Borrowing someone's parking spot is one thing, but moving their car without permission and getting it towed is another.

Coming home from vacation to a $909 bill was definitely not the welcome she expected. While she was away, her roommate entered her bedroom, grabbed her spare keys, and moved her car so a visiting friend could have the prime parking spot. The car ended up in a tow-away zone, but when she returned, neither of them volunteered to cover the cost of their mistake.

I disagree with the OP here: I would never let anyone touch my car. I understand that she left for vacation and told one of the girls that she could use it, and it seemed she was very careful with it and even helped her file a police report so the woman could enjoy her vacation in peace. However, things got out of hand whenever the other roommate decided to take the car and move it so her friend could use that parking spot.

The car got towed and ended up costing $909 to get it back, which is an insane number if you ask me. The worst part? None of the roommates decided to help with the bill, leaving the writer with nothing but tears and a lot of money missing from her account. When things like this happen, the person who is responsible for the mistake should be the one covering the cost.

The community in r/AITAH suggested that she should demand the money from them to cover this huge bill, because it was not her fault that one of the roommates decided to take the spare keys and move the car without hesitation or question. Also, this comes down to respecting others' privacy and personal belongings. No one should be touching others' things without permission because things can escalate and end like this.

After a gas station employee repeatedly ignored a retail manager's requests to stop occupying one of the store's three customer spaces, her attempt to evade the parking signs got her towed.

I think that the main problem here is the fact that the gas station's employee clearly banned her from parking her vehicle on site, expecting her just to magically teleport to work every day. Well, that and her attitude. If she had been nice about it, one of the neighbors might have actually let her park her vehicle close by. I get not wanting to walk far to your vehicle, especially alone and at night and in some areas where it's not necessarily safe to do so. There's a way to go about things, and if you aren't willing to do so, you should be ready for the consequences. In this case, paying hefty towing and impound fees.

What do I know about anti-employee rules while parking on site? Well, in university, the cafe I worked in was in a very ritzy outdoor mall with extremely strict parking rules. 

What do you think of this situation? We'll take a look at the original story first, and then I'll share my experience before we look at what others had to say. Leave a comment down below if you have input.

It is the dream in this life, to earn a whole bunch of money while doing little to nothing to actually earn it. Heck, it is basically the American dream that has been lost to time. But we are happy to say that the dream is not totally lost, as these clever cattos have managed to pull off just that dream of doing as little as possible and suffice it to say it is impressive.

We work so hard each and every day to provide for our cat children. It is a never ending rat race, and not just because of the rising cost of everything, but also the rising expectations of our feline fur babies who are never quite satisfied with the current quality of life that they enjoy and are always looking for the next best thing to bump up their standards of living. And while that pressure is immense, our cute cats have also left us a handy little guide in the form of this funny list of felines to help us figure out how to make that all important cheddar without giving away too much of ourselves.

Amongst the many examples of crafty cat children who have managed to scale the corporate ladder and land jobs with all the pay check and none of the responsibility we have the pawlitics pawfessor who took his love of singing the songs of his people to the classroom to regale the youth, we have the cat who was tasked with stopping a train from moving by an unknown wealthy benefactor and achieved his goal simply by sitting on said train, and of course we have the dopey detective cat who hired himself to figure out who it was that knocked over the family television. Spoiler alert, he did it.  
 

In-laws and business just don't mix. 

Has someone ever asked you to help them get a job, and you instantly knew it would be a bad idea? You might love your best friend with all of your heart, but know that if they ever got hired at your company based on your referral, it would be the end of both of your jobs. 

I don't say this to mean that business and family can never mix. There are plenty of people who hire their kids and have great working relationships. The problem is when people hire their kids for roles they aren't qualified for. That can make the rest of their employees lose their respect for them quickly. 

The mother-in-law and business owner in this story took to r/AmITheA**hole to ask the public whether she was in the wrong for refusing to hire her son's wife because she doesn't trust her to be a good employee. Unsurprisingly, most members of this subreddit didn't think she was wrong for putting the integrity of her business above her daughter-in-law's potentially hurt feelings. 

It is a woeful yet true fact that the work week weighs us all down. By the end of it some of us are so weighted that we just want to spend the weekend with our eyes closed and our curtains shut. But that is no way to spend a life on this world, so we made this collection of silly cat memes to help lighten your heart's load.

After all, if there is one sure fire trick to take your mind off the madness and melancholy of the world, it is silly cats. These are the cats that were born without braincells, the cats who seem to be caught between alternate realities in which each has very different rules regarding physics and gravity. The felines who struggle with their simple everyday tasks but still go on with a smile on their face. These are the cats that we have brought forth for you today and these are the cats that can cure your emotional crash.

So sit back and prepaw yourself for some truly hissterical cattos, with such classics as the postman cat who has no respect for federal postal laws, the clever cat pawrent who tricked his twins into a family photo with a strategically places piece of salami, and of course the cat who was somehow convinced to wear a crab shell on its head. You are sure to find more than a few mood boosting cattos in the confines of this collection. 
 

Tipping culture will always be a problem

When we discuss tipping culture, we always get to the same conclusion. It probably wouldn't be needed if restaurants paid their servers more than minimum wage, but it would imply an increase in food prices. But today the argument is different. We aren't really discussing if a server deserves a 20% tip. We are discussing if a girl who puts up a lemon stand and overcharges it because it's the only drink available in that place is allowed to guilt-trip people into tipping by yelling out loud the question "do you want to leave a tip?". And… is it? Well, that is something we can either agree or disagree on, but it probably won't stop this girl from doing it.

I can definitely agree on two things about the story below. Firstly, $11 for a glass of lemonade is insane. It's not just overpriced. It's literally more expensive than buying a lemonade soda from the supermarket. Secondly, asking for a tip after paying an overpriced amount for a lemonade glass is also insane. Especially if we take into account that this business was in a food truck, so tipping isn't really something you should expect. It's almost like a self-service. But I do agree on one thing: the girl has the right to ask for a tip, and you, as a customer, have the right to say no. She can ask. Whether it makes you uncomfortable or puts you in a weird position is your problem. She can definitely ask for a tip in her business. And you are a grown adult. If you can't say no and feel guilt-tripped, then it's your problem. That girl had every right to ask for a tip, and it is your responsibility to say no if you don't want to give it.

So really, is the problem tipping or the fact that the girl asked you out loud and you couldn't deal with the shame? If you were sure you didn't want to tip for an overpriced lemonade, then why don't you just do it? It's not that hard. How it makes YOU feel being asked for a tip is yours, and just your, problem. The girl had the right to ask. This user should have had the courage to speak up for himself instead of complaining online about it. 

"There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture." - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 

Now that we have your attention, thinking about human existence can make the mind go in various directions, awry with wonders of what could be, why, and what to do with it. Philosophers from ancient Greece got only so far in giving humanity solace for these pressing questions, these existential pleas. There's really one answer, and it's simple: cats. 

Cats give lightness to life, they exist as posits of joy and escape. We live with them, dine with them, and love them with all our hearts, and they simply sit there begging for more tuna and meowing. Instead of crying into the night's sky with your fists in the air, wondering why we're here, why life is suffering, and where are we left to go, scroll these happy and lighthearted cat memes to omit the heavy burden of life's pressure. 

Don't get discouraged by cooking fails… let's use them as fuel to laugh (and order takeout).

I have a complicated relationship with cooking. I love food, I love trying new things, and I can spend way too much time watching someone prepare an incredible meal online. But actually getting into the kitchen and recreating it myself? That's where things can get dangerous. Suddenly, that "easy 20-minute recipe" has me questioning every decision I've made in my life.

The problem is that recipes always make everything look so simple. Mix this, chop that, put it in the oven, and voilà! Meanwhile, I'm standing there wondering why my dough looks nothing like the picture and whether something is supposed to smell that burnt. And once you've already spent an hour cooking, there's really no turning back. You just have to trust the process and hope dinner eventually becomes edible.

I also think cooking fails are one of those things that are much funnier after the fact. In the moment, watching your cake collapse or realizing you've destroyed dinner can feel devastating. Give it a few hours, though, and suddenly you're taking pictures of the disaster and sending them to everyone you know. At least the failure gave you something to laugh about… even if it didn't give you something to eat.

And honestly, I have a lot of respect for people who keep trying. Cooking is basically experimenting until you figure out what works, and unfortunately, some experiments end with a smoke alarm instead of a delicious meal. That's part of learning.

So, if your latest culinary masterpiece looked nothing like the recipe promised, you're definitely in good company. These 21 cooking fails prove that sometimes trusting the process works beautifully…and sometimes the process betrays you completely.

Cats take time to get close with, but once you do, there's no going back. 

The stereotypes about cats and dogs continue to prove themselves true. Everyone knows how easily lovable and affectionate dogs will be. Their big smiles and wagging tails let us know how much they love us, and their loyalty goes far. Cats on the other hand are usually more protective of themselves. They are capricious with their behavior, and they don't show love to just anyone or all at once. Cats are skeptical and judgmental, there's a strange dance of push and pull when it comes to getting to know a cat. It's just written in their DNA. So when this person adopted a 10 year old cat from a shelter, he really didn't know what he was getting himself into. The cat was grumpy, and the shelter warned him that the cat wasn't affectionate and just liked to be left alone (in typical cat ways). For six months, the guy didn't know if the cat would ever warm up to him. It was like they were roommates, and the cat would just sit across the room and stare at him, but he didn't want to be touched or play. 

It was a rough day at work for the guy, so he came home and laid on the couch crying. Then, everything changed. The cat jumped up awkwardly on his chest out of nowhere and started purring louder than he'd every heard. He fell asleep there with his chin on the guy's shoulder. He now knows what he didn't before, that the cat actually does love him, he just needed some time. This is a really wholesome story, and heartwarming indeed! 

The classical 'Petty employee turned CEO' story that never occurs

At some point in our careers, we've all had that one coworker who thought that if they sided enough with the management team and worked as their informant, they would give them a better position and make them the company's CEO.

You're probably going to find out about it anyway, so here's a little preemptive truth-telling: That never happens. Ideally, an employee who flags persistent issues is retained and heard, but often they are either ignored without reward or disciplined for speaking up.

With that, I'm not saying the employee is an unsung hero; I'm simply saying that his efforts won't earn him a raise and management will likely realize he's being too extreme and escalating minor stuff.

Maybe my opinion will be a little too superstitious around this topic, but bear with me. I believe that if you leave people like this to their own fate, they'll eventually encounter the consequences of their actions on their own, without anyone's help. And in this case, I think those consequences will be negative.

Given this situation, would you confront your coworker, escalate the issue to your bosses, or just keep yourself away from the drama at all costs? I would definitely try to discuss it with all coworkers except him (rather than the internet) before arriving at any conclusions.

If your cat is a "fully outdoor" cat, then are you really a cat owner? 

In the cat community, there is a whole debate about indoor vs. outdoor cats. Most of us, me included, think that cats are better indoors. They live longer lives indoors, they can be spoiled indoors, they are safe with us, and to us, that is generally all that matters. But we do understand the other side of the argument, specifically for some cats. Some cats who have lived their whole lives as strays don't do well with being confined indoors. They need their time outside, for their mental well-being, in one way or another. Some solutions to that can be letting them out for short periods of time, taking the cat on a leash for a walk, or building your cat a catio if you can. The solution is never to let your cat roam outside without giving them the option to get back inside. 

Some cats, even strays, learn to live fully indoors. They get used to it, and they learn to appreciate it. Some even learn to prefer it. And that's the story of today's cat. He knows what it's like to live indoors. He knows what it's like to be loved by humans. His old family used to let him roam outside and come back whenever he wanted, but then they decided to move, and although they were planning to take the cat with them, they were also planning on turning him into a "fully outdoor" cat - without the option of coming back in. The cat couldn't have known that, of course, but he must have sensed something. Because before the move even happened, he started venturing to his neighbor's house, and that neighbor fell in love with him so fast, they were willing to take him off the streets forever. 

Did he wrongfully reject a job that could've been great, or did he act perfectly after a very clear red flag?

I don't know if interviews have always been like this or if it started happening after the job portals started getting bigger and more sketchy places started being advertised there.

I have heard so many anecdotes lately of people going to shady interviews or receiving suspiciously vague contracts that I started to wonder whether companies have always been like this or if it's a new thing.

In my mind, the rise of freelance work has made companies a little too flexible, and sometimes they send generic and vague contracts, and you are supposed to trust they will hire you for what they said they'd hire you for; but that's another topic.

I understand the double standard here, and that if  the employee had shown up 30 minutes late, they would've immediately cancelled his interview, but I don't know why I'm inclined to give the company the benefit of the doubt here; maybe it's just because I'm too easily manipulable, but please hear me out. Not every mistake is indicative of how the company will act in general; although it's good to be careful of these things, it might have been just that, a mistake.

I think in the end, sadly, as most job-related things are, it's all a matter of how much you need a job and how many options you have available. If you can afford to reject any sort of sketchy attitude around work, you should, but if you can't, you might as well be a little inclined to forgive a little sloppiness because you don't have many options to begin with and you have to pay rent next month.

I suppose this employee considered other things before leaving, and that the half-hour wait was the last straw; so if that was the case, all I have to say is: Good for him.

Would you have done the same?

 What's the silliest thing you've ever had to take your cat to the vet for?

We have all been there, right? We, as cat owners, are paranoid. It is that simple. We know cats, and we know that cats do not like showing when they are sick. When my kitty had a fever, it took me a whole week to notice that something was wrong, and I only noticed because I felt that she was physically hotter. She didn't want me to know. They never do. And so… we pay attention. If anything seems ever so slightly off, we don't mess around. We immediately take our cats to the vet. Better safe than sorry. Always. But that does mean that we sometimes take them to the vet over… silly reasons. 

And vet trips are expensive. We can tell you this - while it is happening, while you're concerned for your cat's health and worried that something might legitimately be wrong, it's not funny. Afterward, when you find out that your cat, like mine, just got spooked by something, and that is why she started limping while running, and you have to pay hundreds of dollars for the vet visit… it is still not funny. Much, much later, when recalling the story of your cat's expensive fart, that is when it becomes funny. It's also funny when it happens to other people, which is why today's story is so, so amusing. $400 at the vet's, and why? Because the cat who has spent ten years eating nothing but one brand of food suddenly decided that they don't like that food anymore. And that means going on a hunger strike. At age 14. With no explanation. Oh, it really is a good thing that we love them as much as we do. 

Can entitlement be cured?

At this point, it seems like I'm looking for stories to prove my thesis about entitled people who don't realize how entitled they are because they've never worked in service and don't understand it.

To be fair, you don't have to have experience waiting tables or answering the phone to understand that the same person who's kindly telling you the restaurant is understaffed can't say no after you find a way to make a reservation, regardless of what they just told you.

The fact that the same person who hacked the reservation is now asking on Reddit whether she was the A… ehem gives me hope though, could that mean she will start noticing that probably no one is against her and 'doesn't want to serve her' and it's more of a 'they couldn't deny serving you if you made the reservation even if they really were understaffed' plus that they'd obviously fight to keep up appearances even though they were working twice as hard to give the customers a good experience overall?

To me, something has led the OP to wonder whether she was in the right, and that might be her own empathy trying hard to surface. In my mind, an attitude like this would only be partially justified on a very special occasion, you were planning to go to that restaurant on, and you forgot to make a reservation.

I get it; sometimes, as a customer, you just want what you want, and you'll try different ways to get it, but adding a little empathy to the mix can't hurt. I'm assuming the meal was uncomfortable for everyone involved, or maybe they didn't care if the servers were suffering as long as they had their much-desired meal. I don't know; maybe I'm being a little dramatic.

In the end, they got what they wanted, and the restaurant could provide it to them, regardless of whether they had to work some extra hours that day; but either way, something about this story doesn't sit right with me. Still, I'm curious to know: Would you have done the same? Were there no other places in town to eat out?

Every orange cat owner dreams of their cat looking like the infamous lasagna-loving Garfield, but for this lucky cat pawrent, it's a reality!

One of the most beautiful parts of adopting a kitten is watching it grow up, day by day, into its full adult feline form. Unlike puppies, kittens and adult cats can look wildly different than puppies and adult dogs. Some cats' colors intensify, some lose color, some become wonderfully wispy long-haired cats, and others grow feather-duster tails. Cat genetics is a whole topic in and of itself, but we won't bore  you with that today. We're here to talk about an ameowzing glow-up, where a sad and skinny stray was rescued, loved, and turned into the fluffiest, chonkiest orange cat you've ever seen.

The clementine-colored kitten, all skin-and-bones, took cover under a purrson's porch to hide from a torrential summer storm. After the rain and lightning stopped, a neighbor passed by and found them, all alone. They had, admittedly, never owned a cat before. But seeing the cute kitten shivering there, they knew they couldn't leave them there. They took the kitten home, and fell in love with them with each passing day.

If you looked at a picture of the cat now, you would never imagine that they had ever been close to crossing the rainbow bridge. With love, security, and a lot of love, this cat has grown into a meowgnificently fluffy cat that looks like a living Garfield. It's pawsitively beautiful to see how much love can transform a cat, and this cat went from rags to riches both in love and in lasagna!

What is that film you always thought had an awful ending, but nobody else seems to notice it?

With certain films that I used to watch as a kid, I remember thinking that the "happy ending" wasn't happy at all. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. The thread below uses The Truman Show as an example, a film about a man who has lived he's whole life in a world built for him and that has been live-transmitted on TV. The premise of the movie stuck with me when I first watched it. I always believed it was more of a horror movie than a coming of age. The story of Truman felt like a nightmare, and the ending wasn't much better to me.

At the end, we see Truman escaping, but did he really? He had almost zero knowledge about the real world and was already completely traumatized by the way his life developed over the previous years. All he knew was that filmed and staged life. What did he have outside? I never understood how it could be seen as a happy ending when we know that his life will never ever become normal. It's sad to think about it, and even though it is great that he could get free, he never really will get free. So is it really a happy ending or just a better ending than him getting stuck forever in the TV reality?

Apart from this movie, several others gave that same sensation. At the end of the film, I wasn't feeling cheerful and hopeful as is expected with a happy ending. I just felt weird, uneasy. Not believing that the star of the movie was actually happy and especially not wanting that to be the end. Apparently, a lot of people had this sensation with different movies, which took them to describe it in the thread below. But what about you? Do any of those films make you feel truly cheerful at the end? Or did you just accept it was a happy ending because of the kind of music it was sounding during that scene? Sometimes we do not agree with these endings, and they do not really generate the feelings they intend with just the scene. So they resort to certain music that gaslights us into believing the ending is hopeful when, in reality is just as sad as the rest of the movie's premise. 

Many of us have been mistaken by a customer for an employee of a store. But have you ever had a manager make that same mistake and threaten to fire you from a job you didn't even have?

I think that some of us must just look like we're waiting and willing to answer any question a complete stranger might have. It doesn't matter whether or not we're wearing clothing that remotely resembles the store's uniform… we just give off that vibe.

Maybe we just have a sense of familiarity or an openness about us that makes us seem approachable. And that approachability translates into some subconscious signal. A signal that causes some of the perpetually confused people who wander this earth to single us out and latch on to.

I have always thought that people can somehow smell the fact that I once worked a former life in retail and in the service industry. That this somehow clings to me like an aroma that gives me away wherever I go.

Whatever it is, if, like me, you find yourself constantly being mistaken for an employee of a store when you're out and about in the world... than you know exactly what this is about.

For the rest of you. Well, lucky you. You can go about your day without being accosted in the store by an expectant customer who is frustrated that they aren't being helped. And, they are frustrated that you aren't offering to help them.

That's when you turn to them and say, "Hey, I don't work here, lady!"

Still, sometimes, as much as you try to explain to them that you don't work there, they refuse to accept it. Through stuttered sentences, you fail to explain to them that, in fact, you don't work there, like you already said. But, ears firmly closed, they'll eventually threaten to get your manager or something when you, the "employee," refuse to serve them.

That's what happened to this customer who was approached by a woman, another fellow customer. He explains that this type of thing happens to him frequently, even when not wearing the color of that store's uniform. But he did happen to be wearing a red polo at the "red polo uniform" store on this occasion. So an understandable enough mistake, in this case, on the woman's part.

This instance took on another level of absurdity when the manager themself failed to recognize that this stranger was not their employee. It probably says something about the turnover of the store that they mistook a customer for a fresh-faced new hire.

Are you always expected to say good things when giving a reference for someone?

When interviewing for a new job, one of the most hated stages is when you're asked to provide references. This means that you either have to dig up numbers of old coworkers and bosses who would be willing to say nice things about you, or find someone in your current workplace who can talk you up and wouldn't tell anyone else about your search for a new job. It is generally a taxing mission.

We've never been asked to be a reference for someone else, but we imagine that if someone asked us, we would want to be as honest as possible, which is easier said than done. Of course, you want to give your honest feedback about what it was like to work with someone, but if your experience with that person was not positive, being honest about it can ruin their job prospects, and that is a heavy burden to carry.

But what should you do instead? Lie? Let a workplace hire someone based on a false recommendation? That doesn't sound very fair either.

The best solution to this issue is to simply not give the reference in the first place. If someone you didn't enjoy working with asks to put you down as a reference for a potential job, the kindest thing you can do for them is decline. You will obviously have to explain yourself and be honest with them about why you can't give a good reference, but it's better that they know and work on it than for you to hold it in.

Unfortunately, that is not the route u/sirthevinegar took…

We are but humble subjects, offering our best pspsps in hopes of a royal feline audience.

We're not exaggerating when we say this: once you meet the reigning monarch of our office, everything will make sense. She's stunning, the kind of gorgeous that stops meetings mid-sentence. Every single person here lives to catch her eye, and offers are constantly made in the form of treats, toys, and general groveling, all in hopes of earning a moment of her royal attention. Her name is Regina George. And yes - the name was picked with full intention, because there is only one queen bee allowed in this kingdom, and she has whiskers.

Her reign has produced legendary moments. Once, she took over a coworker's keyboard entirely, transforming it into her personal throne for a solid week straight. The poor guy had to relocate his entire workspace elsewhere, yet he'll tell you, without hesitation, that it was a privilege to sacrifice his desk for her comfort. On another occasion, she strutted straight onto our boss's lap mid-meeting and began kneading away, making biscuits, like she owned the place (she does), and not a single person dared interrupt her. Just yesterday, she generously deposited a hairball directly onto a spreadsheet marked "urgent". Truly, a moment for the history books.

If you, too, answer to a feline overlord at home, none of this will surprise you. The hierarchy is simple: cats rule, you serve. Your tribute comes due regularly, payable in treats, snacks, and belly rubs offered entirely at their convenience, never yours.

All jobs teach you something, and some of those things can really change your perspective in life.

Sometimes we think that the time we spent at a certain job was a waste of time. We were there because we needed the money, and as soon as we could, we left. It happens. Almost everyone I know has had one of those jobs. I even had one of those. But, in reality, things aren't as linear as we think. We may believe that our time there was just for money and that leaving was the best decision, and there is no doubt in that, but maybe it wasn't a total waste of time. Maybe you learned something after all, something that will become really useful someday. Every experience is an opportunity to learn, and thinking that you are in the wrong place can be the biggest teach of all.

Over the years I've gone through different jobs, some I loved, some I hated. That's what happens when you are building a career. You start in places that you hate and are always thinking about leaving, till someday you find the job you actually like. In my case, I remember I hated working in customer service. Everyone was so mean, and I always felt like people had no respect for me or my job. It was sad, and I had a really bad time working there. But that doesn't mean I didn't learn a thing. It actually taught me so much about communicating and dealing with people that it made me grow as a person. Nowadays, from a distance, I can really appreciate my time there and the impact it had on me.

I'm sure that a former job that you had, that maybe you hated, has taught you something you still put to use today. And that lesson could be shared with others. So, whether you want to share it or if you want to learn more about other people's experiences at previous jobs and what they learned about it, I would totally recommend that you check out the thread below. You will read secrets that former employees have gathered while working in different industries over the past years.