Everybody who has ever been to an airport knows you must be careful when buying food. If you think that cities like New York or LA are expensive, just wait until you try to buy a coffee in one of their airports. Airports in any city feel like the Twilight Zone of prices. I used…
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When you work in customer service, you truly see all of humanity. You see the precious people who the world could use more of, and you, of course, see the Karen, the humans incapable of empathy, the “adults” whose first response is to throw an entitled tantrum. Perhaps this is how balance is kept in…
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Just like most things in life, the entire internet is never going to be shaped around everything that we want. There are going to be parts of it that we disagree with, that we’re horrified by, that simply leave us cold. This is OK! Contrary to the whataboutism that many social media users like to…
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Some business leaders prioritize sales above all else, offering hefty incentives to their sales teams for acquiring new clients at unserviceable rates. These leaders and their cronies will then cash out once the numbers have been sufficiently plumped up like a stuffed pig with an apple in its mouth. The nightmare begins when it comes…
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I started smoking cigarettes when I was about eighteen years old. Of course I knew smoking was slowly going to kill me, but at the time, I’d never considered the fact that it was making me uglier. By the time I was thirty, I could tell those decades of sucking down carcinogens had taken a…
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Public transit is interesting in the U.S. The employees and patrons are both colorful and it’s either peaceful and quite or something crazy going down. No in-between. It’s like the scene in Superbad when they get on the bus and the houseless guy is there and he calls out “McMuffin” and things go down and…
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Everyone has standards, but sometimes you have to be willing to forgo them. If you’re in a desperate situation, it’s not the time to start making demands, nor is it the time to be difficult. If you’re having trouble getting what you need, there is a good chance that the situation boils down to you…
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