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speculatrix t1_jbunfpp wrote

Reply to TIFU by having my car stolen by madocgwyn

I've heard of people who've driven to a train station and parked, and come home, got off at a different station and reported the car stolen.. and then found it quite a few days later by chance.

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aasdfhdjkkl t1_jbu0sxp wrote

Reply to comment by fredsam25 in TIFU by wearing a dress covered in my dogs period blood. by Toxilyn

Dogs do not have a menstrual cycle. Sometimes they bleed when they go into heat. It's generally less blood than a human period. And heat is actually the opposite of menstruation. Heat occurs around ovulation, which for humans happens around the middle of the menstrual cycle (approximately 2 weeks after the first day of bleeding for someone with a regular 28 day cycle).

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alexanderpas t1_jbtnnl7 wrote

Reply to TIFU by wearing a dress covered in my dogs period blood. by Toxilyn

> But my mom became nosy on what he was doing and grabbed the phone. I tried to explain and she just... Did not get it. > > Please get my brother to bring me my dress. And she is like: "But it is missing a button!" Doesn't matter. This is more important. "But it is wrinkly!" Mom I rather wear a wrinkly dress than smell like week old dog period blood. > > Finally she agreed.

Bad mom.

If your daughter requests an emergency change of clothes, you ensure the clothes are en route right now, no questions asked.

Questions can wait until they are willing to share.

Same with when your daughter calls you when they are out, and call for a ride.

You will pick them up, no questions asked, and the questions can wait until they are willing to share.

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farrenkm t1_jbtmt9f wrote

Reply to TIFU-by going out at a nearby restaurant by myself at midnight-UPDATE by ThrowRAfoodie_76

Sounds like you're learning communication skills, which is good. I didn't see your first post, so I don't know how old your marriage or your kids are. But communication is essential.

I don't much care what my wife does, so long as she lets me know. Not to be controlling, but to make sure she's okay. Our classic story is, I used to work nights. I'd call her around 7:30 PM just to check in, see how her day was, etc. (This is before cell phones were popular, 1998.) 7:30PM rolls around, no answer. No big deal. 8:00PM, no answer. 8:30PM, no answer. I'm getting concerned, because she has a medical history. I was doing ambulance dispatching and had a good relationship with the 911 center, so I called nonemergency and asked if there'd been any medical calls at her work or around our place. No, nothing. 9:00PM rolls around and I still can't reach her. I call my FIL (same town), who offers to come pick up my keys. In the meantime, 911 offers to do a welfare check. I said yes to both offers.

My FIL and SIL come and get my keys and they head to our place. In the meantime, 911 calls home and finally gets my wife. "Hi, this is Washington County 911. Your husband is really worried about you, so we were checking to see if everything was okay." They called off the welfare check, but I couldn't call off my FIL (no cell phone).

I found out she'd had a busy day, she was relaxing watching the Olympics, and she turned off the ringer on the phone in the bedroom. By sheer coincidence, during a commercial, she heard another phone ringing. She was a little annoyed, but when I pointed out this was our pattern and now there was a break in it, she understood. In the future, if she wanted to go to bed early, she just told me that, and no worries.

If she's had a hard day, fine. If she were to want to go get pizza, fine. If she wants to spend time with friends until 2:00AM, fine. I don't care, she can do what she wants, and I fully trust her. I just want to know so I'm not worried about whether she's okay or not.

We've been married 25+ years and together for 30+ years, so something's going right.

Edit: This really makes it sound like it's a one-way street. It's not. I tell her where I'm going as well and what time I expect to be home. Bidirectional communication. We'd already had pretty good communication in the past, but due to recent circumstances, it's gotten even better in the last two years. I just need to know she's safe and she needs to know I'm safe.

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StringTheory2113 t1_jbtjt1p wrote

Reply to TIFU by almost getting myself killed at the gym by okbuddy9970

I'm too shy/awkward to ask for a spotter, plus I prefer working out when the gym is absolutely empty. My method for self preservation is to leave the clamps off of the ends so I can dump the weights if needed. I wouldn't do this if the gym was packed and I risked hurting other people, but this has legit saved my life multiple times (because there was no one around to help)

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Toxilyn OP t1_jbtfmi2 wrote

Reply to comment by Almondrivers in TIFU by wearing a dress covered in my dogs period blood. by Toxilyn

I guess so haha. My dog has a tendency for revenge pissing. If we stress her out too much because there are too many changes. Then she likes to piss in some ones bed. She does it everytime we return from holiday and she has been staying over by a different family. She also some times does it when we bring her to the summerhouse. And has done so on my pillow. My mom left for a work course and came back and she pissed on my moms side of the bed. Worst was a couple of years ago when we got an exchange student. She had lived by my parents for a bit over a week when our dog pissed on her pillow. Which made our exchange student feel our dog hated her.

Our dog is completely clean otherwise. But you can always tie these revenge pissing to when stuff happens.

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Toxilyn OP t1_jbt7v0a wrote

Reply to comment by fredsam25 in TIFU by wearing a dress covered in my dogs period blood. by Toxilyn

If you read the wiki I sent you. Actually no. Most animals don't. But dogs have a type of bleeding attached to their heat. That isn't the exact same as humans menstruation. I didn't even know this. But growing up with female dogs and also breeding them. I have always found it natural that they did it.

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