What's Bugging You Today? Volume 3, Part 1

[Josh]

Themself? I never know.

[YellerDog]

As a social experiment I would make up elaborate backstory details for Uber passengers all the time, confident that I would probably not see them again.

[Fe 26]

This was one of the things I hated about working retail. I don't know if it's because you're a stranger or other people are just super fucking willing to spill their guts, but people would tell me all the details of their life without prompting. Just trying to ring people up or help them find the right game and they need to tell me all about their issues with their mother/father/brother/spouse or how some intimate details of their life. I never understood it. Like dude I'm just a 22 year old selling video games, I have no idea how you should go about fixing your marriage and getting your wife to sleep with you again.

Some people operate under the misinformed idea that being extroverted is a virtue, at all times, on all issues.

[Fe 26]

Of course, I also find myself thinking about the loneliness of the human condition, especially in these modern times and for men specifically. Like ships blown out to sea without masts and in a storm.

[kedawa]

Is it really a serious problem, though? I think a lack of actual hardship has made people seek out a justification for their misery, and they're just grasping at straws.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I’ve felt the same way for years.

[Fe 26]

Is it really a serious problem, though? I think a lack of actual hardship has made people seek out a justification for their misery, and they're just grasping at straws.

How much of yourself is your mind? And what impact does loneliness have on the mind?

Men have never been lonelier. And I think it's the elephant in the room when it comes to male female ralationships. We've made women the gatekeepers of both male sexual and emotional desires.

Sandy, why is Billy flipping out because you won't date him? Because society says that women are the only acceptable outlet for 50% of his mental needs.

[Satsuki]

I find that when I feel that way about someone it usually turns out to be justified. Fuckin weirdos.

thisthisthisthis thisthisthis

never doubt your intuition. I dunno what the dude's problem was but it wasn't good news. I get the creeps just from reading your story tbh. I mean, sure, sometimes people are just weird and over friendly or talkative, but I feel like when situations like this happen it's a power dynamic thing. Like, "let me go down to the local store and assert my dominance over a lowly salesperson." I don't think he was trying to rob you or anything, but I do feel like he was purposefully making you uncomfortable.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Is it a full moon or something?
Three Jersey Shore wannabes are walking around with their tailor edged facial hair, backwards baseball caps, $300 vape boxes, and arm length calligraphy tats.
I put that MonHun PSP out for sale because I couldn't justify keeping it.

One of them saw it in the case and launched into a white-dude-chinese-accent routine. OMG IT WAS HILARIOUS. "You get free eggloll and duck sauce with purchase!" "no ticky no monstel selvice."
Why isn't this guy on TV?!!!

The two other guys stepped up to the Dreamcast kiosk, which has NFL 2K2 in it because of the superbowl Big Game coming up. "These graphics are soo awesome. I feel like I'm in the game" drew laughs. I've not played a Madden since...ever? But it must be a super streamlined experience because it took all of 30 seconds for these two idiots to declare they'd already lost interest in the game. Too bad, because Monster Hunter dude had walked over and was providing racist asian color commentary and it was LAUGH OUT LOUD hysterical.

Anyway, It's been two hours since I opened and they were the first people to walk in the door.
They didn't buy anything.

[Drewbacca]

Men have never been lonelier. And I think it's the elephant in the room when it comes to male female ralationships. We've made women the gatekeepers of both male sexual and emotional desires.

Speak for yourself.