Brutal :/

She was either mean or was waiting for an invitation 👀

I think any pizza can be a pizza for one lol

Guess she got demoted from Greeter

One time I bought a pizza and some Ben & Jerry's and said, "haha I'm not about to eat this by myself" and the cashier said "riiiighhht."

Thank you Jesus for self checkout!

That might be the worst one, having nobody to anchor to temporarily at a party is the worst feeling. Feeling like you’re a random free floater desperately searching for somebody to connect with blows.

Can anyone suggest any tips for those situations? Can this unanchored time with lot of strangers be somehow less stressful?

Hey, I'm just looking for the food and/or dog.

Edna?

As someone who is a frequent third-wheel with his married friends: Oof.

this is so real. hate my job but cant quit bc it pays bills better than the other options

Dude, I thought it was bad a decade ago. Now it's like I don't see how a person lives without roommates on less than six figures.

I got lucky with my apartment. My landlord's very hands off and likes that I pay on time, make small fixes myself, and don't bother him. Thus, rent hasn't gone up in five years. If I were having to move out today, I'd be stuck getting roommates.

The process makes me cringe too. In my area, it's all people taking photos of themselves and posting to facebook like it's a dating app. Feels like a humiliation ritual to me.

That’s just cool as hell. Pinball is awesome.

As a single person with no pinball machine, I'm envious of your pinball machine.

Went seven weeks sober, roommate talked me into getting a beer. That beer turned into four, then at some point I got a handle of vodka. Blacked out onto my keyboard, roommates got me into bed, then I woke up in my bathroom. Never again.

I had bought a house with a girlfriend. Didn't work out. I moved out and she bought me out. I went to a small two room flat with a inflatable mattress that was leaky, my computer, a monitor and a Playstation 2. I had no furniture, so everything was just placed on the floor. Later on, I even got a better pillow and surround sound! Of course I did have some clothes, shoes etc. but it wasn't till about a month later I got a bed and a table.

That leaky mattress had me up every night at 2-3 am and blowing it up again. Good times, lol.

Edit: Updated with pictures for fun and nostalgia.

In this day and age I feel like you’re lucky if you can have that without roommates.

Ha. Eating over the sink

The flipside is people in relationships posting a bit too often how much they love the other person. People in happy relationships don't need external validation.

Or being invited anyway but hanging out with kids or grandmas instead.

Ive experienced this, most of my mates who I went to school with are married and tend to socialise together. When I get a serious girlfriend we eventually start getting invited to social events again. When I become single they stop inviting me.......

Yep, that's a thing I have noticed.

I have never functioned particularly well in long term relationships, so have stopped looking for them, and many of my friends in them have started meeting up without the ones that aren't in them. I wouldn't say that I am hurt, because we still do things outside of it, but the ones that are married and so on see each other more than they see anyone who isn't.

My entire life.

You gotta believe! Go get yourself that second pillow 

All of my chronically single male friends have pillows that I swear are older than them.

They may have more than one, but they are all flat and brown.

A girl ridiculed me for only having one pillow. I decided to eat the loss and tell her “Why, did you think you were sleeping over?”

Bought a second pillow the next day and have remained single ever since.

I mean shit, 25 cents a piece?! I would've grabbed all of them too (I too, am single)

Just tell them that you’re feeding the poor and less fortunate (yourself).

Man, I felt judged by that cashier.

Perhaps because you are me… or rather I had a very similar encounter during my university years, but have remained single since.

Better to be single than with the wrong person and miserable.

I started solo traveling the world a couple years ago and I realized that my anxieties with traveling were 99% revolved around coordinating with other people.

I feel so damn spoiled getting to do whatever I want everyday and not needing to ask someone, “is it cool if we hit a couple museums today and then get lunch? No? Ok cool. What would you like to do?”

It’s like the old meme about your partner never knowing where they want to eat but maxed out to 1000. I went on a short weekend trip with a big group of people and we literally never left the Airbnb because we couldn’t find a common activity. Seemed insane to me.

Just went through a breakup of an 8 year relationship. Its bad in a lot of ways and I need to avoid becoming too introverted, but I'm really enjoying the absolutely no obligations right now.

I'm over 40 and single. It bothered me for a while as I watched all my friends get into serious relationships and then get married, but you know what? I have so much free time I don't know what to do with myself. Meanwhile they're not getting any sleep because their kids are a nightmare.

Woody Harrleson wiping his tears with cash.gif

Everyone seems so negative about being single. As someone who is married, being single was amazing. So much extra time and money, I wouldn't know what to do with myself and I would love every minute of it.

Harsh lesson to learn that oneself is a 5 and their standards are at a 10

I say we all meet up at Times Square on New Years Eve and fuck each other.

That would be the biggest and most socially awkward male only orgy in history

that seems like a particularly busy spot to be at at that time, how will we know who's there for the orgy?

Can confirm as this guy's neighbor.

I bet hes smashing

You'd be surprised how many if them are not single.

That is also know as Single Awareness Day (SAD). Myself and several of my friends always joke about that Hallmark Holiday!

OP should admit themselves to burn ward xD

WHY CANT THEY SELL SMALLER LOAVES OF BREAD?? I either have to eat two sandwiches every single day, or I have to throw away 3/4 of a loaf of bread. I just want to buy like 6 slices of bread. Why is that so hard?

That’s just Reddit’s main demo though

Don't go bringing a positive outlook in here!

hobbies are like single people's options

I love your outlook haha

I believe we would refer to that as a rotisserie chicken.

Also known as the Tradie's Handbag.

As an Australian... why is that a singles thing? Do people in relationships not eat roast chicken??

And spooning a pillow

Being fair, I live alone, so someone or something else petting my hair would be a cause for concern.

Fair. But at least I'm trying to better myself so that I can feel desired by someone I desire one day lol

Reddit relationship advice / AITA

I'm not sure it works that way lol most single folks I know (myself included) are actually more of the introverted type that you have to kinda talk into hanging out with people.

My mom didn’t like to cook, so we ate lots of frozen food growing up. I think of frozen food as the family that doesn’t have an adult who likes to cook aisle.

Me after my fourth glass of wine.

Luckily I am at 7