Some of these are just bizarre to me.
I'll pick on Hilo vs. Honolulu. Like, Honolulu is a big city. Hilo is tiny. Honolulu has lots of nice beaches fairly nearby. Hilo has an okay beach and amazing hiking. (As well as a great farmer's market.) They're both lovely places, but they're…Â
I feel like it was one of those needs more info posts.
Like, how long was the line? How many self-check out stands were there? How many items was the child "learning" with?
I'm a lot more sympathetic to the Mom if there were a lot of stands, not that many people in line, and the…Â
Yeah, it would have been nice to see a few more that weren't blue eyed blondes. (Although still kind of loling that one of the few the AI chose to portray as non-white was...Oregan? Like...really? Of all the states???)
Agree, especially about hustle culture. East coasters always sound really arrogant to me (a native N. Californian now in Seattle) as they're going on and on about how they did X, and Y and Z while I think the culture here is to very, very subltly slip those same details into conversation…Â
After returning to the US, having lived previously in Hong Kong for a year, I was just shocked by how *big* everything was.
In Hong Kong, everything is built at a somewhat smaller scale. Grocery store lanes are smaller. Aisles are smaller, etc. People also react to these by moving…Â
Often. The thing to keep in mind is that, if someone leaves the work place for years, they tend to take a massive step back in position/salary, etc. (So it's not just that you lose 3 years of income, you lose 3 years of income and go from a middle level position to a barely above…Â
Agreed. Peel and stick is of the devil. (So is wallpaper.)
I did have pretty good luck with "refinishing" my counters, though. To be fair, they were hideous before, so it would have been hard to make it worse. But the layers have held up for several years now which honestly surprises…Â
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