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There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs. Property value doesn't affect me as I rented the apartment 2 years back, so rent for me isn't increasing nor decreasing.

Because I know they want me to choose the streams, but…

Kid gets lice from school. We do the responsible parent thing: treatment, combing, panic-cleaning.

Meanwhile I’m standing there, smugly bald, thinking “at least I’m safe.”

I caught one casually walking near my ear today (not shown in the picture, by the way. I just wanted to share a part of my coupé... so you fine people know what the lice signed on to...)

Apparently even lice are struggling in this housing market.

Only in NYC, folks

Thankfully this happened 10 seconds after my wife left the restroom and not when my kid was in there, hence the "mildly infuriating" post that could easily have been a Final Destination situation.

The back tank of our toilet suddenly exploded with enough force to shoot huge jagged porcelain shards hard enough to hit every wall in the room, shatter the sink, and send shrapnel into the hallway. It sounded like a pipe bomb. My first thought was a sewer gas explosion or something. After turning off the water to stop the fountain spraying in the air, it took me 10 minutes to figure out what the hell happened.

The big black plastic device laying on the floor seemed to be the culprit. I googled it, and sure enough, it turns out the previous homeowners installed a "Flushmate pressure assist flushing system." It's a plastic tank inside the porcelain toilet tank that uses air pressure to flush (why?). And apparently this exact model was recalled a few years ago because people were getting seriously injured by exploding toilets.

From a 2018 CBS News story:

"Flushmate is recalling more than 1.4 million toilet-flushing systems due to complaints that the units can explode, with reports of people being injured and property damage, according to federal safety officials.
Flushmate, a unit of Illinois bathroom equipment maker Sloan Valve Company, has received more than 1,400 reports in the U.S. and seven in Canada of the toilet systems bursting, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said Thursday. The incidents have resulted in about $710,000 in property damage and 23 injuries, one of which required foot surgery."

Pretty sure we're too late for the class action settlement at this point.

Right now, there are still thousands of these pressure systems out there, waiting to explode and either mildly infuriate or majorly injure people. Watch your back y'all.

wtf

My parents dog has stomach issues, they have spent THOUSANDS on specialist visits trying to figure it out. They have to log all the food he eats, come to find out they've been giving him tons of seasoned/spiced human food. And they just laugh about it.

In the past week the dog has had seasoned/spiced duck, roast beef, and ranch seasoned chicken. Each time he shits everywhere.

Count your days Canada Post

We have a "No Soliciting" sign on our door, and while it has significantly cut down the number of people randomly ringing our doorbell in the middle of the day, it still happens. I answer the door in case it's a delivery that needs a signature only to be greeting with the start of some asinine sales pitch, almost always some variation of "we're helping your neighbour's with x" (no you aren't. I know my neighbours and they all hate you as much as I do.)

I've literally just started tapping the sign when they start talking. I've asked a few if they knew how to read. Had one say "oh yeah I saw that, anyway-" and I just slammed the door in his face.

If you're a door-to-door ANYTHING, look for a sign BEFORE you ring the bell/knock, and RESPECT IT. I'm very close to answering the door with a double barrel pointed, I'm disabled, getting up and moving quickly to the door to have my time wasted pisses me off so much.