When I’m having lunch at the work break room and people randomly ask me what I’m eating while I’m currently eating, ESPECIALLY if what I’m eating is literally a McDonald’s burger in a McDonald’s wrapper with a McDonald’s bag all clearly labeled next to me.
Then we get the world’s most boring conversation.
“What are you eating?”
“… McDonald’s Big Mac…”
“Oh I haven’t eaten a Big Mac in years! The last time I went to McDonald’s was 2 years ago to use the restroom”
Like what am I supposed to do with that? And this happens almost every day by different people.
I wonder if this is the food equivalent of going to a thread about a TV show to tell everyone about how you don’t watch TV. Like these people want to steer the conversation towards the fast food you’re eating just so they’ll have the opportunity to brag about how they don’t eat fast food.
I don’t eat fast food, or watch the commercials on the television I don’t have, or post in threads about it because I never go on social media or read messageboards on the computer that I would never buy.
And, really, I’m way too busy improving myself, physically and intellectually. And volunteering to make meaningful societal change, basically righting the wrongs of the modern world.
I can see how I might sound full of myself but hey [shrug], what can I say?
If you’re over the age of 25 you should never EVER say “It’s not fair” at work as an argument.
You’re a 55 year old person literally yelling and screaming at work about how “It’s not fair” you have to actually do the duties on the job description you signed up for. Just because you have high seniority that prevented you from doing those duties for the longest time but now we’re low staffed and you have to do them again, don’t complain about how “It’s not fair I have to stand all day when others are sitting!”
While “it’s not fair”, especially if that exact phrase is uttered sounds childish, contexts must be considered.
In the past, I’ve seen plenty of examples of slackers getting away with slacking/goldbricking/shirking and the ( extra ) work being given to everybody else. Said managers damn well knows what’s going on but finds it personally easier for themselves to just stick the workers with the extra work rather than crack down on the slackers.
It’s enough to make some people’s righteous indignation manifest itself by undermining the boss via passive aggression to redress the balance. Another thing someone shouldn’t need to tell people.
I’ve figured out the person asking the extremely stupid question almost always just wants an excuse to talk me to me because they think I am interesting/attractive/cool. It’s not so bad if you think of it as a complement.
To be fair, not all weed smells like skunk and it’s entirely possible for a person not to know that some of it does. Until a couple of years ago, it was not common to smell weed walking down the street in NYC and there were probably many people who hadn’t knowingly smelled it since the 80s when different , non-skunk smelling strains must have been common.
I did not mean that in a derogatory way at all.
It just brought a smile to everyone’s place.
It was a purely innocent question on the part of the tourist.
The guy behind me had a cheech and chong sized fatty going if I remember right. : )
The story of the first Thanksgiving that children learn ( or learned) was that it was a feast involving Native Americans ( who used to be referred to as “Indians” ) and colonists at Plymouth. The question seems to have come from someone who thought the “Indians” referred to were people from India. Turkey is the centerpiece of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
