He has the survey, the photos, the texts, and three years of good neighborly history, and still can't get his 240 square feet back.

Three feet doesn't sound like much. But three feet across eighty feet of shared boundary adds up to 240 square feet of yard that used to belong to one person and now, thanks to a fence installed in March, sits on the wrong side of the property line. That's not a minor encroachment. That's a full room's worth of outdoor space, quietly absorbed into a neighbor's yard while the original owner was left standing on his side wondering what just happened.

He didn't let it go. He brought in a licensed surveyor, the kind of professional whose entire job is to tell you exactly where a property line is, and the results were clear. The fence was sitting three feet inside his property. The full length of the boundary. Every inch of it wrong.

So he went over and showed his neighbor. Reasonable. Direct. The kind of conversation that should have taken ten minutes and ended with a handshake and a contractor's phone number.

Instead, the neighbor said the fence company did it right and he wasn't going to act on a survey he didn't commission himself. Which is a creative position to take when someone shows up with professional documentation, but okay. So the homeowner offered to pay for a second independent survey, even offered to split the cost, just to give his neighbor something he could feel comfortable with. The neighbor said he'd think about it.

This man is curious about the current state of dating, because the woman he's seeing has a really specific pre-date request.

New York is a true melting pot! Some folks are born here, some are just visiting, and others have moved here to try and make it in the big city. 

You know what they say: if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. 

The city is not for the weak, but if you're ready to have a fun, active social life and spend your time exploring, you'll be in good company. 

What part of "I don't work here, lady" did this entitled shopper not understand?

Not to point any fingers here, but it's remarkable when people like to throw out and repurpose stock arguments from cultural conversations when they are completely not applicable to the situation at hand.

That's what happened here when this customer at a large retail store mistook another shopper for an employee based on what they were wearing. Despite the fact that the other shopper tried on numerous occasions to explain that he did not work at the store, the woman refused to accept this fact. 

Instead, she opted to throw a temper tantrum about how members of the other shopper's generations despised work entirely. The other shopper shared his side of the story with members of this online community.

We've seen this kind of entitled behavior from customers again and again, but that does not mean it should be normalized!

When your backyard becomes infested (in the cutest way possible) with kittens, what else is there to do except invite them into your home and love them furrever?

Cats have a meowsterious power to waltz into your life and make you think it was your idea. The kicker is that where there's one cat, there's usually more, so before you know it, you've gone from 0 to 4 cats in less than 24 hours. It's not like we have purrsonal experience with this or anything. We've only three cats, and they were all within the same week. Once the CDS decides that you're ready for a cat, it might not stop until you've reached your full capacity.

But whether you're looking for a feline friend or not, you know you can't turn your back on an animal in need, especially one with young babies who need your love and purrtection. After a couple posted a video on their Instagram page of their favorite feral cat introducing them to her backyard babies, they couldn't not start to care for them and bring them inside. They got mama cat spayed, so they wouldn't have any more surprises on their back patio, and were able to get two of the four kittens adopted (together). The other two they kept for themselves, naming them 'Chips' and 'Grey'. Mama stayed outside but hasn't left their backyard so she can still play with her baby boys whenever she wants. 

Remember, not all cats adjust well to being indoors, so the fact that she stayed close to watch over her babies means a lot. Now all three kitties are purrfectly cared for, healthy, and pawsitively loved.

Purrhaps it's because cats have 9 lives, but these kitties below really like to live their lives on the edge (pun intended).

If you're knew here, the first thing we should tell you is that cats are weird little guys. Their weirdness is not little, but the ratio of weirdness to body size is, in fact, quite large. They will decide the purrfect resting spot is inside the kitchen pan you leave out on the stove and decide that a random piece of lint is more fun to play with than any of the expensive cat toys you've bought them. They will sleep in the bathroom sink instead of their plushy cat beds. But one of the weirdest feline expurriences of all (and pawssibly the cutest) is when your cat shows you their obsession with edges. AKA, becoming a "dangler".

Not all cats are danglers, but you'll see the signs early on. From the meowment they're able to climb, they'll begin by resting their purrfect paws outside of whatever bed, hammock, or surface they're lying on. As they grow in size (and confidence), the dangling will also increase from a paw or two to the whole leg. Is it strange? Absolutely. But is it awwdorable? 100%.

All in all - cats will be cats. This post is the purrfect introduction into the wildly weird world of feline behaviors, so scroll through and pay attention. They're not only hilarious and silly, but they're also awwducational!

A co-owner of a thriving business pulling a 35% profit margin recently looked a trusted employee in the eye and said, out loud, that she would love to cut everyone's pay to minimum wage and pocket the tips. Not in a private meeting with lawyers present. Not in a carefully worded memo. Just casually, to someone's face, as if this were a reasonable thing to share over coffee.This here is a painful mix of being an involuntary teacher's pet and working between a rock and a hard place. No wonder this trusted employee went online to look for some advice and some much-needed venting.

Cats can hear a single treat bag crinkle from across the house but suddenly become deaf when somebody says "get off the counter."

Cats have mastered the art of selective hearing. Say their name ten times while trying to get them off the counter and suddenly they become completely incapable of hearing human language. Meanwhile the second somebody quietly opens a bag of treats from three rooms away, the cat comes sprinting into the kitchen like a tiny furry athlete breaking world records.

Some cats take ignoring people to professional levels too. You can stand directly in front of them calling their name while they stare straight through your soul without blinking once. Then the second you whisper something like "dinner" or "snack," their ears start rotating around like little satellite dishes picking up an emergency broadcast.

The fake ignorance is what makes it even funnier. Cats always know exactly what is happening. They hear every sound in the house. They simply decide whether the information benefits them or not. If the conversation involves cuddles on their terms, food, or opening a window, suddenly they are the most attentive little creatures alive. If it involves nail trims, getting off furniture, or being told "no," they disappear into another dimension immediately.

Some cats even add extra cattitude by flicking one ear slightly while continuing to ignore everything being said. That tiny ear twitch somehow feels more disrespectful than full silence.

She asked to be paid fairly, the recruiter called it "cute," but life rewarded her with a better paying job instead.  

Four months of ghosting, one condescending laugh, and one very clean Zoom exit later, the job market tried its worst and she came out ahead.

Sometimes the Cat Distribution System shows up exactly when a new little life is needed most.

Swabby really could not have arrived at a more purrfect moment. This pawrent explained in Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit that what started as an emotional visit unexpectedly turned into the beginning of a brand new chapter with one tiny flame point kitten. Instead of this little girl getting sent off to a shelter, she immediately found somebody ready to bring her home, spoil her, and completely fall in love with her tiny orange-tipped face.

The Cat Distribution System worked fast here. One second Swabby was finishing up her checkup after being found in the road, and the next she already had a name, a home, and somebody joking about "cutting out the middle man" to adopt her immediately. That kind of instant connection always makes rescue stories feel extra special.

Swabby also sounds impossibly cute already. The little cotton-swab-inspired name fits a tiny flame point kitten perfectly, especially with the orange ears and tiny face. You can already picture her running around the house investigating everything and slowly taking over every cozy spot available.

The sweetest part is that all the old cat supplies ended up getting used again for a completely new little life. Instead of staying packed away, the bowls, toys, beds, and blankets suddenly have a tiny kitten to belong to again. Swabby did not just find a home either. She landed somewhere she was instantly wanted, welcomed, and loved from the second she appeared.

What must an offer letter contain to convince you to leave your job?

One of the biggest "complaints" about the current job market is that people often find themselves stuck in their current jobs, and instead of working hard to move up where they are, they prefer looking for another job with better conditions. People claim that these days, it's a lot easier to find a new job than to move up in their current one. This is why people leave their jobs after one or two years, even though their parents often stayed in the same workplace for 20 or 30 years.

Which leads to the question, what would it take for you to leave your current job for a new one? Is better pay enough? Must the new job have a job title that sounds better than your current one? 

The person below posted their success story to Reddit's r/antiwork Subreddit, describing how they managed to get both a pay raise and a promotion, all thanks to one offer letter from a rival company. Originally, they weren't even thinking about leaving their current job; they were happy where they were and knew the future held benefits if they stayed. However, while they were on PTO, a rival company called them up and asked them to interview for a role with them, and out of curiosity, this employee decided to say yes.

The interview led to a job offer and an offer letter, and the offer letter was simply too good to refuse. This led the employee to return to work from their PTO with the intention of handing in their notice. After they did, they were surprised to discover that their current employer was not ready to give them up so easily. Suddenly, this employee had a counteroffer as well, one that made it easy to stay.

Should they accept the counteroffer, or should they move on and accept the new job offer instead? Scroll down to read the full story.

We constantly think we know cats, but they never cease to amaze us.

It's not a secret that colorpoint cats have a tendency to toast over time - it's even a central part of their charm. But seeing before-and-after pictures of a cat's transformation with this much change of color can be surprising. And the surprise on the online faces of the r/ToastedCats Reddit community, after seeing the most scared and shivering white kitten turn into the most beautiful toasted queen, was a big one. But just as the online feline family knows, they turned it into a hilarious thread of cat jokes and humor.

But this is not the only fur change that occurs in cats, even if it is one of the most common and known (and loved) ones. Some black cats become brown in the sun, for example. Cats' fur is like meowgic, and we're just the captivated audience to the surprises cats keep on giving us, even when it comes to a rescue kitten's adult fur.

Teenagers spending unsupervised spring break harassing neighbors end up facing eviction after the neighbors turn out to have the landlord's personal number and months of camera footage

Being a good neighbor is mostly about not making yourself a problem, which turns out to be a surprisingly high bar for some people. The couple in this story set that bar about as low as possible: no complaints about loud music during predictable hours, no drama over minor stuff, hose off the pavement and move on. Two months into living next to a family of teenagers with unsupervised spring breaks and a mother whose schedule keeps her elsewhere, that philosophy got stress-tested in ways they did not anticipate.

Cats never fail to make us laugh!

Every cat pawrent knows that raising a cat brings a wide spectrum of silly situations with it. It ranges anywhere from "look at this silly creature" to "how can one little thing make so much chaos?" But what's sure is that cats never fail to make their humans laugh. The confused expressions when something they don't understand moves too fast, the ekekek to birds outside the window, and the sheer chaos of midnight zoomies. Cats prove time and time again that they're the masters of silliness.

So we asked our beloved Facebook cat community to share these meowing moments with us and post a picture of their cats that made them laugh out loud. Let us tell you, we laughed so hard our own cat came to check if we're still okay. It's not only that our cats make us laugh - it's all cats, even the ones online, that make us snort with laughter.

Cat people are known for being introverted. And cats? They're impossible to pin down and define, they're like water slithering through your fingers, and somehow that reminds us of them being introverted. 

The internet is a comforting place for all, but for introverts, there's nothing like it. There's no need to talk to people face to face, to open your mouth and speak, or to make unwanted eye contact with anyone. People may see your introverted behavior as inimical, but cats? Cats embrace this aversion to society and socializing. Cats and the internet really do go hand in hand, for so many reasons. When you spend time with your cat, it doesn't feel like the same social exhaustion that you feel with people. The cat accepts you, and you can sit in absolute silence without harm. How to define introvert? It's typically thought of being shy, but it's more than that. It's closer to being antisocial than anything. Cats, in their mere existence, exude this type of vibe. You really never know when it's okay to pet them, speak to them, or acknowledge them. 

Does this Texas-based hotel employee have any legal standing here, or are his employers justified?

Let this story serve as a friendly reminder that no matter how innocent you may think you're being on social media, always use caution when it comes to what you post. This Texas-based employee learned that the hard way after he posted a status on LinkedIn expressing that he was open to new work opportunities. 

When he returned to work from bereavement leave after a family loss as well as a personal medical issue, he was completely blindsided and discovered that his so-called "innocent" post was now being perceived and interpreted by his employer as a voluntary letter of resignation.

The house flippers of the house neighboring this man's home have a flipping talent for treating other people's property like a staging area. Not their own property, mind you. Everyone else's. The sidewalk becomes a thoroughfare, the neighbor's lawn becomes a shortcut, and the whole operation runs with the confident energy of people who have never once considered that the land they are driving heavy machinery across belongs to someone who did not sign a contract with them.

Taco Bell isn't just a place for burritos, quesadillas, and Doritos corn tortillas, it's also where you can find the furball of your dreams! 

This person from Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem was tired and hungry after work. They went to stop at a McDonald's for fries, but this particular McDonald's was all out. So as the cat distribution system works in mysterious ways, it had her drive next door to the local Taco Bell. As she was leaving, she heard loud meows and stopped the car as quickly as possible. She ran out out to find this scared little guy who looks around 3-4 weeks old. Her brother scooped him up and the kitten immediately stopped crying. They took him home, and put him in a carrier. It was already midnight so there wasn't a lot of stores open, but they called the vet for advice and got help. They did the necessary precautions to keep this little guy happy and thriving. The woman even went to search for more cats in that area! 

She says it's not her first rodeo with such young cats, but this one is different. He's energetic, loving, affectionate, and curious. So next time you think you're just picking up a fast food order, remember that the beauty of life is around every corner. 

He planned the perfect proposal, followed the jeweler's advice to the letter, and still ended up holding a $2,500 ring that doesn't fit and a store that won't take it back

This is not a story about a bad proposal. The proposal was beautiful. This is a story about what happened the next day when the jeweler looked through a microscope and said the word "wear and tear" about a ring that had been worn for less than an hour.

We already know how many people it takes to change a lightbulb, but how many people does it take to rescue two kittens stuck in a storm pipe?

It seems that so many people were involved in this daring, live-blogged kitten rescue. But the most surprising of them all has got to be the fiancée of the plumber who actually got the kittens out to safety. She just chimed in on the comments and expanded everyone's hearts. We usually hear about firefighters saving a cat - and believe us, the fire department was absolutely involved in this kitten rescue - so hearing about another blue-collar fellow putting it all aside just to help cats in need is a great refreshment. But we appreciate anyone who saves cats from danger, no matter the place, time, occupation, or any other parameter. As long as the cats are safe.

This customer may have been particular about her muffin temperature, but she wasn't particular enough about her demands.

Look, we should all extend a level of understanding when we're dealing with folks in customer-facing roles, especially when these employees are young and new to the workforce. This barista at a local coffee shop was only a teenager, and it was his first job. Naturally, any temper tantrum thrown by a customer would feel apocalyptic to someone without enough work experience to become jaded at people and their unruly behavior.

This woman despised the fact that her muffin was hated in the microwave. It was soggy and didn't taste fresh to her. While we understand that disappointment, clearly, this was not the kind of establishment that served fresh food, as all the pastries and breakfast items came frozen. If you're going to be picky about food quality, you might want to dine somewhere else.