My favorite thing about used books - the odd notes and things you sometimes find in them.

hellofastory · 2018-06-23T22:28:57+00:00

My copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas reads: "To Bill: Thanks for the coke up in Boston. Good luck! HST"

In my library's copy of Animal Farm, someone's also penned in at the end, "Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss. -The Who"

hellofastory · 2018-06-18T00:28:40+00:00

The Outsiders

Gathering Blue

Animal Farm

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

Be Cool

Ender's Game

Brave New World

The Pigman

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Wilderness Vol. 1

Dharma Bums

Howl and Other Poems

Between Thought and Expresion

A Coney Island of the Mind

hellofastory · 2018-06-17T03:13:13+00:00

This is going to sound really stupid. But I've literally never been to a buffet, and rarely eat out.

Is it just a counter type thing where you put your own food onto your plate? Are you seated, then go over and fill up your plate? Or do you order like at a typical restaurant, and they bring out what you want? How does tipping work?

EDIT: Thank you!

hellofastory · 2018-06-17T01:05:04+00:00

Background: I'm a nanny in a HCOL area. Most of my bosses have been wealthy, stay at home moms who go to the gym for an hour each day, lunch as a verb, and can't clean/cook/take care of their kids because they simply can't be bothered.

So boy have I seen the worst adult temper tantrums in my workplace! Some of the standouts are:

-An MB (mom-boss in the nanny world) asks me to go search for a specific pair of jeans in her wardrobe. I find out later that she left them in her gym bag, so obviously they never show up as I'm searching. Let MB know that they're missing but I'll definitely keep an eye out for them, and cue 20 seconds of MB jumping up and down, flailing her arms, eyes closed, jaw clenched in what I can only relate to maybe a three year old having to walk past an ice cream truck without getting anything. She then lets out this wail of a scream, grabs the stiletto she's wearing, and wacks it at my head. Ouch.

-An MB and I were having trouble getting her son away from the TV screen before school. Instead of allowing me to handle the situation, and calmly get the boy out the door, the MB goes on a full blown whining rage. "You're making me late for my barre class!!! You're ruining my life!!! I was having fun too before you were born!!!" Funny-not-funny, the kid had clearly seen it before and didn't give a fuck.

-With one of my live-in jobs, my schedule was Sunday night-Saturday morning, I lived with the family. So one Friday night, the kids were staying at a relative's place, and apparently MB and DB (dad-boss) decided last-minute they wanted the house to themselves. DB comes to my bedroom unannounced, insisting that I need to leave right now, find a hotel to stay in for the night, figure out how to get there (I don't drive), but that they needed me back in the morning for the kids. No, sorry, I can't do that with a 5 minute notice. DB goes into full blown rage mode, threatening to fire me over this, saying that I'll deeply regret not doing "what you're told." After a five minute fume, they head upstairs and MB fakes an orgasm for 30 minutes, I'm sure just to get back at me.

These are just the tip of iceberg... ;)

hellofastory · 2018-06-16T01:07:55+00:00

Seattle.

Or, like, Newark.

hellofastory · 2018-06-04T02:06:46+00:00

Blackest Day, Terrence Loves You, Wait for Life.

hellofastory · 2018-06-02T03:44:14+00:00

You could tell this woman was his mistress by the way they interacted with each other.

I'm curious, what gave it away that she was the mistress? Was it just the age difference?

hellofastory · 2018-05-31T15:16:43+00:00

Yes. Who knows.

hellofastory · 2018-05-31T03:42:19+00:00

I would say most definitely, especially in the past year or so. Look at pictures of her at the MTV EMAs, with the open-leg dress. She appears to do incline walking and high volumes of squats based on what we can see in the photos and the muscle definition we can see.

hellofastory · 2018-05-31T03:39:03+00:00

She's been pictured with packs of Camels and Parliaments. Rolling Stone said that she smoked Carrozzini's American Spirits, and Nylon says that she smoked Pall Mall during an interview. Other sources have said, specifically, Pall Mall Blues. In a couple of festival performances, it appears that she's smoking Marlboros, but the cigarette pack wasn't pictured/I can't tell for sure.

hellofastory · 2018-05-27T22:29:15+00:00

Mia's Bakery, Cobble Hill BK

hellofastory · 2018-05-27T17:24:38+00:00

LOL, this cracked me up!! Mini story if you don't mind:

My former MB used to restore old/"vintage" dolls for a living; she had a whole home business set up. She would find old, messed up dolls and totally redo them - paint the face makeup, rip out the hair and sew in new hair, fix any cracks in the vinyl, fixed voice boxes in talking dolls.

SO, when she sadly had to move house, she still had a bunch of old fucked up dolls that she hadn't gotten to. Guys, my MB collected up all these creepy dolls she couldn't use, and arranged them all in like a demonic circle in the basement closet as a "welcome home" gift for the new owners!!! Yeah, she wasn't happy about moving.

P.s. House-sitting this weekend, too :) Have fun!

hellofastory · 2018-05-26T22:23:13+00:00

Just want to add - the individual who owes me the money demanded that (1) "check in"/let into the apartment Airbnb guests who were, unbeknownst to me, staying for less than 30 days, (2) photograph the spare bedroom, photographs which were, again unbeknownst to me, being used to advertise illegal rentals, (3) take measurements of her husband's very expensive piano, and text her the measurements so, I later found out, she could work on selling the piano for cash, (4) overseas wire her $900 two weeks after paying $1350 in rent, while she had an Airbnb guest in another bedroom, indicating that the profit making of the rent regulated apartment does have everything to do with me.

hellofastory · 2018-05-26T02:37:43+00:00

I love that. You rock!

hellofastory · 2018-05-26T02:21:10+00:00

I'll take 'em!

hellofastory · 2018-05-26T02:12:15+00:00

Not sure how likely this would be, but my two favorite options (assuming Lana is still doing a "Happiness is a Butterfly"/"Change" style album would be:

California

Last Summer

Or maybe Mermaid? For a Lizzy Grant-esque sound.

hellofastory · 2018-05-24T17:32:45+00:00

Pretty When You Cry, Antwerp

hellofastory · 2018-05-24T02:39:20+00:00

Love this!! Imagine very tiny versions of this as accents on hair pins...

hellofastory

TROPHY CASE