Probably not the kind of horror story you guys are thinking of, but it still haunts me. My aunt worked for an airline before she retired, so I used to travel on her buddy passes all the time (still can - I’m just an adult with a job and no summer break now). Flying standby on buddy…
I worked in the computer lab at a library for a bit. People asked for help with the scanner all the time, but this one lady was really something special. Came in to make a scan of her drivers license. She had just gotten a new one from the DMV, so she only had the black and white…
Used to work at a public library in the computer lab. A lady got huffy with my when I scanned her black and white temporary license and it didn’t come out in color. I can’t just... add color to docs that are in black and white, ma’am. That’s not how a scanner works.
“I Am The Messenger”, by Markus Zusak - even as a teenager, I knew there were parts that were weak as hell, but I really needed the message at the time: that you don’t need to be anyone particular special or extraordinary to make a difference in your little corner of the world. I…
I’ve been blasting Frank Turner pretty much the entire quarantine, and trying to convert my friends from a distance. The whole “Love, Ire & Song” album is phenomenal - I’ve been really into “I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous” and the titular “Love Ire & Song”, as well as…
The local police made a Facebook post about a found goat. Did anyone know whose goat this was? There was a house on one of the main roads that had a bunch of goats, so obviously everyone in the comments suggested that. Nope - the police had assumed the same thing. Not Their Goat.…
I also have a weird tendency to forget colanders have holes, and try to hold it while straining pasta. It’s a miracle I haven’t severely burned myself yet.
I spent 20 years of my life convinced derbis was a word... while being perfectly aware of the word debris. I just thought one was construction waste and the other was natural. It broke my brain when I realized that in a college geology class, typing my notes and realizing that there…
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