A couple years ago I got friendly with some neighbors, an older couple (mid/late 70’s). The man was in the military and his wife, we’ll call her Nancy, is a semi-retired lawyer. Unfortunately, the man died a year ago and left his wife alone in the house, with no children and very few extended family who aren’t in the local area. Shortly after he died, she started asking me for help, mostly with computer/technology related things like sending emails or using her cell phone. After a couple instances of helping her, it dawned on me that she has absolutely no clue what the fuck she’s doing, with anything. She uses Earthlink Webmail (email), which is so old even people with AOL tell me she’s behind the times. She has no clue how to attach or download a document, print said document, put something on a flash drive, and she’s barely able to use a search engine. On top of it all, she’s paying a ridiculous amount of money for this shitty email service, when she could just use Gmail for f...
I work with this girl who is totally awesome, I like her a lot so I finally asked her out. We decided to go get some street food in LA. We found a spot, and while she was ordering, I stepped to the side of the road to light a cigarette. Some dude just walked up to me out of nowhere and pulled a knife. Told me to empty my pockets and then he took my wallet and my phone and then he just disappeared. I walked back to her empty handed and told her what happened and I had no money to pay for the food she was already ordering. She did not even hesitate, she paid for everything with the last cash she had on her, Such a good person. We ate but now we had a bigger problem. We were far from home with no way back so she pulled out her phone to call us an Uber and said she would pay since she still had her card. I said absolutely not because she had already paid for the food with her last cash. There was no way I was letting her pay for the ride too. Then I remembered, a friend had given me an Ub...