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at home among the trees

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Lesli | 23 | she/her | pan | tired
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writterings

whenever a young kid joins our staff at work im just like huh. guess im a father now.

these kids will be like “can you drive me home? i don’t have gas money but-” and im already pullin out my keys and am like. sweetheart, you are a child. i am not charging a child gas money.

i literally almost lunged across the counter to throw hands with some old hag who yelled at and insulted one of our 16 y/o girls but instead i threw her sandwich at her and told her to never fucking come back

old dudes will flirt with our young girls too and i’ll be like ay man this is a truck stop, normal customer service rules dont apply here. i can and will call the cops on you.

im the only manager that actively tells them to steal food because these are teenagers and they are HUNGRY

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my favorite thing about cats is the thing they do when they look at you like

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and then after you lock eyes with them for 0.4 seconds they go like

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mrrrl

I love seeing grown humans setting about little creative tasks out of boredom and then looking quietly pleased with themselves, like maybe a middle-aged woman on her train home from work manages to make a tower out of empty coffee creamers and gazes at it proudly for a few seconds.

I love seeing other people make the overblown OOPS I FORGOT SOMETHING performance for no-one that most of us do when we have to turn around in the middle of the pavement.

I love seeing stony-faced people in queues unable to contain a smile when a baby looking over its mother’s shoulder in front of them locks eyes and does that astonished stare.

- when someone is standing in line and they don’t quite dance to the music playing, but you can SEE their head bop and them mouthing the words

- when someone thinks no one’s paying attention and they sing-talk themselves thru a task

- when they laugh or try to hide a laugh when looking at their phone

- when someone does the thing where they enter another space (such as a supermarket aisle) striding with total purpose, then suddenly forget what they’re doing/looking for, and stop there looking blank for a millisecond while they reboot. 

- when people are looking for scissors, in their home or in a store, and they make the scissors gesture with their non-dominant hand as an aid to remind them what they’re doing.

- when automatic social interactions glitch, like when you tell a waiter that you hope he enjoys his food too, or tell the stranger on the phone that you love them. 

- the hand gesture people make when they’re thinking at their computer, not typing, and their elbow rests on the table, and they feel the edge of their fingernail with their thumb. This is such a lovely little gesture and to my knowledge I have never seen it in fiction. You’d think it would come up all the time in fic.

- when you’re sharing an experience with a complete stranger (like watching a seagull throw up in public, or waiting for a late train) and you make eye contact, and some comment to each other, and then you guys are, like, ALLIES now. Like you would willingly ride to war to save them. You can’t make eye contact again, but you are very aware of them. 

- just evidence of other people’s rich, baffling and complex inner lives.

- when you smile at them when they aren’t expecting, then they look away in surprised embarrassment, only to look back up to give you a smile in return

- when they just randomly start playing hopscotch on tiled floors

- when they think no one is looking and they blow air through their lips making that pfffffbbbbtttt sound

- that little happy gasp they make when they spot a dog or a cat or any sort of animal they adore

- when they watch ants and you can hear them quietly murmuring encouragement for an ant carrying a particularly big piece of food

- when they make that little mischievous face just as they’re about to do something mildly naughty, like touching a “no touch” sign

- when they’re having a small argument with themselves and they start mouthing their replies to the inner voice in their head, completely unaware of their surroundings

- when they find a spot in the sun to sit in and bask for awhile, throwing their head back, eyes closed to feel the heat on their skin

- when they start talking in that baby voice to their pets

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it’s okay if you’re hurting more than you thought.

it’s okay if you have to pick yourself up on your own.

it’s okay if you’re the one who needs to be gentle with you after you hurt.

it’s okay if you have to nurse a pain you thought was healed.

healing is slow and can be turbulent. and that’s okay.

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Funny how it’s acceptable not to find fat people attractive but when fat people have their own preferred body type the reaction is like “????? No that’s not allowed??? You must be grateful for any attention you get you can’t be picky”

THANK YOU

T H I S has plagued me for years

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If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.

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chocccymilk

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