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7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 2 replies · +79 points

Me too. This is what finally got me.

7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +126 points

Noooo, I already thumbs-upped this comment before you added the gif, why can't I thumbs-up it again and again???

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

No need to apologize! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to seem like it was something to be upset about, it's such an easy mistake. Mostly I just enjoy the stories my brother tells about his students, lol.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +3 points

I'm going to be /that/ pedantic weirdo, but it's Killing Mr. Griffin. The only reason I know that and it's important to me is that my maiden name was Griffin, and my brother is a Mr. Griffin who teaches high school, and it's always great fun when his students happen across that book in the library.

I know what you mean about being weirdly sad when authors pass whose work you read and enjoyed when you were younger, though! I only just a few weeks ago found out that Barbara Parks had died, two and a half years after the fact, and I was so upset. :(

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

Oops, just realized my post up there should have identified the pregnant wife as Stephanie's mom and the pregnant girlfriend as Chad's mom/the OP, in what I initially thought was going on.

I mean, I could maybe see the grandparents engaging in that type of favoritism if their son really had been cheating on his wife and gotten both the wife and girlfriend pregnant around the same time -- disapproval of Chad's mom and of their son's relationship with Chad's mom could turn into resentment toward Chad. They'd still be assholes for taking it out on a blameless kid, but there would at least be a straight line you could draw from A to B. But given what's actually going on -- that they're not only favoring their biological grandkid over their step-grandkid, but actively promoting issues between the two kids? That's just utter assholery without even a semi-understandable reason.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +21 points

I also misunderstood at first what was going on in that story, but I read it as "my son [with my husband]" and "my husband's daughter with his ex-wife," so I thought that 16 or so years ago, the husband had left his pregnant wife (Chad's mom) for his pregnant girlfriend (the OP). Then she said she didn't understand why his family had never liked her, and I was like, "uhh, I have a reason..."

Then I figured out what was really going on.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +13 points

Oh god, that's entirely possible. Welp, that's even creepier than his entire entitlement complex, then. *full-body shiver*

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +41 points

YES! Also, he said that they had made plenty of memories together, even though they had never dated, which to me sounds like they were, oh I don't know, friends??? Which means that she did "give [him] the time of day," in that she wasn't ignoring him, or acting like he was beneath her, or dismissing him without really taking the time to get to know him (not that she would owe him that, either, but still). Just, ugh.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +63 points

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +6 points

Yessss, secret club

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