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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I always struggle with this during garage sales. Most of the time, I don’t even want money for my stuff. I just want it to go to someone who needs it.

    But if you put a FREE sign on anything, people will just scoop it up, throw it in a truck already loaded with other free stuff, and take it to the flea market to sell.

    It shouldn’t bother me, since the people selling stuff at the flea market usually are pretty poor themselves and probably need to make money. But it just irks me that instead of a mom getting free clothes for her kids, that mom would instead have to buy them at a markup instead.







  • jballs@sh.itjust.workstome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    8 days ago

    This just reminded me of a funny story about a North Korean refuge who had escaped to South Korea. She was trying to figure out how buses worked and would stare at people getting on the bus to figure out how they paid.

    She said that she noticed everyone would just kind of bump there butt on a sensor when they got on. Not knowing that something like contactless payment existed, she assumed that it must have just been some weird cultural thing that she didn’t fully understand.

    So she worked up the courage to board a bus and just bumped her butt against the sensor. Obviously it didn’t do anything and the bus driver must have thought she was crazy.

    Edit: Found the video! https://youtube.com/shorts/L8DeAqXzOtk






  • jballs@sh.itjust.workstome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    9 days ago

    A friend of mine made a game of this. At the grocery store, she labels people with “Oh Shit I Have To Pay?” Syndrome.

    Her and her daughter text each other every time they encounter a person who somehow arrives at a cashier completely unprepared, who somehow managed to stand in line for several minutes and didn’t realize that they had to actually do something when they reached the front of the line.