Late gen-X here - I had to drop out of college due to the cost but managed to land a full time job in retail while the gettin’ was good, so I was able to keep my head above water through the 00s, but had nothing resembling wealth until my 40s when my mom died last year. I have half her money in an IRA and 25k in my…

I had Walkers’ chicken flavored crisps the last time I was in London, and I was unimpressed. I still remember the ham & mustard crisps I had in Edinburgh in 2000 - loved those, couldn’t ever find them online for a non-absurd price, and it’s that brand that just went completely discontinued late last year. I’ve had…

I have had multiple incidents where I missed a flight for reasons that were not entirely under my control but the sort of thing where airport agents can be total dicks about it if they want. Every time, I’ve gone to the counter, nicely explained that Something Happened, and I’ve always been rebooked on the next flight…

Addendum from a long-term retail manager: Surveys are SERIOUS BUSINESS in food and retail, and often a metric on which entire jobs are affected.

Every hardcore introvert I’ve ever met truly, *instantly* groks that phrase.

IIRC something similar happened to Princess Charlene of Monaco - she tried multiple times to escape her 2011 wedding to Prince Albert (heh) after finding out some BS and they took away her passport.

If I don’t get enough alone time - even around those that I love - I slam into what I’ve always called “the introvert wall,” where I am abruptly DONE with human contact, and if I don’t get a bare minimum of 20-30 minutes away from people, my stress starts reaching volcanic levels. I’ve never gotten to a point where…

I just moved to a city last year that has a respectable Asian (from all corners) population and I have only JUST been able to start exploring Korean food. I am not sure if there are Korean-Chinese places here, but there are several Chinese-Indian joints, which have been fun to check out. I’m looking forward to when…

I had a fling in Amsterdam at the age of ~33 that I will probably never see again, but boy did it make me look at the world a little differently for a while...

I work for a company whose CEO took an 8 digit severance after running the stock into the single digits and was accused of insider trading. I was livid.

I did a stint at Booger Fling before college and learned to either ask for it fresh off the broiler, or ask for a small change to something to ensure they have to pull one from the bin to make.

We can always go back to our German roots and use “euch!”

My retail store was one of the first to open in my area after Hurricane Florence because we were located right where FEMA set up shop and had power. We were not as essential as simply feeding people, but we still provided services that were needed, and we were severely shorthanded (because a lot of our staff either…

I was unsupervised for extensive periods of time by the time I was 5 or 6. Now, I was unusually independent and self-sufficient even for a Gen X kid, and my mom was often working 2 jobs to put food on the table, but there were any number of times when she left me alone that had nothing to do with work.

> In the case of Cruz, it’s likely that his family vacation wasn’t planned on a whim.

I refuse to keep my phone anywhere near my bed/bathroom. I get up, I go pee, I go back to bed. Phone screen will just wake me up even further!

I like my chocolate around 65% - it retains some of the creaminess of milk chocolate, but it’s snappier and it plays better with fruit, caramel, toffee, salt, etc.

I said I extrapolated based on how they answered the phone - the only inquiry I make is if they want to come in FOR a [socially distanced, masked] interview. It’s pretty easy to tell at that point if they’ve got their shit together and they care, or if they’re applying to every job on the market just to say they’re…

They will never surpass the Honda crab.

...take what you think you’re owed? what you think you deserve?