u/EvilKungFuWizard

My Sifu and I were talking about Boztepe and he said that he was semi-retired and now raising horses. Is he still doing workshops or acting?

Back in college, I worked as a parking lot attendant and booth clerk. They stationed me at a parking lot for a small 2-story office complex. The building had tax offices, lawyer/notary, some clinics, water/electric utility offices, and a Social Security office.

I was at the booth, handing out a ticket to each car that entered, which they would get stamped at one of the offices, and hand it back to me on the way out. The parking lot was near a beach, so they had to make sure cars parking there were on official business, and not taking up the lot to go swim.

Anyways, I'm sitting there in the booth, and this older lady and her husband approach me. She tells me "The Social Security office is full, and I have an important question that I need answered." She then hands me a letter from Social Security. I immediatley hand it back to her, saying that I don't work for the Social Security office, and tell her to just go back in and take a number and they'll answer any questions she has.

She and her husband go back into the office, and about half an hour later they come back, and this time she's huffing and puffing. She tries to hand me the letter, saying that she doesn't understand what they're saying about her benefits, and if I can clarify it or call someone from the Social Security office to see them right away. Once again, I kindly explain to her that I'm just the parking lot attendant and am in no way affiliated or employed by Social Security.

Her husband finally spoke up and he asks "You can't do us this one favor??", and starts looking around as if trying to find someone to complain to. I keep telling them that my employer is Atlantic Midway Parking, and NOT Social Security. I even tapped the company logo on my shirt and the same logo on the parking rules sign. He then says "So this means you don't want to help us." I tell them that if they come earlier the next day, the office will have less people and someone there can see them, but that I can't do anything for their case."

They went to their car, pulled up to the exit side of the booth, and threw the ticket at me. Unstamped. I stared at them without pressing the button to raise the gate, and told them that if they're going to be like that, they won't be welcome to park there any more. The husband just rolled up his window and I finally pressed the button to get them out of my hair and they drove off.

I never saw them again after that. Maybe they parked somewhere else and walked to the building.

I know that the NES/GB Punisher games were shooters, but I'm talking about an arcade cabinet with two light guns (Operation Thunderbolt or Terminator-style). One plays Frank, the other Nick Fury. I still find it a bit odd that the Punisher arcade game instead went the Final Fight-brawler route (still a great game). My quarters would have been begging for mercy back then.

My sister-in-law is a narcissist who uses fake disorders and illnesses to manipulate people and get attention. I swear, everytime we visit and plan an activity such as a hike, bbq, camping, etc, she will not only refuse to come along, she'll call or email that morning to tell us that her doctor called her at 5:00 am telling her that some results came in and she may have cancer. She then expects us to drop our plans to go and be there with her.  We know her trick and tell her "Oh no! Ok, when we come back from our activity, we'll go visit you."  Guess what? Cancer all of a sudden disappears the next day and she doesn't mention it again. If we ask her who her doctor is to speak to them to know more about how to help and support her, she'll act dodgy and be all "Well, he's very busy right now and can't talk."

Technically, she has the magical ability to make her cancer disappear the next day, which is a medical miracle!

So far she's had "cancer" like 4 times. She also fakes autism, allergies, immune system diseases, injuries, covid, and a bunch of other shit.

The worst part of this? She's also putting her 16 year old son through the whole fake illness and disorder thing. She claims that he has asthma, autism, ADHD, depression, etc, and tries to always keep him close to her "for his own health". Munchausen By Proxy basically. The kid is healthy and likes doing outdoor stuff, and she's depriving him of enjoying activities outside or with us because "he's always sick and she needs to monitor his health". It's her way of controlling him. They live in Canada and we live in The Netherlands, and my wife and I have offered to have him spend a summer with us here, but she refuses saying that he's too sick to travel far. I train in Kung Fu and am working towards getting my certification to teach it, and do archery as well. I always wanted to take him under my wing and teach him martial arts and archery (which he is very interested in). She refuses, saying that I'll be "teaching him violence" and how he "suffers from traumas" and is a very sensitive soul who may experience further trauma if I teach him those things.

The cherry on top of this is that her husband (kid's stepfather) left her and moved out two weeks ago. He couldn't handle her shit anymore. She then sent a mass email to all the relatives - aunts, cousins, etc - saying that her husband left because "he suffers from schizophrenia", has "bipolar disorder", and even claims that his mental health problems occurred after "he suffered a stroke" (which no one knew about until now). So basically anyone who disagrees with her has some sort of psychological disorder.

A few years ago, I finally lost it and called her out on her bullshit, and told her what the rest of the family was dying to tell her for the longest time - that she was faking her disorders and the only health problem she has is constipation because she's full of shit. Guess what happened? She mass emailed everyone saying that I was a "violent psychopath" and how "she feared for her life". Luckily, all the relatives know me well and know she's full of shit, so they all quietly told me how they're glad someone finally called her out.

Anyways, I'm done venting.