So, last few days been extremely hard. Like almost enough to end it all hard.
I stop at McDonald’s near work for a drink. She has it ready before I get inside. Seen me coming.
So for dinner, I stop at a McDonald’s out of state but a semi regular stopping point. They have my drink ready before I even order… and it’s free.
Point #1 I go to McDonald’s way too much
Point #3 I really feel like I’m “somebody” today. Now.
The first time I was like huh, that’s nice. The 2nd time I’m feeling all stupid and giddy.
So, to the girl at McDonald’s in Indiana that remembered “my” drink, and gave it to me for free… you made my day.
How bout y’all? Any little gesture ever put you on cloud nine?
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I’m glad she remembered your drink!
yeah, the most recent one that comes to mind was that one time I passed this guy I know like I usually do on the way to class, he remembered like 3 hours later in the class we had together & asked if I was ok because I looked upset apparently. don’t even know him well but he actually bothered to ask how I’m doing; it made my whole week
What’s Point #2? Ya kinda skipped one 😉
It took forever for someone to point this out, congratulations.
Just checking to ensure we are not only reading but digesting the material. Crafty.
Yes, as per one of my previous posts, my “talents” include pointing out flaws. No other viable talents.
Did you do this on purpose or just forgot and didn’t feel like editing it?
So you are a critic. Valuable skill, not flaw. Consider it a feature, not a bug.
oh If only most people viewed it that way. I yank people from the clouds, back into the cold, hard reality that is Earth, explain why their idea / thought #1, 2, or 3000 won’t work, and it’s always “well, you’re just being too negative. if you don’t think something will happen, then it won’t.” meh.
So your more of a Rex Reed than a Siskol and Ebert.
Rex Reed? dunno who that is. I’m great at looking at things from a business / financial side. Would this work? Yes. Would this work. No. More often things are a no so it’s not that I’m negative per se, but that I see reality. And reality usually says no.
Like this one girl wanted to start a business and open up a cupcake store. Sounds sweet, right? Hell, I’d want her to make cupcakes for me, if I could eat ’em lol. But most people don’t think about the reality of it. Do they know at all just how much it costs to open and run a brick and mortar business? Do they know that 95% of all businesses fail within 5 years? And that the #1 reason why they fail is people not realizing it costs a ton more than they thought it would cost. Do they know how much materials cost? cost of retail space? etc etc.
And no, she was a friend so I kept my mouth shut but that’s the kind of stuff people bring up and should I ever bring up any REAL practical issues that they would run into… it’s oh you’re too negative… blah blah
Ok, real example, one time at dinner, we had a question game someone thought up- if there was a zombie apocalyse (or whatever the scenario was), do you think you would survive- yes or no.
EVERYONE was saying “YES, OF COURSE” and I was like “No, I’d die, and I think most people would die too.” I brought up the fact that most of us don’t know how to hunt or find food, animals, water. (we live in a big city, in california, few here owns guns, no one hunts, no one know what plants we can eat, no one knows how to grow anything. When plumbing goes and you don’t have the luxury of water just coming up to your sink or toilet or shower, how will you manage? how will you find water? and remember, no gas, no cars, only 2 legs. You can’t walk very far. And oh, where will others poop? There is no law to control where anyone pees or poops. Removing dysentery, or the introduction of a proper sanitation system, was the reason why life expectancy skyrocketed in the modern world.
But anyway, my point to the others was that in the event a catastrophe occurs, most of us would die. Unless you know how to find food and water (and no, looting groceries stores do not count). Most of us city people don’t know how. And without proper sanitation, or even water to wash our hands, disease would be rampant.
Anyhow, I was not very popular at dinner. But they did ask a question and they did ask for my opinion and my reasoning behind it and I gave it.
I look at things in a practical, logical manner. But the reality of most things is that the odds of something happening are slim, and if I mention that, I’m labeled as “being negative” when all I’m doing is looking at things in a practical, logical way.
People like their pie-in-the-sky ideas and rose-coloured glasses. Anything that isn’t positive = negative nancy, when really, nancy is just a practical realist.
LOL. Epic string of answers.
Like it. I think you are a breath of fresh air personally.
I have a Morman friend, she has an epic stash of food. I’m headed to her ranch as soon as the first wiff of zombie enters the air. I have a diesel VW…It will run on french fry oil if I change out the fuel filter enough, so I am set It gets almost 45 MPG and goes really really fucking fast. Score two…fits five, six if we really squeeze so all the family will be set. The chickens can sit on the peoples laps, cats int he trunk…not sure about the dogs. May have to get a trailer hitch or something. I can garden, I can hunt…I know how to do most home repairs. we’ll earn our keep at the Mormon ranch. I’ll even convert if I have to.
That’s why I would make it for at least the first 6 months. Not sure about some of my family members though, they might be toast.
OH by month 2 my husband will be toast, he’ll open his trollish mouth to the wrong person and bang…dead. If times are grim enough, he will be turkey jerkey for the livestock.
lol i didn’t mean to type so much. just…happened. 😛
In Texas, most people will be shooting their neighbors…or the guy holding a water bottle. People would be dying left and right and shot in a heartbeat in all the gun-totin’ states. Where I am, death will probably come slower, but more torturous.
Disease and dysentery and raw sewage and poop everywhere- I think I might just wanna be shot early on.
Yeah, you guys will talk eachother to death… I have a friend who is a social worker in San Francisco. He is always asking me how I feeeeeel about things.
And if I am hauling ass 110 mpg to my survivalist friend’s ranch, I’m the one doing the shooting. I may be a liberal pacifist right now but bring on the apocalypse and it duck hunting season for sure.
Wabbit season!
youtube.com/watch?v=9-k5J4RxQdE
Don’t own a gun but I know how to shoot! Machine guns are crazy. If you own one, you will be king of the apocalypse.
hm…so Elmer Fudd needs to get a better shotgun… >.<
he shot the duck 3 times and it's still talking. weak sauce.
And free drinks are always cool. Was the girl cute? 😛
She was alright I suppose. And yes skipping 2 was intentional.
Alright you supposed? She noticed you and gave you your drink for free!!
Hahaha ok
At least it was a good thing 🙂
I am glad it happened
maybe eventually she’ll upgrade you to free fries 😀
drool…fries…
HEY- McD should make bacon fries!!! That would be the shit.
Indiana, huh?
(*shifty eyes*)
Yes, I had something nice happen… twice recently in fact.
I was thirsty and was in the drive-thru. I ordered a shake AND a mountain dew.
(Because THIRSTY).
They said they were sorry but the shake machine was down for the moment because it was being cleaned.
Ok, I said. Just the mountain dew, then.
So when I got to the window, she hands me a LARGE mountain dew, and said it was free, to apologize for the shake not being available.
How sweet!
And yesterday at McD, one of the managers (who I talk to often) was complaining about some burning hip pain. I offered her one of my prescription-strength Motrin, which she accepted. A few minutes later she brought me a free large Shamrock shake to say thank you.
P.S. Yesssss, I know it’s probably not legal to share prescription meds with someone. It was just strong Motrin, which doesn’t even work so well on me these days. But hey. If it helped someone else, I still figure it was worth it.
Yes… Indiana….
You have good karma
Heh, fun fact: i avoid going to the places to buy stuff, because i don’t like being recognized. I also avoid shopping in places were cute girls serve you, because my “i must looks serious so she doesn’t realize i find her beautiful” face ends up creeping them a hell of a lot more, lol.
I do get the “oh, the usual?” on a coffee shop that is tended by two very old women, because i experience no awkwardness going there. Yup, i’m shy and pathetic like that, lol.
*avoid going to the same places. Typos galore!
lol why don’t you just act natural? be nice, smile a little, and don’t stare too much. grab your coffee. leave. and that’s all.
I have the hardest time acting natural when i’m self aware that i’m not being natural, lol. It’s a crap shoot tho, sometimes i’d just go somewhere and seem like the most confident person alive, and other times i’m a shaky mess, regardless of who i have in front of me. Social awkwardness, oh how i love you, let me count the ways!
Flirting with the cute nerds at the computer and comic book store is a favorite pastime of mine. Which is why I am no longer allowed unaccompanied to the computer or comic book stores. 🙁
They should have you as a recurring character on The Big Bang Theory.
I love nerds too.
Hazy: that’s actually considered animal cruelty in some states, lol. But no, seriously, poor guys. I mean, i don’t qualify as uber nerd or comic book geek levels of awkwardness but still get anxious, yet i’m quick brushing it off, but those guys? damn, poor souls. I’m guessing most stores in texas have your picture with a NOT ALLOWED warning below, lol.
Mf,
Why are you guys so cute?:
‘”i must looks serious so she doesn’t realize i find her beautiful” face’
Guess beautiful girls are lucky and they can’t know it…
Crazy world any way.
Nope, this kind of nice things out of strangers are not for me, I guess… But it is nice to know the do happen, as I said to cordless, that’s good karma.