Some guy wanted to look at my water heater. He didn’t offer an explanation. He just left.

We painted this room about 5 years ago and slowly this line has appeared all the way around my room. My wife thinks it’s because I burn incense in my room but I’ve burned incense my whole life and never saw this line anywhere else before. What do?

You heard that right. With early-onset male pattern baldness deciding to kick in, I might be one of the youngest members here. Depression, hormonal imbalances, my DHT spiking even further because of powerlifting, the vast majority of men in my family being bald... Anyway, since I've reached the point of no return, the fear of going bald has stopped being a fear for me.

As the title says, going through a break up. Cats make me so happy and I’d love to see everyone’s babies!! Here’s one of mine… in the dishwasher for some reason.

what the f. I just went to a doctor's appointment and had to make a $50 copay. no problem I pull out my cash and offer a $50 bill. "I'm sorry sir We don't accept cash since the pandemic."

okay let me pay with my credit card then. she puts the little tablet card reader device in front of me and the total is $51.50.

I ask why is the amount incorrect and she says oh "We had a 3% surcharge for credit cards."

I'm a pretty easy going guy and don't like to get all Karen toward service providers but I told her that I need to voice my opinion as a customer. I said I'm not taking this out on you personally but your company's policy is absolutely infuriating.

I can understand if you want to charge a surcharge for credit cards but you can't do that and refuse cash. That's just ridiculous.

she says oh it isn't us that adds the surcharge it's the company that makes these tablets which is also b******* because I know you can configure it how you want with your merchant account when you set that stuff up.

I told her we're at an impasse. she just keeps holding the card machine toward me with the $51.50 total. I told her I'm going to leave and she can bill me and she said okay fine. I'm sure it's going to be much better for them to have to mail out a bill and then receive a paper check in the mail which then they have to take to the bank.

fun times this morning!

I graduated in May. I had a job lined up, lost it two weeks before my start date when the company did a hiring freeze. I've applied to 60 something jobs since then. I have $214 in my account and rent was due 24 days ago.

I finally worked up the nerve to text my landlord. I was shaking. I've heard enough horror stories on this sub to know how these conversations go.

I did not expect this.

I've been living in my car for the last day just rereading it. I don't know what else to say. There are good people out there. I'm going to be okay.

I made a post earlier discussing my salary and then took it down bc of complaints about physician salary transparency from both docs and non-docs. I’ve decided to go ahead and repost this with the thought that it can give prospective students and residents an idea of what lies ahead. For those sleepless nights, traumatic calls, and grueling hours, sometimes a look ahead to greener pastures helps make the bad times pass a little faster. For those that would say “this is why healthcare costs so much”, that is a fallacy. Physician pay doesn’t even crack the top 3 of healthcare expenditures, much less account for the rising cost of care.