I add to it randomly, currently there’s 81. The most controversial one so far has been: how many birds do you think you’ve seen in your life?
Answers have ranged from 300 to over a million, usually a debate emerges on how to do bird math to get the most realistic number.
(I think I’ve seen at least 300k birds)
another one that usually jump starts some good story telling:
If someone offered you life changing money in exchange for a family member (related by blood, immediate family through first cousins) who would you pick? You don’t know what will happen to them but you will never see or hear from them again.
(my answer: an uncle who would steal my grandparent’s pension before they passed. He can go to hell!)
May 14, 2024
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I was sitting on the steps to my house with my friend Evan. We were about 2 or 3. There were hundreds of ants on the sidewalk below us. Evan reached down and started smushing them. I turned to him and told him to stop: “How would YOU feel if you were an ant and someone smushed YOU?” A patronizing lesson in empathy… Interestingly, I had open heart surgery around the same time and spent days in the hospital, but this memory is much more visceral. Love this question.
Apr 2, 2024
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My dad would always ask this question at dinner. It could be a random fact or random life observation/lesson. As long as you learned something new.
Today I learned about the Hell Chicken.
Feb 7, 2024
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when a 40 something man called and screamed at the top of his lungs at me , the type of scream I’ve only received before from my mother, because I told him we were booked and he would have to take his dog to the emergency vet (I’m a vet tech) and he was screaming threats at me and said his whole family goes to my hospital and they’ll never go again blah blah blah. but he didn’t know his mom LOVED ME. and she made him call back and apologize the next day.
ALSO. one time this guy came in and was like. can you scan this dog for a microchip, I took my dog to a board and train facility and when I went to pick him up they gave me this dog , and this is NOT my dog… and he tried to tell the place that but they gaslit him and he was hours from home and it was getting late and he had to work in the morning so he took the dog, and it wasn’t his dog , they sent his dog home with someone else. Dogs were swapped back it all ended well
my job is always crazy, crazy clients, crazy animals, dealing with euthanasias everyday, and when I have to cut animals or pets heads off to send them out for rabies testing
Apr 19, 2024
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I’ve done this every time I’ve found myself between full time jobs and it really makes the whole time better. You have a little money coming in and you can collect material for your future memoir. Some odd jobs from my past:
Axe throwing coach
Closet designer
Lunch catering delivery
Balloon bouquet maker
Background extra
i found them on big job boards like indeed and also Craigslist (Searching “part time” gets you less garbage results). If you hate it after you start you can just quit!
Also if you like pets, signing up for dog walking or petsitting will keep you active and you get to hang out with pets.
Apr 19, 2024
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I love doing this, it’s wonderfully disorienting. Theres still so much day left afterwards it’s basically a whole new day, like an optical illusion, but of time.
Jun 16, 2024
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Shopping cart with a bad wheel.
Sock slipping down your shoe.
The day after you burn your tongue when it’s still all sensitive.
An eye twitch.
bad toilet paper (thin, scratchy).
clothing tag that itches.
Really strong static shock that makes you jump.
getting perfume in your mouth.
Apr 17, 2024