the-last-hair-bender:

failedhellos:

mysteampunkheart:

lam681:

winmu:

scullylovesqueequeg:

tamtoee:

yeahmicah:

thegirlinthesea:

spookydatrump:

note-inthepages:

Accurate post is accurate.

Reminds me of the time a lady told me whip doesn’t melt. Or a guy yelled at me for not understanding him/hearing him because he kept talking on the phone

Lame

For those in retail.

I worked in a Lil Caesars and a woman came in and wanted a sausage pizza with no sausage, but got mad when she was given a cheese pizza.

So when I worked at fitting room in Old Navy, a woman told me that a medium top was too small, and that the large top was too large. So she asked me to find her an “x-medium”. Old Navy carries x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, 1x, 2x and 3x. There is no “x-medium”. But she insisted, so I went and found her an “x-medium” (which was just a medium in a different color but the same top, same make, same EVERYTHING) and she goes very happily, “THIS! THIS FITS ME PERFECTLY! THANK YOU SO MUCH! See, you can do anything you can set your mind to!”

I’m a waitress at a big fancy resort, and once a woman asked me for a diet water and when I told her there was no such thing she demanded to see my manager (who then also promptly told her there was no such thing and brought her regular water).
Another occasion of stupidity occurred when a woman had been brought a steak cooked too much for her liking. I offered to take it back and bring her out a new one, cooked a little less, and she said “NO this one’s fine I just want you to cook THIS one a little less.” I then had to get the chef and have him explain why you can’t UNCOOK a steak.

When I was working at dunkin donuts there was this woman in the drive-thru who asked for a lightly toasted croissant and then started complaining that the croissant was warm. And wanted her money back, so she gave me the croissant back and I gave her the money and then she tells me “now i want my new croissant” she wanted a new one for free and as she was screaming at me this guy in a biker gang covered in tattoos leans over the counter in the store and yells “ma’am let me just tell you what we’re all thinking. fuck off, you stupid cunt.” I couldn’t stop laughing and she drove away in anger.

Most of the people like in the stories above know that they’re being totally irrational, but also know that if they complain enough they’ll most likely get something free or discounted. So really most of the the nonsensical fucks are actually just cheap fucks with no shame or respect for people.

That last bit of commentary though.

You’d think that but I had once had to explain to a woman that I couldn’t “cut her hair longer.” Some people are actually just stupid.

maggie-stiefvater:

delightfulsepsis:

nunyabizni:

badsciencejokes:

badsciencejokes:

the-quiet-priestess:

blackheartseverywhere:

badsciencejokes:

…I almost killed myself

I put on my sunglasses, to hide my swollen eyes, over my tears. I cried all my makeup off. Went inside to have a milkshake. I don’t know why. I wanted something to drink as I figured out what I would do. I got a soda and a milkshake. Medium. The cashier looked at me and with a line around the corner of the counter he rushed away from the counter “Hold on “ he yelled to a coworker.

I filled my soda and went back and saw him looking all over. I go up and he gets close and says “I made it a large”.

That was seriously enough for me not to do it. His kindness. Someone went out of their way and as I went back in my car to cry I realized I could muster through a few other days. A few more weeks. Then I came down from that panicky high of anxiety, depression, and pain. I finished my shake. And it was enough time to let me feel better. I… I’m alive. I’ll make it through.

Try and be nice today. Tomorrow. Something as much as a smile. It helped so much.

Thank you man at McDonalds.

The milkshake saved my life

I hope you all can read this and remember to be kind

The smallest of gestures can save a life. My Mum answered her phone when I called and I am alive today because of that.

I’m glad you’re here.

It’s a phone call, a milkshake, a friend.

I feel like I shouldn’t keep reblogging this but when I do more people see what kindness can do…. I don’t know. Love everyone as yourself.

Nah, keep rebloging it. It gives hope.

walked sobbing around a city once wearing a summer dress in mid-september thunder and rain. basically dragged myself into LUSH as the smell of the store always made me smile. the shop was empty and dead due to the weather, just this blonde short woman behind the counter who smiled at me. i stared at her feet and asked ‘do you have anything for people who are scared a lot?’ (i was so out of it i had no clue). she showed me two bath bombs, one pink and one blue, and said both were good – i chose the pink, paid for it and left. i then sat at a bus stop clutching the LUSH bag in one arm and my prescription meds in the other – i’d lied and ordered a refill so i could just drift away with sleeping pills. when the bus arrived and i was out of the rain, i decided to have another look at my bath bomb, smell it and what not. opened my bag and saw she’d put the blue one in there for me as well and written on the receipt ‘feel better soon 🙂 hope you like x’. 

no one had ever been so selflessly kind to me before, i didn’t know what to do with it except hang around long enough to use the other bath bomb. 

Actually I’m going to reblog this again because of the truth of the inverse: think of any time you have been casually cruel or petty to someone for humor or because you weren’t in a great mood. 

The power of small gestures goes both ways.

lysapadin:

calleo:

ms-demeanor:

autasticanna:

princen-jasper:

“There are no trigger warnings in real life”

“The real world is cruel, get over it.”

My boyfriend is triggered by Christmas and Christmas music. We were in a restaurant, and Christmas music was playing, and he started panicking so he went outside for a cigarette. The manager of the restaurant overheard him saying he had to get out, and changed the music over for the rest of the time we were there. There are safe spaces in the real world. People are nicer than you think. And bullshit people who try to tell you to get over your triggers, ain’t shit.

Honestly “the world is cruel get over it” is pretty easily translated to “I’m a complete asshole who doesn’t want to be held responsible for my sh*tty behavior”

I was at a hacker conference a few months ago and someone had a panic attack because of the noise levels.

Guess how many rowdy drunk hackers quieted down to make sure the person having the problem was okay because it was all of them, all of the hackers. (500 at this particular party)

The

“There are no trigger warnings in real life”  people always get me because there are multiple in place by law trigger warnings on games and entertainment at least, in the US.

Movie ratings? Those are trigger warnings, and the rating always explains what the ‘trigger’ might be. The amount of it and how graphic it is determines the difference between PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, and X (which isn’t used much anymore, it’s been mostly replaced by NC-17. Movies that still get the X rating typically don’t get into theaters.)

TV ratings? Same thing. Sometimes you even get a voice over telling you what the warnings/ratings are for.

Even TV shows rated for violence, sexual content, etc…often open with a warning that actually starts with the word warning that the show contains graphic violence/graphic sexual content/Scenes of *include the potentially triggering thing here*.

Fanfiction hosting sites have trigger warnings built into the tagging system.

Video games’ rating systems are basically, you guessed it, trigger warnings.

Though it’s not much of a thing anymore as most music is streamed or digital, there used to be similar ratings on CDs for the same reason, mostly for violent or sexual content in the lyrics. 

Even streaming music providers tend to label music just as ‘explicit’ because, by this point, it’s fairly common knowledge that music marked “explicit” will contain either a lot of profanity, graphic references to sex, graphic references to violence, graphic references to drug use, or graphic references to criminal activity, and you can usually guess which things pretty easily by the title of the song. 

Classes on certain topics often contain verbal and written warnings about the content if it’s content that a reasonable person would find objectionable and, “LOL nothing offends me, SJW!” isn’t what anyone would consider a reasonable person (also they’re a person likely to get ‘triggered’ by being told that being an asshole isn’t a positive personality trait to have).

Trigger warnings absolutely do exist in the real world, they’re just called something else depending on where they’re being used or come under the guise of, “We want parents to make sure they’re okay with their child watching/playing this.”

It costs $0 to just realize, “Oh, this warning is not meant for me because this thing does not upset me in any way, but I understand that it might upset other people and that other people would like to be able to make an informed choice before deciding if they want to see/year/experience this thing,” like a normal adult human.

And the world is cruel. That doesn’t mean you have to actively contribute to it.

And the world is cruel. That doesn’t mean you have to actively contribute to it.

wahbegan:

frogmp3:

mens-rights-activia:

the-nerdy-aspie:

mens-rights-activia:

meatswitch:

daydreaming-of-puppies:

Men get pegged as shallow a lot, but in my real life experience, women are more shallow than men. 

A lot of the men I’ve talked to don’t care if a woman has some extra weight, or is taller than them, or doesn’t have flawless skin. And even more men prefer women who don’t wear a lot of make up. (Not that I’m saying make up is bad, I love make up.)

I’ve noticed a lot of women, on the other hand, won’t date guys who are shorter than them (that’s a really popular one), or they have some other physical standard they expect. 

Yet we ostracize men who have standards and applaud women who do. Those men are shallow while those women are strong independent “don’t need no man” types. 

The hypocrisy is pretty amusing, to say the least.

Men get pegged

I honestly stopped reading at “men get pegged” and I was like “they sure do”

I’m glad neither of you took the time to read one person’s opinion. What is reading comprehension or textual analysis anyways? Worried it might pop your bubble? Grow up.

I honestly stopped reading at “I’m glad” and was like “good for you”

i’m so glad we all stopped at “men get pegged” i read that then immediately scrolled to the end of this post to make this comment

Erasure poetry by wahbegan