Landlords are rarely a renter's hero, but when there's a neighborly squabble affecting your peaceful hot shower time, something's gotta step in to save the spa day.

After a long, hard day, nothing feels better than an illustrious hot shower. Washing away the woes of the day, showers have a magical effect akin to a bad-mood detox. Apparently, not everyone shares that sentiment…

This downstairs neighbor didn't feel rejuvenated by the premise of a shower and decided that nobody else in the building was allowed to enjoy their nightly rituals. Whether for noble reasons or selfish cause, nobody should be given power over another person's water source, especially behind their backs. Indignantly, the shower hater started to tamper with the hot water heater, turning it off mid-rinse or dialing back the settings altogether to try and force his neighbors into changing their habits. 

But one shower-loving tenant wouldn't stand for it; their daily, spa-like cleanse was far too important. 

When simple reasoning didn't work, they decided to bring out the big cheese: The lord of the land. 

This data entry worker was startled to discover that they didn't send a workplace meme to their friends, but instead, they sent it right to the groupchat… with their boss included. 

How would your boss react if you sent them a meme about how much you don't want to do your work? It's dependent on a lot of factors, I think. Such as: Have they just assigned you an important project? Have you been joking around with them lately, or have they been distant? Do they ever send you silly memes? How's the vibe in the entire office? 

This person accidentally sent their boss a meme, yet they only intended it to go to a few coworkers. They now think that their boss might fire them over it! 

Sometimes it is hard to be the generous neighbor you always imagined yourself to be. Why? Because other neighbors never dreamed of being as generous as you. In this case, one neighbor was kind enough to lend out an expensive tool, but the other neighbor wasn't so kind. Instead, after a week of not getting the tool back, when asked about the tool, this neighbor tried to gaslight the other neighbor into thinking he never lent him the tool in the first place… 

At first, the generous neighbor didn't know what to do and walked away frustrated after trying to confront them. It was his word against the other's. Fortunately, a third-party neighbor that wasn't even involved in the drama stepped in to help. He provided security footage from his own home that showed one neighbor walking to the other neighbor's place and then walking out with the tool. So, it was obvious he was the last person to have the tool. After he was told there was footage of him with the tool, his tune changed quickly, but it was too late. He is now the sus neighbor, and there's no going back from that. 

This employee is convinced that their new coworker is being a tryhard

Even if you try your hardest, you're still going to encounter a few awkward moments when you're the newest employee. For example, everyone will know your name, since you're brand new, but you'll probably forget the names of your coworkers, as well as their job titles, too. You might have to make awkward elevator conversations or you might bring in a PB&J to an office where people are always eating fancy takeout. 

This person isn't really feeling their new coworker. There's nothing like, very out of the ordinary that she's doing. But… she has this noticeable habit that even the boss has remarked upon.

Other people who read this story were spilt: some felt that this person was being a little bit judgy of the new girl. Others totally related, noting that they've dealt with this kind of person in their own working life. 

A small kitten with a tough start is finally getting a chance to settle in. 

Someone who already works with a local rescue doing TNR and fostering took in a new kitten, and his story already feels special. Pumpkin had been living outside, getting fed by someone, but when he was spotted with wounds, he finally got the help he needed. Instead of staying a street cat, he's now in a foster home where he can heal and start getting used to being safe.

He's still a little scared of people, which makes sense after being on his own. He's not fully comfortable yet, but he's starting to come around. Each day he's warming up more, getting used to a routine, regular food, and gentle interaction. Those early stages are always slow, but you can already see the shift from skittish to curious.

Fostering cats like this takes patience. It's not instant, and it's not always easy, but those small moments of progress matter. The first signs of trust, the way they start to relax, the little personality coming through, it all builds over time.

And of course, the classic foster fail moment is already happening. The thought of keeping him is creeping in, which is not surprising. A kitten like Pumpkin makes it very hard to stay objective.

Some days you wake up and already need a cat nap.

Being sleep deprived and still expected to function like a normal human is actually offensive, and these cats are not hiding it. You didn't get enough sleep, and now you're just out here trying to purrsevere while running on absolutely no pawer. Eyes are open, but the brain is still buffering.

Everything takes a second to pawcess. You look at something, blink, and hope it makes sense. Someone talks to you, and you give a little nod like you understood, but nothing actually registered. It's not your fault, you're simply not operational right now.

All you want is a cat nap. Just a quick recharge, just enough to stop feeling like this. But no, you're stuck staying awake, doing your best, and pretending this level of exhaustion is fine. So you keep things simple. Minimal effort, minimal movement, just enough energy to stay upright and not fully power down. It's not your best purrformance, but it counts.

Eventually you'll find something soft and immediately knock out like it's your job. Until then, you're just surviving the day on vibes and very minimal energy.

Does this neighbor realize that the upcoming property damage fines he's going to have to pay might make his mission to cut down that oak tree not worth it?

Many of us have had gripes with our neighbors at some point. It's inevitable that when you're living close to someone for a long period of time, you're bound to have some complaints about how they conduct themselves. Most of the time, these complaints are not worth stirring up a fuss. Perhaps you think their grass needs to be trimmed or their dog is annoying, but the average decent human being isn't going to do much about it.

Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, and this homeowner's next-door neighbor seemed to feel that the one overgrown branch from the homeowner's oak tree that was crossing the property line was reason enough to get a contractor involved. However, the entitled neighbor would likely come to regret this decision when the process of cutting down this branch caused some unforeseen property damage.

Every cat is a little bit angel, a little bit devil. 

Every cat walks a fine line between naughty and nice, and most of them are fully committed to doing both in the same hour. One minute they are curled up like a perfect angel, paws tucked, eyes soft, looking like they have never done anything wrong in their entire nine lives. The next minute they are knocking something off a table while making direct eye contact, just to see what happens.

The "nice" cats bring the cozy energy. They show up when you sit down, curl into your side, and start purring like a tiny engine. They follow you from room to room, sit politely nearby, and somehow always pick the warmest spot in the house. These are the cats that make everything feel calmer, softer, and a little more complete.

Then there are the "naughty" ones, and honestly, they keep things interesting. They sprint at 3 a.m., climb things they absolutely should not, and treat every object like it exists solely to be pushed off an edge. They are chaos in a small, fluffy form, but somehow still adorable while doing it.

The truth is, every cat is both. A little sweet, a little unhinged, and fully convinced they are in charge. That mix is what makes them so easy to love. Even when they are being a menace, they are still your menace, and that counts for a lot.

What type of currency should one not accept as payment for their services? While there are plenty of ways to pay someone for a job, some forms of payment are more useful than others, and we all get to decide for ourselves what we think is acceptable and what is not worth our time and effort.

A starting artist, for example, might find themselves accepting a variety of payment forms to keep their business going. Pretty much any artist would admit to having provided a service in return for a hot meal or a social media shoutout, anything to get them going and keep them afloat.

Obviously, money, real money, is the best option out there. Getting actual dollars as payment for your services is the best option for anyone. Without money, none of us can pay our rent, our bills, or our food.

When the young artist below, a 19-year-old college student with barely any money to her name, had the option to choose between getting paid for her art in real money and in online game currency, the choice should not have been hard. So when she chose the latter, it obviously shocked some people in her life. She can barely afford food; how could she pass on the opportunity to get actual cash for her art?

It can feel so serendipitous to be chosen by not one, but two cats!

This guy goes to meet with a foster mom. The meeting went well, and he was expecting to bond with the white cat, Mello. But it turns out that the black cat, Toast, was the one who couldn't keep is little paws off of him! He kept nibbling this guy's fingers, and even the foster mom comments that she's never seen him do that before. Maybe the guy just tasted good! But this little black kitty was purring so loudly, and it was clear that the two had a connection. Mello was really happy to have someone give him belly rubs while he laid in the sun. A few hours later, he gets a call back from the foster mom and is told that she already called the shelter and told them that he's the one who will take these two boys! Despite there being another interested party, he was chosen by not one but two cats amongst others. Read the full tale below for all the best and most wholesome story. 

When his manager made him think that he was being fired for not purchasing a car at the dealership where he worked, this employee decided that he wasn't going to put up with that type of behavior and made a difficult but important decision. 

While it's great to have a strong rapport with your workers, there is a subtle but critical boundary that it is crucial not to cross. 

Many workplaces encourage a friendly, relaxed, positive culture where everyone can be themselves and build camaraderie that increases productivity and engagement, and encourages new ideas to help achieve the business's goals. It's only natural that you will develop personal relationships with the people that you're spending so much time with. 

Even if you try your best to sever your personal life from your professional life, avoiding sharing or exchanging any personal information or pleasantries with your coworkers, at some point, the sheer facts of proximity and time will cause a relationship of some sort to develop, even a strained one.

While this is important, there's an incredibly fine line there somewhere in the sand, and we need to know where being personable ends and where what is professionally appropriate begins. 

Some people seriously struggle to understand when they have been chosen by the Cat Distribution System, and this hooman is a purrfect example of just that kind of ignorance.

What more do you need other than a cat in serious trouble running up to you in the middle of a road. Oh you need them to willingly get into your car, sure no problem. You need them to wait for you patiently in the car without turning it into a pile of shredded fabric for freaking out about being locked in a car, you got it. You need that cat to come crying to you after you left it in the shelter, no problem.

Because a cat or kitten that has been sent to you via the Cat Distribution System will do all those things and much more to make sure that it ends up with you, the hooman who has been chosen for it. So the least that you can do is try to look out for the signs and spare the poor kitten any extra leg work…
 

This woman is trying to figure out how to tell her boss that she ruined a perfectly good anniversary plan by changing everything at the last minute. 

Sorry to say, but this woman has the weirdest boss in the world.

Chances are you've worked at one of those companies that tells the employees that they're all a "family" there. Being close with your coworkers is always a plus, seeing as you spend 40+ hours each week in close proximity with them. But sometimes that closeness can become stifling, and you feel like the people you work with are way too involved with your personal life.

This person shared their jaw-dropping story about what happened when her boss decided to impersonate her, and it left people with tons of questions, which she was happy to follow up on. 

When things are getting dark and gloomy in your mind, the best thing you can do for your mood is to enjoy the view of a collection of cute cat photos. So sit back and enjoy.

It is true, life is a tricky thing to contend with and it is not often that we have time and space to properly relax. Leaving us to try and handle our hardships in small bursts such as this one. Small segments of seconds that allow us to release some tension and clear our minds.

And that is why you need the most concentrated cat goodness there is to provide, which can only be found in the cuteness of cats. Not their hilarity, not their calamity, only their cuteness is concentrated enough to be capable of creating enough feline filled joy in your heart to reset your outlook and help you get through the rest of your day. So step away from whatever you were doing and let your mind regenerate with these cuddly cats. 
 

Every cat person who sees an abandoned litter of kittens has a sense of action raised in their hearts like a lioness protecting her cubs. And this person is no different with the four kittens they've found.

It's impossible to stay indifferent in the face of kittens in need. When these small creatures with even smaller meows are lost, abandoned, and left for their fate - all human hearts feel their pain. But then there are the people of action, the cat people whose love for cats is stronger than anything. It's almost like the Cat Distribution System instills in them the courage, drive, and tenacity needed to make sure the kittens arrive somewhere safe, ideally to a forever home. And this person didn't just rescue the kittens, they also adopted all four of them into their home, making them part of their family.

And on top of the already cute rescue mission (that had its own complications of weather and time), the names this family chose for these kittens are even cuter. Cat naming is a tough job - but, apparently, not when it comes to geek pawrents. You see, when you're a true geek with a strong passion for a franchise full of great characters, you have a lot of choices of who to name your pets after. Just like this one pawrent who decided to name their kitten after a Star Wars character, these kittens' new family decided to name them all after The Lord of the Rings hobbits. That's double dedication - both for the kittens saved, and the franchise loyalty.

If you wanted us to actually get something done in the game, you shouldn't have given us the option to tame a loyal horde of fluffy felines.

Any animal lover and video game addict knows that if the developers put animals in the game, they're going to become a priority. We've seen this with the rise of popularity from popular movies like Flow and the development of new games that actually revolve around taking care of animals, like a new game we recently wrote about, "Cat Parents". Because of this, developers have actually started putting more dogs and cats in their games that you can physically interact with. It turns out that players of a new PC/Playstation game, "Crimson Desert" are taking that concept to the purrfect extreme.

"Crimson Desert" is an open-world action game where you control Kliff, a member of the Greymanes, as you navigate the world and battle rival factions. However, players are abandoning the main story altogether to adopt up to 30 cats, which will become your loyal pets and follow you around if you raise their friendship level enough. Just like in real life, it's not so easy to get the cats to trust you, but it is pawssible, for those who are dedicated enough to the cause. 

This one fact has caused the already popular game to go pawsitively viral, now with people buying the game just for the purrpose of making friends with virtual cats. To you, it may sound a little crazy, but to us, it honestly sounds like the purrfect game.

Oh! You're going to the bathroom in the middle of the night? I guess so am I…

Via u/PieceOfCauliflower

Clingy cats are adorable cats. Following their humans around like meowing, tiny shadows, velcro kitties are revered as the holy grail of cat adoptions. Often ruining future cats for their hoomans, clingy cats cuddle, they snuggle, and they give whisker kisses to infinity and beyond that make their owner feel like the most special human being on earth. 

If you're chosen by a stage 5 clinger, count your lucky stars. 

However, as many cat aficionados also understand, some cats are clingy for reasons beyond affection and attention. Sometimes, cats follow us around because their injurred or uncomfortable, which makes many folks wish they spoke in meows or spend $99.99 on that cat communication module they saw on late-night TV. 

While we'll never know exactly what our cats are thinking, this cat lover turned their concern for a velcro kitty into a bounty of wholesome answers online, learning more from strangers on the interweb than they ever would from the cat instruction manual everyone receives upon adoption. 

As it turns out, some cats just love us beyond belief, and they need to be with their humans at every golden oppawtunity. 

If the person you trained at work ended up taking your dream job, would you continue to help her? Would you even continue to work there?

Training new employees is often a thankless task. Chances are, your manager thought you were good enough at your job to show someone else the ropes without letting your own responsibilities fall to wayside. Sure, it's flattering to be singled out as someone worthy of this task. At first, you're probably thinking that this is an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to manage and lead. 

But after a while, doing all this extra managerial work when you yourself are not yet a manager can start to feel a little frustrating. That's exactly how this employee felt after she trained a new hire for three months. Not only did the employee never get properly promoted for this extra work, which she thought was bound to happen, but she also had to sit in a company meeting and watch as the new hire was announced to take over said position.

After rescuing this stray cat from a Target parking lot, this person brought him home and hoped that he would get along with the two feral kittens inside. Things ended up going better than expected, with the rescued cat becoming a foster dad to the kitties. 

Rescuing stray cats is always more difficult than adopting a cat out of a litter. These are cats with experiences, with knowledge about life that indoor cats will never have. It's difficult to change cats like that, difficult to get them used to their new way of living. Of course, some cats do get used to it. A lot of cats love to be spoiled and taken care of. But not all of them. Some stray cats lose a little bit of their purpose once they are inside, and it is up to us to find a new purpose that will be fulfilling enough for them. 

For Charlie, that purpose was becoming a foster cat dad to two feral kittens. We are sure that he did not know that he had that in him, but he is doing amazing. He is using all of that knowledge about life outside that he has both to bond with the kittens and to teach them, to lead them. And they are following each and every one of his movements. 

When going to adopt a cat, this person was chosen by one sibling out of a pair. The other sibling was sick and could not be brought in to be with her other cats. Heartbroken, she called her friend, and that friend came to the rescue and adopted the sick brother. And now, kitty playdates are on the horizon. 

Splitting up bonded pairs is something that we are always, always against. Bonded pairs need one another. They are each other's other halves. But what happens if splitting them up is necessary? What happens when you, as the one adopting, see no other choice? Maybe that choice exists, but it doesn't exist in that moment, you don't see it, you don't know what to do. When that happens, you call someone who you think might help. Although we don't think that the friend who made the phone call in this story knew what amazing thing the person the called would do. 

These two friends decided to make the best out of a difficult situation. One friend adopted the cat who chose her, and the other friend adopted his brother - the sick kitty. They split them up. But not forever. These two cats will get to see one another in kitty playdates.