#or car tires in this case

[alittlelessalone]

I’m pretty sure I just accidentally speedran the blackening of my brand new Bingpup plush today.

So I just got my good little boy at a con and was walking home with my billowing cosplay robes and armfuls of art. And it was dark and late and Bingpup was riding in my badge lanyard. And apparently at some point in the journey (fortunately near my home), he fell out.

Well, I got home and noticed he wasn’t there, tore my apartment apart, and then on a hunch, ran outside. And then proceeded to watch in real time as my good boy was run over by a car, thrown in the air by the tires, slammed back into the ground, then run over again.

Fortunately, there was a lull in the cars after that and I was able to run out and save him. And also fortunately, it wasn’t raining or dirty on the road today, so he’s not covered in dirt. But my poor pup didn’t even make it into my apartment before being traumatized! Look how sad he looks!

He’s going to need so many snuggles and Shizun kissies now to make him feel better!

#bingpup #lou binghe #bingpup plush #svsss #poor Binghe #there’s no escaping the abyss #or car tires in this case #at least he seemed to have escaped without blackening! #I would have been devistated if he was destroyed #I could buy another one tomorrow #but I’d still be devastated at the destruction of any good boys! #so I’m so glad he’s safe and only (hopefully mildly) traumatized!

[bugsbenefit]

all i'll say about Noah's video is that i think it's weird people are calling it a "bad apology", because it's not even an apology video. the only thing he says is that his opinions have been misconstrued and that he doesn't want people to die, which, yeah, he already said before. there's no sorry, from the video alone you wouldn't even know if he's aware of what he did that made people turn on him so fast in the first place

i know the norm nowadays is to call any response to an issue/a situation an "apology" but sometimes it's just a statement, which is what this is. if he was genuinely "apologizing" he'd have to address the actual things he did, like keep misinformation up, even after it's been disproven and worst of all the "zionism is sexy" thing. what he's doing is just cautious backpeddling by saying everyone got him wrong. just a pretty obvious pr nothing-statement sadly

#seen some people say to watch his 'apology' and just... why are you calling it that #he only doubles down on not wanting anyone to die which is something he's already said before #i didn't expect him to actually reflect and do a 180 in a few months so i'm not surprised #if he ever does change his mind i'd expect it to take a few years at least #but well... just seems like a damage control press statement he's making because of ST production starting up again #my opinion on it in case you're curious #but also obligatory holy shit it's tiring to see people immediately jump to wishing death and disgusting things on him and his family #unproductive as hell #posting online about how much you want a celebrity with a shit moral complex to get hit by a car or something is Still not activism #shockingly #so nothing's changed essentially #that 1 minute video really did nothing who would have thought

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Australian Grand Prix - Jenson Button(ft. Rubens Barrichello & Jarno Trulli)

#brawn is like amr to me in which they make me very weepy and emotional and unhinged #me watching the podium was just me screaming internally: JENSONNNNN JENSONNNNNNNNNN sob sob #also i spoke abt this at length before but still the jump in production quality vs 2005 vs 2009 vs 2023 is so jarring honestly #and related to that ^ what did i say about ending up with a million gifs what did i say....tho less than i expected tbh #btw this post is my comfort post in case baku is chaotic #also omg i am still screaming over seb's DNF like the way he and kubica had a double takeout ;;;; #him continuing to drive another lap with his whole ass wheel basically broken off LMAO #maybe this is bcs its still fresh in my mind but its so funny to compare this race to aus 2023 #like do you remember the kmag red flag in 2023? like one wheel popped off and they had a red flag #meanwhile in this race kubica's tires were literally rolling around the track and theyre like 'eh safety car okay ig' #es tut mir leid jarno and rubens but jb is my babygirl and i love him #i hate having to cut out gifs but i want to try to keep it to ten UGHHHHH #if i let myself be uncontrolled these posts would be like 20 gifs.... #jenson button #jb22 #rubens barrichello #jarno trulli #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1 #2009 australian gp #2009 australian grand prix #(2009: 1/17 races watched)

[nachosncheezies]

Scully really did look at her academy buddy in her third damn case and say "Fuck you what if I wanna be Mrs Spooky?" and then spent 7 years manifesting it.

#she really was just Like That huh? #case no.1 - laugh in his face and call him crazy [affectionate] #case no.2 - take a fellow government employee hostage and hijack his car because she was just. So Tired of whatever tf was happening. #case no.3 - give every man who glances her way the [tiny] middle finger just to be contrary #they said 'we're assigning you a partner' and all she heard was the word partner and went Hog Wild with it from day one #i just think about it sometimes #straight-A student Dana Katherine Scully #chronic overachiever #part-time rebel #x files #the x files #txf #scully

[foreveranevilregal]

Which one of you “I love winter” mofos wants to sit in my car for 5 minutes in freezing weather every morning blasting heat at the windows until they defrost enough for me to see through the windshield?

#anti winter #say what you will about summer #but you don’t need special car maintenance #worst case scenario: put a screen on the windshield #in winter you gotta get new tires #shovel out the car from snow #do the above heating routine #oh you don’t have to do any of this? #then you don’t experience wintet #and you can shut the fuck up

[milkweedman]

... I have lost one of the socks. Spent an hour tearing my room apart looking for it, and then the basement, and then the car, and I can't find it anywhere. Really hope it reappears... the yarn took over a month to prep and spin alone

#theres a nonzero chance that it fell out of my pocket during work last night in which case i dont know where and its probably just gone #im hoping either the roommate i havent been able to ask yet moved it for some reason or else one of the animals moved it #but i am. very upset already #also woke up with my migraine at max and the car has an almost flat tire so today is shit for many reasons

[shitpissboi]

It is my birthdayyyyy tomorrow :) I got a CAR and I’m very excited about it 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wait no way happy early birthday dude!!!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊🖤🖤🎁🎁🎁🎁That is so exciting holy shit I’m so happy for you! I remember when I got my first car and it truly is a whole new sort of freedom, you’re gonna love it dude, do you know what kind your getting yet??

#I didn’t wanna swamp you with tips so im putting them all down here :3 #I got all of these thru time so don’t worry if you don’t have them right away but I always keep these in my trunk: jumper cables #a car jack - tire iron - some sort of socket/wrench set - case of bottled water - at least one blanket - and a box of kitty litter #the water and blanket is if you ever break down and have to stay with the car for a while and the kitty litter is if you can’t get traction #like in snow or mud or on really bad train tracks

[koravelliumavast]

Tire shops in bigger cities: oh sorry this tire is unfixable. It’s been patched up too many times. (It had been patched up twice)

Tire shops in small towns: 7 nails in one tire? That’s a new record for you guys. I’ll patch that up for you. This is the third time this week you’ve brought a car in here, did they grade the road recently?

#this is actually 100% true. not even an exaggeration #we once brought all our cars to the tire shop in one week #I think it was 14 nails across 4 cars. #bigger cities in this case is like 15k

[alex51324]

A list of medium-sized problems* I have encountered in the last 10 days:

Melted my shoes.

Came home from vacation to discover that the roof I replaced right before leaving is still leaking in one spot.

Broke my doorknob.

Got a flat tire.

Found out that Sophie's adoption day party on Sunday is going to be rained out.

(*A medium-sized problem is here defined as one that costs money and/or significantly disrupts your day's plans, but does not cause major ongoing life disruption. For instance, "getting my feet soaked completely through my shoes to the skin" was a small problem--or would have been, had I not melted my shoes trying to dry them over a campfire. If I had caught my feet on fire trying to dry them off, that would have been a large problem.)

All of these problems are under control, but I feel that I have done enough Handling Problems for a while, and I would like to submit an application to be excused from additional Problems for a period of at least two weeks. Does anyone know the contact information to put in that request?

#problems #life #the shoes were perfectly-broken-in Docs 1460's with several years of wear left in them #I had the money to order new ones but that's still quite a blow #roof guy is on the case of the roof issue #doorknob has been replaced #but I still need to get spare keys made for the new lock #spare tire is on the car and I am safely home #but I still need to get the real tire repaired or replaced #and I was able to find another place to have Sophie's party but I had to pay to reserve a pavilion #and we will still be having it in the rain which is less fun #I am being very brave about this #none of these things are that big of a deal #there's just too many of them

[argiopi]

got the cops called on me for the most hilariously sensible reason last night

So i have a new industrial piercing (my first piercing..! i love it •w•), and it got infected because of course it did, it's a cartilage piercing and i live outside. Context i've been living in my car for the past few weeks, which has been pretty good but one of the tradeoffs is i do not have a bathroom. The piercer told me if the piercing got infected I could soak it in saltwater, so i needed a source of 1. salt, 2. water that is warm or at least not the below-freezing ambient temperature i currently exist in.

Gas stations have both these things. (I have yet to purchase salt for my occasional propane stove cooking). Only problem is it was past midnight in a rural area, so I didn't find a 24 hour convenience store until around 100 miles into my route for the evening.

At 3 AM local time the store was inhabited by just One stern-looking employee who was mopping the floor. My grungy ass walks in carrying a small collapsible bowl and immediately begins casing the place like the world's shittiest thief, looking for those little free salt packets. I looked around the (empty, no hot food at 3 AM) hot dog stand and saw only wet condiments so i circled back around to the grocery section in case they were selling salt shakers I could buy. No luck so i desperately returned to the hot dog counter in case I missed the salt, and noticed a cabinet labeled CONDIMENTS below the dog cooker, which did conceal salt packets. I stuffed a handful of them in my pocket and hoped the mopping woman wouldn't ask, then pivoted to the bathroom where I locked myself for the next fifteen minutes.

I filled my bowl with hot water which was actually cool water but at least it wasn't frigid, and mixed salt into it and held it to my ear. After a few minutes the staff, who had been understandably watching me from around corners the entire time I was searching for salt, knocked on the door. I replied "hello?" and she didn't respond, so I assumed she was just checking if anyone was in there before she tried entering to continue mopping. I finished cleaning my sad little ear and bought a bag of yogurt pretzels as a gesture of good will because I felt bad for taking her salt and taking too much time in the bathroom when she needed to clean.

Enter The Pig. I had returned to my car and grabbed my first aid kit to apply antiobiotic ointment, when an officer entered the store. Trepidation when he arrived since I knew I was being a freak, but then i thought he was just doing his own shopping, then he came back out and approached my vehicle.

Rolled down my window and he asks what was going on in the bathroom. (What if i had been just taking a long shit??). So I showed him my ear and my bowl and explained, as Alertly, Calmly, and Soberly as i could after driving for multiple hours after midnight, to the face of someone who can ruin my life with a penstroke, that I was on the road and had to soak this infected piercing. Luckily it was a confused young cop who was too bewildered to inquire much further, not an old hardass who might start asking more challenging questions such as "where are you going" or "where are you staying tonight and why are you washing your ear at the gas station and not there." He clearly barely even looked at my car - asked if i was a local when my license plate is from two timezones away - and let me go without even collecting my information.

That was the sixth time that police have confronted me for acting outside social norms. The first time was because I was plucking an invasive plant species from the side of the road and he thought I was falling when I walked up & down the slope. The second time I was walking home alone at night, and maybe someone called because I had a backpack on and they thought I was trying to rob a house. I was just walking home from the train. The third time I had been biking home in the dark without a headlight, and i fell on my face and didn't know I was bleeding until a bastard pulled up and told me someone called because they thought I got hit by a car. The fourth time was when I fell in the river last winter and i was knocking on random doors asking for directions home to minimize my risk of hypothermia, and I suppose the woman who drove me home called to send someone to make sure i was okay? The fifth time was the first time I slept in my car, which ironically was before I started serially sleeping in my car. I was falling asleep on the highway after an all-nighter so I took the next exit and took a nap in my driver's seat at the end of a random residential street before I ended up on the news, and that's how I learned suburbanites are paranoid as all hell about anything out of the ordinary because a cop knocked on my window and asked me if I was drunk (who would say yes to that question?). Now I select my sleeping sites very carefully, which is probably the most annoying thing about hashtag vanlife, but I haven't gotten The Knock again yet and sometimes when I pull into random public lands after dark I wake up to mountains I've never seen before and that fuels my soul.

Lesson learned is that if you need to snort sodium chloride in a gas station bathroom at 3 AM, just have an ear piercing and dampen the hair around it and carry a bowl around, and you've got a story that's Too Weird To Be Making Shit Up.

#seriously how do y'all stay out of trouble #I Am Just Living My Life why does that incite so much suspicion. #this time was fair though i 1000% looked like a criminal who was about to drive home under an influence #blogging #FOLKS WHO FOLLOWED FOR ART I HOPE YOU ENJOY STORYTIME TOO LOL. #I saw THIRTEEN!!!! shooting stars while driving last night #i think that is a new personal record. was there a meteor shower? surely there was. #Two of them were bright enough to leave a dust trail.. ⭐︎つ⭐︎ #mountain roads are so scary lol what do you Mean there is no guard rail on this narrow winding road that drops off into Death Zone #not to mention when there is snow on the road..? #my tires spun out the other night because i was clinging too close to the uphill side of the mountain and went off the road #in my defense i could not see the lines on the road on account of they were covered by snow #anyway i sunk deep but luckily i have 4WD so i could wiggle out without help #but the snow gripped my tires and pulled them in the opposite direction i was trying to go.. #what if i was driving on the side facing downhill and slipped off the road and the snow gripped me. #best case scenario: car is Funked. worst case scenario Death #anyway i think my ear is slightly less painful & inflamed this morning..? i am going to go wash it at a much less sussy hour #the sky is so clear and bright here... #madly in love with the milky way. #i wonder how often ppl assume ppl are sneaking hard drugs when they actually have a completely legal reason to be acting strange. #not that i'm not living on the fringes of the law rn with the whole car thing and that's the only reason i had to be weird at a gas station #but like... lives be strange and complex and human behavior is rarely as simple as it seems there is always a story!

[gongedtornado]

thinking about this 85 year old customer we had that came in. the cashier said she looked good for her age and she said something along the lines of “Thank you. I’ve got all these wrinkles and I deserve ‘em’!” in the most enthusiastic tone.

she said that she thought skin care and anti-wrinkle products were ridiculous and that our skin is our history of where we’ve been. i cant remember what she said word for word but i know whatever she said brought me comfort.

#she later came in and asked if anyones seen her purse. #this lady literally handed me her whole car keys and asked me to check the back of her car again in case it was place back there #we found it . it was in her back seat #and then we talked for a little bit. she told me about where she went to college and how long she went #and i told her i was currently in college rn #she shook my hand too. probably one of the sweetest and coolest customers ive ever met while working here. #i dont even know this ladys name but shes already the second coolest old person i know #sorry for rambling im super tired and cant stop thinking about this interaction from today #i think people tend to forget that emoloyees have their own lives too and even sparking conversation and being nice like that #makes everything a little more bearable. hell even better tbh #i love when customers are nice and actually like talking to us sometimes. #i like it when they treat us as humans basically instead of just another employee #work ramble #kazzy caws

[aberooski]

Every day I tell myself "all I have to do is make it through today" and I'm realizing that I don't know how I feel about the fact that I feel like I have to tell myself that every single day.

#a lot of times it's because I hate my job and I'm miserable #I literally cried in the car on the way home today because I got so stressed during my shift #never work at a movie theater kids it's awful #I wish I didn't #I wish I could have a real job because I fucking went to college I got my fucking dgree #and yet this was the best I could do because I've never had a job in my life so no one would give me the time of day #I feel humiliated every single day I walk into the building #I feel like such a failure and an embarrassment #and that's not to say everyone who works at the theatre ahould feel that way that's now what I'm saying #but that's how I personally feel about myself and the situation that I am in #and we're entering the busiest week of the year so it sucks even more than usual #but also I'm just so tired from this year it's been a really bad one for me and my family #just abysmal in every way #so I have to remind myself I have to make it through the day every day right now #but you know what it's fine I have a chapter done and ready to go on Christmas and it's been almlst 4 years in the making #so in that case I have a present for some of you and I'm really excited about it #it's gonna be a sad Christmas for us because everyone in my family is broke but I hope you guys all have a better holiday than I will #and as someone who adores Christmas like it's my favorite day of the year type adore I'm just really down in the dumps right now #just feeling very sad #but anyway sorry rant over I have to go to bed #I don't get saturday's off and those are my lingest shifts so 🙃 #I get christmas eve and christmas ofd tough 😊 #but not the day after 🙃 #anyway bedtime for me sorry to rant guys #abby's self deprecation hour #abby after dark

[nc-vb]

Almost four in the morning and my toilet decides to flood, hahaha.

#bro i am barely awake enough for this shit #but at least the superintendent came to fix it. ish. #it's a work in progress. #but BRO do i have to pee!!!! #my mama grabbed this 5 gallon bucket from our car in case we needed to use the bathroom #thankfully i'm not that desperate (yet) #but i'm just praying i can pee soon omg #diabetics and full bladders do not mix!!! #but it's always something with this apartment FR #i'm tired of this place lmao. #✦ nc vb.

[violetclarity]

gotta love the feature of depression that's like, can't tell if people in my life are actually being annoying or if I'm not handling things well and therefore overreacting to things that would normally not bother me!

#are my friends oversharing without asking and using me as an unpaid therapist #or am I just unable to handle any outside complaints/negativity at this moment no matter how valid #a question I ask myself daily #sometimes it's pretty obvious like I told one of my coworkers today that I was in a car accident this weekend #(it was a fender bender and I am fine) #and her next sentence was about how tired she was etc. until she circled back to asking me about the accident #(you'll notice she has been downgraded from friend to coworker bc she does this shit all. the. fucking. time.) #another friend texted me unprompted about her car issues #and when I responded to commiserate and also told her about the accident #she was surprised that I'd been going fast enough that I was in pain from it #(again I am fine. just sore.) #like in that case I probably shouldn't be pissed that she texted me about her car issues out of the blue #bc we had already talked about it and I do want to be kept up to date on my friends' lives? #this is the story of me at almost 29 realizing that I've let a bunch of my friendships devolve into #me being a receptacle for other people's problems and complaints at all times #and now I don't know how to set boundaries or get myself out of this situation #especially since this is the pattern I've developed with like...most of my friends #it's super cool I don't hate it at all #ask people if they have capacity before you bitch about your life #also if anyone has the lead on a cute cottage in the void where I could just exist and not have to speak to anyone #or have any responsibilities whatsoever #for like a week or two #PLEASE lmk #a bitch needs an actual break

[beskad]

my car is starting to actually fall apart, lowkey

#the shocks have been trash for at least 2 years #i need new tires #driver's side primary headlight burned out #the side indicator light casing literally FELL OUT APPARENTLY so i'm missing half the passenger's side headlights #my windshield has been chipped since 2018 and fully cracked since 2021 #there's a rear wheel bearing making a VERY loud hum #oh and two of my 4 door handles are broken off #but my god i looked at the price of cars??? jesus CHRIST #how are people carrying $500/month car payments PLUS the necessary full coverage insurance on top of that??? #after all that it would be like 1/3 of my whole month's income just for a car?? #so i guess I need to spend the $1500 - $2000 on repairs and maintenance so that i don't end up with an insane car payment #OH and i need new brakes and rotors #christ #rray.txt

[karda]

bc of work and being exhausted i havent played my guitar at all and it makes me sad

#bc practicing normally makes me really tired . mentally n physically #so i just cant make myself get it out of the case #much less Play it #which sucks a lot #the main two things im gonna be saving up for is a car and an electric guitar lmao . so . im not giving this up. #but damn is it fkin . a lot #rambling