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So I have two really good chairs at work. One, I brought from home, and the other I actually ordered myself online. I was using the older chair until the new one arrived and then, I put my older chair in the break room.

Both chairs are not cheap; they are large high-end "board executive" chairs, which in US currency, would be about $150. But the older one was used and someone gave it to me. The older chair was in the break room and I still used it, about every other day, although the break room is mostly empty.

Today, some coworker dude took my chair. I had to track it down and found it in his classroom. This is a teacher from another department, who teaches high schoolers, so even though we work in the same place, I don't even know this guy's name.

I confronted him about it, and he said he asked our boss about it, who didn't know who it belonged to (which is accurate; he's too busy to know such things) before taking it, assuming it "belonged to no one" or an old coworker who was no longer here. I told him it was mine, and he could use it, but to just make sure not to break it or mistreat him.

However, I don't really want him using my sh*t. There are MANY different chairs in here, most of which are simple student wooden chairs. There's also some basic blue office chairs in here too, which are kind of crap. And some used office chairs.

The chair is already kinda old, so I think he'll end up breaking it.

But it's also a spare chair, as I bought a newer one in October. I still used it in the break room, but that's not all that important.

And he didn't ask to use it, although that may have just been ignorance on his part. But there are literally other chairs he could use around here, just none as nice.

How should I handle this admitted first-world problem?

I listened to a story told by a Columbus police officer about a call he got about a kid who was aggravated but wouldn't tell his mom why.

He realized that the kid was autistic and he managed to get the kid to say why he was mad. He told the officer it was because he missed the bus to school. He asked the kid if he wanted a ride, to which he said yes and he drove the kid to school.

He got out and ran inside, very happy as the officer pulled up to the front of the school and opened the door. The part of the story that stood out to me is the idea of a kid wanting to go to school, which is so foreign to me.

I went to school in Connecticut, where I lived until the age of 18 before relocating to Texas. Throughout most of my childhood and teens, I struggled with ADHD and finding the proper medication was a needle in a haystack.

This led to me struggling to put puzzle pieces together and breaking things down logically. I would eventually do great through high school and very well in college in both my in person college in Connecticut and online college courses in Texas but I still didn't like school.

Throughout school, I absolutely hated it. It was endless torture and I never enjoyed one minute of it. I went on as many field trips as I could, not even wanting to know where the field trip would take me because to me, literally anywhere was better than staying in school.

Although since getting medicated properly when relocating to Texas where medication options are more plentiful and affordable, I don't mind writing essays and get them done quickly.

It got so bad that in middle school Through high school, I tallied each day to keep track of when school would be out.

Do you like school?

For most of my life, I've cared very little about footwear, I just got cheap shoes and wore them until I had no choice but to replace them due to them not fitting.

I've always just worn cheap, no name shoes that are thin as a sheet of paper and the soles are even thinner. I wore snow boots every now and then as a kid but they were so hard inside and it would pull on my toenails, which was very painful overtime.

Recently though I've made the decision to join the academy and they have policies regarding uniform footwear which would make such practices less than acceptable.

I decided I'd give boots a try but I was very displeased with the price tags on them, I ended up getting an 8" side zip pair from Nortiv for $60. They felt strange at first, they felt hot, slow and harder to get on and off than the $5 paper shoes I've been wearing for 10 years.

I've been wearing them daily and after the first couple days, I started to like them. They provide ankle support which is helpful for me since my foot arc is strange and makes walking with my toes facing perfectly forward feel unnatural.

Sometimes my ankles shake when I stand but the boots help stabilize my ankles, my feet feel protected and sealed from the environment and they feel very comfortable on my feet. With the ankle support, I'd feel confident kicking down a door if I had to and not breaking my ankles in the process.

I got another $70 pair from CQR without a side zip as I see a zipper as a potential weakpoint in the long term. At this point, I'm sold on boots as daily footwear, what do you wear?