Horse on the Spaceship

Mary (30) Poland

[buildanaltarwhereitswells]

i brought you my bullets, you brought me your love (2002)

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[headedoutleft]

something i want to mention because i’ve seen it growing as a trend online is that not only do people do this just for their own gratification, but watch for glasses. smart glasses are a growing segment of the consumer market, and creeps like this are harassing people in public in order to gather content without the victims being aware they’re being filmed

good job on how you handled it, op!

[snailpass]

gnarp gnarp

[agnes-nielsens]

you're telling me this hole is significant to the plot?

[lonestatus]

personally my first guess as to how joker got his scars would be from smiling too big. but maybe that's my dreamer's heart

[evilwizard]

say no more

[ozzyzoid-42]

I love it when people criticize kirk for not stopping bones and spock fighting, like that's his favorite show?? Like god forbid a man wants to see the girls fight. (And maybe kiss thereafter)

[bippus]

when i was born they rushed all the nurses into the room. called the whole hospital. Here’s the baby that doesn’t cry they said

[sagehole]

we love to applaud performative masculinity

[bippus]

I was a stoic

[trangoldin]

[viralfrog]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

characters whose sexuality is "i'm under way too much stress to figure that shit out rn"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

character whose gender is "im probably nonbinary but im on a quest so idrc about that rn"

[bonivers]

this is really how it feels

[candyflosslipgloss]

being asked what i want for my birthday and suddenly I'm a minimalist who has never had a material want in my whole life

[gumy-shark]

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

[the-king-of-beans-offical]

dont worry little password. I'm insecure too

[necr0mancers]

i’m tired

[necr0mancers]

crazy kids!!