pita bread

be a goldfish

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Me driving towards a typical new SUV at night:

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

That lady who said she was teaching her children to not be annoying and to recognize when they are being annoying was absolutely right. a lot of your parents did not teach you when you were being absolutely insufferable or annoying and you need to pick up on that asap.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[GL @gldivittorio]

POTUS has a lot of good moments but this is an all-timer

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Fixed it for you.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Sounds reasonable to me

[z🐉 @robpatt___]

male postpartum depression is when men get depressed because they aren’t the only baby in the house anymore

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Dude bankrupted 6 casinos in a row and people thought he would fix the economy

[Michael Rainey @mikerainey82]

This is how they should reveal everyone on the Epstein list.

[Grip Skylark 💕✨ @talleyberrybaby]

A man paid this girl on tiktok like 30 bands to lock him in her shed and degrade him for a week and idk why these opportunities don’t arise for me. She was throwing sandwiches at the mf and pouring milk on his head and shit. I got sandwiches AND milk.

[Emil DeRosa @emilderosa]

"He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him." is so fuckin good

[your cousin Vinny @muddaub]

Earlier a coworker said she had been considering the name “Pearl” for her daughter, “but,” she said, “that’s the name of the daughter in…” and we both said “the scarlet letter” as my other coworker said “spongebob.”

[Modern Family Media @DunphyFiles]

same energy

[pita bread @vasquezzrocks]

Cinthia talking about me: everything gives her anxiety. Drinks, coffee... men 💀

[Keazia 🍉 @keaaazy]

Bre: If you know sports you know Johnny Football. If you don’t he’s definitely a household name.

Me:
#SellingSunset

[Azira’s Aardvark | The Odd One @fabledfool]

Hugh Jackman anytime Ryan Reynolds says or does anything, or is even mentioned.

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

👀

[Smv @Smv_of_Heroes]

11 year old me would have fainted if he knew this picture was gonna exist one day

[fazoomjr @FazoomJr]

People complaining that rdj has two mcu roles

LIKE THIS GUY DOESNT