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SpacePolice04 t1_j1762mh wrote

Reply to TIFU by changing all of my daughter's contacts in her phone by GreenEggPage

My step dad has me as ‘Beelzebub’ in his phone because Siri wouldn’t recognize my name when he spoke it (he sometimes mumbles). I didn’t know and he asked me to fix something on his phone and I found it and said WTF?!? I went into autocorrect and changed ‘ok’ to ‘I’m really sorry I called SpacePolice beelzebub’. I then texted him a series of questions where ‘ok’ would he appropriate and it was glorious. He apparently said OK to other people too. It took him a few days to find the setting to change it back and he wisely did not ask me to help him find it.

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quelin1 t1_j1754tf wrote

Reply to comment by quelin1 in TIFU by putting Tiger Balm on my anus by SamuelMashups

And then there was the time that I experimented with jalapenos and my psoriasis. I had heard of some topical drugs that use capsaisin to sooth pain, and I was like "huh, I did just cut up a bunch of jalapenos, maybe I'll just rub one on my psoriasis and see how that works out"

I just about drove myself to the hospital from that experiment.

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quelin1 t1_j174wv2 wrote

Reply to TIFU by putting Tiger Balm on my anus by SamuelMashups

like, how much? if its just a little bit, you are probably fine. They say not to put it on your groin because of the burning. Those are sensitive areas!

I've gotten extra-strength goldbond in my pee-hole before. I'm pretty sure I experienced an out of body event while that wore off.

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za419 t1_j174o6k wrote

Reply to comment by mrlazyboy in TIFU by changing all of my daughter's contacts in her phone by GreenEggPage

Parents probably should be encouraging their kids to feel comfortable telling their parents about their lives - secrets, even, things they don't want everyone to know, because they need advice on something.

Training kids to feel that they can't let any shred of information sit within their parents reach because their parents are boundary-stomping dickwads who think that anything to do with their children is their business and theirs alone, is the exact opposite of that.

Don't prioritize raising children that are obedient and trick you into thinking they do as they're told over raising children to be functional adults. That's the point, isn't it?

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diffyqgirl t1_j172o6j wrote

Reply to comment by cdm014 in TIFU by changing all of my daughter's contacts in her phone by GreenEggPage

Spying on your kid does not make them safer, it teaches them how to avoid you.

My mom insisted on installing a tracker on my sisters phone. So my sister stopped taking her phone with her when she went anywhere she thought my mom wouldn't approve of. Meaning she wouldn't have a way of calling for help if something happened, so she was less safe.

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