Sunday, May 3, 2020

Business Refuses To Refund $40, Court Orders Them To Pay $230


What a fine example of a cheap business, making their lives more complicated by not just doing the right thing up front. After refusing to refund a buyer $40, they ended up being told by the court that they'd have to pay $230. In all fairness, that dog tag is kind of horrifying too. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge JOIN u/samunseen• 339d 1 3 1 Business refused to refund $40. The courts order him to pay $230 Story time: Last September, my wife had planned a wonderful Father's Day present for me. (Father's Day is in September in Australia). This was to be my first ever Father's Day as a new dad. So to mark the occasion. My wife had arranged to have our daughters face laser etched onto a dog tag.

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Text - However, the day before Father's Day, she received the item back and it was, shall we say -Sub-Par– so she came to me and showed me my present early. Now I've had some experience with shitty retailers before and remembered to always come prepared when disputing the quality of any goods and services. So l set my phone to record all audio and approached the retailer. I explained that my wife was upset at the quality of the engraving and rightfully so. I requested a refund and was immediatel

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Text - My wife and I left, we straight away left a less than glowing review on their google page. This was met with accusations of us being unreasonable and threatening violence. Ours was not the only review to which they had this response. They informed us that the matter had been passed on to the local police and that a restraining order had been applied for. We immediately called all local police stations and were delighted to hear that they had never heard of the company in question. After s

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Text - A month or so passed and our day in the tribunal had arrived. We honestly weren't expecting the engraver to show up. But lo and behold. There he was. At a civil claims court. In camo pants and a hoodie. We met in a room with a mediator, who told us that it may not be worth chasing a 40 dollar refund from someone who is –in short- a dickhead. She warned that it may end up costing more than the service to begin with. But, as mentioned before, I am a stubborn bastard. We pushed forward, opti

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Text - "Oh, I'm not prepared to go to hearing today, I haven't got any of my evidence." DING DING DING! We went to a hearing that day, the registrar ruled in our favour and issued a notice of payment. The business was to pay us $40 within two weeks. Two weeks later.

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Text - No payment. No surprise. During this time, I had been communicating via email with the holder of the engraver's lease. Who, in response to my complaint among many others, had decided to terminate the lease, effectively kicking the engraver out of the mall. ( 7)e my man! While the engraver was organising a new venue for his business. I had filed a motion for a writ for levy of property. Meaning the local sheriff was able to enter his premises and relieve him of merchandise to the value of

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Text - Once the writ had been issued, the fee then increased to $225. All I had to do was wait. And wait I did. Until March 13 this year, when the sheriff finally attended his new business premises. He was offered an ultimatum. Pay the fee, or have merchandise repossessed. Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. The man paid. He was stubborn for 6+ months over a $40 refund. Only to be down $225 + $5 interest. bUt ThAtS nOt HoW tHe LaW wOrks Edit: tl;dr: Got refused $40 refund over poor laser engraving

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Tumblr Thread: Alien Invasion Fought Off By Wildlife


Tumblr hits it out of the park, yet again. 

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Text - giraffepoliceforce I really want a science fiction story where aliens come to invade earth and effortlessly wipe out humanity, only to be fought off by the wildlife. They were expecting military resistance. They weren't counting on bears. splintercellconviction Imagine coming to a hostile alien world and being attacked by a horde of creatures that can weigh up to 3 tons, run at 30 km/h (19 mph), and bite with a force of 8,100 newtons (1,800 lbf). By the time you realise that they can trav

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Text - skeletonmug Imagine being the next crew to go down to earth and thinking "it's fine, we got this. We have the weapons and equipment necessary to deal with bears and *shudders* hippopotamuses. We'll be fine." And at first you are, you've learned how to dodge. You've learned where their territories are. You know how to defend yourself. But then one night you are sleeping in your shelter. You're in a tree covered temperate part of earth. It seems benign. There are been no sightings of the dr

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Text - Blood drips from your wounds and already they itch with the sign of infection. The creature has a bloodied snout, rust rad, mingling with the black and white hairs. It lets out a terrifying growl from the back of its throat and looks to attack again. It's between you and your knife, so your only choice is to back away. Eventually the creature gives up and snuffles off in to the undergrowth, down a hole near your shelter you hadn't noticed before. When you make it back to your base you onc

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Text - ohgodhesloose The invasion is going slowly. The humans have caught on and are actively destroying information on the planet's flora and fauna before Intelligence can capture and process it. All that they have are survivors' accounts. Bears. Hippos. Badgers. Moose. It is becoming obvious this mudball planet is a full-on Death World to the unprepared, and you are so very unprepared. You lost Jaxurn to a plant. Not even a mobile or carnivorous plant, just one that caused a vicious allergic r

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Text - from the smell the quarantine officer interrogated the humans. From them, a glimmer of hope: there was a cure. Somehow the juice of a certain fruit on this mudball was the only thing that could break up the chemicals in the little horror's spray. Immediately the Q.O. sent a team to recover buckets of the stuff and made you bathe in it. That was hours ago and it didn't seem to be working, though. All it was doing was turning your blue skin an interesting shade of purple. Sighing in frustra

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Text - light it could gather. It had fangs as long as his grasping digits. Claws half that size formed curved hooks that allowed it to climb up their fortifications with impunity. And in the underbrush, its spots made it almost impossible to see clearly in the undergrowth, if it could be seen at all. Even the native sentients, the humans, had a healthy respect and fear for it. The earth natives called the monster a leopard. It was a constant fear that muddied the senses, and let the monster hunt

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Text - domesticated. Harmless." The troops were not-quite-looking at her in the way troops do when they don't want to be seen to contradict a ranking officer, but can't quite muster a correct Expression of Enthusiastic Assent. "The name of this species," she pointed out, "is synonymous with dullness and slowness in the language of the Earth barbarians." Well, one language out of several thousand-these creatures needed Imperial guidance more than any other world on record-but there was no point i

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Text - forced guide, a prisioner, had warned with a chilling grin upon capture. "If you think a moose is bad, wait until you tango with a red back." To this day Tar'van fears the creature known as the red back, and what horrors it would bring. The prisioner turned out to be of little help,the stubboness of his people causing them to refuse the danger that the captured human warned of. Tar'van recalls a moment when one of his squad members approached a creature know as a dingo, insistent they had

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Text - "That creature cannot possibly harm us." Tar'van's squadleader protests. "It is so docile. I will aproach it and bring back it's head to show this human is a fearmongering liar." The human reels back, a look of disgust crosses their face and anger passes through their eyes. "Fucking do it mate, I dare ya." The human hisses. The squad leader puffs up their hoinn gland, a sign of pride to their species, and aproached the so called 'Kangaroo'. "This will be unpleasant." A squadmate mutters a

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Text - "Please," Tar'van bags. "Get us back safely." miracufic @kryallaorchid, you guys really lost a war to emus? Why was it necessary? kryallaorchid oh, mate, you never mess with the emus. kawaguardian (Jesus christ. Dont get us started on kangaroos) They had faced Emu's. They had lost one in the battle but had experienced them. But this was no emu. Looking to their guide, they all stare in horror as his face changes from calculating to fear. Pure, heart consuming horror as he stares at the la

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Text - paksenarrion-reader "Listen up, troops. This armour upgrade has been tested both in the laboratories of the best Imperial military scientists and in the field. We are impervious to the stings of any insect on this hellhole of a planet, striped or not! We can brave the perils of its wildlife, and conquer it at long last! Revenge for our fallen companions! Glory to the Emperor!" "Excuse me," the native Terran guide speaks up in a tired tone, and the squad's cheers die on their lips. "This i

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Text - undisguised horror. The insects aren't even stinging. They simply keep moving, one atop the other, and the soldier's body temperature is slowly rising until he drops to the ground, quite literally cooked alive. The insect swarm takes off, unharmed save for the ones that were crushed when the trooper fell. Finally asked about what happened, the human sighs. "Japanese honeybees. They do this to wasps, too." murkymuse "How?" You ask. "How has your species dominated this planet?" The human ba

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Text - - HG Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898 catbountry I'm picturing aliens going up against a hoard of Canadian geese, or a swan. I think at that point they'd just give up. invaderdrey Or fire ants eeyore9990 No one even MENTIONED snakes yet... breelandwalker This thing gets better EVERY FUCKING TIME I SEE IT. imfeelingthelove They had brought along a human guide, because they had realized that the land was impossible to traverse without a native. The last squad to walk into the area without

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Text - like it. The human guide hadn't been helpful. The squad members all took the human's words very seriously, and the human had been taking advantage of that. "Careful," the human gasped, and every squad member froze. "See that?" it pointed at a small rodent-like animal that had long ears. "It's poisonous. Just one touch and you'll die instantly." "What is it called? Are there many of them?" a squad member asked fearfully. The human nodded seriously. "It's called a bunny. They are everywhere

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Text - Sle'thir nodded and turned to the squad members. "Time to head out," he called. "Why, are there bunnies around?" Another said back sarcastically, and promptly sat on the ground. The human had warned them. They barely survived, and none of them came out without a gouged eye or missing finger, save the human. They ran back to the settlement, leaving their dropped gear and sprinting away from the pond. Sle'thir knew he would have nightmares about swans forever. misheancolchester It was only

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Text - The scratch began to fester and ooze. His strength was sapped and the medic could offer no cure. In order to cool his feverish body he went outside to breathe. He needed to clear his head which was delirious with fever and pain. He stumbled and fell, the edges of his vision blurred. Then he saw it, between the trees, low to the ground, it's tongue tasting the air, and it's eyes dark, and unfathomably evil. It heaved it's scaly body towards him. The humans word for it floated across his mi

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Text - muscle the human had called a bear? There was no howling, and Tau knew his sense of hearing was far sharper than the human's, so it couldn't be a "wolf," whatever that was. They weren't near the water, so the huge "killer whale" was out (thank Her Majesty's Divine Providence for that - Tau didn't want to get anywhere near one of those.) He refocused as the laughter continued. It must be related to the task at hand. The human had told them that the minerals the Xenkir needed to survive cou

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Text - related to the task at hand. The human had told them that the minerals the Xenkir needed to survive could be found under the ground, and that holes often opened up for easy access. The troops were low on sustenance, and when Tau saw one of these holes he leapt for it with his extractor ready. The limb was now 3 krlle deep into the tunnel, but... "Human!" Tau'Hvelr snapped, "why are you laughing!?" The human slowly stopped, wiped liquid from their ocular socket, and said "Because I've been

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Man Investigated By FBI For Doing His Job


Sounds like a truly nightmarish day on the job. Poor guy was just trying to do the work that he was tasked doing, and ends up walking right into a full on mess. Get the dude a raise or something for the hassle. 

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Text - r/tifu + JOIN u/nothintooseahear • 4d TIFU by being investigated by the FBI for doing my job This happened about a decade ago, and l'm finally comfortable sharing this anonymously to the public.

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Text - TL;DR I was tasked with researching a subject for my government job, and asked some questions online that led to me being investigated and eventually interrogated as a potential terrorist by the FBI and NCIS. After I graduated from college, I used to work for the Navy as an engineer and direct federal employee. During my time there I mostly worked on small budget experimental and prototype projects. At one point, our team discussed placing our prototype on an RC airplane for testing purpo

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Text - on my team had much experience with RC planes, but I had a little experience with multirotors from a college senior project. I gladly volunteered to research the subject as it sounded interesting. Initially, I used google to find some RC planes what would meet our requirements. Unfortunately, most RC planes at the time were sold as a frame, and required you to choose an engine, propeller, batteries and other components that affect the capabilities of the airplane. The best place to find i

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Text - these planes was on online forums. Each model of airplane often had its own thread with hobbyist discussing the various configurations and performance characteristics of the plane. I found a particular RC airplane that I thought would meet my team's needs. I hopped on the forum and innocently asked how much weight the plane could carrying and how fast it could go. At first, I received some genuine responses until someone said, "Wait a minute, why are you asking?!" I panicked. I baked up s

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Text - messaged two of the most vocal users who were certain I was a terrorist to let them know I worked for the Navy, and wasn't a terrorist. One user believed me; one called me a liar. I ultimately decided it was time to cut my losses and deleted my account from the forum. We ended up not using RC planes at the time and I thought that was that. I put it out of my mind. About 4 months later, I received a call at 4:30pm from someone I will refer to as Special Agent Smith with NCIS. On the phone,

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Text - Smith asked if I could come visit him at his office right then. My job, at the time, was legally required to be a 9-5. My pregnant wife was expecting me home at about 5:15pm. Sol asked Special Agent Smith how long it would be and what the nature of the visit was. He responded with, "Only about half an hour" and "I'll tell you when you get here." I sent my wife a quick text that l'd be a little late getting home, and headed over to the NCIS office. I left my cell phone at the front desk an

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Text - clicked away at his keyboard filling in a bunch of information into some form. The questions started simple, like, "What are your hobbies?" and "How are you liking your job?" The conversation continued casually with general get to know you questions for the next half an hour to hour. I remember the exact moment when the interview changed to an interrogation. After a short pause, Special Agent Smith changed his tone and asked me why I hadn't mentioned RC planes as a hobby and simultaneousl

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Text - university server. I was also shown printed out conversations from the RC forum where the conversations had occurred about the RC airplanes. The questions quickly changed to, "How do I feel about the president?" "How do I feel about the war?" The tone was no longer casual, and the questions became very pointed. The pointed questions continued for another 30 minutes. Special Agent Smith encouraged me to be completely honest because it would be better for me if I just told him everything. A

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Text - talked to your bosses, so I knew you weren't a terrorist. But, I had to go through the process anyway." I was also informed that from the original forum post about the airplane, someone had reported my username as a potential terrorist to the FBI. The FBI had tracked me down and discovered that I worked for the Navy and then turned the investigation over to NCIS. During the interrogation, I admitted to DMing two strangers and telling them I worked for the Navy. Because I had done this, Sp

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Text - clearance. At that particular location at the time, about the only way to get fired was to lose your security clearance. My wife and I had just discovered we were pregnant with our second child. Our first child left my wife extremely ill, and we had initially suspected she was pregnant because she was beginning to get sick again. Special Agent Smith told me that if I wasn't going to lose my security clearance, I wouldn't hear from him again. However, if there were any issues with my clear

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Text - By the time I left the NCIS office, my wife was panicking. I had disappeared off the face of the planet for a couple of hours and was not answering my cell phone. I returned home, and broke down in tears while I tried to explain to my poor, panicked wife what had happened. My wife and I anxiously waited for news about my clearance, trying not to tell anybody about what was happening out of fear of facing some sort of additional punishment. My wife's health continued to deteriorate with th

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Text - almost ended her life. Even after 4 months had passed, we still felt it hovering over us for quite some time. Through all of this, my bosses found the incident quite humorous. One of them laughingly told a group shortly after the questioning, "They asked me if I would be surprised if nothintooseahear flew a plane into a building tomorrow? I told them nothintooseahear was as American as apple pie!" While he told the group of his experience, I just cringed, fearing retribution from NCIS and

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Dad Cooks Bacon, Vegan Daughter Isn't Having It


This dad took to Reddit to ask folks whether or not he was in the wrong for wanting to continue his enjoyment of bacon, even though it created distress for his vegan daughter's lifestyle. Folks seem to agree that dad isn't doing anything wrong at all. 

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Text - WIBTA for refusing to stop cooking bacon in my kitchen due to my teenage daughters vegan lifestyle? Not the A-hole Dad here, old fart, loves his daughter to pieces but I'm struggling to see eye to eye with my teenager and wife on this one. We've always been a meat eating family, we live in the rural Midwest and bacon for breakfast is pretty much a given. This year my 14 y/o daughter decided to go vegan, and I jumped onto her support team with enthusiasm. We learned how to substitute ingre

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Text - None of this has been a problem for me until recently. She saw me cook bacon in a pan, and then I rinsed it out to load in the dishwasher. She exploded in anger (teen years, I'm not too fussed about the anger explosion, I know she doesn't mean it) and said that that was HER pan for vegan food. I was completely floored and said, kiddo this here is a family pan, older than you, it's not YOUR pan. She asked me to purchase her a pan that she can solely use for vegan food. I didn't want her to

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Text - That wasn't good enough. Now apparently the dishwasher is 'contaminated' with animal product, and the fridge has 'bacon grease fingers' on it (because I eat bacon and then touch the fridge) and she's asked me and her mom to completely stop eating meat at home. I don't mean I literally touch the fridge with greasy bacon hands, because I wash my hands, but it's clearly enough that it upsets my daughter. frankly I'm on team hell no, her mom is much more amenable and strongly wants me to cons

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Text - RonDeGrasseDawtchins • 184d • Supreme Court Just-ass [126] NTA, obviously. You've been supportive of her new diet choice and have been very accommodating by getting her pans to use for vegan food. She can't expect you to change your whole lifestyle to cater to her. Meat needs to be kept in the fridge, and if the dishwasher is tainted then maybe she should try washing a dish by hand GASP.

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Text - PommeDeSang • 184d · Asshole Aficionado [13] Pfft had a vegan roommate in the past. He used the fridge and dishwasher just fine. Time for a real world lesson for her - she's not always gonna live with people who share her food lifestyle. She's got to learn to compromise. There is no reason to inconvenience yourselves and others because she's being a dramatic teen. Compromise - She has her own cookware and her own meat free section of the fridge.

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Text - 13rahma • 184d • Colo-rectal Surgeon [41] S 1 Award NTA. You're already being as supporting as you can, but at the end of the day it's your house. You don't need to bend the knee to your daughter over this.

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Text - LifeExplorer64 • 184d • Pooperintendant [69] NTA many vegans cohabitate successfully with meat eaters, your daughter is pushing the line here and being unreasonable. You have gone out of your way to support her dietary choices (I'm assuming that she washes her own pans and dishes by hand herself rather than using the contaminated dishwasher lol) it is time for her to learn how to coexist peacefully with people that dont think exactly like she does. I think you wife is 100% wrong here and

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Text - Zauberspruch • 184d • Asshole Enthusiast [9] S 4 Awards NTA. She's 14. There is no middle ground at 14. My condolences, as it's going to be a long winter. 8.3k

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Text - purplegirl1511 • 184d • Pooperintendant [57] 1 Award NTA, and I say that as a vegan. "cross contamination" is BS that militant vegans make up to make themselves feel superior to other vegans. And she has to understand that there's going to be meat around. I get that it upsets her, really, but unless she only lives with vegans for the rest of her life this is something she is going to have to get used to. A compromise might be too keep the meat in a drawer in the fridge rather than getting

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Text - brandonnavi • 184d • Partassipant [3] You know the answer, I'm assuming this is for your wife You are accommodating despite it being irrational. It's now being pushed to a new level of irrational. Explain to your daughter that you're trying to be as accommodating as possible but this is too far for you and there's no grounds for farther arguing because you don't have the same perspective as her. She might be mad at you, but when she has her own living space and gets to make the rules, she

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Text - DoffyTrash • 184d · Asshole Aficionado [12] 3 12 Awards NTA. Get her a special sponge she can use to wash her own dishes so she didn't have to use the "tainted" dishwasher.

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Text - Withamoomoohere • 184d • Partassipant [1] NTA You sound super cool, to adjust your eating habits and offering buy her a new set of pans. But yikes, just like you would never force your lifestyle on her, she can't force hers on you. Is this a recent behavior? Because that's the same type of extremist vegan behavior that puts a lot of people off from veganism

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Text - PartyCat78 • 184d • Certified Proctologist [21] Um NTA. So without going into all the opinions I have here, might I suggest you kindly remind her that even at a restaurant that serves vegan food, she's likely to get it on a plate that once had a burger on it. She is being a ridiculous teenager. Don't indulge her.

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Text - 3_littleByrds • 184d • Asshole Aficionado [15] NTA: You've been more than accommodating thus far. She's just seeing how far she can push it. Changing you & your wives diet is unreasonable.

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Text - Hennahands • 184d • Asshole Enthusiast [7] 3 3 Awards NTA, but this actually sounds really complicated. Teenage girls can have very contentious relationships with food, and that can express themselves in a lot of ways. I think you need to get more information going forward. She might just be a teen pushing limits and seeing what she can control. She might also genuinely be struggling with ideas about, "cleanliness" as it related to food. 739

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Text - TheRagingScientist • 184d 3 3 Awards As a teen who's trying to go vegetarian, your daughter is acting ridiculous. "The dish washing machine's tainted"? What kind of bull is that? And she shouldn't be forcing you guys to go vegan in your own house if you don't want to. You've been very supportive as it is, buying separate pans. YWNBTA Edit: and, if she really wants to change your diet, she should try and give you info on how bad the meat and dairy industry is, and how unhealthy large amoun

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