greenmangostudio

I answer phones as part of my job. Usually people call either looking to purchase tickets for an event or to rent the space. Today a woman called with severe speech challenges, so I really tried to be patient and figure out what she was looking for. Being a certified woke person, I know there’s a number of reasons someone could have speech problems, so I didn’t automatically assume any intellectual disability. I just treated the call like I would any other phone call where I’m having trouble hearing or understanding the person. 20 minutes later, her mom comes in the room, grabs the phone, and angrily interrogates me like I was trying to scam her daughter. I guess I understand being suspicious of someone on the phone with your intellectually disabled adult child, but she came in so hot at me when I was just trying to help and understand. ;~; I apologized and let her know I just didn’t want to be rude and she said “you don’t have to be rude” but…at what point am I meant to make the jud...

I am in the mountains of Tuscany, Italy on vacation with my family. By the way, it absolutely gorgeous here! If I can put photos in the comments I may! Something to know about me is that I possess a deep passion and appreciation for all snakes. I actually have autism spectrum disorder, which has nothing to do with the choices made here directly, though the adhd might (this is more of a joke acknowledging the impulsivity that is so often part of the disorder that I do indeed possess, not shifting the blame onto the condition). Anyway, my special interest is all things reptiles and has been for as long as I can remember. I’ve owned a few reptiles including a ball python named Mushu and a Kenyan Sand Boa named Tele (short for George Philip Teleman the baroque composer). Tele actually escaped two years ago and I suppose at that time I could’ve deserved to have made a TIFU post as well, as it surely had to have been an error on my part with closing or setting up the enclosure. I research ...

I have been getting back into working out, and I keep my elliptical in the basement. It's an unfinished basement, and I'm a renter in a college house. Typically, I work out every day. I take my ipad down with me and put on my headphones and do duolingo or quizlet or watch some youtube. It's a three room basement, and the stairs that lead to it are down a short hallway behind the pantry. Like I said, it's unfinished, and so it's concrete floors, stone walls, pipes and whatnot down there. I live with two other girls, and neither of them work out nor have any reason to go into the basement, so really I'm the only one who goes down there on the regular. But recently, I've been... lazy. Since finals, I haven't done my daily studying which I usually do on the elliptical. So I've been avoiding working out. I dunno, I just took a rest day and then another rest day and another rest day. This went on for about two weeks and today, I decided to finally snap o...

My girlfriend and I have cute sexual names that we call each other. We use these names almost all the time, except when we're around other people of course. Well a few weeks ago, she had her parents over her house for dinner. We were all having a great time. At some point my girlfriend asked me a question, and I said, "Yes, tits." I instantly realized what I said. My girlfriend and her Mom and Dad all started laughing. I turned red and got so embarrassed. My girlfriend, who has an amazing sense of humor, said, "Great, now everybody knows about them." I didn't even know what to do. I just apologized over and over. Everybody was very understanding and didn't get upset. I had to power through the rest of the night. But I really wanted to run away. TL;DR I accidentally called my girlfriend "Tits" in front of her parents. Wanted to crawl into a hole and stay there.

Obligatory this happened on Sunday. I was riding my e-scooter to the grocery store to pick up snacks for the race. I am not very trusting of the human race so I'm pretty diligent in being aware of my surroundings. I also obey traffic laws, I don't run stop signs, wait for lights to turn green, etc. Because of my distrusting nature I assume that every car is going to hit me and I ride cautiously. Enough background. I approached an intersection with a four way stop sign. One for each direction of travel. I was in the bike lane and came to a full and complete stop. There was a red sedan approaching the intersection in the opposite direction of travel. Having stopped at the STOP sign I began to traverse the intersection. The oncoming red sedan however did not stop at the STOP sign and proceeded to turn left into my path of travel. Having a basic understanding of physics and still being of sound mind and body I did my best to avoid a collision with a moving object who's mass w...

had an interview last week for a position i actually really wanted. was nervous but felt prepared. first few questions went fine, i was almost starting to feel like a functional human being. then they asked "what's your biggest weakness?" i panicked and said "i sometimes care too much." i know. i KNOW. i heard it leave my mouth in real time and watched the interviewer's smile do that thing where it stays on but the eyes just... leave. so i tried to recover. told them what i actually meant was that i tend to overinvest in projects emotionally. which somehow made it worse because i then accidentally implied their company might not deserve that level of investment. there was a pause. a long one. the kind where you can hear your own heartbeat. i did not get a callback. TL;DR: bombed a job interview by saying "i care too much," tried to clarify, accidentally insulted the company, did not get the job.