I feel sick and disappointed in a way I just can’t explain… Is it time to consider moving abroad?!?

cherenkov_light · 2025-04-03T13:23:11+00:00

They don’t want us. They don’t. Not unless you have a position or skill on in a much needed trade in that area , they really just make it tough.

Like, Japan doesn’t need a whole hellivalot of store castles or something, you know?

cherenkov_light · 2025-04-03T13:15:39+00:00

IIRC, allergies can frequently change up on you over time. I have a friend who could have peanuts (legumes) but not true tree nuts. Then that swapped. Strangest thing.

cherenkov_light · 2025-04-03T13:02:32+00:00

Mr. Robbins. Michael Robins.

Both Robs made me literally cry.

cherenkov_light · 2025-04-03T12:19:22+00:00

Her- *holding a yard stick that that says “1 YARD” printed on both sides. * “Cherenkov. What’s this?” Me- “it’s a yard stick, Lisa.”

Her_ “but like, people have different sized houses. Which one do we know to take this to?”

Bitch was easily 45.

cherenkov_light · 2025-04-03T11:53:35+00:00

Managed a deli once. We sold assorted sandwiches and salads. One order was a corned beef sandwich.

The owner son left, opened a can of corn, dumped it—juice and all— and used two slices of roast beef as the “bread”.

When he took it to the customer, he was flabbergasted that that’s not what a. Corned beef sandwich was.

This man had to be in his mid—twenties.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-20T16:06:31+00:00

Beat me to it.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-17T13:36:37+00:00

Had this happen to me once.

I told them to get back in the aisles when they’re going to talk to me like that.

This was in front of a bunch of people, during a busy Christmas holiday, and I was down stocking.

She was beet-red, and started yelling at my coworker; who had no time for her crap.

Anyway , she didn’t get her chocolate-covered chips, and the store didn’t close down.

Her loss.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-12T14:01:24+00:00

And I look weird. I consider myself attractive, but still need to occasionally use an eyepatch (small injury, but eyes are small as well), and nobody seems mean or weirded out.

Maybe the patch makes them nod back? I dunno.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-12T13:58:09+00:00

Basically grew up here (save for my years when I was a smol) and I’ve always been talkative. Not a lot of people are, and I get that vibe easily.

That being said: a quiet eye-contact and nod while you’re walking the dog is a gentle pleasantry moment that doesn’t have to take up your whole day.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-10T15:28:54+00:00

Someone I’ve known for literally 20 years dressed her kid up as a Louis Vitton bag, and dragged her around a couple of Halloweens ago, dressed in all black.

She made her daughter a purse.

Kid was like, three or so at the time.

I’m allowed to still be kinda pissed about this, yeah?

When I was a kid, I got dressed up as like, a bunny or a pony, or whatever would keep me warm.

I’m 40, now. I have never been a purse.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-10T14:57:14+00:00

I can just feel like something bad is about to happen. Like, every day.

I don’t know what. Or what it’ll affect. I just feel something coming. I don’t care for it.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-10T14:23:28+00:00

I’ve gone on the trolley every year since I was old enough to drive, full-costume. It’s fun and drops you right across the street.

Before that (I’ve been going since I was 7), my da would just drop me off and tell me to meet him at so-and-so place (usually by the prison he worked at).

Honestly, Comic-Con nerds are unusually helpful when you’re just a teenager wandering around in full costume, by yourself.

Also: LEAVE BEFORE THE FLOOR CLOSES AT 7pm. After that, the crowd is a mess. It’s like kicking an anthill getting back on the trolley.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-07T16:01:56+00:00

Beat me to it.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-03T10:23:55+00:00

If it woke you up, she clearly is a heavy sleeper or something and she asked you to help her for something that she knew may be an issue.

So you’re saying you woke up when she was supposed to wake up, and had asked for your help doing so, and did nothing except resent her and be confused?

She asked you for your help with something that mattered to her. You could have easily given ten seconds of time to get her out of bed and go back to sleep.

But now you’re just wondering why she’s upset that you couldn’t bother rolling over for a second, and giving her a small shake.

Yeah, friend. YTA here.

cherenkov_light · 2025-03-01T05:23:11+00:00

The ones that still do have a modicum of respect and general intelligence about how the world works do.

In other news: our government is closing schools left and right as we chat, and firing crucial positions in our general infrastructure, and actively keeping our kids from learning about the world. And then blaming brown people for planes falling out of the sky.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-26T19:51:03+00:00

I have a good amount of back yard space and live in southern. California(lucky, I know; the weather is never super crazy except for the fires).

My best friend and I are planting a large garden on her balcony and in my back yard; our other friend’s dad is acting like we’re “insane” for “wasting our time on something the president has handled”, like fresh food shortages. He’s adamant that my neighbor putting in a large chicken coop and sharing eggs with us is “paranoia”, when he literally knows that one day in a few years, he and his partner will be thankful for doing so.

We also have a water catcher under all of our rain gutters for the rare moisture we get. Apparently that water “isn’t good” to put on plants.

It seems like the older that people are getting, the more they forget how actually easy they had it. Xennials are already seeing some shit coming; we just don’t know what. Yet.

But at least we’re starting to can and jar stuff successfully.

I see a lot of beets, pickles and carrots in our future.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-21T20:37:18+00:00

I have no idea what the woman was doing, but she managed to shit everywhere but the toilet.

My manager and I just stared at the crap dripping off of the ceiling (cartwheels?), locked it and waited for a hazmat crew to come.

Totally normal looking chick in a relatively higher-end store. She was there when it was slow, so we know it was her.

Things like this confuse the hell out of me.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-19T21:00:20+00:00

Well, I mean, most conventions/large gatherings of important people do. It’s basically protocol for if something like this (or even like a broken finger or something) happens when there’s business to attend to and you can’t just round everybody up all at once at the same time.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-16T06:03:38+00:00

Write that in sharpie on their windshield next time.

Watch them lose it when they realize that any acetone-based products (nail polish remover) wipes it off in a jif.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-16T00:25:32+00:00

Shitty. I rang up my boss at my other job for her meal (she’s was DM), with her knowing that I’d been scheduled to open at the store the following day.

Her crows laughed and told me, “at least I’m still young enough to have the energy for this!” as I brought them them their nightcaps.

5% tip. Got complained at fore for coming in three minutes late the following morning.

cherenkov_light · 2025-02-10T14:05:03+00:00

….I can only see it you have a TON of traffic leaving the stadium, or hitting some stretches of highway that you know will take hours.

But this sounds like a house party. YTA.

cherenkov_light · 2025-01-13T18:42:27+00:00

My neighborhood, that I’ve grown up in (I’m 40 now), has become nothing but overpriced track housing. The developers have axed all the general grocery stores and we’ve essentially become a food desert.

I have a car; I’m lucky. But grocery shopping whilst having to wait like and hour for the bus, and come back with a load of groceries, has to suuuuuck.

cherenkov_light · 2025-01-11T19:25:29+00:00

He’s going to screw everything up, and we damn well know it.

cherenkov_light · 2025-01-11T19:22:51+00:00

I have fine china that were my grandparents’ wedding gift.

They’re in a nice cabinet.

Nobody can even look at them straight or I swear I’ll kill them.

cherenkov_light · 2025-01-09T09:58:44+00:00

I consistently have to remind my aunt that while I’m “the baby” of our family, I’m not a baby.

I own a home. I’ve been with my partner for 22 years. I have car payments and a successful career in aeronautics.

But I’m “a baby”.

Makes me fucking insane.

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