Odd Things Seen Daily By Me

It is bad enough to have telephone calls at the driving range. But a video call on full speaker mode is too much no?
 
Men getting their suits entirely wet during rain. No brolly. No raincoat. Most of the suits look cheap. I don't know if they understand their glued together suits don't fare well when dipped in water or they don't really care.
 
People eating in the lift in my short 35 storey building. Granola bars. Smoothies. The other day I saw a bloke eat a sandwich. Two pieces of brown bread, no wrapper, just munching on a third of it as we were going down.

How disorganised is your life you need those precious seconds to eat a sandwich?
 
Fwiffo said:
People eating in the lift in my short 35 storey building. Granola bars. Smoothies. The other day I saw a bloke eat a sandwich. Two pieces of brown bread, no wrapper, just munching on a third of it as we were going down.

How disorganised is your life you need those precious seconds to eat a sandwich?
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It’s a very American thing to do, walking around eating and drinking. I really appreciated recent trips to places where it is frowned upon. In Tokyo, you couldn’t walk into a shop or even up to an outdoor market if you are eating. They will tell you to finish your lunch and then come back. In Paris, they thought it was bizarre not to make time to sit and enjoy your meal, though no problem wandering around an outdoor art market sipping a vin chaud
 
Dropbear said:
It’s a very American thing to do, walking around eating and drinking. I really appreciated recent trips to places where it is frowned upon. In Tokyo, you couldn’t walk into a shop or even up to an outdoor market if you are eating. They will tell you to finish your lunch and then come back. In Paris, they thought it was bizarre not to make time to sit and enjoy your meal, though no problem wandering around an outdoor art market sipping a vin chaud
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Okay. Takeaway chow mein box with chopsticks is surely the last straw no? I can finally make a sarcastic remark then?

These days I am lucky to get through Sunday family meal after 3 or 4 hours cooking without a kid saying he is done (obviously not eating my food, but his own) and needs to go play video games.
 
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Public transit maintenance at the most inopportune times. We have been delaying rail maintenance because of the basebal playoff games for the past month.

Finally this Sunday they can close things again. But to catch up they will close Monday too and make the busiest transit line here go from a 40 minute commute to a bus plus rail detour of 90 minutes. On a weekday.
 
I find if you wander around this somewhat small city during retiree hours that you run into the same people for free concerts, lectures and festivals.
 
People using speakerphone in a restaurant. Annoying.

People sitting at a sit down diner counter, eating and using a speakerphone. Very annoying.
 
People's level of English.

I'm talking about a banker at a local branch reaching out to my mum about some estate transactions. First they spell her name wrong. Maybe I can excuse it because she has a Hispanic name. But when my mother replies again spelling it correctly he spells it completely wrong a second way. What the f*ck.

Then you get weird English like "come at transact at the estate account". Do people not get basic English training before they come into the country? Yes he has an ethnic surname. Yes I presume he's an immigrant. Or an indigenous mentally challenged individual who got by in life using iOS auto correct.
 
Dropbear said:
Wait. You’re a vato? For some reason I thought you were from one of the other colonies
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Yes. My parents went to the States and later Canada as British overseas subjects. Which in the US meant you were stateless at the time because it meant nothing.

My mother has a Hispanic first name but not a Hispanic surname. I have an American first name even though my mother named me after her favourite British actor but she changed the spelling of it. I don't think that makes me a yank and in the year 2025 would rather not be identified as one.

If it helps make it more confusing my father has an Irish first name.
 
Fwiffo said:
Yes. My parents went to the States and later Canada as British overseas subjects. Which in the US meant you were stateless at the time because it meant nothing.

My mother has a Hispanic first name but not a Hispanic surname. I have an American first name even though my mother named me after her favourite British actor but she changed the spelling of it. I don't think that makes me a yank and in the year 2025 would rather not be identified as one.

If it helps make it more confusing my father has an Irish first name.
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Belize or Gibraltar? Goa?
 
Homeless people with mobile phones. Often charging it in odd exposed outlets around the main transit station here. This week I saw a bloke with a laptop. Thick bezel 10-11” screen. Could have been a chrome book. He was playing unwelcome music and DJing for those waiting for their trains.
 
People blasting speaker phone on public transit. Today a visible minority was on a call with I assume her workplace talking about getting her work permit signed. It is an attachment sent to her e-mail.

Not sure this is the kind of public conversation you want to have in the States with ICE around
 
Conversations between uni students on a bus.

Girl 1: my parents are going to sell all their property before they die. They say it's simpler that way.

Girl 2: Ohh why would they like do that. Wasn't easier for them to like buy a house back then than it is for us.

Then it devolved into how girl 1 had no idea what her parents do (presuming for work) and how girl 2 thought it is so unfair girl 1 isn't getting anything.
 
The amount of people who have phone calls on their mobile phone... No headset, no speaker but I am hearing the conversation loud and clear and my ear is not the one glued to the phone.
 
The things couples talk about in the lift. Today it was length of nails, trimming frequency and brittleness
 
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