u/PoetEwanMcTeagle

When thrift stores have 10 or 15% off, that only annoys me. People who run thrift stores should know that us thrift store shoppers are very used to 50% off or more. An offer of 15% off does not motivate me to look at the colors of the tags. It motivates me to leave.

For me it was “I Will (Take 29)”

We talked too much. I cared too much. I made mistakes. I don’t know if she’ll ever talk to me again. I still need to write. For now I can write therapy letters that maybe she’ll get to read someday. Or maybe if someone else can relate and would like to hear about the situation, we could talk. I promise I’m not as crazy as this sounds.

Words to talk about: limerence, grrrls, sahd, telephone, twee, pun, punk, exercise, marriage, Irreconcilable, resell, cassettes, thrift, vinyl, pen pals, confide, creativity, memories, trivia, fruit, farmer’s markets, record stores, history

It’s more of question of “are you a good bot, or a bad bot?”

Who else should be added?

Mantovani, Mitch Miller, Roger Miller, Roger Whitaker, Roger Williams, Andy Williams, Ray Conniff, Lawrence Welk, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Robert Goulet, Engelbert Humperdink, Bert Kraempert, Herb Alpert, Connie Francis, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Ferrante & Teicher, Teresa Brewer, The Kingston Trio, John Gary, Jim Nabors, Mario Lanza, Al Martino, Jack Jones, Barbara Streisand, Anita Bryant, Arthur Fiedler, Marty Robbins, Neil Diamond, Rusty Warren, Petula Clark, and ?

are difficult to replace.

The cashier didn't look particularly young, but I guess she could have been as young as 25. I got six cassettes so I laid them on the counter upside down because the price stickers were on the bottoms. When she started putting them in the bag she accidentally bumped one of the cases and flipped it so tape flew out. She picked up the cassette and sat it down on the case and tried to push it down as if it could just click into position and then she could close the door. Kinda like the same way you would put a cd in it's case. I said “let me get that for you” and took care it. It was quite clear that this girl had never touched a cassette in her life and had never witnessed one being used.

I did 329 straight days of 10,000 steps. That involved a lot of walking in the rain at 11:30pm. I also didn't like walking around big stores to get steps because the weather was terrible, all while I knew that the forecast for the next day was lovely. Worst of all was when it was a perfect evening for a stroll but I already had enough steps for the day, so my device that was supposed to motive me to exercise was preventing me from exercising.

So instead of steps per day, I decided to focus on steps per week. I knew it would be easier, so instead of 10,000 I thought 11,000. That would make it 77,000 per week, so it made more sense to bump it up to 80,000 per week. It's an average of 11,429 per day. That was over 6 years ago. I haven't missed my weekly goal once.