For me, talking to new people. When I was in kindergarten, I’d just go up to a new kid, and be like"Hi! Wanna be my friend??? Great! We’re friends now!"
Today it’s more like “Who are you, and why are you in my vicinity???”
Real. Making a friend as kid was so much easier. We had formal systems and if a friendship didn’t work out, you had a system to break the friendship too, no hard feelings. None of this perpetually ambiguous nonsense we have to deal with as adults
Dude. I’m 40 years old, snd I work a job that has a rotating door. Which means they hire anybody, and fire people dho don’t “get it”.
So I work with a bunch of teenagers/early 20s kids.
One of them asks me, “Lost_My_Mind, why don’t you talk to us? Are we too much for you?”
Bitch please. I’ve worked hotel 3rd shifts in seedy motels, where I’ve LITERALLY…LITERALLY needed to csll EMS 3x in an 8 hour shift, because 3 different unrelated people OD’d on heroin on a single shift. You wanna get crazy? No, you don’t honey, because it would literally KILL you.
And what I wanted to say to her, was “I don’t talk to anyone, because I know all of this, this conversation, these set of people, everything you know in life, it’s all temporary. It’s all bullshit. All your friends will turn their back on you, violently if needed. But you haven’t reached your 30s yet. You haven’t seen people for their trueself. So buckle up, because life is about to take a fucking nose dive. All your dreams are dead.”
I WANTED to say that. Instead, to protect her innocence, I just said “I’m just quiet”.
She doesn’t know it, but I’m brunting the majority of the bullshit at our work, because I know she’s pregnant. I take the fall for mistakes she makes, because I don’t want to see that baby get born into a world where its mother doesn’t have a paycheck to feed them.
But as far as making conversation? I’m as useless as her 6 month old in belly unborn baby.
In retrospect, I feel as if I’ve gone off on a tangent. For that, I can only say that Aldis Natures Nectar lemonaide is an EXCELLENT mix with various vodkas.
Last night I had Strawberry Lemonaide mixed with Crystal Skull vodka (vodka in a glass skull from a company owned by dan akroid. I drank it in a souveneer ghostbusters cup I got from the threater when I saw the most recent Ghostbusters movie.
Tonight I’m trying Skyy raspberry infusions mixed with natures nectar standard lemonside.
Last nights drink 10/10 tasted like a jolly rancher.
Tonights drink 8/10. It just tastes like lemonaid, except I’m fucked up. Real smooth drink though.
I work in manufacturing and all the young kids wanna talk while we work. Which is fine, but I don’t engage much unless it’s about sports or cars or something. I’ve been asked why I’m standoffish. It’s like, look, you make it here for 2-3 months and maybe. But in all honesty you probably won’t.
Jerking off.
Fourth time this hour and I’m mostly just waving it around now.
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They’re the backbone of all Lemmy.
Going out in public. When you’re young you really don’t notice just how fucking stupid people are. It gets to the point you actively avoid being in groups of people due to the overwhelming amount of stupid. Shopping trips go from whenever you want to aiming for when the store opens or just before close so the hoards of fools are less likely to be around.
Yeah similarly you also get worse at being responsible on nights out the more often you go out drinking
Signing my name. If you’ve ever had to sign on a mortgage, oh my God they start out looking like words and end up looking like scribbles.
My realtor told us on the first day "just scribble in the rough shape of your name, you’ve gotta do 500 signatures may as well be consistent "
My wife and I were gonna order stamps to do it but that’s not allowed.
Makes me so glad my mortgage signing happens via DocuSign.
I’m twisting the question a bit but people who are extremely good in their own field are more often than not very bad at explaining concepts related to it to laymen and they get worse the more they know.
I knew someone would share it
That’s a major skill I learned while training for my flight instructor certificate, how to break down concepts for the uninitiated. Make no mistake that is a skill you have to learn and practice.
Mixing cocktails. The more I practice, the harder it gets.
*burp*
Weirdly Bowling. The first games I can hit a couple strikes the later games I’m seriously considering putting the barricades up.
Arm fatigue. Bowling balls are heavy! I have the same thing happen to me.
Me too.
My first thought! My first game stinks, my second game is pretty ok, my last game stinks. I blame my weak arm.
Being young
Caring.
Breathing. Eventually you fail entirely.
cocaine
Look, my coke habit isn’t a problem. Just shut up and help me cover the windows with this aluminum foil. It’s the only thing that blocks the surveillance rays from the FBI agents that are hiding in the rosebushes. And watch out for the neighbor’s dog. I’m pretty sure he’s working with them.
pretty sure you only get that way once you start freebasing it.
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Sysprep can reset the activation clock a max number of 3 times. You can set SkipRearm to 1 and it no longer does this, but of course the activation clock isn’t reset, which ‘defeats’ continued reactivation. You learn something new every day I guess. See Serverfault - Does doing sysprep too many times cause issues?
Anything repetitive. I just care less and less and quality suffers accordingly.
Shootin yourself in the face
Connecting with people with things I’m interested in.
