Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

[JennyB]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

I absolutely HATE it when people talk to me in random places like that.

[Dr. Medulla]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

I absolutely HATE it when people talk to me in random places like that.

That's a downside of my preference for t-shirts—they're apparently an invitation for strangers to offer commentary. Sometimes it's decent—"Cool! You're a Wire fan?"—but too often it's a springboard for tangentially related stuff to the shirt.

[Flex]

"hey, you wear shirts? What do you think about Trump's proposed cotton tariffs? MAGA amiright?"

[revbob]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

I absolutely HATE it when people talk to me in random places like that.

It's not that I'm that unfriendly but it's always weird shit, not good weird either. And like Doc I used to wear shirts with stuff on them, now I mostly just wear a plain colored shirt with nothing on it. Every so often my Black Flag logo only shirt will get some knowing looks. My Ramones hat with the seal and the names gets really strange looks.

[Marky Dread]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

I absolutely HATE it when people talk to me in random places like that.

That's a downside of my preference for t-shirts—they're apparently an invitation for strangers to offer commentary. Sometimes it's decent—"Cool! You're a Wire fan?"—but too often it's a springboard for tangentially related stuff to the shirt.

"Cool! You're a Wire fan?" ...so not a Wire fan then.

[JennyB]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

I absolutely HATE it when people talk to me in random places like that.

It's not that I'm that unfriendly but it's always weird shit, not good weird either. And like Doc I used to wear shirts with stuff on them, now I mostly just wear a plain colored shirt with nothing on it. Every so often my Black Flag logo only shirt will get some knowing looks. My Ramones hat with the seal and the names gets really strange looks.

I'm always polite as hell, but cringing inside.

[Silent Majority]

I'm obviously aging in the right way cos random people wanted to chat all the time and now they all leave me wonderfully alone.

[revbob]

I'm obviously aging in the right way cos random people wanted to chat all the time and now they all leave me wonderfully alone.

Ha, you're still young.

[Silent Majority]

I'm obviously aging in the right way cos random people wanted to chat all the time and now they all leave me wonderfully alone.

Ha, you're still young.

No doubt.

[revbob]

I'm obviously aging in the right way cos random people wanted to chat all the time and now they all leave me wonderfully alone.

Ha, you're still young.

No doubt.

The point is they'll be back.

[tepista]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

FOUR LOKO, duh! , then I would have asked him if he likes Bath Salt.

[Wolter]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

FOUR LOKO, duh! , then I would have asked him if he likes Bath Salt.

Or just an irish coffee.

[revbob]

Lately random people have been striking up wiers conversations with me. Like today I'm buying a six pack. This guy just hanging out in the store asks "Is that alcohol?" I say yeah its beer. He then says "You know what would be good? If they combined caffeine and alcohol." He then keeps going on about it as I walk out the store. I must be getting soft because in the past I've been told I look unapproachable.

FOUR LOKO, duh! , then I would have asked him if he likes Bath Salt.

Yeah the register dude mentioned that and I used that as my exit strategy.

[Mimi]

Just got a robo-call saying my SS# has been suspended and they're taking legal action against me. Blocked.

[Dr. Medulla]

Just got a robo-call saying my SS# has been suspended and they're taking legal action against me. Blocked.

We've had the same phone number since we moved here almost ten years ago (ten years? Jesus) and in that time collection agencies—and now Quebec's Ministry of Justice—have called for three different people. It does seem odd to me that three different deadbeats would hit upon ours as their fake phone number, but whatever.