Day (?) of no therapy. I canβt stop putting really dumb and generic texts over cute pictures I find after smoking like half a jointβ¦,
Well if I didn't want people to think I'm weird I wouldn't make a song about how I'm a creep and a weirdo. Just something to think about
Matthew Lillard as Tim LaFlour Senseless (1998) dir. byΒ Penelope Spheeris
When weβre new to adulthood, it doesnβt immediately occur to all of us that youβre almost always allowed to leave a situation, because growing up weβre forced to stay in situations until someone dismisses us and/or takes us home, or if we do leave on our own accord thereβs someone waiting at home to say βwe donβt quit in this family!β Boring party? You can leave. You donβt like the lecture? You can walk out. New doctor not working out? You can end the appointment, you donβt need to wait for them to dismiss you. Bad date? You can just go home. Leaving a situation prematurely might have consequences, but unless youβre under arrest or serving prison time, itβs pretty much always allowed.
βcommenter Allison @ askamanager
A while back, I called for a Lyft ride home from the airport. The lyft pulled up, he called my name, and I opened the door and climbed in. While I was climbing in he was getting out, which I didnβt realize until he opened the back door on the other side.
Him: Iβll put your bag in the trunk. Me: Oh, thereβs no need.Β Him: Iβll just put it back there.Β Me: I prefer to keep my bag with me.
I was also still holding onto it so he couldnβt just grab it, and when I saidΒ βI prefer to keep it with meβ this cloud of rage crossed his face.
Him: Then get out.Β Me: Excuse me? Him: Get out, I donβt want your bag fucking up my upholstery.
Now, this was a weekender β essentially an upscale duffle bag. Small, almost brand new, easily fitting on the middle-seat beside me. I donβt know if he was just really intense about his upholstery or if he was running some kind of scam, but either way I now DEFINITELY was not going to let him separate me from my bag.
So I saidΒ βOkay,β and I picked up my bag and got out, took out my phone, and cancelled him as my driver.
He looked at me like Iβd grown a second head. There was this moment of total disconnect in his face, and then he started ranting about how someone had damaged his upholstery and they needed to put their bags in the back and he wasnβt going to have me getting his upholstery dirty.Β
I said,Β βIβm out of your car. Drive on, Iβll get another,β and held up my phone.
This had clearly never happened before β it looked like plenty of people had thought βThis guy is crazyβ but went the βso Iβd better let him do what he wantsβ route instead of βso Iβm getting out of his carβ. Which is totally normal! Weβre socialized to prioritize βnot making a sceneβ over personal safety. But when you do call that bluff, when you defy the social convention that the other person is counting on to make you do what they want you to do, they donβt know how to react, which gives you time for a clean getaway. And maybe he thought I was a dickhead but what do I care what an asshole thinks of me?Β
Anyway the moral of the story is yes, you should know that you can almost always leave a situation and often itβs in your best interest to do so.Β
(Right after I called for another car he picked up a fare using Quick Match or whatever itβs called, peeled out of the Lyft lane, and hit another car well nigh immediately.)
[ID: The Benefits of walking away. (Illustration of the back of a person walking away. ) 1. Makes bad things disappear quickly. 2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back. 3. Answers question, βI wonder what would happen if I just walked awayβ]
species: A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE BABY
specialty: having a good day and sharing that joy
suggestion: just try not to smile back. i dare you
- mod gigi
I think one of the reasons drag kings arenβt as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women donβt like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it
To everyone saying that βuh actually itβs cause drag kings arenβt as visually interestingβ
*makes this noise at you*
get busy living get busy dying served so much fucking cunt. that call and response thing they were doing at the end??? tell me you'd like boys like me better?? in the dark lying on top of you?? come the fuck on that would kill thousands if they did it live