How do they even check to see if you're a resident? Are they scanning ID's and driver's licenses at the door or something? And if so, what if you don't have either one? Do you get given a "fuck you lawl bye bitch" and cruelly turned away?

For all the OOSers who have yet to experience the true power of Maine cold but live here or are visiting here.

"Your eligibility is being verified" is the new "CMP is assessing the power outage on your street", I'm afraid.

Mine's still verifying too and I expect it to remain that way for months. Setting my bar reeeeeeal damn low.

Citation needed.

What's so wrong with passing along good advice to people? Not everyone has been here for 20+ years.

Well, at least you'll be well-prepared. There's a plus!

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Maybe I shouldn't bring up that the procedure's gonna take less than an hou- awwwwww poop.

Look, I didn't know I needed a filling until my dentist sprang the news on me two weeks ago. So if you're gonna blame someone else...blame her!

And if you're as thin as a twig, then God-fucking-speed to you.

Not that I advocate for trying to gain 100+ pounds before the cold snap hits, but the thinner you are, the more layers you're gonna need.

Guys, I'm really sorry, let me explain...see, I'm getting a cavity filled in a couple days and the winter weather often gets skewed so that it snows or it gets super chilly around the time that I have to go out, because the world hates me that much and it wants to drag everyone down with it.

My deepest apologies if any of your pipes burst during this cold weather. I just really need this cavity filled and I haven't had time to send an appeal to Mother Nature yet.

(and just in case it wasn't obvious, /j)

It's really an issue on both sides.

You have the shitty landlords, the bad apples of the barrel, who jack up rents and only care about getting as much money as they can at the cost of their tenants' living conditions, health, and well-being.

And you have the shitty tenants, also bad apples of their own barrel, who violate leases and are generally just assholes when it comes to dealing with landlords.

So I'm not really surprised at this statistic.

Same applies to doctors and dentists as well. It's definitely not exclusive to therapists.

Have you tried looking on websites like Psychology Today, by chance?

65 in the evenings and about 70-74 during the day (depends on the day, of course).

Yeah, so, uh, PSA: VIP can and will rip you off by any and all means necessary. It's a fool's errand to go there vs. an independent trustworthy mechanic.

They also ripped off my mother. Tried to charge her for additional repairs on parts that were in perfect working condition. Needless to say, she never went there again after that.

EDIT: And that was two decades ago, BTW. They haven't changed. They never will change.

As someone who had a friend who required trips to Boston for her own disabilities and illnesses...the more southern in the state you go, the better.

Caribou, Maaaaine!

Like CMP's "Assessing", but with money at stake this time instead of electricity! Oh boy gee golly howdy, man I can't wait for weeks and weeks and weeks of the same message...

People pay me if they are able to survive having a conversation with me. It doesn't pay much, but it's a good testament to people's tolerance and acceptance.

That's not an acceptable answer.

PSAs do a better job of explaining what people can do about global warming than you. And one of 'em had a girl about to be hit by a train!

Bless the inventor of plows.

But also, bless the inventor of snowblowers.

> Drinkwater

> filled with spunk

Now how could you mess this up?

It's a problem in other cities as well, not just Augusta. A lot of Maine post offices are short-staffed and have generally been suffering over the past several months.

The best thing you can do is use USPS's Informed Delivery service. It'll tell you what mail is coming on each day. The only problem is that sometimes we'll see what mail is coming and it'll come a day or two later, but a lot of it is junk and shit. Still, it's a good tool to keep tabs on your mail. Easy to sign up, too.

"Affordable" is starting to become a subjective term as the days go by. Now you can't read an article about affordable housing without asking "okay but how affordable?"

Nature's hella fucked up right now. Dump all the storms for the season on us in January, fuck around with nothing later.

"Assessing" as in "we have worse site update times than any online store in existence".

It's Biddo. I'm not really surprised.

Unfortunately no. I'm in Southern Maine.

Sucks too because streaming doesn't have the same oomph vs. having your eardrums wonderfully filled with noise in the theater.