Sunday, August 16, 2020

Tumblr Story: Teacher Underestimates Students in Social Experiment


And with that, maybe there's evidence the world won't completely slip into utter chaos. Sure, the strangeness of students can result in some weird and stupid school stories, but that doesn't mean students are necessarily complete animals all the time. Sometimes it can be teachers who say weird and wild junk.

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Text - solarmorrigan So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we'll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she'll be back in a couple of minutes

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Text - Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl's balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it's quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

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Text - After a long moment, she says, confused, "You didn't pop the balloons." To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, "We're allowed to pop them?" and immediately turns around and stabs his friend's balloon with the pencil

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Text - There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates' balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. "I can't believe you didn't pop your balloons." Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

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People Who Actually Like Their Jobs Explain Why


In this day and age, it's sadly rare that people actually enjoy what they do. It also makes you wonder if it's not necessarily the job but the type of person and their outlook that makes their job worth it. Interestingly enough, it's often not the jobs that look fun that grant the most satisfaction. Here are some jobs that look fun but aren't.

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Text - Metallic-Blue 33.6k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago & 6 More Public Library Everything is free. I don't have to sell anything. People come in because they want to be there. I get to help people who want to be helped, or provide and environment where they can chill and relax. They only owe money when stuff is late.

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Text - comicalcameindune 23.7k points · 6 days ago Facilities-a glorified janitor. The position has morphed, I started by cleaning floors and toilets. Now so many of my creative strengths are used. We're updating our campus, so we build furniture, construct new walls and stages, choose paint colors, engineer unique solutions for an aging campus, and so much more. I've learned electrical, concrete work, welding, sound engineering, drywall, installation of floors, ceilings, doors, stage backdrops,

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Text - Lethal_Hobo 21.3k points · 6 days ago Seaplane pilot - charters, sightseeing, fly-in-fishing, & seaplane flight training

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Text - how_do_nouns_work 18.4k points · 6 days ago Waste management. I drive a garbage truck. I start early but there are days I'm off at noon. A full 8 hours for me ends at 1:30 and I work 5 minutes from my house. I am in the AC all day and left alone. It's wonderful.

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Text - Ipsguy 14.5k points · 6 days ago I think up and draw cartoons. Every day. A syndicated comic for newspapers. Only learned to draw at age 43 so it's been a cool midlife turn. I'm one of those handful of people trying to be at least a fraction of what Gary Larson was/is.

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Text - loadblower831 12.8k points ·6 days ago 3 2 i work in a homeless shelter. i was homeless like 10 years ago and it feels good to help the marginalized community i was once a part of

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Text - princessyumyum17 794 points 6 days ago I'm an epidemiologist, first year out of school. Certainly an interesting first year, and I'd say I probably have some job security right now.

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Text - RandomHuman191817 11.6k points · 6 days ago I'm a locomotive engineer. It's badass controlling thousands of horsepower and tons all with my hands. I love running with the window open listening to the power working and waving a people when they wave with more than one finger.

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Text - systor 10.3k points · 6 days ago edited 5 days ago I work at a doggy day care. I left vet teching after 12 years for something less stressful.

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Text - spiz_1 948 points · 6 days ago This will probably get buried, but I'm a winemaker. Plenty of cool things about it - especially if you actually enjoy drinking wine.

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Text - amark96 8.2k points · 6 days ago I'm a Meteorologist. I look at weather all around the world and work directly with Fortune 500 companies to help them prepare for natural disasters. Considering I've wanted to be a Meteorologist since I was 5, it's a dream come true and I feel blessed.

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Text - Katy-L-Wood 7.8k points · 6 days ago I make replicas of dinosaur fossils for museum display. The company I work for does full sized replicas, but I primarily work in the division that creates teeth and claw replicas, and a few scaled down skull replicas, for gift shops.

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Text - snydert317 6.7k points · 6 days ago I have worked in zoos my entire career (mostly as a zookeeper) and now get to travel and work in conservation. Incredibly gratifying and truly feel I have never worked a day in my life with this career.

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Text - I_AM_A_BABOON 6.6k points · 6 days ago I'm currently a factory worker making sheet metal roofing and siding, it's one of the easiest jobs I've ever had. The work is relatively repetitive, but there's enough variation to keep it from getting boring. The people I work with are kind and funny, management actually gives a shit about us, and the benefits are fantastic. I love working manual labor, I could never have a desk job.

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Text - hacktheself 5.4k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago This will sound sad, but at the moment I'm enjoying working as a delivery driver. For clarity, I work for a wage unlike, say, food delivery couriers who are paid piecemeal. It's well below my education level (a BA, second degree in progress). And it's nowhere near my passions (information security). I enjoy the job mainly because I'm gaining rapid familiarity with where I live. I get to see small businesses I didn't know existed (li

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Text - DeadliestSaiyan 4.9k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago Im a loss prevention person at Burlington. All I do is stand at the door, wipe off carts, and say hi and bye to people coming in or out. Easiest job in the world, most of my coworkers hate me for the job Edit: I have conquered the art of being bored. I went through elementary through high school being this bored in a class so this job was no different for me.

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Text - BitOfAZeldafan2 3.9k points ·6 days ago I'm a night shift worker at a manufacturing facility. I love being able to set all my machines, read a book (or play on my 3DS), and be by myself. Once all my machines are set, I just need to change finished parts for new blanks every 15-20 minutes.

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Text - Mowglis_road 3.2k points · 6 days ago Before the pandemic shut everything down I was a Broadway dresser! I got to work backstage on some awesome shows with pretty costumes and be a part of the magic, it was such a rewarding feeling

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Text - HSTeacher1987 2.9k points · 6 days ago I teach history and government at a small rural high school. My students are extremely polite and respectful (it's not often the younger generation calls their elders, "sir"), I love what I teach, and I get along with all of my co-workers.

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Text - maruffin 2.7k points · 6 days ago I am a speech therapist working with stroke patients. I love rehab. I tried pediatrics but it was not my thing. Rehab is for me.

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Text - RussianSpaceSkeleton 2.0k points · 6 days ago Freelance illustrator and graphic designer. I've always liked the idea of making things that are useful to people in any way, and I always try to apply this mentality into my work. Not to mention that stimulating my creativity is something I've always enjoyed, and something this line of work requires on a constant basis. Of course, creative blocks are an issue occasionally, but it's still something I truly enjoy.

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Text - hobbyanimal 1.9k points · 6 days ago I'm a sales executive for a utility company. Its a job that most people imagine would be soul-crushing but I genuinely enjoy it. That's not to say it doesn't have its bad moments but it's mostly pretty fun. Plus it's a relatively well paid job in a very recession-proof industry, so at the moment I'm fucking grateful to have a stable job. As a rather solitary person who doesn't particularly like people trying to talk to me I take a perverse satisfaction

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Text - feedmaster 1.8k points · 6 days ago Software developer and I absolutely love my job. I literally can't say one bad thing about it. I don't even have a degree and I learned everything on my own.

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Text - Stie5894 1.6k points · 6 days ago The job I loved. Retail at an adult store. On an almost daily basis I could be helping an 18 year old just start the discovery of what they wanted, to helping a 70 year old grandma find something to stave off the effects of menopause (side not the grandmas were always the best, no shame, no fears and would flirt and joke with us constantly) I served ten years in the military and that one job selling sex toys I probably did more to help that community then

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Text - cdb5336 1.1k points · 6 days ago Park ranger I work for the national park service. I started off seasonal and got to visit 6 different national parks, getting paid to live peoples vacation and be in most beautiful places. Now I am settled permanently on The National Mall where i get to work with special events, getting to see first hand all the amazing events that go on in Washington dc and be apart of it all.

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Tumblr Thread: The Curse of The Doctor Who Robot Prop


We try to not be superstitious, but sometimes it's hard to notice when certain objects are so deeply associated with consistently unfortunate goings-on. And it doesn't help that this robot looks creepy as hell. For some more strange and interesting tidbits, here are some random golden moments from the world of Tumblr.

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Facial expression - Admit it. You al think robots arejust machines built by humans to make their lives easier. Well, aren't they?

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Head - Fve never made anyone's life easier and you know it. arabellesicardi im the robot

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Text - titleknown Again, this is even funnier if you know what a fucking production nightmare, with a possible curse attached to it no less, this robot prop was for the Doctor Who crew... bogleech I want to know about the cursed robot choppers-top-hat So the robot isn't a guy in a suit, it's an animatronic/puppet thing, and it wasn't built for the show. In fact, no one knows who built it, one of the producers just FOUND IT ONE DAY in a building near the studio. It had apparently been built for a

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Text - Kamelion was incredibly complicated to operate, so they assigned a guy named Mike Powers to figure out the best way to go about it. Apparently he did a great job streamlining Kamelion's operation, and then he promptly died in a boating accident (which is where the "curse" idea comes from.) He didn't leave any notes or instructions, and the show was already behind schedule, so they had to rush Kamelion's scenes into production with no idea how it worked. It was a gigantic pain in the ass t

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People That Went Full Petty Revenge Mode


Everyone gets wronged by someone at a point in their lives. Some folks hold onto that bitter rage and let it fester, and eventually end up letting it out into the world in an act of pure petty revenge. A well executed petty revenge is its own kind of art form. It takes patience and impressive strategic planning. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/poppypowidl• 4d You refuse to do your job? Watch me weaponize bureaucracy. Last semester, I went abroad and studied at a tiny university. Due to it being so small, all paperwork was handled by one single secretary. Let me stress this: she did not have a lot of work to do. When I arrived, I needed to get my student ID. In this case, it was a simple, small piece of paper - just printed and cut out, not laminated, nothing. I went in and asked her for my ID, since I ne

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Text - out. It would have taken 3 mins, but okay. I said sure and left. A week later I show up again. She goes: "Oh, sorry, I didn't get around to it yet. Come back in a week." I leave, a lot grumpier than the week before. I go to her office a week later, only to hear the same excuse. Not only did she not do it, she is acting visibly annoyed, loudly sighing upon seeing me. At this point, I'm mad - l'm on a budget and have been paying full prices everywhere, just because she can't seem to print o

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Text - I go back for her to correct it. Again, I'm sent away and told to wait another week. When I turn up again, SHE HANDS ME THE SAME ID WITH THE WRONG NUMBER. At this point, I hold a special hate for her in my heart and start to think about a plan to steal her time as much as she has stolen mine. When exam period comes around, I decide to mix it up a bit. I use both my real and fake ID number in my papers and confirmations of attendence. Those are all corrected and signed by professors, but h

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Text - professors can confirm everything has been turned in and graded. It's now her responsibility to find the glitch and fix it. This might have been an easy task for a compentent person, but she could not figure it out. I delighted in regularly asking her about individual courses and papers and watching her get more and more desperate. Eventually, she realized that the ID numbers were faulty - she wrote me an angry email, essentially asking how this could happen. I sweetly replied that I must

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/MrRikkles • 5d + Join 1 My uncle's neighbors threw a party and took over his driveway, so we boxed them in. This happened today within the last two hours. A bitbof backstory: my uncle is now 81, and is a tough, short, elder Italian gent who keeps hisnown garden annually and routinely maintains complex machines on his own time. His neighbors call themselves his "cousins", and are the most selfishly entitled people we know. Their kids have been guven vehicles he was going t

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Text - So this year marked his 81st birthday (July 27), and my 31st (July 30). He's also my godfather, and my mother often says that I was his 50th birthday present. This past week, around the middle of the week, my aunt and I made plans to visit my uncle today and finish off the sausages we brought over for a celebration party at the beginning of the week. Well, apparently today is some kind of party for my uncle's neighbors, as there are SIX vehicles parked outside their house, whether in thei

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Text - So, pulling up to my uncle's tonight, my aunt sees the parking and loses it. With a grumbling of "That's the way you want to play, that's how we'll play," she pulls up and starts backing in, but not to park behind them... she parallel parks right behind the offending vehicle, boxing them in. Up until JUST NOW, none of them seemed to notice, but onenof the "cousins" just came up to ask if we could move so they can leave. My aunt's words just now? "She can come over and ask herself. She has

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/ImknucklesDeep • 4d Don't steal candy from me Okay so this happened back when I was in high school I've always been a chill guy but an Asshole if you crossed me. So I was doing a fundraiser for a class outside of school it was a CTE class for criminal justice funny enough and we were selling candy bars they came in a box with 60 bars at a buck a piece and me being the chill guy I was if someone didn't have a dollar that day I would say "just pay me back tomorrow" a

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Text - sold all the bars). Here comes the revenge weeks go by it's sometime after Easter the incident happened in March I was riding the bus back to school from my CJ class when I found this nasty caked on dusty, gnawed on, left over piece of a chocolate bunny. I didn't know how long it was there for but it had to been awhile, I break off the gnawed pieces and slide it into my pocket and head to lunch. I take my seat and wait for everyone to be seated, I pull it out of my pocket and ask everyone

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/london_br1dge • 5d Impatient lady honks 0.1 seconds after the light changes. SoI make her wait longer. I drive a manual car. I've been driving standard for a little over two years now. Anyway, I was at a red light and saw that the light was going to turn green soon and popped my car in first gear. Getting ready to go. The moment the light turned green, some lady behind me honked. So what do I do? I purposely let out my clutch and stalled my car so I would have to s

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Text - Well she ended up flipping me off (btw I have a sticker on my car saying it's a manual and that I may stall or roll back) and all I did was tell back "Your impatient honking startled me and my foot slipped off the clutch." Honestly never had a more satisfying stall out. TDLR: Impatient lady honks right when the light changes, so I stall my car on purpose to make her wait longer.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/mynutsaremusical • 24d 1 Builders dump stuff in front of my office door. Builders lunch now paints the walls. I work alone in a small office in a public building that is undergoing some renovations while its closed to the public. There is an office space in front of my office that is usually unoccupied (think of an office space with a managers office attached at the end, I just rent the managers office.)

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Text - Building managers were supposed to notify us if they ever intended to rent out the space in front of my office so we could build a temporary wall or something so i didn't need to walk through someone else's office to get to mine. But i guess they thought they didn't need to do this because the builders are only there temporarily. So now the space is occupied by the site office for construction. I'm slightly annoyed at the building management for not notifying me of this, but I'm WAAAAY mo

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Text - I ask them to keep it clear as its the walkway to my office and not a storeroom, and they say sure but basically roll their eyes at me and do nothing. So I took some pictures of the mess and reported it to building management and one week later they tidied up SLIGHTLY, and gave me a sassy "Ah we cleaned up a bit around here for ya mate, no need to thank us" as i walked in that morning. A few later and it was almost worse than it was before, to the point i couldn't leave my office without

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Text - I loose my composure for a moment and say "F%^& it", open the door and trip on the bowl of spaghetti, causing it to spray all over the room and the two builders in the room. Spaghetti gets on everything! Sauce on their computers, noodles in the bloody toilet bowl, its in the carpet and most impressively all over the builders. They start to shout at me but i get just as mad saying "Who the hell puts a bowl of spaghetti on the floor in front of a door!". I kind of snapped at this point and

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Text - They sheepishly say yes and i go get my coffee. When i return no one is in the office and the mess is still on everything (i think they wiped the laptops down) but i don't care at this point and retreat into my office and focus on work. Fast forward a few hours and i get an email from the building management. I crack a huge smile as i read an email basically saying "The builders reported your conduct and had us come inspect the damage. However, we noticed the

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Text - unacceptable amounts of mess in the office space had not been cleared up from the last time we asked them to, and they admitted the food was placed on the floor in front of the doorway, so we expect them to cleanup the mess, pay for cleaning and place no blame on you in this case. If the mess comes back call us directly, as they are on their last warning from a few other incidents in the building". It was a longer and more Official email, but you get the point. So now l'm occasionally loo

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/tedcase • 26d Thanks for the great teaching materials, guys. Have fun using them! Short background, I work for an education company providing supplementary classes to rich kids. I just quit after 2.5 years. 2 weeks ago, my company asked me to deliver a history course. No problem says I, I haven't taught history in a while, so I'll need some time to prepare the course, but otherwise, sure, happy to. don't worry says my company, We have prepared the material for you,

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Text - F*ck. So I look at the material. It couldn't be more useless. Just a couple of pages photocopied from some random "billy age 5 guide to history" book. random shit picked with up no coherence. I'm F*cked. I then spend the next few nights making a complete two week course on WW2, planning the course as I teach it. The plan involved going through all theaters and major events of the war from start to finish. Lots of interactive maps I made on Blender, video clips from movies, lesson plans et

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Text - I completed the course on Friday, coincidentally my last day at the company. Kids are happy, I'm happy. Well done everyone! Just got a message from the company on Sunday night (just now) asking me for the material for the 3rd week. The third week? ...of a two week course. Now that I have left, they want to keep the course running because it went so well. So i sent their random textbook pages back to them. "You're welcome".

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Owner Shorts Brewer's Hard-Earned Wages, Brewer Takes Revenge


This brewery owner is a prime example of one of those people who never should've been able to run his own business in the first place. The guy clearly had some gnarly knowledge gaps when it came to knowing the kind of stuff a brewery owner should, to run a successful business. I mean, the guy threw an Anniversary event and failed to advertise that the brewery made their own beers. That's some next level cluelessness. On top of being an oblivious owner, he participated in wage theft. Fortunately, our heroic brewer of the hour was ready to take his technical revenge. Don't screw over the guy who knows how to brew your company's beer. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/PissedBrewer • 13h 1 I destroyed a brewery Nearly 20 years ago, I was a brewer at a brewpub. The owner was a complete lunatic and an utter A-hole. Before I was hired, he had already purchased the brewery equipment, used, from a closed microbrewery. Problem is, it was literally 4 times larger than it needed to be for the size of the place, and to top it off he was selling Big 3 beers too. And it was a Pugsley system (brewers will know). But I made it work, even got th

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Text - at least two nights a week, to fill out my hours. That was fine, it was an easy gig. After our first year, he advertised a huge Anniversary event, with specials on food and drink. Food specials. Commercial beer specials. And didn't even mention that we made our own, much less put anything on special. Idiot. Not too long after, I got my first vacation in over a year. And he was mad at me for insisting. But life was stressful, not least of which because my Mom was in hospice, Stage 4 cancer

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Text - We rushed home (6 hour drive), and on the way I called my boss and told him what had happened, and that I probably would not be in on Monday as planned (this was Saturday). I found out later from a bartender that he then bitched at the chef that I was probably going to want more time off. I did in fact take Monday off, but I went in on Tuesday to do my night manager shift. Now, my Mom's wishes were to be cremated, with no embalming, so by the time I got home, she was already cremated. So

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Text - was to be a memorial service Thursday, and the interment for the family Friday. So I planned and made sure that the servers were full and I wouldn't need to brew for at least a week. That Wednesday the boss comes and tells me, he wants me to work night shift on Thursday and Friday (normally I did Tuesday and Wednesday nights) to make up for the time off l'd taken to help my Dad out (he wasn't handling it well). He wanted me to come in after my Mom's funeral. I flatly refused, at which poi

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Text - Things started calming down, but after a few weeks I noticed my paychecks were for less than I anticipated. I hadn't been tracking my clock in/clock out very closely, because prior to this I only clocked in and out so I was logged in to do manager functions, but I happened to have a couple of slips in my wallet, and because I stil had manager access, discovered he had been altering my hours, eventually cheating me out of around 20 hours in just 6 weeks.

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Text - And that's when I hatched my plan. I was done with this A-hole. Remember that Ringwood yeast? Well, in a brewery, you harvest yeast from a fermenting batch to use to brew a later one. And since we were slow, it often had to be stored for a while before it got used. But you had to use it within 30 days (21 is better) or it goes sour and starts dying. Normally I would take other steps to ensure it stayed clean and healthy, but not on the last batch I harvested. It just went into the cold ro

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Text - After that, he tried to hire my former assistant, who was working at another brewpub by then because the A- hole had forced me to fire him to save money. He laughed at him. He then apparently got the under-age son of one of the brewers at a nearby brewpub which he had originally been part of to brew for him, but had to fire him because the kid kept getting caught drunk down in the cellar. So he tried doing it, and I had heard they stopped brewing entirely eventually. About a year after I

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Tumblr Thread: Violet Deserved Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory


Ah, yes, a good old fashioned Tumblr thread that takes a long and hard look at the iconic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. This Tumblr user provides some compelling points for why Willy Wonka had a serious lapse in judgment when it came to who he picked to inherit his chocolate factory. Even though Violet Beauregarde was especially irritating and always brought the spicy attitude, it seems like she could've offset that with her very qualified skillset. 

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Text - evayna Violet Beauregarde should've won Wonka's chocolate factory Have I watched the movie in the last decade or more? No. Do I have iron clad evidence to support my argument? Yes.

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Text - 1. She's the most knowledgeable about candy. She's committed to it, and knows her stuff. When Wonka holds up a little yellow piece across the room, she recognizes it im- mediately. She was able to switch to candy bars for the sake of the contest, so we know she has personal discipline and is goal ori- ented. Also, two major projects play directly into her strong suits: the 3-course-meal gum that Wonka failed to make safe (gum) and the neverending gobstopper (longevity). 2. She's the most

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Text - 3. She's the most sympathetic to the Oompa Loompas. She critiques Veruca when Veruca demands to buy one. More importantly, Wonka has been testing the 3-course-meal gum that 'always goes wrong' on Oompa Loompas while he presumably just watches. Violet is ready to put herself on the front line, instead of treating the Oompa Loompas as disposable, and would therefore be a better boss. 4. Her personality 'flaw' is the most fitting for the company. In the moralizing Oompa Loompa song, they jus

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Text - 5. Her misstep in the factory is reasonable. Wonka shows everyone a candy he's very proud of. Violet is like "oh sick, that's gum, my special interest." Wonka is then pulls a "WRONG! It's amazing gum!" So in the very moments before she takes the gum Wonka has mislead her just to belittle her. So when he's like "I wouldn't do that" why should she give a shit what he has to say? She's not like Charlie over here who's all "Sure Gramps, let's stay behind while the tour leaves and secretly dri

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Text - So Augustus contaminates the chocolate 5/5 river. Charlie sneaks around and contami- nates the vent walls. Veruca destroys and disrupts the workspace. Mike knows exactly what will happen to him and transports/ shrinks himself deliberately. Violet had no idea what the gum could potentially do to her, and caused no harm to anyone or anything but herself. Lastly: Can you imagine Charlie filling Wonka's shoes? That passive, naive boy? Violet is already basically Wonka. She's passionate, sarca

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Twitter Thread: Man Gets Reality Check After Breakup


This guy thought he'd be able to run around and have a good time with whoever he fancied, and then just return home eventually to swoop up his ex girlfriend. My dude, that is not how the world works. People move on. Self respect is a thing. This guy got his reality check in the end, and it clearly stung. But hey, it's better to learn late than never at all. If he really valued her happiness above all else, he'd leave her be, and appreciate the fact that she was able to move on, and find someone that brought her happiness. 

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Text - Rev Rell Follow @awkward_duck My homeboy, who i love to pieces, had a great gf but he kept messing up. Like big time. Finally she called it quits. He told her he was gonna take the time to become a better person, & she agreed they could reconcile later if he really worked on himself.

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Text - Rev Rell @awkward_duck Feb 23 That was 2 years ago. & my homeboy really just took that time to play around until he felt ready to be in a r'ship. Now she's engaged to get married to another guy this summer& my homeboy is HURT. But, i told him no one is required to stick around while you 'figure' stuff out 9 22 t7 3.7K 18K Rev Rell @awkward_duck Feb 23 And i realize this kinda thing happened to a few other guys i know, and like my homeboy they were all extremely upset to find the person th

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Text - Rev Rell @awkward_duck · Feb 23 said he felt strung along, but she told him from jump she would be open, but she wasn't gonna put herself on hold. What he thought would happen is they'd just drift back together eventually w/no work on his part, while he used the breakup as time to play around. t7 1.4K 9.0K Rev Rell @awkward_duck Feb 23 Now he's tryna think of some last-ditch grand romantic gesture. Had to remind him this ain't the movies. Gotta hold that L. O 18 t7 1.3K 9.8K

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Text - Rev Rell @awkward_duck · Feb 23 Also it's selfish. You hurt someone. You did nothing to fix the harm. They move on a find a happy healthy love and you wanna swoop in at the 11th hour and interrupt that? O 10 t7 4.9K 23К Rev Rell @awkward_duck · Feb 23 Oh, now i remember why i brought a all this up- emotional labor. He says to me she should've helped him unpack the stuff he needed to work on. He hurt her repeatedly and then expected her to help him work through why. Go to therapy. Or talk

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Text - Rev Rell @awkward_duck · Feb 23 YALL and then he was sitting here tryna do the math over the phone, like "Well, if they're engaged she MUSTVE been talking with him damn near right after we broke up' Ok? And?! Guys love fucking up & then make the real travesty about how quickly she moved on. Q 11 t7 3.6K 18K Rev Rell @awkward_duck Feb 23 "From what I understand you were hitting up girls while IN a relationship, you don't get to dictate what's the appropriate amount of time before she gets

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Text - Rev Rell @awkward_duck · Feb 23 Tbh is was a PRIVILEGE that she was even open to reconciliation. But he fumbled that, too. Now he gotta hear about the wedding plans from all of their mutuals and he's in shambles O 11 t7 1.3K 9.3К Rev Rell @awkward_duck Feb 23 His LB's (he's a kappa) are tryna gas him to drive up to see her. This ain't A Different World. Her fiancée will probably stomp homie out. Stop encouraging your trifling friends to harass their ex. Start encouraging them to do better

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Text - larry fisherman Follow @BrittHenry10 I need everyone to read this. Not just men. Not just women. EVERYONE can learn from this.

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Tumblr Thread: Entitled Coworker Can't Handle Service Job


Some people are more sheltered from the grueling stresses of service jobs, than others. That being said, this coworker was in for a nice, humbling reality check. Check out some more totally random Tumblr treasures over here.

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Text - fuck-customers A lot of them probably wouldn't last at your job Last year I had an internship at a fancy office during the day, and a food service job at night. One of the ladies at the office told me she needed a part-time job for some extra cash, and I let her know about an opening in my food service job, described what would be expected, all of that.

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Text - Guys. She quit after one (1) shift, called me the next day, and ranted, "You never told me it was going to be that hard, is that what you do every night?! I'm not 20 anymore, l'm 50, I can't believe they only pay you $9.50/hr to do all that work!" [For the record, I had coworkers who were 65+] She was shocked when I explained that yeah, most food service jobs require you to stock heavy boxes, work the register, and learn to cook/prep food, then clean up before you go home. It never occurr

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Text - jadelyn I've told this story before l'm sure, but when I got my first office job and escaped retail hell, I tended to stay at my desk on my breaks. My manager, well- meaning, passed by and reminded me to make sure I took my breaks and got up and got away from my desk regularly. I kinda laughed and said "Tanya, I worked retail before this. This entire job is a break, to me. I get to sit down all day. Just let me enjoy that."

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Text - And I still think about it sometimes when I'm in the breakroom in the morning. How I have the unspeakable luxury to take my coffee cup, go to the kitchen, wash the cup out, pour myself a new cup of coffee, chat with coworkers if anyone's in the breakroom while l'm doing that, and then head back to my desk before I really *start* my day. Without worrying that I'm going to get in trouble or be seen as slacking off. As opposed to the rushed "toss your purse in a locker, clock in, and get out

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Home Builder Ruins Man's Dream House, Justice Ensues


It pays off to keep a calm and collected manner in the face of some alarming BS. This home builder almost ended up costing this man and his wife $13K. Fortunately he was able to right the wrongs by filing a lien, and got every penny back. Love to see the homeowner come out victorious in the end. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/absintheortwo • 7h A home builder ruined my dream house and almost took me for $13,000 Originally posted in O r/MaliciousCompliance but didn't quite meet that criteria. O r/ProRevenge is more apropos. Here's my story: Some background; about a decade ago I retired from the military in a small-ish town in the western US and managed to land a near dream job in said small town. With my new grown up job and a pension in hand, plus my wife's income, we decide we're going t

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Text - We pick a small but reputable builder for our semi- custom house. The owner, Hop for these purposes, is a great guy and even though he thinks some of our requests are a little eccentric, like, why would we want a four foot wide front door(duh, way easier to carry a couch through), he indulges us. I'm a minimalist by nature and one of the things l'd always wanted was polished concrete floors. They're low maintenance. No crappy carpet to soil, trap smells, or replace. No tile to look outdat

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Text - This is important, because now I start laying out money. I didn't have a construction loan. Hop was basically treating this like a spec build, so up to this point I haven't spent a dime. Hop's a good dude and agreed I could bring my own appliances and fixtures because I didn't want the builder grade stuff. We traded the allowance for other upgrades and I was able to get higher end stuff on sale without builder markup. This is my almost dream house right? If I wanna cook two mothereffin' t

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Text - And then, Hop and his contractors ruin them. They jackhammer concrete to move plumbing that they screwed up during rough-in. They gouge the concrete in other rooms. It's a shit-show. The root of the problem is Hop's son is the project manager and he's too busy buying weed and chasing tail to be good at this job. It's time to close on the house, but the floors look like hell. My wife and Hop's wife survey the place and even Hop's wife agrees they look like hell. He says if he can't fix it,

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Text - At this point my wife sends Hop an itemized invoice for everything we spent on the house. Hop sends me a contract of sorts that he'd like me sign. It basically says I can have the money I have in the house if they can sell the house for the asking price and if there's profit after realtor fees. It's a huge con. I'm in over my head. He'll juggle the numbers and I'm f*cked. No way am I signing that. This shit is gonna cost me money; I'm gonna need a lawyer. Remember the HVAC family? They ha

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Text - A few months pass, when out of the blue, I get an urgent call from a title company requesting I come down there ASAP to sign a release of lien. I say today's not the day but maybe tomorrow if they have a $13K check for me. They indeed have a check. It took a few months but we got every penny back. TL;DR: Builder screwed up a while constructing a house that we'd spent our own money on to upgrade. Instead of hiring a lawyer and blowing more money, I filed a lien and and got every penny back

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Tumblr Post: Big Buff Dudes Can Be Kind Too


This Tumblr post makes the world feel like a less scary and formidable place.

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Text - nOrma1-people-sxare-me A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was "he's got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he'd be more comfortable" and it made me realise the world isn't all that bad fitzefitcher #this is team skull

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Text - its-just-a-phage The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying "You can pet me, but don't pick me up!" One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him "did you see the sign?" He said "yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don't pet them!"

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Text - Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said "I didn't read it right did 1?" And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said "its ok, i know you've got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits" And I still haven't gotten over that interaction.

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Text - flowernstt I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He's a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like "hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your's is so small I think it's a good place to start."

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Text - Ofc I was like "yes he's very friendly!" So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks "can I pick him up?" And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two's lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes "hey man, it's okay just relax l'd never let anything hurt you. He's a good boy." I'll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me

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Twitter Thread: Woman Helps Stranger In Dire Need Of Assistance


Erynn Brook recounts the powerful story of the time she crossed paths with a young woman who regularly had seizures, while taking the subway. The amount of courage both these young women displayed was nothing short of heroic. Stories like this go to show that you never know what kind of battles people are fighting around you. All the more reason to remain aware and offer help to anyone who needs it. 

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I'm waiting on kitty ultrasound results and trying to distract myself a little bit so l'd like to tell you a story about something that happened last night, in the hopes that I can process my feelings around it. I met a girl on the train last night.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook I was on my way home after work. It's about 10pm, and the subway is pulling up to my stop. I've been stressed about my own stuff for days now and l'm in my little bubble and just as I stand up the girl across from me starts talking.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook She'd been looking at me and I hadn't really noticed. Her lips were barely moving, but I took out one earbud and said “pardon?" And she said “are you getting off soon?" And I said yes. The train was mostly empty. But then I noticed she was holding a laminated sheet of paper out.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook At the top it said “my seizure plan". I blinked at it then looked up at her. “Are you having a seizure now?" I asked. “No, but l'm about to." She looked down at the monitor on her finger. "Can you sit with me until your stop?" She asked.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook She mentioned her stop was 3 stops away. I asked if she would like me to ride with her to her stop. She said she didn't want to bother me. I asked what she would do when I got off, she kinda shrugged and said "ask someone else. Maybe her? She looks nice. Can you ask her for me?"

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow Then she seized. She had already moved her purse out of the way and folded her scarf in a place to catch her head as she slumped over. I sat next to her and read her seizure plan. She's 18. I check my phone and start timing her seizure. I sit down. My stop comes and goes.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow This seizure plan paper is like an anchor. It says what to do, what not to do, how long seizures might last, what medication she takes if they last too long, what steps to take if she becomes non-responsive. She comes out after 3 minutes.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I tell her l'm just going to ride the subway with her to her stop, and if we miss it, don't worry, l'll sit with her until the end of the line if need be and we'll just make the trip back together. She thanks me. I ask if she has her medication on her. She says she has one left.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow She mentions that she needs to get a prescription refill. I say prescription refills are so annoying. She nods a bit, tells me a little bit about how the monitor on her finger works, and seizes again. I go back to reading the seizure plan. I've already read it but it's an anchor.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow It says she gets these seizures 1-4 times a day, and each episode lasts 10- 60mins. Just think about that for a second. Think about being randomly completely vulnerable multiple times a day, and this is just... every day.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow She comes out close to her stop. I ask her if she wants to get off. And she says "I'm just so tired, I want to go home." The worst thing I could've done to this girl in this moment was call emergency services. She's so close to home. We get off at her stop and sit for a bit.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook She places her folded scarf on the back of the chair and positions herself just so. She tells me "if it gets real bad I may have to lie down on the floor." And seizes again. I put my stuff down and stand so I can catch her if she slips off the chair.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I'm a big sister and a woman in the world. I'm either sitting with her until she's completely ready to get up and walk away on her own or we're gonna move together in shifts until she gets to her front door. There's no way l'm leaving an 18 year old on a subway platform alone.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow She just needs to make it up the stairs. She says her condo is right outside the exit. Offer to walk her up the stairs, at least. She asks if l'm sure and says again that she doesn't want to bother me. We go slow and chat. This is her first seizure today, but yesterday she had 2.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow We get to the barrier and I say. "I'd like to walk you to your building door if you'll let me." She protests again, but not much. I reassure her that I don't want to come inside or anything, l'd just like to make sure she gets home safe and l'll leave once she's in the building.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow A few times she mentions how tired she is, and how close to home she is. Going up these stairs we keep an eye on her monitor. A train goes by and she covers her ears. Loud noises are a trigger for her. I ask if fluorescent lights are too, she nods. We make it out of the station.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow She tells me that one of her seizures yesterday happened at the gym. THE GYM! I don't even go to the gym and I have way less barriers to either getting to or being at the gym than she does. This girl is just living her life with a laminated paper as her only defense.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I walk her to her building door and open it for her. She says “thank you for staying with me and getting me home safe." I say “of course", and we wave goodbye. Her scarf is draped around her shoulders now. She waved through the lobby window as she walks, slowly, to the elevator.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I have so many feelings. And they keep coming back to that scarf. That's the image I see. How it was pre-folded before she even asked for help. How she positioned herself to fall on the scarf pillow again and again.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow She was fully prepared to go it alone. I didn't help her, not really. My job was to make sure that no one interrupted her getting to her door. She was just trying to get home.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook It's not a story about me being a good person. It's not a story about how brave she is (though she clearly is), it's a story about human needs, through the lens of disability, and how accessibility is not the same as acceptance or community care.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook We're taught to call 911 when something looks bad and we don't know what it is. And if I hadn't heard her, if she didn't have that laminated paper, maybe I would've done that when she started seizing.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow And this girl who's just trying to go home because this is her daily life, would've been burdened with loud noises and fluorescent lights and maybe an ambulance trip further from her destination and a hospital bill and who knows what else, when she just needed to go home.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow This girl has seizures more reliably than I eat breakfast. And she's just out there living her life as best she can. lI'd be lying if I said I didn't think about all the ways she was vulnerable, in public, alone, at night, all the dangers we associate with those things.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook [cn/tw: assault] There is no policy or program structure that addresses the high rates of assault for disabled folks. Sexual violence, violent crimes, domestic violence, are all statistically more likely to happen to people with disabilities.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow I'm already pre-wired to go into big sister/soccer mom mode anywhere, any time, for anyone. If I had a bus l'd just be DD and make sure everyone got home from the bar okay. But... we don't build our world that way. We build it this way.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook We built a world where an 18 year old who gets seizures 1-4 times a day, is taking the subway home, alone, and she folds her scarf into a pillow before asking a stranger to sit with her until the next stop. Not her own stop. Not to help her home. Just enough to not inconvenience.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow We built a world where I could hit an emergency alarm button and walk off at my stop, feeling like I just saved this girl's life, who didn't need saving, without losing a minute of my day, if I wanted to. We built a world for convenience, not community.

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Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Follow Don't get me wrong, emergency services are great and we should use them when we need to. That's not the point of this thread. The point is that scarf. That piece of paper, and the way she said "I'll ask someone else when you leave. Maybe her? She looks nice."

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook "She looks nice." It took maybe 30 minutes out of my day to make sure she got home. And she didn't need me at all. She got there on her own. I guess I looked nice too. But she didn't want to ask too much. She didn't want to ask me to stay with her an extra 3 stops.

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Text - Erynn Brook Follow @ErynnBrook Accommodation is the bare minimum. If I sat with her until my stop and then left, that's what accommodation looks like. It's not good enough. Not for me, not for her, not for community and not for our world. Build something better, folks. Build a better world.

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