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    chattygalBrendan O'Connor
    12/21/14 11:06am

    whiskers are how cats avoid getting stuck in things

    Counterpoint:

    GIF
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      Clutchman83chattygal
      12/21/14 11:42am

      I am this cat.

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      Tracechattygal
      12/21/14 12:01pm

      I think the best part of the gif is the cat is less freaked out and more annoyed at the door for not being wide enough.

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    TraceBrendan O'Connor
    12/21/14 11:44am

    Hey guys, let's share getting stuck in places stories! I'll start: When I was 11, I got locked in a McDonalds bathroom.

    I remember it very clearly, to be honest. It was one of those one-person bathrooms (which are the worst because you always feel the need to rush just in case someone is waiting oh god WHAT IF SOMEONE IS WAITING). In hindsight, I should have worried about how 'sticky' the door was when I opened it. But I was 11, and an idiot, and I shut myself in and proceeded to do what you're supposed to do in the bathroom. Washed my hands, went to open the door after unlocking it...

    Nothing.

    I kept pulling and pulling with the strength of a child, and then I realized it was basically useless and that's when I started pounding on the door and yelling. The bathroom was in a little alcove away from the already loud food area, and no one heard me. This is back when cell phones really weren't a thing, so there was no calling out for help.

    It took my dad like 10 minutes to finally go over and check on me. By then I am pretty sure I was having my first moment of contemplating what death would be like as I imagined being left in there forever and they'd find me dead in the bathroom. So my dad went to get help and no joke, it took them for goddamn ever to get someone to get the damn door unstuck. They eventually had to take it off manually. Afterwards they offered me a free happy meal for my trouble but I just wanted to go home so I declined and we left and a little part of my childhood innocence was left behind in that bathroom that day.

    I still get twitchy going into one people bathrooms to this day.

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      KittensAndUnicorns_v2_The UprisingTrace
      12/21/14 12:08pm

      getting stuck in a bathroom:

      i was 6, first grade, visiting seoul in december. my mom, my aunt, and i were all doing some christmas shopping at a department store. i had to go pee. my mom points me to the bathroom. being a big girl and all, i told my mom i could go by myself.

      so i go to the bathroom. it's literally one room, with no stalls. just a hole in the ground. this was my first time ever seeing a hole in the ground as a toilet. i didn't even really know what to do. but i had to pee soooo badly, so i pulled my pants down and peed.

      i drenched my undies and my pants.

      i was in a squat position, soaked in urine, and dripping cold. i start calling out for my mom. she can't hear me. i think i was in that squat position for at least ten minutes. finally, my mom comes to the bathroom looking for me. i tell her i peed all over my pants and i need new pants and underwear. so my mom goes and looks for new clothes for me. remember, i am STILL waiting in squat position, fucking cold as hell. and wet.

      like 2o minutes later, my mom comes back with tight leather pants, and no new panties. you don't even know what it's like to pull tight leather pants over your wet,urine soaked legs. it's a feeling i'll never forget. and i'll never ever ever pop a squat for as long as i live.

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      chattygalTrace
      12/21/14 12:15pm

      My life feels empty. I have no "stuck" stories. I mean, one time, the bathroom handle became loose and I couldn't open it from the inside; but I just yelled for my boyfriend and he fixed it. Same with the dress I got stuck in (zipper jammed).

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    SuffersfoolsgladlyBrendan O'Connor
    12/21/14 11:25am

    My mom and I have always collected the whiskers that our cats have shed through the years. She has a little box full of them, and we know which ones belonged to which cat.

    I save them too..I study with a Native American tribal Elder and I carry whiskers in my medicine bag!

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      Medieval KnievelSuffersfoolsgladly
      12/21/14 11:46am

      I pick up my dog's poop.

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      SuffersfoolsgladlyMedieval Knievel
      12/21/14 12:38pm

      Honey, you are in a whole other category.

      Just don't keep it in a box, or in your medicine bag, that's all I would suggest.

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    lobstrBrendan O'Connor
    12/21/14 12:35pm

    "Meanwhile, for The Awl, a serious website, "

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      Medieval KnievelBrendan O'Connor
      12/21/14 11:18am

      The solution to a bad relationship is not whisKERS but rather whisKEY.

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        rudi_freudeBrendan O'Connor
        12/21/14 1:06pm

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          $kaycogBrendan O'Connor
          12/21/14 10:56am

          Whiskers don't always help.

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            DoctorProbableBrendan O'Connor
            12/21/14 11:29am

            I'm starting to think you should practice making more noise when you're stuck in things.

            It seems like your default mode is to just wait until you are noticed. Which is fine, but maybe experiment with some yelling? Or at least coughing?

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              Life is a PlaylistBrendan O'Connor
              12/21/14 11:13am

              I like you, Brendan (blaming the edit on autocorrect).

              Will you, Rich and Caity become a throuple, please?

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