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Mar 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Have I ever mentioned how much it bothers me to see people lotion up in public? It's right up there with food masquerading as other food.

Sometimes* I think I need meds.
*I am 100% positive that I should be medicated.
The ascension of hand sanitizer has been hell for me.
First it farts into your hands, then you rub it in, then the room smells like a morgue and then people started offering to fart it into YOUR hands so you could rub and morgue smell together.

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Mar 15
If nothing happens tonight, I'm through. After six more episodes, MAX. #thegildedage
15 minutes in, no action. This is getting tedious. #thegildedage
I feel pretty good about my guess re: Peggy's big secret. I knew a living, "illegitimate" child would not work, not even in a soap opera. There are only a few ways you make a woman free & viable in a historical: sci-fi, widow, stillborn. #thegildedage
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Mar 11
So many people use cash. :(
There is a social class gap happening here. On one end, I do think many people assume cash is dead because for some people that is true. On the other end, the cash economy is very much alive for many, many people.banks.
The top doesn't know the bottom exists and the bottom doesn't know the routine banking exchanges that people mostly in the middle execute but the folks on the bottom THINK they know how the top banks, based on social media and movies.
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Mar 11
Let's also tackle this one. Maybe you've never been inside a bank branch or you're mostly an app person. Twelve thousand dollars is a lot of money for a lot of people. It is not a lot of money to a bank because they have all the monies. You don't ask a banker to withdraw $12,000
If your branch even has personal bankers in the branch (many of them do not, especially in minority communities), there is a wait to see one. If you wait to ask them to withdraw $12,000 they are going to walk up to the teller and have the teller do the withdrawal.
It makes no sense, therefore, to add 20 minutes to your bank visit when either of you is just going to the teller to do the transaction. And the banker (they're mostly called relationship managers now) will wonder why you wasted your time and theirs.
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Mar 10
This type of comment exhausts me. EXHAUSTS. It’s “why are you shopping at Fendi when you’re broke??” It doesn’t matter. It also isn’t bizarre behavior. And it does not matter.
I have worked as a credit union teller. I actually do withdraw large sums of cash often and have done so recently. I bank at BoA. Literally nothing about the teller or manager’s behavior is normal. Nothing.
It blows my mind that so many people think writing a note to a bank teller is criminal or strange behavior. I just did it six months ago.
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Mar 9
The good doctor posted this last night. I was intrigued and clicked on link. I scrolled page. I did not go beyond landing page or enter any information.
Thirty minutes later I get this email in my inbox: Image
I am livid. I block them on all things.
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Mar 9
I really see the mask as a comfort now. I don't anticipate a total end to wearing it.
I haven't been extreme by any definition. I have been back to restaurants for months, within reason. I live alone and that really reduces my exponent. But I still don't like face-to-face airflow or recycled air.
And I haven't had a sinus infection in over two years now. I've had six a year since I was born. This is HUGE for me. Huge. Incalculable, really.
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