40ish white dude (he/him) from the Netherlands
> sudo make guitar
*ends up in dependency hell*
Where the hell did I leave my shark repellent?
If you had dreamt so vividly that you were 80-ish years old, and then immediately after waking up you look in the mirror and see a 40-ish year old looking back at you. For a short time you can’t comprehend what you’re seeing.
Ducking heck! 😄
Boohoo, Denuvo, cry me a fudging river!
Had a similar dream like that. But in my dream I think I died?
So like your dream, mine was hyper vivid too.
Met a girl, we dated, we got married, even had a couple of kids. And then at some point we celebrated our wedding anniversary with a big party. Our kids and grand kids were there. It was an amazing feast. And we go to bed happy, I kiss her good night and tell her how lucky I am, and then I startled myself awake and I find myself alone in bed in my darkened house.
I figured that she must have gotten up earlier or something, so I go to the bathroom, but I don’t recognise my face in the mirror initially, looks too young and I start to panic. Rush to kitchen, shouting her name. But the kitchen is empty too, obviously. She was never real. I mourned that loss for a few days, it really messed me up for a while. Wanting to go back to the dream. But I never saw her again in my dreams.
Scumbag brain.
I don’t know. It might be that it was usual at that time to rent those things than to buy them. My parents also had a rented water heater when they owned a home, which is why I didn’t even think twice about it.
I don’t know how expensive those boilers were in the 80s.
I have since replaced it with a water heater I bought outright. Sadly a heat pump isn’t an option in my home. So it’s a simple electric 80liter water heater.
I’ve since replaced it with a water heater I bought outright. For a while I wasn’t aware that you could just buy a heater. So I just gritted my teeth and paid up.
But my point was the weird and pointless increase of fees.
I was renting a water heater. It had been installed in my house in the early 1980s. And the rental contract had been handed down from home owner to home owner.
But there was never an attempt at maintenance, even upon request I got told “there’s no need, there’s nothing to maintain on it.” but they kept increasing the rental cost year over year “because of inflation”. It had been paid off for decades! What do you mean you need to charge more? What exactly am I paying for? My water heater is just a number in your books. You have zero costs for it!
5/7 perfect comment!
Time for the DSA and the DMA to be applied to reddit.
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Parent: As if you’ll be able to afford one for me.
Say watt?! I hope she doesn’t blow a fuse either.
I’m afraid it’s too late now, you’re in such dire straits. Let go those tears for fears. We’d better go ask the talking heads for advice.
Oh no you’re already affected!
I’m taking this with a pinch of Salt And Peppa.
My money is on the elephant!