Lately, every time I...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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…go out. There is a huge fight.

…go to the McDonalds drive-thru at the bottom of my hill, they forget something, but never my food. Always napkins, straws, sauce, etc.

…go out during any time of day, it will end up raining.

…drink alcohol, I don’t get as drunk as I used to, and I’m not even drinking regularly anymore. My tolerance level is through the roof. I don’t understand what would bring this on.

…try to guess or judge something, I am completely backwards. For instance, me and a friend play the “profile” game to see how much we can figure out about a person with very limited information then verify with the person to see who was more correct. I used to be stupid good that this.

…type something out, my fingers occasionally replace my thoughts with other similar sounding words or words that are usually combined in a sentence. A prime example being the last sentence in the previous line. I meant to write “super” but typed “stupid”. Maybe this is how slang terms are born.

…check the time, I consistently “check it” at exactly 4:44, and it gives me the chills.

…lay down to sleep I get bit by a mosquito within 10 minutes. It’s like clockwork. These bastards know when to get dinner.

…try being creative I lose motivation because I can never think up anything good. I used to have some crazy inventions and business ideas (which of course I never got to take part in since I’m not rich) that mostly ended up becoming a reality but lately I’m really bad.

…think about the future, I can’t perceive it like I used to. I’m beginning to think this is the reasoning behind my lack of creativity lately.

…say something to someone I regret doing so. As if I’ve completely wasted my time because my point was not absorbed right. I guess I need to be more blunt about things.

Ok, enough about me and my little dysfunctional world. I’m gonna stop to prevent myself from receiving the IANAP evaluations.
What’s going on in your lives lately?

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Every time I…

…go to Zellers or Wal-Mart, the person ahead of me at the checkout always A) has a problem with the price, or B) grabbed the one item that didn’t have a price tag and requires multiple calls between departments to try and get a price.

…go to a store with a self-checkout, the person ahead of me has no idea what they’re doing and fail to understand that the screen is telling them what they need to know. They always call a CSR over.

…turn off the lights to go to sleep, a cat will start A) meowing, or B) stirring up mischief.

…start to get something done at work that will require more than 30 seconds of my time to accomplish and can’t be interrupted, the phone rings.

…deliberately try to remember something, especially a number or a list of items, I forget. I can only absorb such things if I’m not actually paying full attention. For some reason, knowledge seems to enter my brain from the side.

…come up with a new song idea, I’m never in a place or position to write it down in any meaningful way.

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The self checkout!!! I swear it’s like people have gotten dumber over the years… Oh wait, they have. Why the hell do people use it in the first place when they have literally NO IDEA what they are doing or how to operate a computer…

As for that second one. I constantly find myself coming up with cool melodies in my head but like you am never in a position to record them at the time.

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I must admit to being baffled by this myself. There are a whole host of things that they seem not to understand on any fundamental level despite the fact that there are on-screen and voice prompts explaining what to do. The baggage scale in particular seems to mystify them, and they can never seem to understand why it keeps telling them to put stuff back in the bag or back on the scanner. Somehow it never seems to stop them from trying anyway. It’s like the machine has thrown down the gauntlet and they must pick it up because they want to prove their superiority over automated POS software. And then the POS kicks their ass and eats their canned peas.

I love the self-checkout because I can get out of there quicker and bag everything the way want, but I hate it because a 3-person lineup is as bad as a 10-person lineup on a manned checkout lane – with two people that have pricing/tag issues.

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…go away I take a little piece of you?

Sorry, that song was on my mind.