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HHBSO 23: It's a Red Light! Look with Your Eyes! · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to Heat Hop as something's off with me.
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Just Joey T y'all, I have a day today, so today's Tuesday that
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I'm recording this and I decided to run a bunch of chores today.
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Errands if you will. A lot of people run errands.
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You have to go to this store or that place or this office or
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whatever, and it's NBD. But these days a lot of people
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are working from home, as am I. Even though when I say I'm
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working from home, that means I'm not.
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I keep doing that much. But I had a bunch of chores to
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do and I decided it's the day off gym, A little bit of free
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time, Let's go do a bunch of chores.
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So one of the things I wanted to do was actually go to IKEA.
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Now that I have a car I can go to IKEA and buy things.
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Going to have a way to bring them home.
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I wish IKEA would have some way to give you like free shipping,
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but I guess I furniture is always very heavy and bulky so
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they can't give you free shipping for that.
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But in one of my bedrooms I've got these curtains that the rods
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are starting to fall off from the walls like the wall anchors
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or whatever the giving way and I wanted different curtains
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anyways with these were like using they have some stains and
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from the previous owner or whatnot so I want to get some
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new curtains. So that was that's been on my
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list forever and I was going to go apply for a passport and it's
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the first time you're applying for a passport you have to do it
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in person and a common place to do this is at a post office.
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I thought, okay, I go to IKEA and I also go to the post
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office, do the passport thing. I did a online appointment in
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advance and apparently some post office locations, you can also
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have them do your password photo at the same time.
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So I thought, okay, why not? That's easy.
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You know, two in one and I every so often I'll clear stuff out
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from the house. I don't, I'm not a hoarder.
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I don't have a lot of stuff in the house.
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Usually I have no problems getting rid of old clothes.
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Really. The amount of tank tops I have
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though, I have more tank tops than any other type of shirt
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combined. T-shirts, V necks, button ups,
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even long sleeves. Yeah, they're more tank tops
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than every other type of shirt for some weird reason.
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But I had a bunch of clothes that actually donated out early
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this year. And there are every once in a
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while you see at a gas station or a grocery store in the corner
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of parking lot. Somewhere there are these like
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clothes donation bins and that's where I usually just Chuck it
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was you close it, I get rid of. It's not high quality clothes.
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You know tshirts that I get rid of.
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It's I got a new for like $5. It's not worth it to do anything
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other than to donate it out. So usually, maybe once a year,
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look at my closet in the spring, spring cleaning.
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What haven't I worn in like a year or longer?
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And you know what I don't like anymore?
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Or are there things that are, I don't know.
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There's holes in this shirt now you've worn it and washed it so
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much. So did that early this year.
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But there were a couple of two things in my closet that I was
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like, you know what? This is maybe possibly worth
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some amount of money. So I have this.
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So there's a sport jacket that I have.
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I got it, I want to say at least 10 years ago, I think maybe 11,
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maybe 12 years ago. And I was a lot skinnier back
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that I was. I was maybe legitimately trinked
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status 12 years ago. I was a lot skinnier and I got
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this sport jacket that's kind of sort of like a cocktail attire
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type of a thing because I had a wedding to go to, and it wasn't
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the type of wedding where you would dress up like formal.
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It was like an outdoor wedding, like waterfront outdoor wedding,
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and it was like a little more casual.
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The field was more casual. So I needed something that's
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more that, that wasn't a suit. Which I still have The suit,
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actually, which I actually recently wore the suit I have.
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I think I bought it, I don't know, 15 years ago.
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It still fits. I wore it recently to something.
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Oh, to I wore to a wedding recently.
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Still fits, surprisingly. Anyways, the sport jacket, it
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doesn't fit me anymore, but it wasn't a super nice one.
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But it's nice to know where. You know what?
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I shouldn't just, like, donate it into a random metal box in a
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corner of the grocery store parking lot.
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Let's see if I can get some money out of it.
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And then I have this Coach Messenger bag.
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I don't know why I have this Coach messenger bag.
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It's at least 20 years old. Coach is not a highend enough
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brand that you can take it to the rear wheel or you can Hock
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it on eBay and have any significant amount of money for
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it. This thing was maybe like 50-60
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dollars. Like, I think that's like the
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value I saw maybe 100 at the very most on eBay, something
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like that. So these two items actually set
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a sign. I thought, well there's this
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consignment store kind of semi near my neighborhood that I walk
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past all the time. Why don't I just try to do that?
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I never sold anything at a consignment store before.
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But my understanding is you just go in, you give them what they
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have, they tell you whether they're willing to buy the and
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for how much. And you know, you just, it's a
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good way to, you know, have some get some money for stuff you're
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going to get rid of. And then finally, I have a bunch
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of E Ways electronic items that I can't use anymore.
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Like, I've got this old electric toothbrush that's like 10 years
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old and it's just like completely dead.
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I have a new one now, but that's electronics, Electronics in it.
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It's like an appliance, basically.
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It's got batteries and stuff in it.
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So you need to dispose of it. And like a responsible man, you
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can't just throw it into the trash.
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So a bunch of stuff like that, just like old electronics that I
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kind of keep in this little corporal box in the pack in my
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closet. So all these little things, all
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these little errands were piling up and all that.
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Let's just do this as efficiently as possible.
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Let's just combine it on to one afternoon.
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Make the appointment for the passport.
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I put all of the stuff I want to get rid of into the trunk of the
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car this morning. First thought was IKEA and IKEA.
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Uneventful. IKEA was IKEA.
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I got there at 11/11/30 in the morning and it was so uneventful
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In a good way because no one usually goes to IKEA.
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Tuesday morning 11 AM, Who's at IKEA?
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People who are unemployed, people like me.
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Hands up right there. So I just needed curtain rods
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and the fixings, the attachments for the curtain rods and then
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the curtain curtains themselves. So I got all that.
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No problem, no hassle, no issues.
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Uneventful in a good way. I always like it when shopping
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in the store is uneventful because eventful shopping means
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just like getting annoying and pissed off.
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So IKEA was great. So after IKEA I came home a
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little time because I came home, ate a quick lunch and then I
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went to the post office that I had the appointment at.
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And this post office is, I think in Hollywood, technically is in
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Hollywood not that far. And drove there, got there a
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little early because I knew I need to have some time to find
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parking. That whole block where this post
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office was. It's all like homeless people
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camping out in tents on the sidewalk basically.
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And I remember I was circling the block just like the once or
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twice and at some point the smell of homelessness, like got
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into my car somehow and it's not a pleasant smell.
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And to be to have that in the car, it was not like I think
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that sucked in via the A/C or something.
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I don't know how it happened. So it was like not the nicest
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block. I talked about visiting not
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super nice neighborhoods once before when I was in New York in
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June for world pride. Whichever podcast episode that
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was from like the end of June, you can go watch that.
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And I talked about Street View is a great thing to have in
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modern day technology because you can go on the Street View
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and check out in that instance in New York whether your hotel
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is in a nice neighborhood or a not so nice neighborhood.
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I didn't do that for a post office because I thought it's
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just a post office. It's not going to be a risky
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neighborhood, but it's just like whatever.
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I'm not staying there for like 5 days.
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I'm just going there for like 20 minutes.
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So whatever. It wasn't a huge problem.
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I found parking and I walked inside the post office and I
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don't really know how post offices work.
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But anyways, I walked it and the first thing I saw was this line
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of like 12 people. So I thought, oh, like I have an
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appointment, but like, I guess I have to go into the line.
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But the whole time ahead I was thinking, do I really need to be
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in the line when I have an appointment?
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But I saw no signs anywhere. Like I walked and I looked all
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around like, is there some sort of, like, sign for people with
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appointments to do certain things?
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I didn't see anything. So I just like waited in line.
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And as I was waiting in line, I looked up and the paint was
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literally falling off of the ceiling.
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Like there was like this big stretch, like probably like 4
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feet across of the paint, just like like a little hammock
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that's hanging down from like the drywall.
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It's like it's belly is out, if that makes any sense.
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Like the this, this dark green paint from the wall is peeling
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off. And then I looked further up
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right above me. Oh, it's peeling off there too.
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It's like, why can't the US get it together For places like the
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post office, for places like the DMV, they are dilapidated.
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I think it's the accurate term. You know when like, the paint is
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peeling off of the ceiling in big hue strips that you measure
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in feet and not inches, it's it can't help the morale of the
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people that work there. And it's not a welcoming
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environment. It's like you can't even have
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paint, like paint. It's not even that expensive,
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right? And I just think about I grew up
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in Vancouver in Canada, and the DMV's, for example, The DMV's
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are not like bad places to be like in the US every time I've
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gone to a DMV, it's always like 100 people there sitting on
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chairs, waiting. But when you walk the DMV in the
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US, most of the floor space that's not behind the counters.
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It's just like you get 200 chairs for people to wait,
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because do you have to wait for that long?
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They put out a ton of chairs for people just to wait.
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Around in Vancouver, you go to the DMV equivalent and it's
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actually a nice space. The paint is not peeling off of
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the ceiling and about to like potentially collapse onto you
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and cover you like a spider web. So you know a post office,
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Canada Post. When you go to a post office
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there, it's it's not like Britsy, but it's like it's it's
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not like a scary dilapidated place to be, you know?
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So like why can't the US get it together to have like just basic
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maintenance of its facilities, You know, like a DMV, like the
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wait's always so long, it's never a nice building and
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apparently it's same for the post office.
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So anyways, also waiting this line thinking like I was in this
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line for like 15 minutes and then I probably should have
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asked someone but like then I hear like someone that's like I
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don't know, 5-5 people back in line behind me ask some random
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staff that walked by is like, oh where's the password?
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And then the guy points oh it's at like the it's in this like
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far corner that has no signs leading to it.
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So I hear that and I like bolt and like I go over there along
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this guy behind me now and then when I get to this window, yeah,
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there's like a little sign that says passport, but there's no
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signage leading that tells you, oh, you're here for your
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password. You need to go to like this
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other wing of the building. So get up there that there's
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this woman up there already talking, blah, blah.
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And I was like right behind her. And I noticed on the it's a
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plexiglass. There's a plexiglass all above
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the counter. And then on the plexiglass,
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there's a bunch of printouts, and one of the printout says no
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photos available, no film. How hard is it to have in?
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In some ways it's not fair. Like, people run out of
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consumables all the time. Sometimes your printer runs out
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of ink, you know? Sometimes they're out of a
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certain menu item at your coffee shop or your restaurant that you
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go to all the time. But yeah, apparently they're out
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of film. And by this time I was like just
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very, like eye roll in my head. So the moment and I and I didn't
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have a photo with you. But when you make the
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appointment online on the USPS website, you can specify, oh you
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want to set a location that also can take your photo.
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And I selected that. So my expectation was they're
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gonna be able to take my fucking photo.
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I get up there and they can't take my fucking photo.
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So the only thing I said was like, I just want to confirm
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this sign's correct. You don't have film and you
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can't take my photo. And he's like, yes.
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And I just walked out cuz I was like I was over it by then
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between like the dodgyness of the area, having like having to
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be in this like dilapidated building.
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And then them having no clear signage of like where should be
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where people should be going to do certain things.
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Like there's no clear signage for like people should be in the
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passport, people doing the passports that should be in this
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like way other side, this other wing literally of the of the
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building. I could have been waiting in
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that line here for like 30 minutes or something, just for
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them to tell me you need to be over there, which is poor
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organization that doesn't take money or anything.
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Just have a sign to be like passport go over there.
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Like they should have that sign near the entrance, you know?
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So all these little things outside.
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You know what? I'm over it.
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I will need to go somewhere else for a passport.
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I'm not gonna come back to this location again.
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And when I was also waiting behind the lady that was in
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front of me at the passport window, there's a whole bunch of
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signs and stuff they put on the Pesi glass.
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And then there's this. They're advertising these other
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locations where they you need to make an appointment for a
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passport application. You just do a walk in.
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And then one of the two addresses they were advertising,
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you know, was for a place that's downtown, but they close at
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3:00. And I was it was over like 130
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by the time I got up to that window.
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So it's like, OK, I'm, it took, it seems to be an hour to get to
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this other downtown main office location, and I don't have an
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appointment for anything else. So I was like, you know what?
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I just do this another day. But I sure as hell won't go back
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to this location, this post office in Hollywood, just
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because I didn't have a good experience there.
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So that was that. It was lovely.
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So the next thing I do, I was like, you know what?
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I want to do The rest of my chores, the password is not so
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important. I have a Canadian password and I
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can still go places. I just also want the US passport
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eventually, but it's not urgent. So I was going to run the rest
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of my chores and the next place I was going to go to was Best
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Buy, because there's not that many places in West Hollywood to
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do your e-waste or E recycling. So even on the city of West
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Hollywood's website, they advertise a few like private
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companies, not that many that would take in your e-waste.
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So there's one Best Buy in West Hollywood that does take
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e-waste, and I've done this before.
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I've taken e-waste to them once before and it wasn't a problem.
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So drove to the Best Buy. And I've been this location a
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few times and there's actually parking on like the curb right
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outside where the Best Buy is. And this isn't this like little
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mini mall type of a thing. So it's like a small little
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shopping center, if you will. But I pulled it in front on the
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street where the Best Buy was and I was going a little slow
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just to like look for a spot. But you know, like if you're
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going like 40 miles an hour, it's hard to spot a spot.
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So I was like going a little slow there, run a ton of cars
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behind me. So it's like looking and I see a
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spot and right when I see the spot, I pull over and I pulled
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over like just right in front of the spot.
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And then I'm signaling. So I kind of pull over and I was
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waiting for other cars to kind of pass me.
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And while I was doing that, there's this guy that pulls him
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right behind me and like takes the spot and I honk and put put
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in my car, reverse my reversal lighter on and like this guy
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like looks up in front at my car and it like does nothing.
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I see him in the rearview mirror and then I honk and I like wave
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my arms and stuff and he's like he he clearly see he's looking
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at my car. He knows I honk, he knows my
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reverse lights on, but like he's parked in the spot so like the
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next day he just gets out and just walks away.
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So like, that pisses me off. Like if someone is signaling and
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pulled over like on the spot, like like the back of my car was
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like on the lines, like I was gonna back into that spot.
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So that pissed me off. So I pull out and that luckily
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they have an underground parking and there's a ton of spaces
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there. I just wanted to park on the
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curb because the Best Buy is like right there on the curves.
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I just walk in and walk over all this stuff to carry.
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But that pissed me off as well. So I was like, OK, fine, I just
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like park underground, whatever, haul, all the stuff they took,
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everything. There's just like one giant
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battery that I have that didn't take.
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But like that part was fine. But by this point I was like, I
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was like, this is like turning into like a not so great day.
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So the last thing I had to do was drop by this consignment
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store, also in West Hollywood to try to sell this messenger bag
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and this Sport coat that I have. And I've never been in any sort
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of consignment store before. I don't really know how it
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works. So I walked in there that this
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iPad where you, like, checked in if you want to sell something
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and also shows you who else is in front of you.
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And there's like 10 names in front of me.
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And I was like, you know what? I just want to get this done.
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Like, whatever, let's just do it.
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So put my name on and I think I probably waited like, I don't
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know, 30 minutes before they Call My Name.
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The other people that were there, they look like they go
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there all the time. There are a lot of people with
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those IKEA bags, you know, those blue IKEA bags made of like tarp
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or whatever that material is that sometimes people have.
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There are multiple people at the selling section of the
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consignment store with these blue IKEA tarp bags that were
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like completely filled with, I assume it's clothes.
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So waited like 30 minutes and I was just like hanging out, not
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doing anything. They Call My Name and then they
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like, look at my stuff and then they're like, oh, like this
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blazer. We're we're not going to take
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it. But it's like we don't usually
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really sell those. I'm like, okay, fine, whatever.
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And then this messenger bag and then she says, yeah, we, we'll,
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we'll take it. And how it works is we'll give
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you 50% of the cost of the bag or what we think we can sell it
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for. We give you 50% in store credit
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or $30 in cash. And I was thinking I'm not going
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to shop here again in my head I'm thinking I'll take the cash,
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but I said okay, so you should price it is $55 and 30% of that
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is $16.50. So by the time everything was
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said and done, I spent like an hour, just like 30 something
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minutes in the store driving there and driving back.
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I spent an hour for $16.50 and I'm thinking and and I try to be
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and I haven't had like the best time with like the passport
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stuff and then like this guy stealing my parking spot and
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just like obviously didn't care. I've I've I've seen this happen.
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LA, like LA drivers, I've learned like are just crappy for
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like stealing other people's parking spots on the street.
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But but this is like the last tour I was going to run and I
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was trying a little bit to make sure I didn't look pissed off.
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I wasn't that pissed off, but I was like, it's very easy for me
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to just, like show my emotions about saying anything.
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Like I wear the emotions, my emotions on my sleeve like a
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lot. But I'm not happy.
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Everyone around me can tell. Like all my friends can tell
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even without me saying anything. And that's the keys.
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Like if I'm if I'm suddenly silent, then I'm pissed off.
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But anyways, I was like in my head.
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I was thinking I spent an hour and drove all the way here for
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$16.50, took some deep breaths and then and then I I I got my
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$16.00 in cash. By the way, I had to go over to
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cashier and then they rung me up literally in like in cash money,
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paper money, cash money and coins 1650.
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And I was like thank you. And then I very calmly, nicely
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gently walked out and then I was like talking to myself on the
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street. I was like I spent an hour for
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$16.50. It's it's it's more than like
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the minimum wage these days I guess.
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But I was thinking, could I have just sold that bag for like
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$50.00 on eBay, even have to spend like, I don't know, 10 or
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$15 shipping it but then not have to waste an hour of my
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life. I was at that level.
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If any of you guys can relate like it it this is not the end
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of the world, obviously, but like it it it was rearing on me.
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The little things have happened throughout the day.
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On my day of errands. They're running errands.
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So this is where it went up to a climax.
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So last week's episode, I told you guys on Santa Monica Blvd.
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They're like repaving a whole hue stretch of it and that
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they've repaved it, but they haven't painted any of the lane
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markings. And I specifically mentioned
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these two cars that ran red lights right in front of me last
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week's episode. And I was, and this consignment
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store is along the stretch of Santa Monica Blvd.
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In West Hollywood where they still haven't painted the line.
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So, like, people don't always know where they are, but I'm
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always thinking that the lines are not there, but the lights
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are there. So like, you see a red light,
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you see a green light and you you need to stop.
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You've been not exactly where to stop, but like, it shouldn't be.
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You should be slowing down. If you're coming to red light
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and you don't know where the stop line is but it's not
23:18
painted, you should at least not be caught off guard that you
23:21
need to stop because there's a red light in front of you.
23:23
You might be a little confused where are you gonna stop?
23:26
So it only makes sense. Like you should probably be
23:28
extra cautious where you stop stop a little shorter than you
23:31
where you think you might need to be, but like, you know, don't
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whatever. But I needed to cross to get to
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the car after this consignment store that I went to and I was
23:41
waiting and then the light turns red and like this one car on the
23:46
curb stops and then I start crossing and then this other car
23:51
comes in and she's, I think she saw the red light but she
23:56
breaked a little late like she it wasn't like she saw the red
24:00
light fully and was slowing down.
24:03
It was like, I don't know if she saw the red light or not.
24:06
She wasn't going super fast, but the car and the curb coming from
24:10
my left on the curbside lane stopped normal.
24:14
This like Honda CRV that she was driving in the next night over
24:17
that I wasn't sure where she saw the red light like barrels over
24:23
to where the crosswalk is. I wasn't close to it, so I
24:26
wasn't in any danger. I saw it coming.
24:27
I always looked both ways now when I crossed that road because
24:31
the cars don't know when to stop, but with the emotional
24:35
state that I was in, I don't know.
24:37
I mentioned this last time, every time a car runs a red
24:39
light in front of me, I get the urge to yell at them.
24:43
Like you are running a red light bitch And and this is what
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happened. So this car like it, it kind of
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looks like she didn't run it. But anyways like she stopped
24:56
like on top of where the sidewalk would be because I've
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been to the area before and I know where it is.
25:00
But like she clearly didn't know where to stop and it was like
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there's a red light right there. Honestly, like, I know that
25:04
intersection. I know there's a red light right
25:06
there. So she's like stopping finally
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and I'm and basically I have to like walk around her, the front
25:13
of her car. But she stops so late.
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And I and I and I said I don't remember exactly what I said,
25:18
but I yelled at her basically I was like, hey, there's a red
25:22
light, use your eyes look something like that.
25:25
The first thing I said was like, it's a red light, something like
25:28
that. And I point at the light, the
25:30
red light above, that's like right there that's red.
25:33
And the second thing I said was like look with your eyes or
25:36
something like like use your eyes and look.
25:38
So I literally yelled at this car and it's like you cannot run
25:43
red lights. Especially when peditions are
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going to cross. You need to look for red lights
25:47
and stop. If you don't know where to stop
25:49
you need to slow down issue and be cautious.
25:51
Stop short. Don't like, just tiptoe into the
25:54
intersection. Is that like, crazy to like use
25:57
that level of common sense. If you are approaching a red
25:59
light and you don't see like, the stop line, stop short of the
26:03
instance stop. It's just short.
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Don't roll into the intersection.
26:06
This was you don't know where the stop line is.
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People are so stupid. I don't get it.
26:10
So I said those two things or two, those effects of the two
26:13
things. And as I was finishing crossing
26:16
the street, I was like, I was just on a rolls.
26:19
I also just let out loudly like why don't you just run over me
26:22
and, like, there were people around, but I just like, didn't
26:24
care. It's like there's a red light,
26:27
use your eyes and look and like, don't Burrow into the
26:29
intersection. So I was worked out.
26:32
So that was my adventurous day of running errands.
26:39
It's one of the reasons I like staying home so much.
26:41
And I'm so glad we have the Internet because so many things
26:45
can be done online now. And the things I did today were
26:49
things that you couldn't do online.
26:52
I couldn't order curtains and stuff online.
26:54
But I thought I should kind of like going to IKEA to, like,
26:57
browse and look at stuff. Sometimes that doesn't bother me
27:00
to go to IKEA usually. And for the curtains that I
27:04
wanted to get, you know, they're like tech Staffs, They're
27:07
fabrics. And I want to check out the
27:08
different ones in person to see which ones I may or may not
27:11
like. I want to, like, touch and feel
27:13
and see them in person, you know?
27:14
So that's why I went to IKEA. Yeah.
27:16
But I'm not even sorry for yelling in that car is like.
27:19
I think if I was in like a nicer mood I wouldn't have.
27:22
But every time a car runs a red light in front of me or don't
27:25
see a red light until it's too late in front of me, I'm always
27:28
thinking people like you cause accidents.
27:31
Like people is people like you that run into pedestrians when
27:34
you don't see a red light. Unfortunately I've seen way too
27:38
many people run red lights. Just actually just earlier this
27:42
week near near around that area I was walking to the gym.
27:47
I was I was walking by for some reason for something and from a
27:53
distance I saw a fire truck coming and then apparently two
27:59
cars had had a T-bone accident at the intersection.
28:04
And just by looking at where the cars were parked after, I was
28:06
like, I can guarantee you one of those cars ran the red light and
28:10
T boned the other one. And I one time this was
28:14
fifteenish years ago, maybe a little bit more back in
28:18
Vancouver, and I was driving my mom and were stopped at a light.
28:21
And then I literally watched this Mini Cooper run a red
28:25
light. Like the Mini Cooper literally
28:27
did not see the red light. But there's no breaking at all.
28:30
And just T boned this minivan that had like a family and like
28:34
a baby. And I can still hear that baby
28:36
crying out of that car because what happened was the Mini ran
28:40
the red light, did not see the red light at all.
28:43
The minivan had a green light. I was going through it.
28:47
The Mini T bones this minivan and basically shoved this
28:51
minivan to have a head on collision with a light pole.
28:56
Like, it's horrific to watch. Like there's this family and a
29:00
baby in a minivan gets T-bone and then crashes into like a
29:04
light pole, like a solid steel light pole.
29:06
It's like, that's horrific. I was like 15 or 16 years ago
29:10
and I was stopped at the light right at the front.
29:12
So, like, I got like the front row seat to that accident.
29:16
Yeah. So it's pretty crazy sometimes
29:18
it's it's I'm very defensive. When I drive, I'm always
29:22
thinking like the car behind me, does he see me break like the
29:26
the car beside me? Like, does he know I'm about to
29:28
pass him? Like, I don't expect people to
29:30
check their blind spots. I don't expect you to pay
29:32
attention to anything. So people are always on their
29:35
phones. Yeah.
29:38
So I'm always very, very, like, I just assume everyone on the
29:42
road doesn't know how to drive. And I honk a lot, actually.
29:46
I honked like three times today. Honked like three times today
29:49
because of all the driving I was doing.
29:52
So yeah, there's a car that pulled in front of me, pulled in
29:55
front of me, turn in right, turn onto the street right in front
29:59
of me. And I was going like 10 miles an
30:01
hour after he they pulled out. Like, you can't do that.
30:03
So anyways, I'm not going to join on and on about driving
30:08
because that's a whole other can of worms and we don't have time
30:11
for that on today's podcast anymore.
30:15
For those of you watching the video version of this podcast
30:18
again available on Spotify and also on my YouTube channel, just
30:21
Joey T you know, I'm actually dressed up as I dressed up to go
30:24
do the errands and I got a haircut.
30:27
I had long hair for a long time and I cut it to be pretty short.
30:33
It's only like, I don't know, and a couple inches long now on
30:37
top. Yeah, and actually, you know,
30:39
wanted to look presentable for this password photo, which
30:42
didn't happen today. Yeah.
30:45
Then the other thing I was that it wasn't on my list to do
30:48
today, but it's something I'll need to get used to doing.
30:52
But the new car is an electric car, so that means I have to
30:54
charge it. I find a charger for it every so
30:57
often. So I see drove by one of the
31:00
charging spots on my way to IKEA at the Walmart that was nearby
31:04
and apparently is a very popular one because I wasn't going to go
31:08
charge, but I just wanted to like, scope it out because it's
31:11
one of like the main isn't, it's a it's one of the spaces with 10
31:17
different chargers. So there's a lot of capacity
31:19
there and they're fast chargers to get charge our electric car
31:21
really quickly. There aren't that many near my
31:24
house. And I was like, oh, OK, I'm
31:25
going up to Burbank the IKEA and Burbank the the Walmart with all
31:29
these like, fast chargers is only like a mile away from the
31:33
IKEA. So it's like, why don't I swing
31:35
by just to see what it's like so I can get like the lay of the
31:38
land when I if I ever need to come back here.
31:41
And I've heard stories that there were a long lineups for
31:45
the charges at this Walmart in Burbank and it turns out to be
31:48
true. They're a line of at least like
31:50
10 cars. I couldn't see the front of the
31:53
queue, but I saw it. I was like, I noticed all these
31:56
cars were electric cars. Because I can.
31:57
I'm into cars like, I can like look at the car and know exactly
32:00
what making model is right away. And I was like, oh, okay.
32:04
So 11:00 AM on a Tuesday, It's busy.
32:08
I've heard that on weekends is very, very busy.
32:10
Right. Some people who are usually in
32:12
the office at work on a during the day on a weekday.
32:14
I thought, well, those people won't be here.
32:17
But, I mean, everyone else is. So yeah, I can't charge in my
32:21
apartment because we don't have that in our apartment.
32:24
Yeah, but that's interesting. Oh my God.
32:27
Imagine I get into a fight or get pissed off at one of these
32:29
charging stations. I really don't want that to
32:31
happen. But anyways, this coming weekend
32:36
I'm going to go to Vancouver again to visit some family.
32:39
So maybe I have some Vancouver stories for you and I come back
32:43
and I'm also excited, excited ish to go to a Taipei for pride.
32:47
It's a little bit of anxiety mixed in with the excitement
32:52
because it always makes me a little nervous when I don't know
32:57
what the language there. I know Cantonese because I'm
33:00
from Hong Kong, but Cantonese is not Mandarin, just with they're
33:05
both Chinese is not the same language.
33:07
They're like effectively different verbal languages.
33:13
On paper they are similar. Ish can be the same, but verbal
33:20
Mandarin and verbal Cantonese is not the same.
33:24
So. But I know some people that are
33:26
going, so that would make it a little bit more fun to hang out
33:31
with some friends there. Yeah.
33:33
So that's another trip to look forward to at the end of this
33:36
month. But otherwise, hope you
33:39
subscribe to the podcast. Let's see how angry or not angry
33:44
I get for these podcast. I don't know where I'm going to
33:46
go get this passport thing done, but I'm not going to go to any
33:52
post office. It's it.
33:54
Yeah, I did. There's some probably libraries
33:56
in City Hall places I think go to one of those.
33:58
But I will report back next time, but until then, bye.