Did G Adventures lower their "18 to 30 somethings" tours to 18-35? From some searches i thought the cutoff was 39.
And how strict are they in enforcing the age, because my friend and i have a few tours where the destination + price range work for us (cheaper), but we're conveniently a slight bit older than the current 35 yr old cutoff
Load of napkins
Is it just me or does McDonald's always give you guys a load of napkins whenever you go through drive-thru?
Sometimes i literally will receive half a dispenser full
It's like "bro all i ordered was a McChicken, i don't need a stack of 20 napkins.."
I know everyone hates downloading more apps but...
I can understand why companies push apps nowadays (hire less workers to take orders, faster drive thru times when people pre-order on apps)
So which fast food chain have you guys found that offers the best app deals rn? (Aka biggest portions)
Taco bell used to be pretty good but lately the deals have really sucked even thru their app.
Best I've found so far is McDonalds:
* $1.50 for large fries
* $2 McMuffin with egg
* $3 McMuffin with egg + hashbrowns
* $3 for 10pc nuggets
Earlier this month i went to a country concert (Luke Combs). Great singer btw. I've been listening to him for years and finally got a chance to go. Problem? It was in Ohio, and i was literally like the only "colored" person there in a sea of white people (for a lack of a better term). I'm Kazakh btw, but whatever cuz I was there mainly for the music.
A couple weeks later though, when i was lying in bed back home, it really hit me how out of place I felt at the concert. Music is music and i listen to the same songs on the radio as all the other people did who were at that concert. Yet i didn't feel quite like it was a concert made for people like me. It's probably mostly in my head but it reminded me of a few other times in my life when..
A Kazakh girl i met in college told me straight up: "oh i don't date kazakh guys sry". I later found out she had a string of white bfs, go figure.
Another time at work, my coworker asked me "so where are you FROM from?"
Like bro are you serious? I was literally born in Nebraska. I know he was actually trying to ask where my parents immigrated from and he was a cool dude, but the question just rubbed me the wrong way. Like I probably could do a better Texan/Valley girl/Boston accent than he could, and likely scored higher than he did on the SATs. But the apparent reality is: most Americans see my skin color first before I open my mouth to prove them wrong.
The most frustrating thing? When i go back to Khazakstan every few years, i almost immediately get treated like an outsider. I can speak about 90% perfect Kazakh, but as soon as I open my mouth and speak a sentence, my very slight American accent comes through, and I don't "sound like the locals", mostly due to the lack of local slang that I haven't included in my speech yet. I basically get treated like a princess: "oh hey it's the well-educated American relative coming back to Kazakh for a vacation! Let's talk to him like a kid!"
Full disclaimer, my misery is probably entirely my own doing, but I've realized I've grown increasingly hateful of being a second gen American immigrant for that very reason: not really fully belonging anywhere.
50 years ago my parents came to America (from Kazakhstan) gave birth to us so that my siblings and i could have a better life than they did. Like, they weren't poor by any means back home, but America was supposedly the land of opportunity and all.
I grew up under their strict household rules; they wanted us to go the typical doctor, lawyer, engineer route yada yada. Never had much fun in K-12 because studying was the only shit we were allowed to do. Consumed all the American pop culture though. Listened to Linkin Park, skated with neighbors' kids after school in front the local 711, went to prom, watched all the cult classics (Scarface, the sandlot, fight club, Super Troopers, beerfest, etc)
And yet, all of that seemingly doesn't matter.
TL;DR I'm not "white" enough to be American, and not Kazakh enough to be Kazakh (when I visit Kazakhstan).