Heather and Poolboy - HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED!

"We have moved to a new town. My daughter had to start a new school. She was sad about leaving her old school and said “I don’t want new friends.” My mama heart was so happy on the 3rd day of school when she excitedly told me that she MADE a FRIEND! And that they live across our street!
They became instant friends and even found a little group of girls at lunch that she had befriended. I started letting her go play across the street for an hour or so. Talked to parents who are very nice. She started coming over daily or my daughter would go over there to play!! She even spent the night at our house. It relieved me to know my daughter had a new friend.
Over the weekend, my daughter’s friend had a birthday party! The group of little lunch girlies were there! They sent me pics of them being goofy.
At one point, they went to the little girls room and was helping her clean off her bed when they turned her pillow over and saw a bug. The other little friend asked if it was a bed bug. My daughter took a pic and tried to get google to identify it. There ended up being a little argument between the friends and the birthday girl kicked them all out.
When my daughter came home and started telling us a story about how it all happened. That’s when she said something about one friend found a bed bug. Then she showed me the picture.
I think it is a bed bug! And evidently the fact it was that easy to see in the daylight and it was obviously well fed(?!) means it may be pretty bad.
What do I do now? She comes to our house in the mornings and rides with us (and her backpack) to the bus stop. She has spent the night.
I DO NOT want bed bugs. Do I say something to the mom? How do I let her come over or ride around with us when we really think there are bed bugs? If I didn’t have the picture, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt but I do have the picture and there’s no way the parents don’t know. I do not want my daughters friend to be embarrassed or the mother but I DO NOT WANT BED BUGS!! What do I do?"

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"My adult stepson, that doesn’t have a job, just moved into our house to get his life together. My adult son, that does have a job, moved out to help his friend for a short time but he planned to move back home until he finds a place of his own. The plan was that my stepson would take the smaller bedroom but at the time my daughter was home from college and was occupying that bedroom, which left my stepson to put his belongings in my son’s room, to which he now voluntarily settled into. Now the time has come to where my son has to move back home. Should we still carry out the plan or should we have my son move all his belongings out of his room into the smaller one and allow my stepson to stay in my son’s bedroom?"

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"My co-workers and I were having lunch yesterday when one of them mentioned that they were buying alcohol last weekend when a clerk asked for their ID. She is 45 and said being asked for her ID is an insult because she is proud of her age. I disagreed and told her she should be flattered that the clerk thought she looked younger than she is. This divided the lunchroom. Is being asked for your ID a compliment or an insult?"

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It's 2024, how have we not solved these problems?

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"My head is spinning because of what my best friend has asked me to do. This is going to sound like something out of a movie or something so unbelievable that it's not true, but it is. My best friend and her husband both work, but don't make a lot of money. They've been trying to have a baby for three years, but can't because of some problems he has. They can't afford IVF so they came to me and asked if my husband would impregnate her. You would have thought he won the lottery. She is waiting for me to give her an answer.  Of course my husband, being a guy, is all for it. I take my marriage very seriously and I'm conflicted about what to do. Who in the heck loans out their husband for something like this? I feel bad for my friend and almost guilty for not wanting to help her. What would you do if you were me?"

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"HI, I apologize for the long rant but here it goes I am a 27 years old and first time mom of an 17 month old. My husband and I are happily married but the only thing is... His parents.
Back story: they live 2 minutes from us and very very RARELY come and see their grandchild. its been this way since she was born. my husbands dad has seen my daughter maybe 10 times in her 17 months of life. As far as I am concerned they don't check in on her either. they hardly speak to me.
Their house is not well kept they've got 2 big dogs that they don't clean up after. So we (my husband and I) hardly go down there.
The reason they don't come around is because I said I don't want them to. I've never said that, if anything I would love for them to get to know their grandchild.
My parents (who also live two minutes down the road) check in at least every other day and make a point to stop by to see her. My dad works out of town and stops in on Fridays to see her and then ask if they (my mom and dad) can have her for the day to hang out with her.
I currently have my daughters Facebook photo album to where this parents can't see it because I feel like if you don't make an effort to see her you shouldn't be able to see her pictures of milestones as she gets older and smarter.
Am I wrong for keeping them from seeing her photos? Am I also wrong for not taking my daughter to their house once a week?"

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"I had a date over the weekend that started out great, but ended awkwardly. It was a first date. We had a nice dinner and then played mini golf before he invited me back to his apartment. His apartment freaked me out.  My date is 31 years old.  He had sci-fi action figures all over his apartment and several stuffed animals on his bed. I told my sister about the date yesterday and she said I should not give the guy a second date because adult men shouldn't be playing with action figures or stuffed animals. My other friend, who's into sci-fi, says it's no big deal and that he's just in touch with his inner child. Creepy or not?  Give the guy a second date or not?"

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