all have kept us afloat so many times already and it doesn't feel great to always be so precarious, but things are how they are. Love y'all! 🖤💖

I know people are sad that marinette support system is declining with her barely talk to her parents anymore and it is really saddening, but adrien support system is now nonexistence with nino just throw the secret out of window and it hit me harder because his support system is never been as huge as marinette and he just lost the last person he could potentially tell his secret at.

It really is sad for the both of them yeah..

The thing is, Marinette has all the resources of a good support system: she has good parents, has lots of good friends, has Alya, heck even has Chat Noir. But she choses to not use them or to distance herself from them (except for Alya - for now) because she doesn't think it's safe and is scared of so many things.

Adrien however does not have the resources Marinette has for a good support system. His home life don't offer him this chance (even more so when his family is literally the villains of the show), he has friends but less than Marinette and cannot see them as often at all, he doesn't have anyone knowing his identity and well, we can't really say he has Ladybug these days as she is distancing herself from him just like he's also distancing himself from her the more he doubts.

The difference as well is that Adrien never planned on telling his secret to someone (well, neither did Marinette but she had reached a point where it was impossible for her mentally to do so, except by being the guardian she's giving herself this option, while Chat Noir has been told repeatedly how secrets identities are important and he'd see that as himself betraying Ladybug's trust to do it, so it doesn't even consider it an option).

But yeah if he was to ever consider revealing himself to Nino, it's been kind of discarded for now because... Nino told him that 1. him and Alya had no secrets 2. he told Adrien their heroes identities which might not make him want to entrust Nino with his 3. he basically called Chat Noir annoying to his face... and that makes me very sad because it's a lot of a misunderstanding but it'll have big consequences

So anyway, I'm rambling (as I do lol) but it's hard to compare the two as they're in two very different situations, none of which are very enviable at the moment... and they're both getting more and more isolated

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Its so annoying I hate how some do this and go against what has been established in the show and justs makes for confusion. I 100% agree with @chatblancismyfursona on this one.

For anyone confused regarding the cataclysm that hit Adrien;

If Emilie kicked the bucket, he could still survive—Adrien’s life isn’t contingent on hers.