I rode the exact bicycle route where I was disabled while riding to work 10 years ago. It was raining, but I needed the psychology of completing that short ride. I never ride in traffic as I am unable to see over my left shoulder and hold my line. I must get out of position, sit up and twist my lower back. Anyways, there was a truck illegally double parked in the exact same place as the SUV that very nearly killed me when they suddenly made a U-turn. It was an awkward moment, some irony, and a bit of PTSD thinking about the same thing happening on the ten year anniversary.
Oof. Would a mirror help? Either clip onto handle bar or clip onto glasses/sunglasses?
I have to keep my head down. It doesn’t matter most of the time because I ride a dedicated bike trail route. I also ride at the end of my day or even at night. I don’t want to know more than I need to about cars. My PTSD is too bad for traffic. I mostly only ride for physical therapy now. It is not really a problem for me to ride like this. I’m at over 170k miles, riding most days since 2009. I can tell what is going on around me just by sound at this point. The people behind are not the real problem. It is the u-turns that will get you. I’ve had 2 bad crashes out of 6 total and both bad ones were u-turns.
My girlfriends brother just saw a condom wrapper in my car, we didn’t mention it and acted like it didn’t happen but damn that was embarrassing.
Hey you may be fucking his sister, but at least you’re being safe
Lol so you ended up with the stare contest?
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Worth it
I was stressed out at the grocery checkout because the scanned items were coming in too fast. While packing my stuff I managed to throw an onion high in the air, ricocheting on some stand and hitting the cashier on the shoulder.
They said awkward, not impressive.
I missed the head.
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I went to the St. Patrick’s Day parade and got the closest metaphorical equivalent to tomatoes thrown at me because I was the only one not wearing green.
Ketchup?
No, just people showing disdain. St. Patrick’s Day is a large celebration here and the momentum was enough that you could see nothing but green for miles. I thought it was just an enthusiastic expression, which I was no less festive about, so here I was coming in wearing pink because it’s just how it was arranged, and I got called out for “breaking the chain” (because on all broadcasts being the only pink wearer in a sea of green would identify me to you instantly), “not reading the room”, and “attention-seeking”, fandom-style. Had a guy from an actual Irish council later comment sympathetically saying those people are not “of our flock who prize blue anyways”.
My lease renewal typically gets tendered in mid-March, but ~5pm Friday I noticed that I still hadn’t gotten anything yet. Unfortunately, the office was closed for the next 2.5days while I nervously paced and fretted, wondering what had gone wrong, and whether I’d need to move soon (having a disability makes it a major ordeal).
Come Monday I met with my property manager, and she told me that the new mgmt company sends out renewals later than usual, and that I should be perfectly fine. Still, the new company doesn’t have a great reputation, and I have no idea how much they’re going to boost my rent. Sounds like a lot of people are getting gouged upon that these days, so fingers still crossed.
I was entering my appartment lobby as someone was going to leave (door swings out). I went to open a door for them, stand to the side, and let them out before going in myself. However, I went for the handle as they hit the auto handicap door opener so I am just standing there sudo holding the handle as it SLOWLY self opens and waiting for them to go through.
My employer’s recruiting dept sent me a LinkedIn message asking me to apply for my job. I have a role that isn’t multiplied across people. I told my boss that it happened and she rushed to assure me that we’ll have redundancy for the first time.
I’m still in the phase where I’m hoping that’s true while knowing that it’s better to quit than to be fired. I’ll discuss with my therapist today to decide. I know the right answer is to get out now.
I taught a physics class today without speaking
How did that work? Did you just write stuff on the board?
Yea. I teach a class of 30, the material for the day was very short (law of reflection), and they do group work afterwards. It was pretty funny for me, and awkward for them. Definitely a wtf is he doing kinda thing.
I don’t know, but I remembered this post now that something awkward did happen.
So my bank has this AI chatbot. I tried asking it if my bank still offers Visa gift cards which they did in the past. It couldn’t get my question right, after I said “no” to the question if it’s answer was right it hang for a few seconds and proceed to ask me to clarify my question, I just funnily responded with
:q!. After all, it’s just AI.
Then suddenly I got “bank agent joined the chat”. I didn’t realize there could be a person over there. Let alone at 11:50PM.
I wonder how many times when I started spamming a useless AI chatbot of some company there was an actual human seeing that.
