The 2025 Trivial Drivel Thread

[BigMark]

i was squirting vinegar on the weeds.

[MirahM]

I just laid my head on the pillow
and was watching a relaxing video
and I swear
a small spider quickly crawled across the pillow and off the bed
wtf
so I got up
changed my pillow cases
shook everything out
and now I'm in the living room
no wonder my mouth tasted like spider this morning

[MirahM]

Today's phantom smell is vinegar and it's not even the awesome smell of vinegar on boardwalk fries, it smells like someone is making pickles.

I used to work near Nalley Valley
sometimes it smelled like pickles
and sometimes it smelled like peanut butter cookies.

[Duchess]

You sure have lived in some very interesting places!

I love the smell of peanut butter cookies. Mmmmm.

[MirahM]

I wouldn't call where I lived then interesting.....or maybe I would. I don't know.

We used to have drive by shootings and our principal wore a bullet proof vest. Which is nothing compared to today's schools, but back then it was pretty significant. He mostly wore it because he pissed people off I guess and he was afraid for his life.
We also had security officers at the school.

[Duchess]

It's awful that our world is such a place that security officers at schools are needed. I know some little kids who have active shooter drills at their school and it sucks ass.

[Duchess]

Guys, Kermit is giving the commencement speech at the University of Maryland.

[username]

There was a song from the 60’s or 70’s that, IIRC, contained the phrase “water color” or colors. I remember the singer was male and it was kind of a blues (very mellow rock) hit but I can’t find it. It’s not the more recent song “Colors”..

It’s making me crazy looking for it.

[BigMark]

We had Three security guards at school we called them narcs, big tall fence all the way around. Two cholos stabbed a black kid that was standing by the office during lunch. Then we had a riot and they took all the lockers out without telling us.

My friends brother was across the street from us and got shot he was in the hospital for a long time, one of the bullets went through the neighbors record collection.

When the war between the bloods and crips was going on the baby mamas moved east upsetting the power balance and bringing war to us.

One vivid chilhood memory was a Hells Angel beating some guy to a pulp.

[username]

My schools were white bread boring.

When I realized what a sheltered, non diverse, “fake” part of the state I was living in, I rebelled in my late teens and made friendships (and a lot drug deals) in Compton and downtown L.A. and meandered through Watts.

We have a couple areas in my county that are considered poverty stricken and they are but they’re nothing like visiting areas where all the homes have bars on their windows and shit. No comparison.

I’m sitting in a stupid bank lobby waiting to cash out a C/D that my mom had. I’d almost rather be at the dentist. This sucks.

[BigMark]

When we lived in the apartments our friends dad was Vice President of the local Hells Angels chapter, the daughter lit my pajamas on fire with a sparkler on 4'th of july then the mom chased me spanking my ass to put the fire out. Then we moved from one ghetto to another and our neighbors were from the east elay projects, the whole family would smoke PCP together and the father was a herion addict...

[sally]

I’m trying to move stuff out of this house to the other house. Bunch of goddamn hoarders, why do we have 30,000 fucking pens. I have a headache.

[username]

I’m trying to move stuff out of this house to the other house. Bunch of goddamn hoarders, why do we have 30,000 fucking pens. I have a headache.

Misery loves company!!! 

I HATED moving. OMG, sifting through drawers and tossing probably 80% of the contents of any drawer but there’d always be coins in there too and I couldn’t bring myself to literally throw coins away. Who does that? So I’d sift and dig out crap and keep pennies or nickels I found (and realized we had about 30 pairs of scissors so got rid of most and now can’t find the ones I kept when I want them).

Good luck!

I feel like I’m unfortunately back there insofar as we have to empty my mom’s house now.

[sally]

I know there are bigger problems in the world, but it’s a pita nonetheless. I try not to go there with my husband so he doesn’t stop me from throwing shit away. He saw me throwing a cord in the trash bag and said it goes to something. Well it was buried in a drawer underneath my son’s scratched up video games from 2010 so I think we can live without it.

[username]

I know there are bigger problems in the world, but it’s a pita nonetheless. I try not to go there with my husband so he doesn’t stop me from throwing shit away. He saw me throwing a cord in the trash bag and said it goes to something. Well it was buried in a drawer underneath my son’s scratched up video games from 2010 so I think we can live without it.

I feel you (again!). My husband is/was the hoarder. I have to throw shit away when he’s not looking. Mine would do the same damn thing…examine a cord and try to trace it back to its origins. And keep it if he didn’t know. 

Meanwhile I was donating tv’s and getting rid of 20 screw drivers that were all.the.same.

[Clang McFly]

I’m trying to move stuff out of this house to the other house. Bunch of goddamn hoarders, why do we have 30,000 fucking pens. I have a headache.

I'm a hoarder, but an organized hoarder for now mostly. At least I was until i was too nice and decided to help out my brother Ed by storing a bunch of his stuff at my place for the last 6 years.

[username]

[username]

We had a dead magnolia tree on our property and this is how my gardener left it. I put a MAGA hat on it for a while but seriously, wth?

Clang, you’re way too nice to your brother!!! But u know that.

[Clang McFly]

We had a dead magnolia tree on our property and this is how my gardener left it. I put a MAGA hat on it for a while but seriously, wth?

Clang, you’re way too nice to your brother!!! But u know that.

Yeah I know that. I think if he's not ready for me to bring his stuff over by the end of this summer, I might bring over his stuff anyway or pay for a month at a storage facility and let him figure it out after that.

[MirahM]

Remember that time I joined the forum and grossed y'all out with a bloody nose story? Well I woke up with a bloody nose last night around 4 am.

I couldn't figure out what was happening. I went into the bathroom and turned the light on and looked in the mirror. I was shocked because I thought it was a bug tickling me. Maybe tonight I'll sleep with the humidifier I just put away.