I get addicts and the mentally ill, which is fine because they're rarely scary, unlike bus mashers. The only scary one is the lady with the white hair and silver canes, because she will actually get physically violent and shout. I do not like being hit and yelled at, especially when I am not allowed to hit back. ("Yes, officer, I did punch the elderly mentally ill disabled lady a third of my size, but she started it!") She will try to fight you if she asks if the kids are out of school today, and you don't know, so that's fun.
I used to always keep a $20 in my keychain in case I needed a cab, but Uber just takes it out of my Paypal, and if I lose my phone there's no way to get a taxi anyway, because payphones no longer exist. They even took out the payphone outside the phone company door. I keep mints and the occasional valium in it now.
I think about when I went to Europe with travelers checks, and that seems completely insane now. I got home five bucks in the hole to my group leader. "Why didn't you wire me for money?" Mom said. "You didn't tell me I could," I replied. Because she hadn't. "I mean, I would've brought you a much better present. And more books. And not have lost 20 pounds."
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Date: 2024-01-31 06:53 pm (UTC)I used to always keep a $20 in my keychain in case I needed a cab, but Uber just takes it out of my Paypal, and if I lose my phone there's no way to get a taxi anyway, because payphones no longer exist. They even took out the payphone outside the phone company door. I keep mints and the occasional valium in it now.
I think about when I went to Europe with travelers checks, and that seems completely insane now. I got home five bucks in the hole to my group leader. "Why didn't you wire me for money?" Mom said. "You didn't tell me I could," I replied. Because she hadn't. "I mean, I would've brought you a much better present. And more books. And not have lost 20 pounds."