When I want to communicate that someone is an arsehole I say something like "There is a certain charm about that person that not everyone can appreciate."
My friends know what I am really saying. If I get overheard, it sounds like something positive.
A friend of mine had a conflict with her order at a drive through. I had been on the phone with her from the ordering process to when she got upset. I think I know how things went wrong.
She ordered from the menu, and she asked for some variations from how they prepare food. That itself isn't unusual. Systems are often setup for this. I think the issues was she asked for variations their system might not be handled to communicate.
Mom: How is X and her daughter doing?
Me: Bad. The daughter is entertaining thoughts of self-termination.
Mom:OMG! She should speak to a preacher!
Me: She's had bad experiences in church. That he is a preacher would be a reason for distrust. Also, they are non-religious.
Mom: Well does she know any religious people?
Me: She went to a religious school and had bad experiences there.
Mom: Well, both of them need to speak to God!
I never learned how to use a semi-colon(;) in school. I still don't know how to use one now. It is time for me to just admit that I probably won't ever need to know how to use one.
About to call a stranger and wish them a happy birthday. Been procrastinating on this all day.
The stranger is my dad's sister. I don't have any emotional connection with her myself. But dad wants me to call her. Growing up when it was prohibitively expensive to talk to someone in another state, there just wasn't an opportunity to make a close connection.
I gave the child a desktop computer for her birthday. She opened the box, went silent for several moments, and then started to smile and cry. It's not even all that great of a computer!
Darned child, almost made me emotional in front of other people!
I didn't trust dad's statement that his computer got hacked.
I went snooping through his computer. He accepts random instant messages from strangers, trusts their sad stories, shares personal info, and sends them money to "help."
Now that I've violated privacy, I'm about to violate autonomy. I've already blocked any new strangers from messaging him. I'm going to start blocking these other people.
The child wants a toy gun for some reason. Second Amendment mom doesn't want the child to have a gun. Second Amendment mom gave the child a bow and arrow. The arrow has suction cups, not arrow heads. The child enjoys the bow, but still wants a toy gun. What is one to do?
Hartsfield-Jackson #Atlanta International #Airport, previously open 24/7, will begin restricting access to the airport in responses to complaints of homeless people loitering in the airport.
Just fell victim to a fraudulent advertisement. At least I was skeptical enough from the start to not actually lose any money or personal info, though.
Reporting it to the FTC made me feel a little better.
I'm in the office, all masked up. The elderly man whose family inl frequently visits asks that people that come over generally mask up when out and about. Especially now that he has reason to believe he has a cancer diagnosis coming.
I'm growing to hate dark scenes in movies. It's like they must be color grading these on super expensive displays used by the gods with insane dynamic range. When we mortals view the films, we only see blackness. Our displays just are not that good.
I don't know my own work phone number. I don't share it. I just got a phone call from someone presenting as wanting to send me a publication. They had my phone number, name, and title. Who the hell is leaking my data!?
I inherited an iPad app that uses a technology that isn't supported on iOS 17. The #Apps which worked fine on 16, crashes on the client's environment for 17.
But it runs on all of our iOS 17 devices without issue. We cannot observe the crash that the client is seeing.
