Reasons to Keep Living (Official Thread) • Page 143

it'll be a couple days before it's up btw but we out here

 

Maybe a weird one but here goes—getting to hear the clicking sound my favourite boots make when I walk. Or when anyone’s footwear clicks, really. Idk why, but it’s just a such a satisfying noise to me and puts me more at ease.

 

I imagine you’re posted up at the local saloon

 

Hmm, well I do unironically say, “Howdy!” a decent amount. I started doing it as a stupid bit years ago, but now it’s just something I do without thinking.

 

same

 

That happened to me with “bro” back when it was the language of lifted truck driving SRH wearing white dudes with diamond earrings. If you’re anything like me just keep saying it for 15 years and eventually it’ll become cool

 

80% of what I said I started saying as a joke and it stuck

 

Y'all is the best gender neutral collective greeting

 

Yinz if you’re from Pittsburgh.

 

“Party people” if you live under my roof

 

I once had a middle aged woman chirp at me angrily because I addressed her and her group as “folks”.

Like, what a weird thing to get mad about and what else am I supposed I call a group f middle aged adults, teenagers, young kids and misc. others lol

 

When I briefly waited tables/ tended bar at a Ruby Tuesday years ago, management gave very firm directions during my training to never address a group of people as “folks”, and when addressing people individually, I was required to call them either “sir” or “ma’am”. I hated that so much.

 

lol what????? Did they give examples of what you were supposed to say instead of “folks”? And why did they have an issue with the word? I think the woman got mad at me in my scenario because she thought “folks is a term for old people and I’m not old” or something like that

 

The worst is when you call customer service and they use sir or ma'am every 5 seconds

 

"Folks" was stated to be far too informal. When speaking with a group of customers, we were encouraged to say things like, "Hello, ladies and gentlemen. How are we this evening?", and "May I start off with drinks for everyone?" and, "How are we enjoying our meals meals so far?"

 

Don't tell Marc Maron

 

It’s not a reason to keep living, that would be a bit extreme in my opinion, but this is the feel-good thread of the site so my contribution today is when you order something online and it arrives much sooner then you anticipated.

I ordered something late Thursday night and didn’t expect it for maybe a week or so based on previous orders and randomly checked the tracking today and saw it was delivered early this afternoon.

 

I am called m’am all the time, but I don’t care enough to correct them haha

 

my new book is now available for anyone who'd like to purchase it

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTRTCPTN/?tag=absolutepunk-20

thank you so much for the support

 

My doctor prescribed me a sleep med and I've only taken it once so far but omg. The quality of sleep was unreal. Went to bed at a reasonable hour and woke up totally awake and ready for the day. Was able to excercise, make actual breakfast, shower, put on makeup, do a load of laundry, etc all before work. Then was alert and in a decent mood all day. Never dragged. I always knew I was tired a lot but didn't realize how much I have that groggy hungover feeling every day until I had a good night's sleep. I was like wtf is this how it is for normal ppl??

Tbh even if it was just a fluke and I never get that good of sleep again I'm so appreciative and grateful for at least getting to experience it once. Legit almost cried happy tears.

 

I expect mine to be signed

 

and now we start from zero all over again

 

I had my mom buy it because I don’t have prime lol. Looking forward to reading it!