greenmangostudio

I just scared the crap out if my boss for the umpteenth time lol. When growing up my dad would take me hunting with him. He used to make fun of me because I walked so loudly through the brush. So I started practicing walking quietly... literally everytime I walked. To and from class, on the way home, on the way to the bathroom. Didn't matter where ever I walked, it was done quietly. So over the years my normal walk has become almost silent, I am also pretty introverted so I'm just quiet in general. Because of all this I am constantly sneaking up on people on accident at work. Add to this I am 6 foot and 250lb, I can understand people's shock when all of a sudden I am behind them, or in the doorway waiting for their attention. Its gotten to the point that when I am walking to people at work I will fake cough or clear my thoat. Ive gone so far as to buy squeaky shoes, but its like I subconsciously learn how to walk quietly in them. All this just to try and announce m...

This happened three days ago, and I’m still a bit embarrassed by it. I volunteer at my aunt’s little bakery shop every weekend. No big deal; just prep work and attending to customers. Cleaning the bakery counter is one of my regular duties, which includes taking the sourdough starter from the refrigerator so it warms up before she comes in at nine. This particular sourdough starter is about four years old, and she has nicknamed it Gerald. It even has its own shelf. I am no baker, but I know enough to be dangerous. And that day, at 6:30 AM, I arrived tired and operating on autopilot. I did my regular sweeping routine to get ready for opening. I wiped down the countertops and organized the refrigerator, disposing of anything that looked like it belonged to a museum collection. You get the idea. Gerald was shoved way into the back of the fridge behind a sheet pan. He was sitting inside a regular old mason jar without any kind of labeling on him whatsoever. He smelled quite bad i...

To be fair, it wasn't the series itself that was the problem. Rather, the new version of streaming services that get spammed with ads and locked away behind more and more add-on services, and you have to buy everything and so on and so forth. So I did what all responsible adults do: I found a grey-area streaming site that hosted the series I wanted to show my son. For all interested: it's Babylon 5 I did this before with another series (MacGyver) without any problems, so I guess I became complacent. Just a different site for this series, no biggie. Okay, every time you click on anything, play, pause, volume, etc., a new tab opens with an advertisement, but whatever. Most gets caught by my adblocker, and the rest is for casinos and stuff... Until it wasn't anymore, and suddenly there is a full-on display of a young lady, spread eagle and fully engaged if you catch my drift. And I'm so shocked that it takes me 10 seconds of fumbling, and three more women in various...

So I work in Construction and my current job is on huge Pharmaceutical Plant for Johnson and Johnson built by Jacobs construction. Today for all the workers they had a giant Pork BBQ. The line was about a 15 min wait, and it went past on of the white boards with an outline for the work site, and it had a bunch of magnets on it. As we were waiting in line, my coworker goes, "It would be funny someone drew a Penis on the white board." So I turned around and organize the magnets into a penis shape. Two big magnets (a lil bigger than a golden dollar coin) with smiley faces. And four-5 small magnets for the shaft of the Penis. We chuckled a bit and continued on in the line and got some BBQ. As we were eating we noticed how there were a lot of people dressed in corporate attire getting in the lift, I thought little of it. Until, at the end of the shift, our general foreman gathered us into the huddle and says, "The higher ups from Jacobs and Johnson and Johnson were ...

So to keep it vague for privacy reasons, I'll say that I (F,30s) work with a company that goes to different locations and trains people within a program. The people we train can only take the course once. I've done this job for a year now and I've never seen a past trainee again, even though we go to the same locations. **Also Im a worker in the program, I'm not a lead or authoritative role. So a few weeks ago, there was a trainee (M,30s) who was cute and was giving me signs: touching my arm several times, heavy eye contact, going out of the way to thank me for small things. Didn't do that with others. My coworkers were like "hes cute, ask him out!" I was weary at first. Lowkey shy, I never ask guys out. I thought if he asked me for my number, id give it. At the end of training he touched my arm again. But since the training was over and we were leaving, I thought fuck it. I asked him for his number (he confirmed he was single). And after he gave it, our...

Obligatory this happened yesterday, and my apartment still smells faintly like burnt confidence. I have a smoke alarm right outside my kitchen that goes off constantly. Toast slightly too dark? Screaming. Oven door open for three seconds? Screaming. Boiling water with too much personality? Somehow also screaming. Yesterday I was making a grilled cheese and it started going off again before anything was even smoking. I got annoyed and told my girlfriend that the alarm was basically useless because it reacted to everything. She said, “Maybe it’s just doing its job.” For some reason, I decided this was the moment to defend my honor against a plastic ceiling circle. I said I could prove it was too sensitive. My plan was to make another grilled cheese the exact same way, keep the window open, fan running, everything normal, and show that it would still go off for no real reason. Except while I was explaining this very smart experiment, I forgot the pan was already heating. The...