Had a poem published in a national poetry anthology at age 14
racefan12
Once went on a 10 hour drive for a slice of pizza
Shadoweh
The first online account [Stranger] remembers creating was for the bobandgeorge.com forums
Strangers
Identities
implosion
Broke their arm when they were six trying to copy older children jumping off of a slide
MariaR
Has gotten an 8192 tile in 2048
N
Has had 12 surgeries in their lifetime
Regfan
Headed a successful but widely-reviled effort to install hand dryers in bathrooms
Vijarada
Sold tiny dinosaurs on eBay
Wickedestjr
When overseas stayed with a family [Stranger] had never met before and babysat their 3 kids for a week
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N - Headed a successful but widely-reviled effort to install hand dryers in bathrooms
racefan - The first online account [Stranger] remembers creating was for the bobandgeorge.com forums
Had a poem published in a national poetry anthology at age 14
racefan12
Once went on a 10 hour drive for a slice of pizza
Shadoweh
The first online account [Stranger] remembers creating was for the bobandgeorge.com forums
Strangers
Identities
implosion
Broke their arm when they were six trying to copy older children jumping off of a slide
MariaR
Has gotten an 8192 tile in 2048
N
Has had 12 surgeries in their lifetime
Regfan
Headed a successful but widely-reviled effort to install hand dryers in bathrooms
Vijarada
Sold tiny dinosaurs on eBay
Wickedestjr
When overseas stayed with a family [Stranger] had never met before and babysat their 3 kids for a week
Confirmed non-matches:
N - Headed a successful but widely-reviled effort to install hand dryers in bathrooms
racefan - The first online account [Stranger] remembers creating was for the bobandgeorge.com forums
What was your game plan regarding the paper towel campaign?
Okay I don't live there anymore (thank god) but when I moved to Virginia for a year I was staying with my friend who worked in transporting and i would go along sometimes and the rides would last a long time so you know sometimes I'd have to stop in restrooms but I slowly began to notice there were no hand dryers. I was shocked cause where I'm from that was just normal and I hated using paper towels cause that doesn't help as much as hand dryers. So I asked my friend if I could tag along with her after spending about...6 hours (oh god that's somewhat embarrassing to say) of research on facts about hand dryers and would go around town to my work and with my friends transporting business handing them out and talking to store owners about the cost and how it's better etc. I got a lot of backlash because "I wasn't from there" buttt over time people started to see the light and I was getting a few thank you calls by the end of it before I had to move back home it's a fun story to tell my pals.
I bet Maria is scum this game
~Firebringer
Na Maria isn't towny enough to be scum this game~
Charloux
MariaR goes for the uwu owo tsundere-dere look but you never know if she has a knife behind her back.~
It was for a university group marketing project I did a few years back, we had to do some market research and then attempt to fill peoples needs based on the results we'd had from the focus groups in a cost-effective manner. None of us were particularly creative and most of us fairly lazy so we'd just decided to question people in Westfield (Large shopping complex, ~300? stores in it) about what they thought of their experience shopping there and how it could be improved, majority of the answers we'd received was them complaining about the lack of clocks inside the shopping complex or how bad the toilet situation was. Our initial plan was to deal with the clock situation since it'd be significantly easier to implement but spoke with a few managers there who'd got rather upset that we were questioning their customers and were adamant about how clocks would impede on their business (Think their logic was if people realised the time / how long they were there they'd be more likely to leave sooner). Ended up falling back on pushing to have all bathrooms in the complex install hand dryers since the bathrooms were constantly either a) Dirty from paper towlers everywhere or b) Lacking paper towels entirely. Ended up taking three visits to speak with them to convince them that it was something that'll improve their customers experience and save them money too but probably one of the more irritating experiences of mine.
it was at high school. i was in the student government. some guy came up to me and was all like "yo we need hand-dryers, paper towels are not environmentally friendly" so obviously i made that my personal crusade forever. after weeks of obnoxiously bringing the subject up at every meeting, making everybody hate me, we passed a resolution calling for the removal of paper towels. they added the worst hand-dryers of all time. they would not dry your hands and the plug for them was easily reachable for tall year 10s (who unplugged them. every time) but not short people so nobody could ever use them because they were unplugged. my name was forever associated with this mess.
And I think the reason I managed to match Vijarada was learning from N's lie on the hand dryers. Like, I realized that it was a very believable story but I don't think he would have been widely reviled for it. And I felt the same way about Maria's answer and Regfan's answer.
In post 2391, Errantparabola wrote:Okay-- wickedestjr, Regfan, N: How did you end up babysitting for that family?
Was near the end of a backpacking trip through Europe in my younger years and was running fairly low on funds, planned on staying at my Uncles place in Belgium before flying back to Australia but he ended up messaging me a few days before I was due to arrive in Brussels telling me he wasn't able to have me over. Messaged some family back home telling them about it (Flight was pre-booked for a certain date I had to stay until so flying back early wasn't an option) and was finally informed that a family friend had a friend who was living over there with their family now and that I should call him when I landed which was super nice of them. Since I'd been travelling plenty already all I was after was just relaxing and recouping before the long flight so spent most of the week at the house playing games and looking after the three kids while trying to teach them a little bit more English given they spoke very little of it, was actually a very enjoyable experience.
In post 2391, Errantparabola wrote:Okay-- wickedestjr, Regfan, N: How did you end up babysitting for that family?
I went to America to work at a summer camp and the camp director asked me to arrive a little bit early to look after her own kids while they set up the campsite before the rest of the kids arrived. Also it helped me get over the jetlag.
In post 2391, Errantparabola wrote:Okay-- wickedestjr, Regfan, N: How did you end up babysitting for that family?
My junior year of high school, I had a semester long project to complete instead of regular classes. Most students stay at school to do their work, but the school provided a few options for semester abroad. Anyone that was interested and willing to pay for it could apply and fortunately I was selected for one of the groups that went to Spain - this involved living with a host family. I didn't start project work until after the first few weeks of the semester; during this time, I got settled / became acquainted with the family that I was staying with. The parents were nice enough to take me to various attractions on the weekends but they worked on the week days. For whatever reason, the kids didn't have school one of those initial weeks that I was there and the parents trusted me to hang out with them while they were at work... they were all very friendly and it was a pretty fun way to start off the semester.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky"
-Wickedestjr
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