Author: Kristin Stones

She’s been renting her current place for about six months, and her boyfriend stays over two or three nights a week. He has his own apartment, his own lease, and lives somewhere else full time. None of that stopped her landlord from texting her yesterday with a screenshot from the driveway Ring camera showing her…

She’s 16 and lives in a large city in the southern United States after her family relocated from a small Midwestern town of fewer than 4,000 people in September 2023. The move happened because her dad got a better-paying job, though it keeps him away from home most of the week and only back on…

She works as a nanny and spends a significant part of every workday driving her employer’s kids around in her own car, taking them to activities, camps, and destinations that can be up to an hour away. The only reimbursement she receives is around $20 to $25 for trips that fall into the longer-distance category….

She has a work trip coming up next month, three nights sponsoring an event with her boss and a coworker, and the room arrangement is the same as it always is. Her boss gets her own room. The two employees share. When she mentions this setup to people outside of work, they’re consistently surprised by…

She’s made about six posts trying to figure out what to do about the same situation, and it keeps escalating. There’s a seven-year-old girl who lives nearby whose parents let her roam unsupervised, which she’s not particularly bothered by on its own. The problem is what happens when the girl shows up at her door….

She’s 26 years old, recently laid off, couch surfing while she looks for stable housing through assistance programs, and the first reliable car she’s ever owned is now being used as leverage by her mother to get her to attend church. The car is co-signed with both their names on the title connected by an…

She’d been working on a corner of her mother’s property for two weeks straight, mowing, trimming, pruning, and piling up invasive rose bushes to burn later. The only vehicle access to that part of the property runs through a locked gate on a perpendicular road, and she’d been working from the inside out, clearing toward…

She’s a woman in her 30s who offered to pet sit and house sit for two friends while they were out of town for the weekend. The house is older, in a neighborhood that’s gentrifying but still has a lot of residents visibly struggling with addiction. The windows are rickety, the latches are broken on…

The item was still in its original box, sitting at his in-laws’ house over Christmas because their son’s car was already packed with his family and gifts and he planned to come back for it later. It belonged to their son entirely, purchased by him with his own money, stored temporarily at the house out…

She’s 29 and lives with her partner, who’s 31, and their 11-year-old dog in a condo-style unit at the end of a property with a trail running right alongside their front door. There’s no fence, no gate, nothing separating their entrance from a path that connects to another street, which means foot traffic passes close…