I doubt that anyone outside of the US thinks this is anything but creepy

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19-21

This has to stop

they can't walk and text without tripping or hitting a pole, yet think they can drive and text

THIS! This everytime annoyes the fûck out of me! This can literally ruin any shopping experience. So thank god for internet shopping and filter functions. I completely stopped to buy brands/designs that doesn't allow women to have pockets or only provide pixie-pockets that are smaller than the one in a toddler's sweat pants.

Man, this is annoying. It's interesting only for you and eventually the grandparents but the joy would be the same also by telling them over the phone, over dinner etc. Seriously, nobody cares.

Wachting all that mundane c**p from a random stranger is even weirder

I used to work in a casino kitchen, we were never allowed to go home if we were sick … you have no idea what goes on in kitchens until you’ve worked in one

I embarrass them by saying something like "oh so you are thinking of us having sex, hu? You weirdo!" Freaks them out enough to stop talking about it. Then if they get persistent I say I hate kids, even though I really don't.

So rude AND disrespectful.

I had some snide comments when I first stopped drinking alcohol. Its very easy to shut it down.

I've had this. Dumping kids at Aunty Caro's house and Byeeeeee. Happened one time too many and I made it clear that I too (gasp) have a life and want to do things outside my work. I loved babysitting my nieces and nephews but the parents had to book in advance.

Unpaid internships are meant to teach the student but many companies take advantage and make them do work for free. It's actually illegal to have your intern do any work that contributes to the income or business services, that's why they get coffee in many movies and pop culture. People need to know their rights as an intern and report companies that take advantage and have their intern making the company money.

I never allowed my kids to dress beyond their years or my daughter in inappropriate clothing. I never understood parents who put their 5 year old daughters in daisy dukes and half shirts. Or any kind of clothing like it.

I get the feeling that this is on the rise in my country. And additionally to this also a lot of people seem to have forgotten even the basic traffic rules after two years of a pandemic.

When I was single and was asked why I didn't have a boyfriend I told them I had a shower head I didn't need one

Don't assume people are just rude. If I get a call, I have to put it on speaker because I am hard of hearing.

Some people shouldn't drive at all.

In 2008, there was an enormous queue of people outside a branch of Walmart for Black Friday. When the security guard unlocked the door to let everyone in, they barged through the doors and he died due to the stampede. People were literally running and stomping on his dead body. That's utter insanity. Such an extreme and scary case of "pack" behaviour.

Also, a woman can do this and get away with it. If a man does it, he could end up in the back seat of a police car or get beat up by whoever happens to hear him.

Is that really acceptable?

Maybe they think they have a magic horn that when you honk it, it will make the obstacle ahead disappear!

Everyone in my family asks me this! "WHEN ARE YOU GONNA GIVE US OUR GRANDBABY" I'm only 17 bro I'm not ready or planning for that yet 😭

In this 'time' when apparently all the uber-wise non-boomers (in which I am included in that exceptionally large group) are eagerly sharing that no one gets to tell you how you "should" feel or do things (which is true)... they STILL think it's okay to blatantly flat out tell you "you're wrong. You will change your mind in a few years". And they were telling me this waaaay after puberty was done. Like... noo... I'm not 12 years old and saying things I REALLY don't know about... I'm (at the time) in my mid-twenties... late twenties... early thirties... "Nope. You don't know that. You are going to change your mind" - Oh AM I now? REALLY? (no... no I haven't... because my reasons still stand, even if they don't want to hear it)

This is especially true for medical situations. I shared a hospital room once with a 35-year-old woman who, after 10 years with 2 stillbirths and several underlying issues, finally had had a doctor "allow" her to get a hysterectomy. She had fought for it for years, and had heard that "you might change your mind" bs hundreds of times from different doctors. She would probably have died if she had gotten pregnant, anyway, and her husband (who, for some reason, still had to sign off on her decision) was all for the procedure, but still, she was made to wait... And that's in Germany, I don't even want to imagine what it's like in the US right now...

This is 100% what I feel. I'm 57 and so glad I didn't give in to societal pressure.

I unupvoted this, just so I could have the satisfaction of upvoting it again.

Never married. No kids. No regrets.

My mother & sister tried telling me that I'd change my mind about having kids, (I was 13 when I made this decision). Here I am forty years later, childless and happy.

I sincerely hope the OP doesn't live in the US if/when she needs that abortion.

Been married 11 years. It took me looking my in laws in their eyes and saying point blank "yes I would kill (abort) your grandbaby if I got pregnant" for them to leave me alone about it. I have a disorder that might kill me if I go through a full pregnancy. I prefer living to leaving my husband alone with a child he will not be emotionally stable enough to handle right after losing me, or worse having him lose me AND his baby in one go.

If I was in my 20's or 30's in this day and age, I certainly would not want to bring a child into this world. The future is looking too bleak.

You might be asexual or even aromatic. And no, people won't understand it because it is just so far away from their own norms. I usually just tell men who try to hit on me that I am lesbian because that is at least something they are able to except and understand.

THIS. I’m an AFAB enby teen and every time I say in a discussion I don’t want children, the adults are like “You will dear, wait 10 years,” Susan, I see you with your two booger babies, I think I’ll pass

And stop insisting & asking your children when/if will they will "give you" grandchildren! I don't understand the obsession with wanting grandchildren. I'll be very happy with whatever choices my kids make - as long as they are happy. I'd spoil a grand fur baby as much as a grand baby, too.

oh my god i hate this so much! if i say i have no interest in that stuff, i have no intrest!

I'm just 16 and my mum keeps telling me that I should get married in my early twenties in order to have kids earlier. I'm like, excuse me- I've nit even gone to college yet and I'm not even sure I want to get married ever

What really needs to end is people thinking that a pet is even kind of close to having children. I do not question anyone's decisions about their own life but let's not compare the live changing experience of raising a child.

Yup, I'm 40, I've been in a loving relationship for 20+ years and neither of us have ever been interested in getting married or having kids. We do have 4 cats we adore and intend on helping as many animals as we can afford to take care of

Cannot upvote enough.

Switch cat to dog and I could have written this one myself.

I fully agree with this!!!

Best i can do is a dog