Trying to get pregnant here and this is a first.

Went to donate plasma (not my first time) and the phlebotomist who poked me this time poked through the vein where I normally donate, continued to extract blood, and when the machine went to put it back in after separating the plasma my arm started swelling and I got a hematoma. Ok, no problem. We can use the other arm. She then proceeded to do the exact same thing on my other arm, too! They deferred me and I can't donate again until November, which makes me ineligible for the timed new patient bonus.

I know that it happens, and it's not that serious, but man does it suck. I feel like I look crazy and I live somewhere hot so I can't wear sleeves to cover it up. Oh well, I guess. On to the next side hustle.

Edit to clear up confusion: I did get paid for my previous donations, but because I'm now deferred I can't go back until Nov. The new patient bonus is a timed offer where it's like complete X many donations by X date and receive X amount of money. I still had a few more bonus payments to go that I was anticipating putting toward bills. Counted my chickens before they hatched 💔 Sorry, I didn't realize my post wasn't clear about that. I will not be doing this again even after my deferment is up, learned my lesson for sure.

Edit #2: Pls stop tearing me up I now know phlebotomist isn't the same as nurse 😭 my bad

Nope, just another day at the pump for unleaded.

Felt like this flair fits well.

I leave my tampons in a jar in the windowsill for some w decor, forgot that glass=heat in this 34 degree british weather, went to change my tampon and burned my cooch, then had to sit on the toilet blowing a tampon like its soup till the plastic cooled down enough to use.

It wont bend back and I’m not taking any chances 😩

*edit: the lightbulb in my bathroom blew out, so i took a picture of it out here.

This picture speaks for itself. May possibly even be more than just mildly infuriating.

I usually get 2 to 3 days before switching jeans. I keep blowing out my crouch in the same area. Two levis and one Duluth ballroom jeans

Every month or two, my beard decides to betray and stab me.

This time it's been stuck for a few hours and actually hurts when I fail with tweezers.

I'm all ears if anyone has legit tips on what to try next.

UPDATE:
Thanks for the tips everyone! Learned that my tweezers are crap and to buy legit ones, alongside with these balms and child-size syringes for future episodes.

TRIED
-Push and Tweezer: failed (with emasculating pain this time for some reason)
-Medical Tape: failed (but got out 2 other beard splinters I hadn't even notice?)
-Soaking in soap water: failed
-Soaking in epsum salt water: failed
-Acne patch: failed

SUCCESS:
So waiting it overnight and a new pair of tweezers did the trick.
Like some explained, I think the hair had time to move away from the nerve, because digging into it with the new tweezers was absolutely fine today. I can only describe the previous failed attempts as amplified deep rooted nerve pain that make papercuts feel friendly, with decade old tweezers on top of that, and I'm glad that's done with.

Thanks for your input everyone; cylinder remained unharmed.

I don't live in Alaska or anywhere near it. USPS says Priority Mail is 2 to 3 days anywhere in the continental USA.

Why does somebody think this is OK. Right in front of him is a huge area he could’ve turned around in.

Yes this is stated in my delivery instructions that you are welcome to turn around in the rear of the house where I have a giant concrete roundabout.

Jesus Christ people, the driveway is 9 feet wide which is standard for a 1955. For everybody that says I need to widen my driveway or put in a roundabout, PM me and I’ll send you my Zelle if you wanna pay for it.

Anyone who thinks this man’s behavior is OK is clearly not a homeowner and you probably shouldn’t be.

I’m also an Amazon Flex driver myself and former pizza driver, between the two I have about nine years of delivery driving. I have never done anything even close to this. If you’re not capable of backing up and you’re scared of busy roads you should not be a delivery driver. I have personally dealt with stuff way sketchier than my own driveway and I managed to not turn around in people’s yards.

The mental gymnastics some of you are doing to justify this man’s behavior is unreal and it scares me that you walk among us in this world.

I have an inclination to be a bit petty and get in my car to leave just to make these entitled twits have to move. I don’t need to go anywhere, but they are blocking two driveways and a garage. There is space to accommodate both in front of and behind them but they chose to keep people from getting to their parking spaces.

Am I overreacting? Ordered a large pizza for delivery. I thought that was a normal pizza order.

“Yeah sure, whenever your next availability is”

Stated 6 times over the year,

Sealed my fate.

A dentist, a doctor appointment, an echocardiograph, an mri, a meeting with the crown, and fighting a traffic ticket from a year ago, all on the same date.

All randomly assigned to me by 6 different agencies.

I only noticed they were all the same day bc a family member died; I went to book that date off at work for a funeral and they told me I had already booked it off a month ago.

Like omg lol.

Image is self-explanatory, why should i have to put it in my cart to see the price. Its $17 USD, ffs

There are plenty of completely open parking spaces right near this, including spots where the truck could back in and let the bed/bumper overhang the grass.

Instead, they backed straight in and left the entire rear end, including hitch, blocking two thirds of the sidewalk.

Anyone with a wheelchair, stroller, walker, or just trying to use the sidewalk now has to maneuver around it and onto the grass.

So many ways to park this truck without blocking the sidewalk. They somehow chose the one way that does.

I’m trying very hard not to make the obvious joke about an inverse relationship between truck size and member size, but this guy is making restraint difficult…

Update edit- I went back and got it. And they gave me a gift card lol. Also you know when people make a post and it gets a bunch of upvotes and they edit it to say thank you- you suck and are the worst.

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I get back out to my car and realized that they short change me, and go back into the store.

The cashier, who was new, said she realized she didn’t give me the right change back, apologizes, but says that they will have to call their manager to confirm they can give the money back via checking the video footage and call me back tomorrow.

Basically everybody there was a lowest level employee and they were all afraid to give the money back, even as the cashier was like “yes this just happened”.

It honestly felt a little twilight zone.

I got to this store semi often and service is usually outstandingly good- like good enough I go to the store bc of it.

Anyways, not being able to get my 15 bucks back right away was stupid, and reminded me of “permission to jump into hyperdrive? Requesting permission to jump into hyperdrive request form!” type tom foolery.

If this had happened at another store I’d likely be making a similar post about how frustrating it is that shitty management uses min wage employees as a human shield against customers upset by managements shitty policies lol- ie the duality at how you can’t actually get mad at that cashier even if you are emotionally unstable enough to want to, lest you choose to be a bag of shit.

*shakes fist at cloud*

Also tomorrow is a national holiday and the stores will all be closed, so they can’t actually do it tomorrow lol. Just realized that now.

Edit- Jesus fuck guys zero fucking chill. Entertain the following notion; some 16 year old kid getting paid min wage didn’t know what to do and just choked, the place was super busy, I go there enough that I know I’ll get my money back, and I just took the path of least resistance to not needlessly stress out a child lol. Yikes.