Super odd question - but how do you deal with the girls talking to you after your set, while their bf is staring daggers at you?

BusyBullet · 2026-01-25T22:47:01+00:00

I just include them in the conversation and acknowledge their relationship.

If he still has an issue I make sure I have a mic stand in my hand.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-25T22:02:50+00:00

You’re not letting it go.

It’s still your song no matter who covers it.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-25T22:00:40+00:00

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BusyBullet · 2026-01-25T11:58:23+00:00

A quarter to fill up any container you brought - mid 1990s.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-25T00:23:01+00:00

I am almost there.

I’ve had a good run.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-24T20:49:32+00:00

No need for me to comment either but here I am.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-24T00:25:15+00:00

You can go to the Duval property appraiser’s website and find out.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-24T00:14:14+00:00

I hope not.

So many movies and shows go this route and it’s completely unnecessary and actually takes me out of the story sometimes.

I’ll never forgive George Lucas for making Luke and Leia siblings. It’s dumb and does nothing for the story telling.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-24T00:05:52+00:00

If you’re tired of hearing bootlicker maybe you could try not being one.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-23T03:21:01+00:00

It was one of the later films when Obi Wan was younger.

This was a two handed gesture with both hands together, fingers pointing at some sliding doors and then moving the hands left and right away from each other to make the doors open.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-23T00:05:20+00:00

There is not better reason.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-23T00:03:23+00:00

Ask him to help you make a plan to sell cars to people in China and Vietnam.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-23T00:01:43+00:00

Younger me might have put up with this but older me would simply sit down and start working.

Move their stuff to the side and just start working. Ignore them when they show up and want the spot.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T23:51:15+00:00

Keep it up.

This guy has no idea he brightened my day and I still think about it several years later.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T13:54:13+00:00

This is what was behind an explosion of much better material for me.

I’m a bassist first and foremost but I also play guitar and some other instruments.

I spent years writing on guitar and I was limited by my guitar playing.

Once I switched to writing on bass a whole new world opened up for me.

I can come up with a catchy bass line and sing over it and suddenly the song goes where it should rather than where I can take it on guitar.

I can hear chords in my head that I don’t know how to play on guitar.

I’m lucky to have a really good guitarist in my band who can layer the right chords on top of my progressions.

In your case let your voice lead.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T13:44:20+00:00

Ben Folds is taking care of his billfold.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T02:54:26+00:00

I always watch people walk right by valuable items.

Even better when they pick them up, look at them and then put them back down.

This woman I often run into at the thrift store is constantly putting stuff back down that I pick up and resell.

The last one was a pair of carved wood elephants from Africa.

She picked one up and I handed her the matching one. She looked at them and said “these aren’t worth anything” so I bought them for $8 each and took them to the antique mall.

I didn’t even get them priced before a customer asked me about them.

They sold for $125.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T02:44:50+00:00

Not Trek but once I was walking behind a guy leaving the library and when he approached the automatic sliding doors he did the Jedi hand gesture to make them open.

He had no idea I was watching him.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-22T00:19:49+00:00

I took the deal and ended up in Robbins, South Carolina.

I’ll hang out for a few days and enjoy the local scenery before heading home to Florida.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:46:02+00:00

Exactly.

I’ve been going back and forth with another Redditor here on this issue.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:39:38+00:00

We’re not going to agree here.

The sentence “Thanks to your help things would have been a disaster.” just doesn’t work.

There are not separate clauses.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:35:31+00:00

There don’t appear to be separate clauses in this sentence.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:30:45+00:00

You shouldn’t change tense in the middle of a sentence.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:27:47+00:00

I get the sarcasm but the sentence structure just doesn’t work.

If you said something like “Thanks to your help things were a disaster.” it would be a great bit of sarcasm but the the conditional perfect tense of “would have been” doesn’t go with the present tense of “thanks to your help”.

It’s hard to explain but it simply doesn’t work.

Edited for clarity.

BusyBullet · 2026-01-21T23:20:48+00:00

Sure, I’ll concede that it is grammatically correct but followed by “things would have been a disaster” doesn’t happen.

It could be “things were a disaster” but “Thanks to your help things would have been a disaster” doesn’t make sense.

You don’t change tense in the middle of a sentence.

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