@jouest One place I used to go back in University had to go in to pay… one time topped up my car, it was $6.66. (think it was like .89cents a gallon at the time). The woman inside looked so horrified when she quoted the price to me, that every time I stopped there I made sure to stop pumping at $6.66, which meant I frequently didn’t get a full tank, but it was worth it to mess with the woman inside.
Getting the water in my Brita filter pitcher just exactly right so it comes to the bottom of the filter compartment and no higher, without measuring (if you have one, you’ll know what I mean.)
And waking up at a specific time without an alarm (although I wouldn’t try it if I had to catch a plane.)
@Kyeh I usually fill the pitcher with a low water stream while doing something else. It gets a half-inch from the top, I stop the water, and realize the pitcher is too heavy. I put it in the fridge, and the next morning when I try to pour a cup of water …
I keep doing this. I don’t know why. It does have the advantage of ensuring that the floor by the fridge gets mopped on a regular basis.
@Kyeh In the past, those eventually developed a crack or leak around the spigot and I ended up with water in the veggie drawers. The new fridge is compact and energy efficient, with zero space between the shelves and the door shelves. One of these would barely fit but I would have to slide it in to close the door and back out to pour water, then nearly halfway out to refill. I do not see that ending well.
@jouest my late father started work between 5 and 7 AM most of my childhood It’s also why dinner by 5 was and still is normal to me
when i worked on the floor, day shift, start time was 630
I’ve always been more functional early in the morning,
True story, I used to MUD (yeah, old school text role playing game). The people who owned the MUD I played in decided to run a gaming con, in New Jersey. (I’m a California girl). They were all exited, oh Cerri can stay up till midnight with us. Nope, by the start of the second day I wanted breakfast at 6 AM Eastern Time, and was in bed by 9.
This is why I always worked opening shift at registration on conventions.
I am very good at finding and/or buying weird stuff in thrift shops. Last week I bought a 4-foot wheeled stacked floppy disc storage piece for $1.99 + tax. It’s still in my car, because I am also very good at procrastinating.
@jouest The most '90’s thing in the world just happened, I was cleaning the thing and the rattling I thought was something broken was, instead, a homemade mix cd for ballroom dancing (with the dances for each song on the inside) and a Bert Kaempfert cd not in its original case.
Public restroom diaper toss for me. Behind the back, bank shots, no-look…nothing but can. 10/10
@jouest
So you have met my ex.
@yakkoTDI goodness.
Annoying @chadp.
@Thumperchick …no this is true I think.
Going to sleep.
@blaineg I used to be super good at this.
@blaineg @jouest I am a pro at thi…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@blaineg @jouest @yakkoTDI I’m horrible at going to bed, but falling asleep is no problem at all.
@blaineg @jouest @xobzoo I guess that is one way to ensure you never get picked to be the designated driver.
@yakkoTDI I agree with Jack Handey. I want to go out like Grandpa - peacefully in my sleep - not screaming like the passengers in his car.
@blaineg @jouest @xobzoo @yakkoTDI
Me too, exactly.
Flinging the whatever-just-landed-on-my-bare-arm the greatest distance in the shortest fraction of a second.
@rockblossom sometimes it’s a fuzz.
@jouest Or bird crap. But experience says it is sometimes a hornet, and hesitation has dire consequences.
Two related things; getting distracted and procrastinSQUIRREL!
Pooping. No one does it better than me.
@OnionSoup challenge accepted. (volunteer judges needed, inquire within)
@jouest @OnionSoup Within? No outhouses?
Getting worked up about nothing.
@ChadP is that @Thumperchick 's fault?
@ChadP @OnionSoup probably. I’m good at finding problems and bringing them to @chadp like a cat drags dead birds to its owner.
@ChadP HOW DARE YOU??
@ChadP Does it bother you more than it should?
@xobzoo most things do.
@ChadP @xobzoo @jouest @OnionSoup
Well…we shouldn’t have said anything out loud yesterday, because there have been a lot of dead birds today.
Making excuses.
@heartny You’d probably have a better answer if you weren’t so tired today.
@heartny My mom could run circles around you.
@jouest I’d probably have a better answer if it wasn’t so hot too. And rainy. Definitely can’t get anything done when hot and rainy.
Oh what about stopping the gas pump at a round number? I don’t care if you run that thing out to four decimal points, I’m nailing it.
@jouest Yes!
@jouest One place I used to go back in University had to go in to pay… one time topped up my car, it was $6.66. (think it was like .89cents a gallon at the time). The woman inside looked so horrified when she quoted the price to me, that every time I stopped there I made sure to stop pumping at $6.66, which meant I frequently didn’t get a full tank, but it was worth it to mess with the woman inside.
Getting the water in my Brita filter pitcher just exactly right so it comes to the bottom of the filter compartment and no higher, without measuring (if you have one, you’ll know what I mean.)
And waking up at a specific time without an alarm (although I wouldn’t try it if I had to catch a plane.)
@Kyeh I would, unless the plane was at 2 AM, then I wouldn’t go to sleep
@Kyeh ^ understood the assignment
@Kyeh I usually fill the pitcher with a low water stream while doing something else. It gets a half-inch from the top, I stop the water, and realize the pitcher is too heavy. I put it in the fridge, and the next morning when I try to pour a cup of water …
I keep doing this. I don’t know why. It does have the advantage of ensuring that the floor by the fridge gets mopped on a regular basis.
@rockblossom Maybe you should get this and just leave it in the fridge and fill it with a separate container?
@Kyeh In the past, those eventually developed a crack or leak around the spigot and I ended up with water in the veggie drawers. The new fridge is compact and energy efficient, with zero space between the shelves and the door shelves. One of these would barely fit but I would have to slide it in to close the door and back out to pour water, then nearly halfway out to refill. I do not see that ending well.
@rockblossom Oh, yikes!
Being awake and fully functional at 4 AM by choice
@Cerridwyn now that’s a flex
@jouest my late father started work between 5 and 7 AM most of my childhood It’s also why dinner by 5 was and still is normal to me
when i worked on the floor, day shift, start time was 630
I’ve always been more functional early in the morning,
True story, I used to MUD (yeah, old school text role playing game). The people who owned the MUD I played in decided to run a gaming con, in New Jersey. (I’m a California girl). They were all exited, oh Cerri can stay up till midnight with us. Nope, by the start of the second day I wanted breakfast at 6 AM Eastern Time, and was in bed by 9.
This is why I always worked opening shift at registration on conventions.
@Cerridwyn I did that for 10 years on Friday & Saturday mornings. Not anymore.
Yawning.
@lisaviolet for style or power?
@jouest Equalizing the pressure on either side of my ears.
At least that’s how an old boyfriend explained it.
Yawning and sneezing after eating a meal. My super powers.
@jouest @lisaviolet I had a friend whose nose would run whenever he ate! Poor guy always had to stop and blow his nose mid-meal.
@jouest @Kyeh That would be awful.
@jouest @Kyeh @lisaviolet You think that’s bad - my nose runs and my feet smell!
Eating ice cream. Chocolate comes in second. Especially in the summer.
I am very good at finding and/or buying weird stuff in thrift shops. Last week I bought a 4-foot wheeled stacked floppy disc storage piece for $1.99 + tax. It’s still in my car, because I am also very good at procrastinating.
@mossygreen for your…floppy disks?
@jouest Ew, no.
@jouest The most '90’s thing in the world just happened, I was cleaning the thing and the rattling I thought was something broken was, instead, a homemade mix cd for ballroom dancing (with the dances for each song on the inside) and a Bert Kaempfert cd not in its original case.
/giphy laziness
@f00l You’re also tops in self-depracation.