Best posts made by Cobalt

@mietze said in RL Anger:

Can people actually tell at a glance how old anyone is?

I certainly can't. People are generally in categories to me as well:

• Babies and small children.
• large children (includes teens)
• adults
• elder

I mean I can tell when someone is a /young/ adult... but sometimes they look like large children to me. And I can tell when someone is an older adult... but like ... its a young / older divide before 'elderly'.

I couldn't tell you the exact age of someone. Or even really close. there are some people I card and I'm like: Woah, you're fifty? Or ... I didn't expect you to be my age.

My walmart, as far as I know, doesn't do cake orders.

But this reminds me of my favorite not-quite-retail-but-close story. I used to work in the office a K to 8 character school. The office had three to four people who worked in it. Toward the end of the year we're pretty sick of parents. Like really. Super sick of parents and their shit. Anywise, luckily I wasn't the receptionist.

But we're all gathered around the reception, when this woman comes in. She needs to pay for aftercare or an afterschool program, or a late fee for something. She has to pay /something/. But she hasn't brought the correct amount.

"Well you just get me change." She says to the receptionist.

"I'm sorry but we can't give you change." says the Receptionist.

"Well why not? Why can't you just give me change." The mother is insisting.

And by this point the receptionist is already getting aggravated. She's pretty tired of parents coming in and demanding we give them change for the things they need to pay. We're the front desk of a school after all, we don't really deal with money.

So she isn't budging, "We don't have change."

"Look, why can't you just break this hundred for me? Just do it." The woman is getting more agitated and rude and angry.

Finally the receptionist says, "I'm not a bank!"

And the woman flips her lid and starts saying how /you're so rude/.... not even to the receptionist but to another member of the front office staff who was sitting behind the receptionist, leaning against the desk.

She then told the story to our aftercare staff, still insisting it was the other woman not our receptionist that was rude to her.

The old woman again bitching about WIC couple ahead of her, came in again today. She comes in and says, "I called this morning and put something aside. I put something aside!" Another cashier goes to get it. I'm minding my own business and she's like, "Where is Barbara? Where is Barbara?"

I'm like ... "What?"

"WHERE IS BARBARA?" Her.

"She isn't here." Me.

"Well I CALLED her this morning and she SAID she put it aside for me." Her.

"I'm sure she did." Me.

"Please wait for assistance." Intones the self check out, which I am attending.

So I leave to go take care of it and she starts pushing her cart over, almost into the people I am helping, demanding, "Oh you found it?"

And I'm like, lady ... I know you aren't that fucking daft. Of course I haven't.

"No." I say, trying to hold onto my patience, "I have to attend the self check out, I can't leave it."

"WHAT?"

"I. have. to. stay. here." Patience beginning to run very, very thin.

"Well where is my stuff? I put it aside this morning." She's still demanding my attention, while I'm trying to help people having trouble with the self check out.

"My coworker went to go get it."

"Well where did he go? Where did he go?"

"He went over to customer service." I tell her. "You can go wait over there for him."

"WHERE IS CUSTOMER SERVICE?" She demands, like she hasn't been into the store A MILLION GODDAMNED TIMES.

"Over there-- Oh, there he is." I say, and turn the hell away from her.

One of my CSM walks by and is like, "Oh my god that woman she's so scary, I'm going to go do gobacks now." And took off into the store.

And then the woman wheels her cart around self check out for a minute, and then pushes it over toward me and informs me, "I have to use the restroom."

"Okay, the restrooms are back there." I helpfully point to her.

"I KNOW where the restrooms are."

Oh, you do. But you apparently don't know where customer service is. You old cunt.

This woman puts my teeth on edge just seeing her. She's rude, demanding, and acts like everyone around her is an inconvenience or not as important as she is. If she gets into your line and you have someone ahead of her who has a lot of groceries or takes more than a few minutes to process then she starts freaking out, "Come on, come on! What is taking so long? Oh my god, I'm stuck here."

I'm just like: Take your fucking shit and go to another line. Or go to self check out.

ETA: I just know that one day I'm going to get an open-door talking to because I'm going to tell her exactly that: "Ma'am, if this line is too slow for you you're welcome to put your items back in your cart and go to another line, or to self service."

GRR.

Well, alright. If @Chime is brave enough to do it, I'll be brave enough as well! It won't have anything to do with mushing though. So if this needs to moved to 'Tastes Less Game-y' that's cool.:]

Some of you know, but the vast majority do not-- I write when I'm not drowning in school work. I have two work self published through amazon. I've set up a patreon account for that purpose. Though I'll also likely put links to my streaming stuff there as I do it. But this is mainly for my writing. Which I will warn-- the published stuff is very steamy. Though I do have some young adult material that is not.

https://www.patreon.com/cobaltasaurus?ty=h

I'm a little too far south, I think. Also I have two cats. One of which has only interacted with a dog once and that was to try and attack it through the sliding glass door, and to be EXTREMELY pissed off that there was a dog around at all.

I know it's walmart but please for the love of god bathe before you come to the store. Or at least wear clothing that doesn't reek of cat piss.

@Ganymede said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

Shit, people, how hard is it to pick up the phone or talk to people in the workplace?

When I told the personnel manager she was like: "That wasn't in the schedule I gave you at orientation... I don't know why that's there. I'll take it off."

Que me on the floor redlining, and the offending AM walks up to me, looms over me and says, "I had you scheduled for X to X but it seems you can't do that..."

Que me being intimidated into working 7pm to 11pm on a school night because I was caught off guard and a guy a foot taller than me was looming over me.

Glad to see you're still alive, dudette.

@Cirno said:

I could try Cobalt's game, but it probably has, like, 100,000 rules and she'll probably ban me if I don't chargen quickly enough, or play frequently. I'm rather busy these days, you see, which has sadly curtailed my MU*ing activity.

Nope, nope, and nope. I'm a full time college student these days. I disappear for an entire week and expect the players to entertain themselves. If the players disappear for a while ain't no skin off of my nose.

(Note, if you do not come around for a month, I'll prolly close out jobs, but won't other ban/freeze/whatever anyone.)

@Arkandel said:

What I don't get is how people can ride their bicycles to work in weather this cold. It makes me feel like some kinda lame wimp when I don't just because it's -23C outside and I don't go around pedalin' away at 7:30 in the morning.

But they do. I don't know if I should hate them or be in awe of them. Bastards. Glorious crazy bastards.

That made me think of the story I had to read for Literature: Fiction, about a man who decided against other advice to take a very long walk in the freezing of Alaska. Something about once it is more than 10 below freezing you shouldn't ever walk alone, and the man doing it anywise.

He died.

Don't bike in freezing weather, @Arkandel.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

who talked about how she wanted to show the "positive side" of alcoholism.

So much twitching. So much, much twitching. We had to read a story about a heroin addict and his family. And one of the questions we had to answer that day was what we might tell to the family member of a drug addict, what advice we might give-- the story was about being understanding, and stuff. And I all but lost my shit in my answer. I grew up around a lot of substance abuse (alcoholism, pot, prescription narcotics, god only knows what else). I drama queened a bit in my answer. The question, and the story, really upset me. Especially since the story was like "how can you help them in this situation" and I was like ... this story doesn't really cover addiction. Not someone who is actively abusing substances at least.

There's no talk of the family member begging, borrowing, lying, stealing, etc from their own family to fix their habit ---

Yeah. Ahem.

Fuck understanding the "messages" and "meanings" from fucking short stories.

@October I'd suggest going back to the Hinterlands for a little bit, if you haven't, and doing any and all the sidequests you can find-- it may require running past some level 12 rifts to find them. You can also grind out requisitions to get some XP.

There is also always lowering the difficulty to casual for the fight.

@Luna said:

School isn't always about learning things. Sometimes the lesson you learn is how to cough up exactly what the bossman wants so you can move on with your life.

This is a fair point.

@tragedyjones said:

I learned in a training course the other day that Severe Depression can be as life impairing as being paraplegic. Now imagine that someone has that level of disability, and will not allow you to help, that is probably a broken heart waiting to happen!

It is, yes.

I've updated with the first month's free short story.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-short-story-6186911

I hatched a Growlithe tonight. :]

@Auspice said in Pokemon Go:

The site for Pokemon Uranium was down when I tried yesterday.

I'm currently level 16 in PGo. Working from home, having no car, and health issues sorta limits my going outside and being active.

Yeah they gave out this link on their twitter because of the outages.

https://mega.nz/#!6YdCSJ5Q!hkyWiwm9p7nIyGJrnZIDBegjlhOsIfe8Jov4jMjzW-o

@Ganymede said in No Man's Sky Thread:

I don't really consider TES a "sandbox-y exploration" game. There's still a coherent story in there, so I tend to think of it as an open-world RPG.

Yes, that was my point. I love exploring even in NON sandboxy exploration games. Honestly this is more of a survival-exploration game than it is an exploration game. It doesn't help that all of the things you can find are relatively samey.

Oh look, another building with weird cthlulhu-esque growths. Look another ruin that's a set of stairs. Look another ruin that's just a small house. Look another locked up ops building with shrieking alarms. Look another puzzle that is just 'what order is the number is now, we're just pumping the front number to the back'.

I'm playing. It's @Misadventure's fault. Anyone wanna play things with me?

@Deviante said:

I'm also into baking and cooking.

I like to bake and cook as well. The last thing I did recently was to make chocolate pudding from scratch. It was good! And surprisingly easy. I do gluten free peanut butter cookies sometimes. But otherwise baking a lot of things requires way too many things. I like simple recipes. >_> Like 5 ingredients!

@mietze said:

Don't know if it qualifies as crafty, but I do wheel pottery and fire raku style.

Definitely counts! What sort of things do you make?

@October said:

I may as well list all the crafts I DONT do rather than do, but school and moving has are my face so it's all boxed up.

That's unfortunate.

I say post pics though!

My skirt!

This is definitely not professional quality, but I like it. I dyed it myself, and sewed ... stitched? I did the sewing myself.

Unfortunately it is a little bit short, so it'll be a skirt + legging skirt, definitely. Unless there's someone out there shorter than me with about my waist size who wants it.

@Luna said:

like the pneumonia shots and such.

Getting the pneumonia shot this year was probably the best thing I did, healthcare wise. I'm asthmatic as well with a history of getting really bad respiratory infections.