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In this case, though the person was trying to get the cat, I believe they inadvertently partially caused the cat to get crushed. Of course the person didn’t realize the full extent of their actions but they did contribute to its death. I’m sure we’ve all seen animals cowering in fear of a human who is trying to pick them up. The cat felt safest under the car so it resisted efforts to grab it. And it stayed there as a result of the person trying to grab it. Had the person yelled loudly or poked it with a stick or did something else to scare it away, the cat would likely have run off and would be alive today. And it’s certainly not Waymo’s fault. The same thing could have happened, and probably has multiple times, with a regular car and driver.
 
GAJ said:
I got a knock on my bicycle helmeted head a few years back when my friend took out my front wheel dodging a dog that never moved.

Had on/off vertigo for a month.

It sucked big time.

Thankfully went away.
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Vertigo sucks. I get it most times I take my glasses off because my vision is absolutely terrible. It's why the absolute last thing I do at night before I go to sleep is take them off and pretty much immediately shut my eyes.

Contacts weren't really an issue. Even though it's not advisable to sleep in your contacts, I always did. My optometrist stopped fighting me on this and just proscribed me a brand of contacts that are "okay" to sleep with them on even though it's still not advisable.

Random thought, last time I had contacts was a couple years ago. I was on my last set and one contact literally got knocked out of my eye getting punched in the face. (Karate is awesome!) That was some serious vertigo, having one contact in and one contact out. So I pulled the second one and put on my glasses.
 
I know right? We in the Mission in SF we always carry sticks all the time. It's for the cats.


I can't believe people get upset over cars' bumper stickers. I know it, because it's true... 😊
 
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The new oven fits the hole, just barely. But because it's deeper than the old one, I can’t connect to the existing junction box... it has to be about 2 feet higher.
I just knocked a hole in the wall to take a peek... and, of course, the oven cable comes in from underneath the house. :facepalm
There's goes the weekend (or at least the rest of the day) :laughing
 
Brokenlink said:
I got head butted by my horse about a year ago. Same thing. It hurt and knocked me down. Then about a week later, I was in the bathroom and the world started spinning, I puked a couple of times and fell over, then ended up in the ER.

I had vertigo for a couple of months. It's been fine until today.
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Your body does not send signals to be ignored. Best to check it out.

My old man ignored some stuff and it bit him.
I am built the same and fight that. I know it ain't easy to be proactive on this shit.

Growing up my medical needs were ER :laughing
 
Hands like a surgeon, I tell ya! :rofl

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Yea, I’d get it checked out.

After I came home from the hospital, after my stroke, I would occasional get really dizzy when getting out of my bed. It completely disoriented me. My doctor said it would go away with time. And it did.
 
So, the reason I said the other day why I was not having a good day was because I got laid off. Actually the word she used was 'terminated'. What am I? A fuckin military target to kill. It's not the first time I've been laid off but I've never been terminated before. This is also the first time leaving a job that was 100% my fault. I own that. Other jobs I've left was because I choose to walk or unfortunate situations that had nothing to do with my performance.

But that made me less upset than a recent incident where a friend I've known for over 20 years, we always have random conversations, which is what we were doing. We got on a topic of people we've dated and she through a curve ball out there and said she thought we'd end up together at some point. Wow, okay. Strike while the iron is hot right? So we planned a date in San Diego, I made reservations at the restaurant, and had to cancel because that day I was incredibly sick. I'm talking vomiting every 20-30 minutes and the only thing coming out of me was probably just stomach acid. I think it was a casserole I cooked in a really big portion and the leftovers I probably should have tossed a day or two before.

So we tried to set up another date, our schedules were not connecting. Then she confesses she's dating someone else already. WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY THAT!? And what was the point of saying most of the 20 years, well let me do math here, 24 years, that you've always had more than platonic feelings for me? We were teenagers and now we're both knocking on 40. Rejection doesn't bother me. I've been turned down by girls or been broken up with many times. You move on.

How do you throw away 2 decades of friendship because you weren't being honest with me in a really bad way?

Generally, I don't get too upset or upset at all with rejection. I've dealt with worse. This was fuckin gnarly bullshit.

I don't like losing people that I would trust with burying a dead body with no questions asked.
 
I’ve been fired and also laid off a few times in my life. All of these were unfair except one case where we lost our funding. In that case, the CEO, a good friend, found us all new jobs at various companies.

It sucks but keep your head up.
 
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