• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I rode the exact bicycle route where I was disabled while riding to work 10 years ago. It was raining, but I needed the psychology of completing that short ride. I never ride in traffic as I am unable to see over my left shoulder and hold my line. I must get out of position, sit up and twist my lower back. Anyways, there was a truck illegally double parked in the exact same place as the SUV that very nearly killed me when they suddenly made a U-turn. It was an awkward moment, some irony, and a bit of PTSD thinking about the same thing happening on the ten year anniversary.

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        8 months ago

        I have to keep my head down. It doesn’t matter most of the time because I ride a dedicated bike trail route. I also ride at the end of my day or even at night. I don’t want to know more than I need to about cars. My PTSD is too bad for traffic. I mostly only ride for physical therapy now. It is not really a problem for me to ride like this. I’m at over 170k miles, riding most days since 2009. I can tell what is going on around me just by sound at this point. The people behind are not the real problem. It is the u-turns that will get you. I’ve had 2 bad crashes out of 6 total and both bad ones were u-turns.

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    8 months ago

    My girlfriends brother just saw a condom wrapper in my car, we didn’t mention it and acted like it didn’t happen but damn that was embarrassing.

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    I was stressed out at the grocery checkout because the scanned items were coming in too fast. While packing my stuff I managed to throw an onion high in the air, ricocheting on some stand and hitting the cashier on the shoulder.

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    8 months ago

    My employer’s recruiting dept sent me a LinkedIn message asking me to apply for my job. I have a role that isn’t multiplied across people. I told my boss that it happened and she rushed to assure me that we’ll have redundancy for the first time.

    I’m still in the phase where I’m hoping that’s true while knowing that it’s better to quit than to be fired. I’ll discuss with my therapist today to decide. I know the right answer is to get out now.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know, but I remembered this post now that something awkward did happen.

    So my bank has this AI chatbot. I tried asking it if my bank still offers Visa gift cards which they did in the past. It couldn’t get my question right, after I said “no” to the question if it’s answer was right it hang for a few seconds and proceed to ask me to clarify my question, I just funnily responded with :q!. After all, it’s just AI.
    Then suddenly I got “bank agent joined the chat”. I didn’t realize there could be a person over there. Let alone at 11:50PM.
    I wonder how many times when I started spamming a useless AI chatbot of some company there was an actual human seeing that.

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        Yea. I teach a class of 30, the material for the day was very short (law of reflection), and they do group work afterwards. It was pretty funny for me, and awkward for them. Definitely a wtf is he doing kinda thing.