A shy, quiet, gentle forest creature. 🌿
…and also a fiendishly sarcastic, misanthropic bog witch. 💀
Choose your own adventure (if you dare).
she/her
avatar: a little green creature stands awkwardly before a dramatic rainbow background with text reading “Fuck It” above – art by Sugar & Sloth)
I love the idea of a different way to tie my shoes. In practice I was never able to get the Fast Knot secure enough. It just always tied too loose and came undone for me.
Granted, I only tried for like a year, but it was far enough back I don’t remember if I tried the Secure one or not. Just that I eventually gave up and went back to the standard double knot, which really is secure for me.
The horrors persist, but so you do. Continue to exist to spite the universe, if nothing else. <3
I never haggle.
Haggling always feels incredibly confrontational and disrespectful to me. Watching others do it makes me annnngry. Usually because I’m wanting to pay and leave, like 99% of the others in line behind them.
If someone is trying to scalp me for a few bucks on some used tech I’m selling online, it’s even more pointless, as the web is full of used stuff. Why force me to get dressed and meet you somewhere if you aren’t even interested in honoring the price I’m asking?! I’m typically more inclined to walk away or drastically increase the price at that point, because it feels like the buyer isn’t respecting my time, just fucking with me. Why not reciprocate in kind at that point?
As others have pointed out, it’s also very time-consuming: personally I’d rather pay what’s on the sticker and move on. Wasting energy on mere cents or dollars is never worth my time.
Doctors and therapists have pushed me to try it my entire life, as I have ADHD-i, ASD, and major depression/anxiety (late 40s). After literal decades of wrestling with the entire topic from one direction or another, I’ve come to the conclusion I do less psychic damage to myself by not even trying at this point. Basically, It would have a relatively large likelihood of increasing anxiety and/or depression each time I practiced, to the point it was almost a guaranteed trigger to spiraling by the time I gave it up. (Which would’ve been sometime in about 2020 or so?)
None of this is to say you shouldn’t keep trying! Just attempt to be aware when it’s having more of a detrimental effect on your mood than beneficial, and be prepared to shift your focus as needed.