I’m waiting for a tip prompt from the forced self checkout kiosk at the supermarket.

I almost feel like I’ve read somewhere that it has already happened.

If I had fewer scruples, I’d find out who the construction contracts for new prisons go to and invest all in. This guy is gonna get in and imprison a whole lot of people. Like a lot a lot.

Product - use daily

Language - speak English, Spanish, and Korean, though the latter two are admittedly falling off from lack of use. Lived overseas for four years in my twenties

Collared shirts - wear daily, but I’d guess that’s not goth chick bait

Dancing - was religiously prohibited from such growing up and never took an interest in it

Personal skill - I can cook like a motherfucker. Like really good stuff. If I believed in love languages, mine would be feeding others. The women in my office make weekly requests for me to cook whatever they’re craving over the weekend and bring it in on Monday.

But I’m talking about energy. Gomez spends his entire existence striving toward being Morticia’s everything. I don’t have enough gas in the tank after seventy or eighty hours of getting yelled at for my income.

Next up, since everything is so easy, I guess I just simply waltz into another job, right?

Gomez lives off generational wealth and thus spends his time culturing himself with dance, art, and seductive languages.

I work until it’s not safe to drive home because I’m so tired and my eyes don’t work. I crawl home on surface streets, collapse into bed for a brief nap, and get up to go do it again because the man needs his dollar.

My spirit may be willing, but my flesh is spongy and bruised.

Without looking, my guesses are Venezuela and Argentina. I’ll go look and see how close I was.

Edit: It proves difficult to find a consensus ranking, but the top countries seem to consistently involve Zimbabwe, Sudan, Argentina, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Turkey. The order changes depending on the metric of what defines inflation and over what time period you’re looking at.

Meanwhile, the mantle is tailgating the hell out of the core wishing it would move over to the right lane

Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.

I know I’m old, but I can’t even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.

I found a channel recently, I think within the Roku channel, that plays nothing but old MTV videos.

It was no more than a couple weeks ago that I found it, but I’m not sure if I can find it again.

Nonetheless, it’s out there somewhere.

Edit: It’s in the Roku channel. Go to the music category and it’ll take you to music videos galore. Some are playlists of thirty hours or so, some are live. I see seventies, eighties, nineties, and 2000s along with different genres.

They did give at least a solid twelve years of music. The best unplugged episodes were in the early nineties.

I know it’s wrong and that I’m going to Internet hell for admitting to it, but there’s a smell when Grandma would light her cigarette in the hot box car with the windows up that I find nostalgic to this day even though I find the concept of smoking in a car repugnant

The crazy thing is that it was so prevalent, I don’t really remember the world smelling smoky unless I went into a small room like my grandparents living room.

I didn’t notice it in places like restaurants and bars until after the bans came.

I would guess that my generation has a diminished sense of smell because of it.

It’s not me and I have an office. It doesn’t get to me.

But I can definitely see that it would bother a whole lot of people.

On that, I’m old enough to have begun my working life when people smoked cigarettes at their desks. This is a much, much better alternative.

People bring their dogs to work all the time in my office. Fortunately, all of us are dog lovers, so we all enjoy it.

The other trend that doesn’t bother me, but surprises me is that I’d estimate about two thirds of the people in my office vape at their desks.

We also have bean to cup espresso, which is nice. People will go find high end beans and contribute them. It works out nicely.

We’re highly educated professionals, damnit!

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Spacetime has just warped my brain if I can remember her doing something before I was born.

Raise your hand if you saw the original Hans shot first version of Star Wars in the theater.

Additionally, I remember my mother going to see Elvis live. The real one, not some seedy Vegas lounge impersonator.

Some of us are comfortable going both ways.

But don’t tell anybody because I live in Texas.

That’s enough time for us to evolve into carbon dioxide plastic eating beings, isn’t it?

I still have no clue how instances work but whatever I’m doing has been working fine for nearly a year