I'm mostly kind of an idiot lolz
Something really amused me the other day. So, I went home over the weekend to visit my parents on the long weekend and because it was my mom's birthday. We were sitting in the living room talking one night, and I have no idea how it got onto this topic but the conversation turned to Sam's Club. I recently got a membership there and I was saying how I was surprised by how much I had spent there after for years thinking it'd never be worth it to go there.
Then basically this happened:
Dad: People think Sam's is only worthwhile if you're buying a lot of food all the time but you'd be surprised by how useful a wholesale place can be.
me: I know... I buy things there that I can get for cheaper in the long run and then I don't need to worry about it for a long time. But it's so easy to drop a ton of money on so few of purchases.
Dad: Like what?
me: Like... kleenexes, or toilet paper...
Mom: Those do add up. That's about $20 apiece.
me: Yeah, but I limit myself. I have a system.
(they were looking at me curiously so I kept going)
me: I hate shopping carts with a passion. They're so obnoxious and huge and you get stuck in traffic jams all the time and people don't know how to navigate and you get stuck going SO SLOW.... uggggh, I hate it! So when I go to Target I always use the basket, right? Because then I can't grab more than I can get in one load, which limits my spending, and it's also easier.
Mom: ...it seems like that would be really hard on your shoulders and back if you have to carry anything heavy.
me: Yeahhh, it is. And I do, too. It sucks when I buy a whole bunch of beverages at once. That's probably where some of these bruises come from.
Dad: And... you just can't use a cart.
me: No! Because people are SO SLOW! It drives me nuts! No one knows how to navigate a damn store! You get stuck in aisles and can't turn corners properly and people dilly dally ahead of you and then you can't get to the right lane on time... But I like the carts where they're tiny little things like two baskets stacked on top of one another. Those are doable.
(they were looking at me like I was insane)
me: So anyway, I treat Sam's like I do a grocery store, so I naturally just walk in there without grabbing a cart. But people probably think I'm insane because then I'm walking around Sam's club trying to balance these huge ass packages of toilet paper and kleenexes and the like. But now I have a system! I have these two bags, right? And anything I can fit in there I can buy, because then I can get it home easily too. But if I can't carry it around then I can't get it.
(my mom was looking at me like I was an alien from another planet and I noticed my dad's shoulders moving in the background but I didn't pay much attention as I kept talking)
me: So like the other day, there was some greek yogurt I really wanted, but I didn't have enough arm space so I was like, "Well, guess I can't buy that today."
(my dad started laughing and Mom and I looked over at him)
Dad: It never ceases to amaze me the conundrums Ais can find herself in, even in the most simplest of situations. And if one doesn't exist, she finds a way to make one. Most people would just grab a cart but not Ais. She has to carry all the heavy and oversized things around a wholesale store instead...
By that time my mom and I were laughing too, because it is SO true. I over-complicate EVERYTHING and often forget that simple solutions even exist.
Like, this guy I know gave me his cell number months ago so we could keep in touch after he retired from the place where I knew him. He texted now and then but then we ended up as facebook friends and he's been messaging me through there since. I responded, slowly, because I hate facebook and I only use my phone to access the account. But then FB decided to be dbags and require everyone to download some stupid app for their messenger system, and I was like SCREW YOU, FB! I DON'T WANT YOUR DUMB APP! so I refused to download it, and every now and then the guy would message me but I'd have no way to respond because I'm never on that FB on my computer and it wouldn't let me reply to him without the app. This has been going on for maybe 2-3 months... and then today it suddenly occurred to me: hey, you know what you could do, self? You could text him. Like. You know. You did before you were FB friends.
So then I texted him today like LOLZ SRY I SO SLOW, I 4GET HOW 2 MAEK TECH WORK RITE? lol ok I didn't text that at all I was like "Sorry I've been so slow..." and explained the sitch.
But for srs, why did it take me 2 months to come up with the simple answer of texting instead of messaging? For the same reason I carry a basket filled with heavy ass materials all around the grocery store instead of using a cart. Or the same reason I probably drive Sonny nuts when we edit because I make everything about 10,000 times harder than it has to be when trying to come up with solutions.
I don't know exactly what that reason is, other than that my brain works in mysterious ways. I think in my mind, I'm making things more efficient or simpler by the things I do, but I'm probably really just not. So, the moral of the story is that I'm mostly kind of an idiot lol
Then basically this happened:
Dad: People think Sam's is only worthwhile if you're buying a lot of food all the time but you'd be surprised by how useful a wholesale place can be.
me: I know... I buy things there that I can get for cheaper in the long run and then I don't need to worry about it for a long time. But it's so easy to drop a ton of money on so few of purchases.
Dad: Like what?
me: Like... kleenexes, or toilet paper...
Mom: Those do add up. That's about $20 apiece.
me: Yeah, but I limit myself. I have a system.
(they were looking at me curiously so I kept going)
me: I hate shopping carts with a passion. They're so obnoxious and huge and you get stuck in traffic jams all the time and people don't know how to navigate and you get stuck going SO SLOW.... uggggh, I hate it! So when I go to Target I always use the basket, right? Because then I can't grab more than I can get in one load, which limits my spending, and it's also easier.
Mom: ...it seems like that would be really hard on your shoulders and back if you have to carry anything heavy.
me: Yeahhh, it is. And I do, too. It sucks when I buy a whole bunch of beverages at once. That's probably where some of these bruises come from.
Dad: And... you just can't use a cart.
me: No! Because people are SO SLOW! It drives me nuts! No one knows how to navigate a damn store! You get stuck in aisles and can't turn corners properly and people dilly dally ahead of you and then you can't get to the right lane on time... But I like the carts where they're tiny little things like two baskets stacked on top of one another. Those are doable.
(they were looking at me like I was insane)
me: So anyway, I treat Sam's like I do a grocery store, so I naturally just walk in there without grabbing a cart. But people probably think I'm insane because then I'm walking around Sam's club trying to balance these huge ass packages of toilet paper and kleenexes and the like. But now I have a system! I have these two bags, right? And anything I can fit in there I can buy, because then I can get it home easily too. But if I can't carry it around then I can't get it.
(my mom was looking at me like I was an alien from another planet and I noticed my dad's shoulders moving in the background but I didn't pay much attention as I kept talking)
me: So like the other day, there was some greek yogurt I really wanted, but I didn't have enough arm space so I was like, "Well, guess I can't buy that today."
(my dad started laughing and Mom and I looked over at him)
Dad: It never ceases to amaze me the conundrums Ais can find herself in, even in the most simplest of situations. And if one doesn't exist, she finds a way to make one. Most people would just grab a cart but not Ais. She has to carry all the heavy and oversized things around a wholesale store instead...
By that time my mom and I were laughing too, because it is SO true. I over-complicate EVERYTHING and often forget that simple solutions even exist.
Like, this guy I know gave me his cell number months ago so we could keep in touch after he retired from the place where I knew him. He texted now and then but then we ended up as facebook friends and he's been messaging me through there since. I responded, slowly, because I hate facebook and I only use my phone to access the account. But then FB decided to be dbags and require everyone to download some stupid app for their messenger system, and I was like SCREW YOU, FB! I DON'T WANT YOUR DUMB APP! so I refused to download it, and every now and then the guy would message me but I'd have no way to respond because I'm never on that FB on my computer and it wouldn't let me reply to him without the app. This has been going on for maybe 2-3 months... and then today it suddenly occurred to me: hey, you know what you could do, self? You could text him. Like. You know. You did before you were FB friends.
So then I texted him today like LOLZ SRY I SO SLOW, I 4GET HOW 2 MAEK TECH WORK RITE? lol ok I didn't text that at all I was like "Sorry I've been so slow..." and explained the sitch.
But for srs, why did it take me 2 months to come up with the simple answer of texting instead of messaging? For the same reason I carry a basket filled with heavy ass materials all around the grocery store instead of using a cart. Or the same reason I probably drive Sonny nuts when we edit because I make everything about 10,000 times harder than it has to be when trying to come up with solutions.
I don't know exactly what that reason is, other than that my brain works in mysterious ways. I think in my mind, I'm making things more efficient or simpler by the things I do, but I'm probably really just not. So, the moral of the story is that I'm mostly kind of an idiot lol