A Guy Came Into My Job And Threw Tootsie Rolls At Me Today (for No Discernible Reason). A Few Minutes

A guy came into my job and threw tootsie rolls at me today (for no discernible reason). A few minutes after he left, he came back and threw more tootsie rolls at me.

Sir. Even if I wanted to eat this, I wouldn’t. I do not trust candy that can be easily unwrapped and rewrapped from anyone. Please stop asking me if I don’t like the candy and stop staring. I’m not going to.

Ah... Customer service.

Finally updating this. Life has been rough so sorry for the delay you guys.

🌈 It's okay to be romance repulsed.

💛 Being romance repulsed doesn't make you heartless or evil.

🐥 Romance is not the height of human connection, and romance repulsed people aren't "missing out."

🌻 We all have different ways of relating to people, especially those we care about, and that's okay.

☀️ Romance repulsed people don't need to change. They're perfect as they are.

⚡Romance repulsed people's boundaries, especially around romantic topics, deserve to and need to be respected.

🌙 Amatonormativity is an extremely prevelant construct in our society, and it hurts those who are romance repulsed.

⭐ Romance repulsed people are important members of the LGBTQ+ community, and deserve much more recognition than they receive.

🍋 Romance repulsed people are valid no matter their orientation, whether they're aro, demiro, grayro, apothiro, or any other orientation.

🌈 Having pride is for romance repulsed people too, and it's important to support and uplift the pride of romance repulsed people.

I’ve been thinking about idly streaming for a while, but they would all be games where I’ve already played them and then lamely did research on genre writing for the game beforehand. I’m not sure I’m going to do this yet, seems a bit of a commitment when I’m trying not to drown in school, but the end of the semester is approaching and a month would be plenty of time to get started on research for multiple games. I’m wondering if anyone would be interested and am open to suggestions.

Mafia: Definitive Edition (probably whole series) and looking into different eras of mobster movies.

L.A. Noire and obviously noire cinema

Life is Strange (in preparation for life is strange two) and certain kinds of “serious ya”/teen movies that deal with more mature themes (I want an excuse to watch the Heathers and Firewalk with me okay?)

Mass Effect when the definitive edition comes out and sci-if (specifically military sci-fi)

What Remains of Edith Finch. I’m not sure what genre I’d be looking into but I like this game and want to talk about grieving and death and trauma. Family tragedy.

Accompanying the former will be Gris

Far From Noise; probably will be the first one I play bc I don’t intend to do a lot of research. This is just such a good game and I’m not sure I can do it justice by talking about existentialism, therapy, etc

Firewalk and cinema with themes for middle aged adults as well as nature~

Dark Picture Anthology and horror movie influences. I may or may not rant about Little Hope and my love hate relationship with the game bc I like ALL of the premise but none of the execution and I have OPINIONS on how it could have been done better and been roughly the same game

I’m sure there are more but this is what I’m sitting with. Let me know (if anyone actually reads this) what kind of stuff you’d be interested in (if this seems interesting) and if there are any influences in the ones already mentioned that could be beneficial to examine

So I haven’t posted here in a while because I’ve not been doing great, but I had to share this story.

The other day, I’m at the register ringing a lady up for a notebook and a couple of pens when she suddenly demands for me to reiterate the individual prices for the items. I’m thinking that maybe one of the prices was more than offered (but the items only amounted to about three bucks), but go ahead and tell her. She then started screaming at me because our store falsely advertises our prices and that we’re dishonest. That every time she comes in the prices for the items don’t match the prices on the shelves and that someone needs to answer for it, she wants to pay the price she was promised with our sales tags... which was about four bucks more.

Our company has cut our hours. We only have five employees at a time except for during the transition period of 1-4 (including our manager) and two of us can’t leave our stations. The other three are near constantly taking care of customers because people want someone to walk them through everything. We have a very large store with A LOT of items, they change prices on many of them weekly (and we don’t have the manpower or hours to have people dedicated to only doing that), and they are already prepping for back to school season which involves rearranging the store. We are going to make mistakes and miss price tags.

While I’m trying to explain this to her in the most polite way possible (with her getting angry at me saying “they” when referring to the company) and glancing at the line starting to build behind her and her making a scene. My manager walks over and tries to explain we don’t have a way to make her pay the prices she wants to pay (we can make them lower sort of but not charge someone MORE, why would someone program that into the system) and that most people appreciate paying less money. She keeps telling about it while I stand there awkwardly and eventually pays and leaves but not before asking for my name and threatening to report me.

Apparently this is the fourth time she’s done this to an employee at our store and is known for this behavior in the shopping center. She never does anything about it, but some people just seem to want to be angry and find reasons to take it out on people. Jeez.

I indeed opened up my document for the chapter a few minutes ago and wondered what the fuck I was thinking... mostly due to the sheer amount of misspelled words and repetitive writing. Go sleepy brain.

its 2 am where i am and i started sleepily writing for the next chapter of eating alone.

just so you guys know, my first thought was: i hope i make someome cry. tomorrow im going to wake up and probably wonder what the fuck i was thinking.

there you go tomorrow brain