Background I'm an intern in a group chat with the other interns where I work. We're the only people in our age group (early 20s) at the company, and none of us are from or from near the small town in which we live, which we are living in for a relatively short amount of time, so without spending...

I started this job one month ago. I work in an at-will state, so I could be fired for being gay. I was cautious at first, and that appears to have been wise. I'm not sure how my manager feels, but two of my coworkers are homophobic assholes. They have a bitter and cold relationship with my cowork...

My wife never gives any hints about what she wants for her birthday (even after extensive direct questioning), but is sometimes disappointed that I didn’t get her the right thing. This time, it turns out she wanted me to organise a surprise fun event for us to go to as a family (we have young k...

But four doesn't equal five. Saw "two events" in a rep list and expanded it, to get three events. Bug?

Not that I'm complaining, but if forty people think I posted garbage, and nine think the opposite, my rep increases. That seems a bit unbalanced to me.

We're currently having some work done in the back garden and whilst I don't have any particular reason to distrust them I do feel a little uncomfortable around the workmen. The other day I was just popping round to the shop and went out to inform them I'd be out so the house would be locked up (t...

I have met people that use this pattern as a way to end a conversation as 'winners' when they have an argument with another person in front of others: they just yell their opinion at the one they are arguing with AND/OR interrupt the other person when it's his/her turn to speak. Dealing with such...

I'm Israeli. I travel to Europe two or three times a year, mostly the UK. I generally try to be polite and pleasant around people, so very often a smiling waitress in a café or an assistant in a shop would ask me where I'm from. It's a safe question, right? Like the weather. And then I say I'm f...

I contacted someone from an advocacy organization. I explained that my son's school hasn't understood one of his symptoms and asked if she could send me some suggested text to put into his IEP (Individual Education Program -- used for special education at school) that explains this symptom and h...

I paint to relax. During office lunchbreak, I paint in my cubicle. Now, I wish to be more outgoing and was advised to paint in office mess during lunchbreak. Lot of people admire my artwork. One person asked if I can paint portrait of his son, and not knowing what to say, I agreed. Luckily t...

Someone I know quite closely quite enjoys the attention of paramedics. She is an amputee, is currently unemployed, and is very attention-centric. Every time she has a minor accident, she calls over paramedics. What can we do to stop her doing this?

Apologies in advance if this question is obvious/ doesn't fit criteria here. Background: I am an undergraduate at a University in the UK. For personal reasons I haven't had any friends for the past four years, or social media (which is why I need to ask questions like this). I have known a gi...

Background: I'm a guy in my late twenties and I have a fiancee that I have been together with for almost 9 years. We've traveled a lot together, grew up together and learnt a lot about one another during that time (our upbringing was totally different, I had a semi-hard childhood while she has al...