Hi there! I don’t normally do this, but I’m feeling pretty desperate right now.
My cat, Jimmy, is 11 years old. We adopted him a little over a week ago, and found out he has a chronic kidney disease. He has to eat special diet food, and because he has what we believe was a previously broken jaw and is missing teeth, he needs even more specific food. His packages of kidney diet pate comes to about $58 for 24 cans. He’s also severely underweight, only weighing 6lbs, so he needs to be eating about 1.5 cans per day. This wouldn’t normally be an issue, but my paychecks at work got messed up, and I’m going on three months without any income until they fix it. I hopefully just need enough money to get him a months worth of food until my payroll gets fixed and I can afford it myself.
Please do not feel obligated, but if you are feeling generous and have the means to do so, absolutely any help is appreciated! Thank you all so much ❤️
thinking about how milk jugs are so perfectly designed; not a bit of wasted space. the handle is part of the container as well and you can clearly see how much of the liquid is left. genius. im thinking of eating the mushroom growing in my frontyard whole. if even one person is nice to me today i will kiss them on the lips
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
