• tone212_
    18·
    26 days ago

    I’m at the ED at hospital. My mum was in a really bad car accident. Thankfully it’s just bruising but it could have been much, much worse. Her car was totalled. Driving up to the accident seeing all the police / ambulance / fire truck lights and then her totalled car was truly scary. I’m just thankful she’s OK. Waiting to do scans to make sure nothing is broken, then I’ll drive her home.

    • dumblederp@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      26 days ago

      Good job totalled car, it crumpled on her behalf. Drive gently on the way home. One of my repeated memories of post accident issues was how much the drive home sucked because I was all beaten up and resisting the mild g-forces as a passenger was suddenly a painful struggle.

      • PeelerSheila
        8·
        26 days ago

        You just reminded me of an accident I was in as a teen where we had to go over the railway lines to get to the Drs, and then again to get home. The whiplash!

    • Eagle
      6·
      26 days ago

      Gentle healing hugs for you and mum.

    • Catfish
      5·
      26 days ago

      Good job ex-car. She should probably be playing some Tetris.

    • Duenan
      4·
      26 days ago

      Oh goodness!

      I’m glad she’s ok and it wasn’t any worse.

      It must have frightened you terribly.

      Hope you’re ok as well.

    • tombruzzo
      4·
      26 days ago

      God, that would have been terrifying. I’m glad she’s ok

    • just_kitten
      4·
      26 days ago

      Shit, that’s one of my worse nightmares. Hoping everyone involved comes out mostly ok.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    17·
    26 days ago

    Just went out and there’s a for sale sign on the house across the road. The caravan, the trailer, the two cars are gone. This is the same cunt who floors his hotted up torana down the street every weekend and then revs his car outside my place while his wife moves the 2 cars so he can put precious back in the yard. He also yells at his 2 little kids aggressively. Fucking hero. Best day ever.

    • MeanElevatorEnglish
      7·
      26 days ago

      So the wife has to move the Camira so she can move the Commodore so he can get the Torana out?

      • CEOofmyhouse56
        4·
        26 days ago

        Yeah something like that while he barks orders from the driver’s seat. 😂

        • MeanElevatorEnglish
          5·
          26 days ago

          He sounds absolutely charming.

          I’m picturing him as overweight and tatted up with large sunnies.

          • CEOofmyhouse56
            3·
            26 days ago

            Spot on. Built like a brick shit house with a booming voice to match.

                • MeanElevatorEnglish
                  3·
                  26 days ago

                  Probably a good idea 😁

                  I’ve got a very particular mental picture of him and I’m willing to bet it’s pretty accurate.

                  Here’s hoping his house sells quickly and the new neighbours won’t be as annoying.

    • Seagoon_
      5·
      26 days ago

      I feel bad for his family

      good day for you he’s gone,

    • dumblederp
      3·
      25 days ago

      I was stoked when the local meth dealer moved away, good bye to his giant bark all night dog too. I had a little celebration with his neighbours that I’m friendly with.

  • tone212_
    16·
    25 days ago

    Back home after picking up my mum from the hospital. I left around 3am once we realised she wasn’t going to get seen by the doctor for hours, and I would be too tired to safely drive her home. Took until 10am to get her scans done, and 3pm to get the all clear, so a long stint in ED. She’s just got some bruises and she’s a bit sore, so glad that’s all it is.

    I went to the tow truck place to clear out her car and she’s lucky the collison was on the passenger side and not the driver side, because she would have been severely injured. The other person involved was completely fine, newer car with way more airbags that cushioned the impact.

    Barely slept last night and all the driving around today, I’m exhausted.

    • Seagoon_
      6·
      25 days ago

      so many hugs

      happy your mum is ok considering

    • just_kitten
      6·
      25 days ago

      So glad that you’re both ok. Definitely rest up, that’s a lot to deal with in 24 hrs…

    • Duenan
      6·
      25 days ago

      Time for some well earned rest and glad to hear your mum is ok.

      Get plenty of rest, you need to look after yourself as well.

    • melbaboutown
      5·
      25 days ago

      Glad she’s ok, hope she can rest up and everything is alright

  • tombruzzo
    14·
    26 days ago

    I remembered it’s my birthday today so I got the breakfast banh mi as a treat on the way in to work. I think I’ll check my emails and head down to the nearby shopping centre during lunch to collect up as much free/discounted birthday stuff as I can

  • just_kitten
    12·
    25 days ago

    Yay: my mum got her eye surgery moved forward after much pressure

    Nay: it’s on Anzac Day and my aunt can’t go and flights are stupidly expensive but at least my aunt has offered to chip in.

    Looks like I might be doing a week back in the equatorial concrete jungle soup. Maybe a good opportunity to focus on writing uni stuff… Shame it’s my favourite time of the year in melbs but honestly all that is irrelevant when my mum’s eyes are at stake.

    • Bottom_racer
      6·
      25 days ago

      my mum got her eye surgery moved forward

      Oh that is good news!

      • just_kitten
        4·
        25 days ago

        Yes and I won’t lie, what happened to your mum definitely added fuel to the fire for me in urging my mum to take the private option and get it done asap. So thank you for sharing your experiences!

    • Seagoon_
      4·
      25 days ago

      sending a million good wishes for your mum

      and good luck on the uni writing

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    11·
    25 days ago

    I have been very good with the limited sweets thing this lentish…until tonight when I made this creation.

    Here we have vanilla bean ice cream, hot chocolate topping, coffee topping, chocolate ice magic with a biscoff crumb and a twix. It was magnificent. 5/5 yum yums.

      • CEOofmyhouse56
        3·
        25 days ago

        It was! It started with the kid getting in my car with a hot fudge sundae. I thought I can do better than that and I did!

        • Seagoon_
          4·
          25 days ago

          this makes my guilty treat of a handful of gummy bears look like fasting

          • dumblederp
            3·
            25 days ago

            I had a savemore yopro low calorie paddle pop thing. It was no 2001 twix monolith. Then I put the heater on because frankly the main thing that has me overeating is the cold at night. Eating for heating is not a solution. I’m trying to avoid that this winter. Better to pay the power company than the junk food company.

  • SituationCake
    11·
    25 days ago

    This election campaign will drive me crazy because of the huge number of people who cannot pronounce nuclear. Nukular, nooclearar, nuklah, gnocchi-la, newklrrrr, arrgghhhhhhhh.

  • Duenan
    11·
    25 days ago

    Made myself a roast chicken sandwich.

    Oh it’s so nice.

    • NathA
      7·
      25 days ago

      The dietician has taken ham and salami off my wife’s menu to address cholesterol. It should likely apply to me also, but I’m not organised enough to book things like “check ups” and dieticians. So I bought a large whole chook last weekend and we roasted it. It’s going into sandwiches this week (and will likely be a weekly thing for the foreseeable future) instead of ham/salami. So far, everyone likes the change. It works out far cheaper also: over 2kg of chook is about he prices of 500g of ham/salami.

      • TinyBreak
        5·
        25 days ago

        but I’m not organised enough to book things like “check ups”

        Alright consider this an order to GET organized. This is your health ffs. Nothing else is more important.

        This is the second time today I’ve had to tell someone “yo you should REALLY see a doctor”.

      • CEOofmyhouse56
        4·
        25 days ago

        Poached chicken breast is awesome to substitute for deli meat and you can add subtle flavours to it.

      • Duenan
        3·
        25 days ago

        I personally use drumsticks as a bag of them are pretty cheap and the meat is so tender.

        Air fry 1 big one or 2 medium or small should be enough for one sandwich size serving. Season before cooking, let stand for a few mins then cut the meat off.

        Yum Yums to be had!

      • dumblederp
        2·
        25 days ago

        A whole chook in the instant pot for 40 mins is easy peasy and you get left over stock. I do it for curries, chilli and apricot chicken.

        The chook also wont have the nitrites found in ham and salami so there’s another health bonus.

    • Seagoon_
      9·
      26 days ago

      The food scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

      • TinyBreak
        5·
        26 days ago

        thats what I said about the meat pie corn chips. It was not good.

        • Seagoon_
          4·
          26 days ago

          but then if you didn’t try them you spend the rest of your life wondering what they taste like

          i still regret not buying the haggis chips

  • Bottom_racer
    10·
    25 days ago

    Cutting a big old bit of concrete with an angle grinder and didn’t realise it had rebar in it… whoopsie doodle. Tried to snap it in half when half way through without realising. Whoopsie doodle x 2 :(

  • Seagoon_
    10·
    25 days ago

    dusk view from my balcony 🙂 meh, for the cables but there are cables everywhere

    the trees are lovely here 🙂

  • Duenan
    9·
    26 days ago

    Just had a staff member here that I knew who let me borrow a few kids to help me out.

    I’ll be done by 9:30 now!!!

    • TinyBreak
      7·
      26 days ago

      who let me borrow a few kids to help me out.

      Was the condition that you DONT return them? 😂

      • Duenan
        4·
        26 days ago

        Nope, I had to return them. Contractually binding agreement. 😆

  • Duenan
    8·
    26 days ago

    What a beautiful day outside today.

    Oh it’s so glorious.

  • Seagoon_
    8·
    25 days ago

    still waiting on REA 😠

    5 hours late, then they send a no show apology 😡