BIG YES BOMB!!!!!: How do the moderators of a sub with millions of subscribers and at least HUNDREDS of posts a day, "remember" a removed post from over 2 weeks ago that I'd since deleted?

Saturday, October 02, 2021

How do the moderators of a sub with millions of subscribers and at least HUNDREDS of posts a day, "remember" a removed post from over 2 weeks ago that I'd since deleted?

submitted 4 years ago by TSoWAY

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[–]illogictcUnprofessional Googler 5 points 4 years ago

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[–]TSoWAY[S] 1 point 4 years ago

How many posts have ever been made on AITA? Likely hundreds of thousands, so no way to "remember" them all.

Why would they remember this particular post out of all of them, over 2 weeks later?:

TITLE: AITA for asking for compensation when a heavy-smoking drunkard with no income who lived for free upstairs with a girlfriend, interrupted my sleep numerous times in order to ask me for a ride to Dillons?

BODY: I sleep in the day & work evenings. He'd ask for rides to Dillons (Kroger chain of supermarkets) when I still had hours of sleep left. I'd ask for compensation because I needed to sleep, but he'd have nothing to provide me right then. Yet he still insisted that I take him.

I refused to be anyone's free taxi service when I wasn't well-rested and alert, so I told him to only come back when I'm well-rested or when he'd figure out what compensation to give me.

I'd also ask the jobless man why couldn't he just walk to Dillons himself. (About 7 blocks east of our apartment complex) He said he had a bad knee from an old motorcycle accident back in the 80s. It hurt to this day, so without medical insurance for painkillers, he resorted to drinking heavy liquor (often vodka) to dull the pain. It's also why he'd ask for $5 frequently; the cheapest vodka would be had for $5.

I told him "As the US Marines say, 'Pain Is Weakness Leaving Your Body.'" (Yes, that is an actual motivational quote perpetuated by the USMC.) So I insinuated he'd get stronger through the pain if he'd just tough it out and walk there anyway.

I also asked why he wouldn't make friends with other tenants in the complex who actually was alert in the daytime and he said he didn't like to associate with most people but very much wanted to be around me.

Later, he would compensate me sometimes with meals that he'd cook (to his credit, he cooked quality meals somehow) so after taste-testing them, I'd begrudgingly give him rides, although it wasn't as safe to give rides in my state of tiredness. After all, drowsy driving may be as dangerous as drunk driving. (Is it?)

Luckily, he and his girlfriend were eventually banned from the apartment complex because he wasn't authorized on the lease and she had cats that he gave him, but without the proper pet authorizations ($200 pet fee, vaccinations and miscellaneous documents.)

So AITA for asking for compensation upon being asked for a ride by a drunk neighbor, due to my needing to sleep in the daytime and work in the evenings? And for implying that his knee pain would make him stronger if he toughed through it by walking 7 blocks to Dillons instead?

[–]illogictcUnprofessional Googler 1 point 4 years ago

Because it's a unique story and perhaps the same mod who got you the first time recognized it. I read a bunch of top of all time posts a couple years back in Malicious Compliance and went in a while back to do it again, turns out I still mostly remember a lot of the ones I already saw before that are still at the top so I couldn't really enjoy them over again. I have the same problem with tv shows even when I didn't like a decade ago, I have no clue what changed but now I just can't rewatch even after a year or two, it feels stale and I remember it.

Perhaps you don't have very good memory or something, it doesn't mean everyone else also couldn't possibly remember something. Like I said apparently they did because they took it back down and told you they recognize it which is why you got the ban. Instead of trying to mental gymnastics it where somehow you're in the right, just take the fucking L dude and move on.

[–]TSoWAY[S] 1 point 4 years ago