i have 3 questions hopefully someone can help me with:

1. does anyone know a good sub shop i can go to that’s like the east coast?? i asked for sweet peppers and the girl acted confused.

2. is there no scrapple in california? it’s not in the grocery stores or on breakfast menus at restaurants, yet there’s bacon and sausage. i don’t get it.

3. i’m in escondido and we’ve seen a walking trail along the highway and a bridge for bikes across a little canyon. where does this thing begin or end?

thank you

I’m 16. I am so mad. So basically, my mom has an assistant for work. My mom is 43 and the assistant is a male who is about 30ish. He has been her assistant for a long time (like 2 years) and now they are “close friends.” They hang out a lot. Also, a while ago I saw a picture of just them two at a fancy restaurant on my mom’s birthday. Also, a few months ago my sister and her best friend went on my mom’s laptop. They found a bunch of pictures of my mom and some guy in Spain. Turns out, my mom had told me and my sister that she was going to the East coast for a business trip, but she was actually in Spain with her boyfriend. My sister confronted my mom about it and my mom basically said it’s her life and it’s none of her business. I didn’t see the pictures and my sister didn’t mention any names, but I am 95% sure that her boyfriend is her assistant. My mom does not know that I know this. I guess I could be wrong, but my mom is always hanging out and talking to this assistant. Oh yeah, and my mom is married to my dad. I guess it doesn’t really count as marriage because they don’t talk at all and my dad is mentally ill.

So my mom booked a trip to Hawaii for just me and her. She chose this island because her assistant had lived here before for 60 days, and he liked it. We arrived at night. The next morning, the assistant surprised my mom and called her and said that he was on a flight to Hawaii on the same island. WTF? He didn’t even tell my mom he was coming until he boarded the plane. My mom told me, and I was PISSED. I said I don’t want to see him. She said okay, I didn’t have to see him. After this, my mom and I were driving around. Suddenly she told me that her assistant was at the airport and that we need to pick him up. I was still mad because she said I didn’t have to see him. When he arrived, he gave both me and my mom lays, which was nice I guess. My mom already told him I was pissed, so he knew. I basically didn’t talk to him or acknowledge him at all. Then we went to go eat. After that, they said they wanted to go snorkeling. I still was mad and barely talking. We went to the hotel, and he changed in our room. I was sitting on the patio and I started crying. My mom was trying to comfort me, and after a while he came out and he said he was sorry and he wasn’t trying to intrude or anything. I told my mom to go without me, and she said no.

So then we all went snorkeling. He was very helpful and showed us the beaches to go to. He knows a lot about the island because he lived here 10 years ago. He is really nice, but I am uncomfortable around him, and I’m angry that he is here. I also think he is sketchy. He stares at me A LOT! WTF? Like I was sitting in the backseat and he would keep looking back at me. He is just weird. It’s supposed to be me and my mom’s vacation. I told my mom this, and she said it still is, but she is not going to deny help when it is offered, because he is really helpful.

He is staying at another hotel next to us. He left to his hotel. and my mom and I ate dinner and went back to our hotel. Now my mom and him are downstairs drinking wine as we speak! I’m alone in the hotel room.

WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

WTF??!@?!!?!?!?!

Don’t I have a right to be pissed?! Even if he isn’t my mom’s boyfriend (my mom doesn’t know that I know and claims he is a friend), I think it’s still totally inapproprate for us to go snorkeling and spend time together. IT’S ME AND MY MOM’S VACATION!!

MY MOM KNOWS I’M PISSED. but her excuse is that he is really helpful. sure, he is, BUT DOES HE HAVE TO SPEND TIME WITH US!! How do I express this to my mom? Do you think it’s okay if I refuse to spend time with him?
I told her clearly that I do not want to be around him!!! She keeps making up excuses and saying that he is just really helpful. I guess he is BUT I DON’T WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM! I told my mom this.

I’m 16. I am so mad. So basically, my mom has an assistant for work. My mom is 43 and the assistant is a male who is about 30ish. He has been her assistant for a long time (like 2 years) and now they are “close friends.” They hang out a lot. Also, a while ago I saw a picture of just them two at a fancy restaurant on my mom’s birthday. Also, a few months ago my sister and her best friend went on my mom’s laptop. They found a bunch of pictures of my mom and some guy in Spain. Turns out, my mom had told me and my sister that she was going to the East coast for a business trip, but she was actually in Spain with her boyfriend. My sister confronted my mom about it and my mom basically said it’s her life and it’s none of her business. I didn’t see the pictures and my sister didn’t mention any names, but I am 95% sure that her boyfriend is her assistant. My mom does not know that I know this. I guess I could be wrong, but my mom is always hanging out and talking to this assistant. Oh yeah, and my mom is married to my dad. I guess it doesn’t really count as marriage because they don’t talk at all and my dad is mentally ill.

So my mom booked a trip to Hawaii for just me and her. She chose this island because her assistant had lived here before for 60 days, and he liked it. We arrived at night. The next morning, the assistant surprised my mom and called her and said that he was on a flight to Hawaii on the same island. WTF? He didn’t even tell my mom he was coming until he boarded the plane. My mom told me, and I was PISSED. I said I don’t want to see him. She said okay, I didn’t have to see him. After this, my mom and I were driving around. Suddenly she told me that her assistant was at the airport and that we need to pick him up. I was still mad because she said I didn’t have to see him. When he arrived, he gave both me and my mom lays, which was nice I guess. My mom already told him I was pissed, so he knew. I basically didn’t talk to him or acknowledge him at all. Then we went to go eat. After that, they said they wanted to go snorkeling. I still was mad and barely talking. We went to the hotel, and he changed in our room. I was sitting on the patio and I started crying. My mom was trying to comfort me, and after a while he came out and he said he was sorry and he wasn’t trying to intrude or anything. I told my mom to go without me, and she said no.

So then we all went snorkeling. He was very helpful and showed us the beaches to go to. He knows a lot about the island because he lived here 10 years ago. He is really nice, but I am uncomfortable around him, and I’m angry that he is here. I also think he is sketchy. He stares at me A LOT! WTF? Like I was sitting in the backseat and he would keep looking back at me. He is just weird. It’s supposed to be me and my mom’s vacation. I told my mom this, and she said it still is, but she is not going to deny help when it is offered, because he is really helpful.

He is staying at another hotel next to us. He left to his hotel. and my mom and I ate dinner and went back to our hotel. Now my mom and him are downstairs drinking wine as we speak! I’m alone in the hotel room.

WTF???????????????????????????????????…

WTF??!@?!!?!?!?!

Don’t I have a right to be pissed?! Even if he isn’t my mom’s boyfriend (my mom doesn’t know that I know and claims he is a friend), I think it’s still totally inapproprate for us to go snorkeling and spend time together. IT’S ME AND MY MOM’S VACATION!!

MY MOM KNOWS I’M PISSED. but her excuse is that he is really helpful. sure, he is, BUT DOES HE HAVE TO SPEND TIME WITH US!! How do I express this to my mom? Do you think it’s okay if I refuse to spend time with him?
I told her clearly that I do not want to be around him!!! She keeps making up excuses and saying that he is just really helpful. I guess he is BUT I DON’T WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM! I told my mom this.

My fiance and I are getting married in las vegas. his family, and my fiance and I, are all in LA and mine are on the east coast. As a result, I will have 4 family members attending. We had originally wanted only immediate family to keep cost down because our budget is a factor. My MIL would like to invite their secondary family because they are all close ( aunts uncles etc) but that would make our guest count go from 15 to 45 which, obviously ,significantly burdens my parents financially- and I feel unfairly because our family is only 4 people. We are not going on a honeymoon, and are not having a rehearsal dinner so the traditional “groom’s parents responsibility” is not a part of the occasion and that would leave my parents paying for everything with no contribution from his family on a technicality of “etiquette”. Also, his family is a little different in their ideas from what we want to do. My sister in law was married in vegas as well and they rented a conference room and had pizza, which is fine but I wanted a small guest list so that we could go out to eat at a restaurant and I could enjoy vegas and being dressed up. Nothing extravagant but one of the restaurants in the casino. 15 people we could pay for no problem but 30 additional people is a big deal and I dont want to have to sacrifice doing it their way and, like, ordering pizza. I want it to feel like a wedding not superbowl sunday. I really dont think I am being a bridezilla to want to eat dinner at a nicer restaurant and dont want to come across as thinking how they did it isnt good enough for me but we just cant afford to add that many people and I feel uncomfortable asking them to do more for me than they did their daughter simply because my taste is different. But also dont feel it is fair for my parents to foot a huge bill when my family wont even be there beyond the two of them and my brother, I mean its their sons wedding too so it shouldnt be all on my parents. We are not going over the top. But the venue cost doubles with that many more peolple. What would have been $$700 is now $1750 because our original venue only accomadates 15 and to allow for that many people we have to change the location and the bigger space is more money. What was originally going to cost maybe $2700 - 700 for ceremony, 1000 for food, 100 for dress and flowers ( not including hotels) will jump up to at least to to 7500 because the tasting menus at the restaurants and the reception packages at the hotels all run 100 per person. We are only doing the ceremony and the dinner/reception so the budget basically triples. any suggestions for how to handle this?

oh and my family has the added expense of flying cross country, not to mention my mom is buying my dress and putting us up for a week at the venetian so we can go shopping together for a dress and getting mine and my SIL ( matron of honor) hair done and my daughters flower girl dress and the flowers and invitations. Granted she is treating us to vegas because she wants to be part of the dress selection and we live on opposite sides of the country, but stil she is already going to a lot of expense.

I would like to add that I actually really like all of the family, they are great and we would love them to attend but we cant afford it, would it be totally out of the question for them to join us for dinner at their choice but their own expense since its not exactly a traditional wedding anyway or shoudl his parents offer to foot the bill since it is their request?

Here’s the story. I met this lady several years ago during my freshman year of college. We were in the same math class together and gradually became friends. She had a boyfriend that lived in Las Vegas, We went to school in the Midwest. During the next two years of school we would meet every Tuesday night and have dinner together, as a local restaurant on campus and sit there talking to each other for hours and became really close friends. I started having feelings for her, but didn’t want to intrude on her relationship, so I kept them hidden. Over the course of the next two years she transferred to another school on the East Coast but then transferred back to a school in the Midwest a year later. Over this time we kept in contact and she ended up breaking up with her boyfriend because he stopped contacting her. A year after breaking up with her boyfriend, she sent me a letter in the mail asking me is there had ever been anything between us. Stunned yet overjoyed, I spent the next 3 hours typing an email back to her telling her the whole truth and my feelings for her. We met the next weekend and started going out. Three months later I was on a camping trip with her extended family and she broke up the relationship saying that she wasn’t feeling it, but she still wanted to be friends. Being the type of guy I am I don’t like to lose friends so easily, so I said I would still be friends with her. Later that summer we took a trip to Six Flags and she made the comment that “She’d start loving me again, once I spoke 100% english.” I was a bit taken back and started to seriously think if I wanted to be around her and started looking for someone new. I eventually found someone, but I could only go back to thinking about her and the second relationship fell apart because of my feelings still for her. I eventually sent her an email asking her why she broke up with me and if we could ever get back together again. She replied that she had been stressed out about finishing college and finding a job and wanted to figure out those things first before settling down. This May she graduated from college and I was invited to her graduation party. It was good to see her again, but I was really taken aback when she introduced me to her other guests as her best friend. I don’t know what I should do. She has given me joy and a ton of heartache. She has been a friend a friend and someone I can talk to, but can’t share my true feelings with. I don’t want to push her into doing something she doesn’t want to do. She calls me her best friend and wants to spend time with, but all I can think about is the past and try to hold back the emotion. What should I do? What can I do?

OKEECHOBEE - While crossing the state of Florida,  you will want to make sure you stop in a few of the towns. Very often, folks drive across the state, from Gulf Coast to East Coast, and miss out on the amusement that is in between.

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Ive lived here 10 years coming from florida,I noticed there is no fast food joint here that matches the decor and quality of food as a miami subs…I truly think itd be a goldmine out here but I need some info on what my first step should be.Does anyone know if a miami subs could be established here as it seems its just a east coast joint?I have little money so is there grants available for a 32 year old male?If I have little money to start it would I be forced to bring in co-owners since Id like to go it alone,i know the in and outs of the business since Ive worked there a good 7 years and know I could run it.Im starting totally from the bottom and just looking for basic info,sorry if I left out some key info but Im just now(today)deciding to look into it,thanks in advance