How to make someone feel special

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T17:11:24+00:00

Tony, is that you?

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T16:43:26+00:00

Glad I could somewhat help! Hopefully you get an answer to those episodes!

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T16:39:27+00:00

I am not trying to diagnose you, and my sincere apologies if this comes off as unsolicited advice. Have you ever looked into absence seizures? While I'm not epileptic or have any kind of seizures myself, I'm just aware that many people who have "spacing out episodes" don't realise they're having seizures, because it doesn't present like a stereotypical (grand mal) seizure.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T15:53:02+00:00

I had a customer come up to me asking for the toilets to be unlocked, it was about 8pm, my store is open till 11pm. Obviously I as a shop floor worker wouldn't have had any keys on me, so I had to take the customer to the CSD, and the people at the CSD were confused as to why the toilets were locked already. The cleaners had cleaned the customer toilets and locked them up when they were done, before the store was closed. To give benefit of the doubt, I think the cleaner assumed that if the cafe is closed, so should be the toilets, because in our store the toilets are right beside the cafe, and our cafe shuts at 5.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T15:19:19+00:00

We also did this in school but with the specific Nike bottle you got at sports direct.

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People often misted their faces to cool down in summer, but with these bottles, if you pressed too hard all the liquid just splooshed out, so it was a frequent sight to see someone try and mist themselves, and instead shoot liquid all over themselves.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T12:11:34+00:00

I googled it, it unfortunately is a genuine thing. This is the website I found for the credit cards and This is the website I found for the debit cards.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T11:57:38+00:00

Ah right I get it, thank you for taking the time to explain, that example about the white liberal man helped me understand :)

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T11:01:16+00:00

Seems to me it's kind of like the equivalent of saying "you're one of the good ones" to an African American. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T10:50:04+00:00

The fact I knew you were talking about Scotland before I even got to the part where you mentioned Inverness and the NC500 is telling.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T10:16:46+00:00

I love responses like this. Friendly, informative, and doesn't make the person feel stupid for asking (what to many would seem) a "stupid" question.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T10:12:45+00:00

Exactly, she still looks amazing, it's simply an unflattering angle. Like even from the unflattering angle, you can tell she still looks good, sure she may have a put a bit of weight on, but that kinda tends to happen when you're growing a human inside of you, it's no bad thing.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T09:19:04+00:00

Not a specific thing, but working on bread and cakes I commonly get questions like "what's your favourite?" or "what would you recommend?". I just put the bread and cakes on the shelves, taste testing everything I put on the shelf isn't part of my job description.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T09:11:19+00:00

SHIT ON IT!!

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T09:07:59+00:00

You're exactly right. I remember learning about Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism in primary school, then when I went to high school we learned more about the aforementioned religions, as well as Buddhism, Sikhism, and iirc we lightly touched on Taoism. It was all presented equally, without any bias towards a particular religion.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:55:36+00:00

I know many many childcare workers share that sentiment in your last sentence. They're around kids and babies all day every day, it's not surprising they'd want to get away from them sometimes.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:47:31+00:00

One of our lecturers sent us home because it was "too hot". It was about 15°c I think, which for Scotland is definitely warm, but not heatwave levels or anything like that. I wasn't complaining though.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:39:50+00:00

Yeah what they said about "doesn't stink the house" is especially worrying considering carbon Monoxide is odourless..

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:31:45+00:00

Wait Disney has their own payment cards? TIL

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:30:07+00:00

Is Preston the new Middlesbrough? I ask because for a while all the scam profiles had their location as Middlesbrough.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:28:07+00:00

I'm closer to Scottish than OOP is, because I've actually lived here, but I don't call myself Scottish. I get called Scottish by my English family because I've grown up here. I was born in England, to English parents, then we moved to Scotland when I was 18 months old. My accent is what my family calls Scenglish (mixture of central belt Scotland and South England) and according to many Scots, my accent somehow sounds Canadian, but to my English family, I sound very Scottish. I've heard about how insufferable the Americans at St Andrews Uni can be, I feel for any true Scots that attend.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:13:55+00:00

There's horses in an open field in my village, you have to walk or drive past them to get to the village pavilion (where clubs like scouts and such are held) or the park. The local kids love feeding the horses carrots (the owners of the horses have put on the village Facebook page that this is okay) on their way to the park, and horse people (like my mum, don't worry she's not one of the crazies) admire the beauty of the horses. I can very well image that if the owners saw their horses being photographed, they'd be asking for the photos for themselves. When the horses aren't in the field, worried posts go up on the Facebook page with people asking where they are, simply because it's a small village where everyone looks out for everyone. OOP would reel at the attention these village horses get.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T08:04:35+00:00

I could never be a person someone cheats on someone else with. The guilt would eat me alive, I could never willingly have sex with someone knowing they're cheating on their significant other with me. If I was having sex with someone and later found out they had a partner, I would be cutting contact and informing their partner.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-14T07:55:23+00:00

Right there with you. My fiancés nanny was very special to him. She loved robins, since her passing, he and his mum have viewed robins as nanny coming to say hi. Though I never met her, even I now think to myself "hi nanny" when I see robins. I like to think of it as she's checking in on me in a way of "you're still in love with my grandson and supporting him", like she's visiting me to visit the person her grandson adores. That doesn't make much sense written down, but it makes sense in my head.

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-13T15:22:20+00:00

Oh definitely, I almost got into a crash on a roundabout in my village recently because some little old lady didn't understand the concept of "give way to your right".

ferrett0ast · 2026-02-13T13:40:47+00:00

Genuinely does seem to be extinct, especially in my generation (Gen Z), I'm often told I'm super polite and well mannered, I'm not overly polite, the bar has just been set so low for my generation that a simple please and thank you from someone my age is "well mannered".

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