What’s Puzzling You?
So. I got in the mail the latest copy of GQ, with a label with my name on it that said WELCOME NEW SUBSCRIBER.
Except I didn’t subscribe to GQ, so it’s a mystery what’s going on. All I can think of is a few possibilities. Maybe this is some kind of credit card / ID theft scam where someone is checking to see if they can create or tap into an account in my name. Or maybe someone I know signed up for a 2/1 deal (I see them advertised sometimes) and put my name in without telling me. Or maybe something I truly subscribe to screwed up the renewal in their data center in Mumbai or Belgrade, and entered the wrong code, and it got transmogrified into GQ.
At any rate, I’m going to need to get on the horn to the call center and figure out the answer to this mystery.
So, Deadsplinterholmesians, are there any mysteries recently which have been haunting you?
Did somone steal a pumpkin from your front porch before Halloween? Did something weird happen to a data set at work that nobody will claim responsibility for? Maybe someone has been stealing desserts from the breakroom fridge?
Or maybe your dog dragged in a mysterious bone from outdoors, or you cat keeps catching mystery bugs and leaving pieces by your door. Has someone you can’t recognize been leaving cryptic voicemails on your phone? Have you repeatedly seen strange markings in the dirt by a house you walk by?
What’s a little mystery you’ve encountered? And if you found a solution, let us know the answer too.
forgive me blue…but i has to say a thing
yo rip!
dead kennedys rap..when did that become a thing?
cant give em nothing but props for it tho..
fucking wierd one to pick
I got a text from ADT last week saying our clinic alarm went off & to click if it was a mistake. Called wife at the gym & she didn’t think anyone should be there. It said back door alarm went off. Cops were dispatched but never contacted us. Wife stopped by & back door was locked w/ no sign of forced entry but front was unlocked. Everyone swears they locked front door. Nothing stolen but a few lights on nobody remembers leaving on. Cash drawer, laptops, & other valuable things all untouched. I bought some cheap Chinese WiFi cams I’m going to install near doors.
That is spooky, although you wouldn’t think someone who was worried about being confronted would be wandering around with the lights on.
I once had a roommate who was an office manager who was the one who got the call that the alarm was tripped, and it was always some clueless employee who went in for a while on a weekend and swore up and down they had deactivated it, when they obviously hadn’t.
That’s what we are thinking since we have a few new employees but nobody is taking credit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0UkMR1gYUf/?igshid=ZDE1MWVjZGVmZQ==
For all you Bundt cake lovers and haters. This poor lady’s been doxed and her store’s online reviews sabotaged because she posted a Palestinian flag on her IG account. Stay safe out there IRL and on the internets.
So dumb! I also didn’t realize that was a franchise, we have 3 around here. I thought they were just a big corporation. A few of their cakes are quite good.
That happened to a local restaurant during Covid which was enforcing their mask policy for people who went in to pick up orders. Yelp was bad about dealing with the bad reviews.
The mysteries of how the human body ages. Both my parents took marvelous care of themselves. Watched what they ate. Didn’t take any prescription meds until they have to take mood stabilizers. Avoided the big C for the most part. Yet both their minds are turning to mush from dementia (mom much faster than dad even though his started several years earlier.)
Goes to show that in the end our bodies will fail us one way or another.
For all of some people’s hubris, we really only understand a tiny fraction of how bodies work, let alone how they interact with everything else.
I suspect it has to do with the fact that dad became quite antisocial and didn’t have any close friends since his 50s. He stopped working at 58.
Mom because she stopped socializing during CoVid which I think kept her mind from falling apart sooner.
The lesson for me and my siblings is make friends and have an active social life.
Both my parents are 69. My dad has no friends nor family who will talk to him (except me and mom). His idea for a busy day is going to the grocery store.
Basically, he turned his brain to mush between consuming waaaaay too much nutjob conservative “news” and not doing anything. He also has been lazy as fuck for about 2 decades.
While the rampant alcoholism has definitely hastened how badly the last few months have gone, I think he just fucking let himself rot years ago.
Meanwhile, my mother can still do 1-2 mile walks with me, is mentally sharp, and works part time plus does some social stuff.
While I can’t speak to your parents, I think my dad falls into the category of people who just blithely ignored the “use it or lose it” concept with regards to physical and mental abilities.
He kept active, but he spent the first 10 years of retirement making my life hell (I became his hobby.) We had a miserable relationship for 14 years after retirement.
He also spent a lot of time trying to do some ground work for a doctorate in linguistics, but that stopped when my mom kept harping on him about being too old (it’s not a big deal, but for some stupid reason it was for my mom.) I wish he had gone back to school.
My sisters and I suspect that if dad didn’t listen to mom during that time he would have been a much happier person. She wanted him to retire early. She didn’t realize that if he stayed two more years then he would have gotten a full pension (he hated the people he was working with/for… hmmm, sounds familiar). I love my mom, but she really made poor selfish decisions for dad. If we had listened to her then I would be a broken man letting my current employer crush me and my sisters both miserable in marriages with people they didn’t like. Like I said, Mom gave terrible advice on things she doesn’t understand like work relations/careers/modern relationships (but she doesn’t think so.)
Dad kept himself active, but he stopped doing stuff when he hit 84. Now he’s 88+ and content with a TV, some food and a place to sit.
Yeah not a single person in either side of my family has made it to 85 with the exception of one great grandmother, so by comparison I’m impressed with your parents.
Mystery: why does my wife always pick a fight with me the day before we travel? She’s 4 for 4 this year.
It gets it out of the way so you can have an easier trip.
I have the same issue about 90% of time. Usually about stress of not forgetting anything & what I was supposed to do!
What’s pooping in my backyard?
Sorry. Shit happens.
I knew it was Shaq. Now I’m off the hook.
You really should have higher standards than shitting in a yard in a super liberal suburbs of St Louis. Save that sort of behavior for the governor’s lawn!
Maybe you’ll end up on one of Ron DeSantis’s poop maps!