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it's underwhelming, i assure you

had a bug/pest control guy stop by yesterday with this shtick "i'm contracted with your neighbors Steve and Barb across the street... and Linda and Tom next door" bruh, the people across the street aren't Steve or Barb, and the woman next door is a widow, not named Linda.

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Homicide, The Corner, The Wire.. all inter-related. all very good.

going to concur with you. seems like i'm more often interrupted, and then the person carries on and on and on, by older people. in corporate America that may be a function of status/positioning, though.

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if you drive a truck that's 9' tall, there's no reason to pull forward into the intersection. you can see OVER every other car on the road, but we can't see over/through/around you. and because the people behind us in line can see BEHIND your truck to see cross-traffic, they're blowing their...

i'd be willing to bet that if @ChiefD went to the store with a sniffle, he'd have multiple tupperware containers full of soup on his porch inside of 24 hours.

which is how this generation differs from ours (maybe we're similar age?) kids now are more likely so stare blankly for a few seconds, whereas teenage kids of our generation were more likely to crack back and maybe even fight. kids now just kind of... deflect it??

we talk about this kind of thing with the kids. my wife is very much "this is how it was for me, this is how it should be for you, too" whereas i'm much more "this is how it was for me.. doesn't mean it has to be that way for you." so, while i think social skills matter (we're all at...

in fact, i raised this point with my kid annnnnnnnnnnnd she stared at me and said "yeah... you're old"

my 16 year old says "it's when you literally can't even anymore with a person" clarified as "the person talking to me is so stupid that i can't believe it. like, when you're talking to old people and they ask dumb questions.. i need time to process how dumb they are before i answer."

n/a i don't work for his company. impossible to say how he is as a leader from outside.

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