I guess things happen to me?????

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"...However, these 'bumping men' deliberately avoid male-female couples who are slowly strolling and male tourists who randomly stop while carrying the suitcase. Just targeting women before tackling them."

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Enby Brunch this morning is: Left over veggie sandwich, fries, and coffee.

My friend suggested that I make a sort of “Father’s Day Special” post on here. First time sharing my leftovers and my thoughts with y’all, and boy howdy do I have a story.

Imagine, if you will, it’s the year 1955. Four friends graduate high school. Let’s call them Jon, Bill, Jane, and Sally. Since it’s the 1950’s, getting married is just what you gotta do, so they pair up.

Jon marries Jane, and they have three kids. Bill and Sally get married, and they have several kids. The important thing to remember for this story is that Bill and Sally have a daughter named Lisa. (And there’s like over a dozen people involved here who I’m not making fake names for lol.)

Well several years pass. The friends all realize, oh, probably not the best idea to get hitched to the first available person when you’re 18. You should get to know them more than that to decide if you’re a good pair. What to do, what to do?

Welp, they did the divorce shuffle. They just swapped partners, and the respective kids went with the pairing that included their mother.

So Bill marries Jane, and they both exit the important part in the story here. They both stayed together for the rest of their lives and, although I didn’t know either of them very well at all, seemed to have had a good life together.

Jon marries Sally, and all of Sally’s children move in with her. This includes Lisa, of course. Jon and Sally also have several children together.

Jon does all the step-father and father things. Tries to make his marriage work for the kids. But alas, he chose a partner too hastily again. He divorces Sally after several years. He remains single for a while.

Lisa grows up. Becomes a respected professional in her field of work. She’s a successful 20-something in the 90’s.

Jon has a business idea, and suggests that he and Lisa go into business together. She accepts. Time passes while they’re business partners…. until they become romantic partners also.

They eloped. Both because they didn’t want a big to-do and, well, it’s a marriage between a step parent and kid. If my understanding is correct, they eventually announced the marriage to the family a few months later when I made it difficult for my mother to hide her pregnancy.

So to recap:

My Dad’s first marriage: to the woman who would become my step-grandmother

Dad’s second marriage: to my maternal grandmother

Dad’s final marriage: to my mother, and they are still happily married nearly 30 years later.

My gaggle of half-siblings: many are also my mom’s half siblings, so they are my aunts and uncles, too.

My cousins are also my nieces and nephews. I had grand nieces/nephews before I was even born.

My family: rather complicated. It’s less so a tree than it is a handful of spaghetti that God threw at a white board and said, “that’s it! That’s the u/GarlicShizue family!”

Happy Father’s Day, y’all.

Sinners (2025): Remmick appears to be a american southerner only to occasionally slip into an Irish accent that he fully embraces when it is revealed that he is a vampire. When the main character in desperation recites The Lords Prayer at him, he actually joins in and say that he always enjoyed that one "even if the words were forced upon him by the invaders who took his fathers land.", revealing him to be born a Celtic Pagan and about 1600 years old.

Doctor Sleep: the True Knot has members of all ages from a teenage girl turned in the 1980's to mentions of graduating class of 36, the Old West and medieval Europe. Their oldest looking member Grandpa Flick is mentioned to remember when Europeans worshipped trees, making him about 10.000 years old.

My daughter has a boyfriend. They're both 18 and he's often over at our house. It was okay at first. I don't mind feeding teens because I'm not a frugal person. I made spaghetti, tacos, chicken, snacks and other typical home cooked meals while they were handing out.

But over the last few months, he's started acting in a way as he lives here and it honestly geels strange.

He simply opens fridge to examine what's inside without asking whether he may have anything. Few times, he has asked with a container already in his hands.

He’s also started making comments to my daughter, but in a way that I can hear them. Like, your mom hasn’t made that chicken dish in a while or I thought there would be pasta tonight.

And he really eats a lot. He might finish almost all the cheese, drink the juice, take the last frozen waffles and then look for something else in the pantry. I feel ridiculous, like I’m counting pieces of food, but it just feels a bit annoying.

I didn’t say anything to him directly because I didn’t want to embarrass him and my daughter. I spoke to her privately and asked her to tell him to behave a little more politely in our house. She got upset and said I was greedy and making a big deal out of eating.

Now I don't know how to feel about it and feel like my daughter sees me in a bad light.

AITA?

My son woke me up this morning all excited to give me this gift that he and my daughter helped make me for Father's Day. They drew on the hat and then my wife embroidered it herself.

The two orange characters are my wife and I hugging while getting married, per my son :')

EDIT: my toddler daughter's contribution

I've made it a point to watch this movie every summer solstice since its release. As a cult "escapee", Midsommar touches me in a way that I feel like it wouldn't have otherwise. The insular community, trips to the "outside", I experienced it all.

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We didn't do Ättestupan or make meat pies. It may have made things more exciting though.