Posts made by Too Old For This

@tinuviel No argument, but I still want to know. I'll put in the call to Guinness World Records.

@tinuviel When you end up in the hospital physically bleeding and with burst testes from arguing philosophical points here, I want to know.

@faraday It leaves others feeling put-upon and unappreciated and overworked. Why is the cart-pushers issue any less valid than yours? It might be a big deal, but its still something that can be accomplished. As you said, empathy works both ways, but you're only asking for empathy on your end. You're expecting the worker to just 'suck it up' so that you don't have to.

@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

...I mean, I guess? I've got a whole slew of chronic illnesses, and if I'm well enough to push that cart around the store, I'm well enough to push it the ten-to-fifteen feet from my car to the return.

The intent of that copy/pasta isn't for your one-offs that you haven't done it, it's measuring the fact that you're capable of empathy for the person whose job it is to clean up after you. I have certainly not had enough spoons on given days to return the cart, but on those days, I felt like an asshole about it. Because it was an unspoken rule, because I was breaking it, and because I was making more work for someone.

As far as I can tell, that silly copy/paste isn't saying "If you ever see a shopping cart out of place, you know an asshole did it." It's saying, "Know the ramifications that your actions have on other people."

Or maybe this just pisses me off extra because the tiny grocery store I shop at has a cart-returner who's friendly as hell and in his seventies, and imagining him roaming through the rain in 2c weather for stragglers makes my heart literally break.

Anyhow.

^^This^^
Having worked at Wal-Mart and having to chase down carts, sometimes halfway across the parking lot, while being horrifically underpaid for any part of that job, AND dealing with my own issues? Sucks. More often than not, the people working AT Walmart? Also suffer from things like chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, etc. and we still have to schlepp our asses around and gather up the carts. It sucks. It sucks all around. I'm also a single mother. I've absolutely had to put my son into his car seat, load the groceries... and then I locked the car with my son securely fastened in his seat, so I could push the cart down to the return so I wasn't being 'that guy'. Because I've worked that job and had to deal with that hassle. The problem with 'but my X' is that everyone wants to be the exception. So whose 'X' is more important? Is your depression rating higher than my own? Is my fatigue worse than yours? We have to be willing to be decent people and allow that everyone has an 'X' and acknowledge that we need to be willing to push past it to do the right thing.

@packrat Nope! Here people actively steal shopping carts because our poor people will walk to the store, get their groceries, then wheel them home in the carts! You will find carts for Target in the Walmart parking lot. Carts for Petsmart in the Target parking lot, and there's always some unnamed shopping cart just sadly abandoned by the side of the roam. We believe in free range carts and in more recent times have turned to lo-jacking the carts to prevent theft of them.

But it does mean that they get left around the lot by assholes who can't be bothered to walk 5 yards to put it away.

@cobaltasaurus gets the pokin stick

@greenflashlight coughs I may watch Dr. Pimple Popper for this very sort of fascination...

@testament I have my son return the cart.

Know what sucks? Being braindead and wanting to go to sleep... and then realizing that the insomnia is biting hard tonight and sleep will not be coming for a good long while, but even a movie seems too much effort. I truly understand the Norman Sigh now. For it echoes within me.

@macha Yeah, those vitamins are way more important than I gave them credit for. It wasn't until I started taking them that I realized how much they can actually affect your ability to function normally.

@macha You may want to have your vitamin/mineral levels checked. I was in a similar situation last year, sleeping way too much but I could never seem to get any REST and I was constantly exhausted. Turns out my D3 levels were about 4% of what they should be, and my B12 levels were about 18% what they should be. We won't even talk about the anemia. But I have some otc vitamins now and I largely feel MUCH better. Mind, this occurred within a month or two after having recovered from COVID.

@wizz Hello! I have two boys that are 17 and 21 respectively. I might be able to help with the coding.

When you're ready to talk to him, just let him know that is totally okay to be curious about bodies and how different people have different bodies, but that its really important that when he's drawing bodies that he makes sure its okay with everyone. So like, its totally fine to draw in his own notebook or paper, but that its not okay to draw on things that don't belong to him, like math books that belong to the school. He wouldn't want someone coming into his room and drawing on his things without him saying its okay, so he needs to be respectful of others' property too. And that same concept goes for bodies, too. If he wants to draw bodies, he needs to make sure that its in a time and place that's okay with everyone. During school is not a good time for that sort of drawing because he's doing it in a public, shared space and everyone may not be okay with it. Its like if the class gets to have a special snack and everyone wants Butterfingers, but one of the kids is allergic to peanuts. Its not fair to him to be left out because of his allergy, so its better if everyone finds a different snack to have. Its okay to draw, but what he draws needs to be okay with the people he's around because a public space means anyone can see it and not everyone would be okay with it.

@auspice Yours look almost exactly like mine! XD One big fat white/tabby and one skinny black (well dark brown in my case). And yes, the 20 lb asshole wants me to hold and cuddle and scritch his butt all day long. And if I do not, he will go loudly complain to my housemate.

@snackness I don't know how long you're willing to drive for it but... I know a great place in Florida full of gators and snakes and animals that will eat anything... 24 hours there and nobody will recognize that there was ever a body to begin with. >.>

Why not just Christine Baranski?

@thesuntsar said in Why are there so many MUs set in Maine?:

@too-old-for-this said in Why are there so many MUs set in Maine?:

cowa-fee

i'm hundred percent saying this outloud like koala

YAAAAAAAAAAAS! I hear it in my head constantly.

@thesuntsar said in Why are there so many MUs set in Maine?:

where my Long Island games at, where I can RP holding the door open for people at 7-11 and wondering when road construction is ever going to end on my commute to work

Don't forget your cowa-fee (I do not do the LI accent justice) before you gotta get ma to the hairdressers cause its bridge night!

@wretched Yeah, I used to get accused of that when I worked retail. While actively holding up a display for another associate to fix into place so it will stop falling over every time a customer touches it.

I apparently either don't look at people at all, or I have a creepy dead-eye stare mixed with resting bitch face. So... y'know, I tend to go for not looking at people. Its the lesser of two evils.