Lines! Oh man, yep. I hate waiting in lines, makes me feel like I’m in elementary school on a cafeteria day with something exciting. I can’t be bothered with lines. Or brunch. I have a full-time job. On the weekends I either a) have things I need to do or, b) things I want to do. Sitting around and overpaying for toast is not how I want to spend my precious free time.
I’ll meet friends on a weekend morning, but it’s to do something – go surfing, go mtn. biking, go hiking. Not to sit around.
Me too! A general civics and economics course should be mandatory in all high schools. Thankfully I had parents who educated me about saving and spending money. Also, I’ve worked since I was in junior high (cutting grass, clearing snow…don’t laugh, if you live in the snow belt you can make thousands of dollars a year. Not kidding.), so definitely know what it is like to have to work for money, so I don’t like parting with it unless I need to.
Priorities. Do you want all new clothes and a new sofa in your 20s or do you want to retire in your 50s with a big bank account and maybe a vacation home?
Ah, the beauty of college football. Grown adults spending insane amounts of money to watch overgrown teenagers smash their heads together, while they get blacked out and throw food at one another. How charming.
I can think of a few other ways I’d rather spend my time and money. Yet another religion I’m thoroughly confused by…football in America.
Oh boy, the circumscribed intern in DC who thinks Arlington is on the moon. How cute. You can walk across a bridge and be there. Explore your world a bit more. Also, stop buying strangers shots, especially if you’re poor and not 68.
Didn’t see the Hot Pocket one coming ’round here. Heavily processed and fake food is just weird to me. And you’re going to surely feel worse for having eaten it. Just the smell emanating from Dominoes makes me unhungry. As a New Yorker, I refuse to eat terrible “pizza.” Not worth my time.
Worked and then went to grad school in DC. It’s your choice where to hang out. I don’t understand why you’d spend your time hanging around people you don’t like. Why not go somewhere else? Honest question. If you really hate those experiences so much, why not buy a six pack and go watch the planes take off? Or sit at the Mall? I have very little free time so I just can’t fathom spending it doing something I don’t like.
You don’t have to live in NYC. You don’t have to hang out with a-holes. Get creative, don’t ask people “what they do” if you realize it truly doesn’t matter. I’ve never asked someone this in my life. I’d rather know how they spend their free time or what their hobbies are, something we could actually enjoy discussing. You don’t have to go to bars where a-holes hang out.
Also, I truly enjoy how your list of people doing things is limited to a) start ups b) app creators. Amazing. How about people who build things? Paint things? Fix things? Cook things? Plant things?
You really need to broaden your horizons, your choice to mire or move on.
I too am dismayed by the elevation and importance of pop culture and the “stars” to such levels of infatuation. Such a distraction from just choosing to live a decent, positive life. But, I’m confused why this commentary appears on this site, as it seems contrary to a majority of the other content. Including ongoing reviews of reality shows.
I chose to tune out years ago. There is good stuff out there, from movies to books to music. I don’t know if people are too lazy to try or too deluded and scared to leave the pack. Out of all the things you learned, and have forgotten, from college, it seems like people would have gained the ability for independent, critical thinking.
I think some basics for healthy living/weight are:
1) find an activity you enjoy that provides exercise. If you enjoy it, you don’t have to talk yourself into doing it. Hiking. Swimming. Riding a bicycle. Jumping rope. Hitting a tennis ball off a wall.
2) Learn to cook and make your own food. This allows you to control what is going in, it’s pleasurable, and you’ll save money.
3) Don’t eat fast food or junk food. Just stop going to cheap restaurants and simply don’t buy bad food at the store.
4) Garden. This goes along with 2.
5) Eat a few hundred calories every 3 hours.
I don’t bother with weighing myself. When my pants get snug, I move more, eat less. I’m not that tall, so even just a few pounds makes me feel like a blimp.
I’m on good terms, but not in touch, with most of my ex’s. The most recent ex and I still email and know what is going on with each other. She’s a great person, we just weren’t a good match. She’s had a lot of bad stuff happen in her life, so I’m always hoping she marries a billionaire and finds happiness. She deserves it.
I lived in DC during grad school and saw as much live music as I could fit in. Got VERY tired of people saying, “Oh, I wanna go” and then not turning up. I just got used to being happy seeing shows alone. Then again, you can’t talk during most shows, so it’s kind of a waste anyway.
I was gonna suggest sports, since that’s have I’ve met most of my friends. But.
I’d still suggest some sort of club/group. You must have hobbies, right? You can have fun with people you meet drinking, but unlikely to develop into steady friendships.But, ya never know.
Yup, I’m from upstate NY and a lot of friends had family cabins on lakes. Nothing fancy, just a house on a small lake in the middle of nowhere. Also have family in NY and NYC and plenty of them have modest summer/beach houses.
Now I live in NC and many of the wife’s friends/families have beach or mountain houses. Nothing fancy. But, I get the point.
Learn to garden, I can eat kale, tomatoes, and cucumbers for most of the year, then sweet potatoes. Plant a fig tree. Being a trained chef doesn’t hurt either, always able to figure out something with what’s on hand.
Thank god I never really dated much, as it is mostly a nightmare. Pretty much have had steady GFs from high school through grad school.
Most of this is spot on, but disagree about the drink prices. I was in grad school on a stipend in my late 20s. $18 drinks? I’d be a teetotaler. Also glad I’ve never gone a date at the Jersey Shore, and I was born in northern NJ.
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Lines! Oh man, yep. I hate waiting in lines, makes me feel like I’m in elementary school on a cafeteria day with something exciting. I can’t be bothered with lines. Or brunch. I have a full-time job. On the weekends I either a) have things I need to do or, b) things I want to do. Sitting around and overpaying for toast is not how I want to spend my precious free time.
I’ll meet friends on a weekend morning, but it’s to do something – go surfing, go mtn. biking, go hiking. Not to sit around.
Me too! A general civics and economics course should be mandatory in all high schools. Thankfully I had parents who educated me about saving and spending money. Also, I’ve worked since I was in junior high (cutting grass, clearing snow…don’t laugh, if you live in the snow belt you can make thousands of dollars a year. Not kidding.), so definitely know what it is like to have to work for money, so I don’t like parting with it unless I need to.
Priorities. Do you want all new clothes and a new sofa in your 20s or do you want to retire in your 50s with a big bank account and maybe a vacation home?
8 pounds in 7 days? Wow, you’re doing it wrong.
Ah, the beauty of college football. Grown adults spending insane amounts of money to watch overgrown teenagers smash their heads together, while they get blacked out and throw food at one another. How charming.
I can think of a few other ways I’d rather spend my time and money. Yet another religion I’m thoroughly confused by…football in America.
Oh boy, the circumscribed intern in DC who thinks Arlington is on the moon. How cute. You can walk across a bridge and be there. Explore your world a bit more. Also, stop buying strangers shots, especially if you’re poor and not 68.
Didn’t see the Hot Pocket one coming ’round here. Heavily processed and fake food is just weird to me. And you’re going to surely feel worse for having eaten it. Just the smell emanating from Dominoes makes me unhungry. As a New Yorker, I refuse to eat terrible “pizza.” Not worth my time.
Worked and then went to grad school in DC. It’s your choice where to hang out. I don’t understand why you’d spend your time hanging around people you don’t like. Why not go somewhere else? Honest question. If you really hate those experiences so much, why not buy a six pack and go watch the planes take off? Or sit at the Mall? I have very little free time so I just can’t fathom spending it doing something I don’t like.
You don’t have to live in NYC. You don’t have to hang out with a-holes. Get creative, don’t ask people “what they do” if you realize it truly doesn’t matter. I’ve never asked someone this in my life. I’d rather know how they spend their free time or what their hobbies are, something we could actually enjoy discussing. You don’t have to go to bars where a-holes hang out.
Also, I truly enjoy how your list of people doing things is limited to a) start ups b) app creators. Amazing. How about people who build things? Paint things? Fix things? Cook things? Plant things?
You really need to broaden your horizons, your choice to mire or move on.
I too am dismayed by the elevation and importance of pop culture and the “stars” to such levels of infatuation. Such a distraction from just choosing to live a decent, positive life. But, I’m confused why this commentary appears on this site, as it seems contrary to a majority of the other content. Including ongoing reviews of reality shows.
I chose to tune out years ago. There is good stuff out there, from movies to books to music. I don’t know if people are too lazy to try or too deluded and scared to leave the pack. Out of all the things you learned, and have forgotten, from college, it seems like people would have gained the ability for independent, critical thinking.
I think some basics for healthy living/weight are:
1) find an activity you enjoy that provides exercise. If you enjoy it, you don’t have to talk yourself into doing it. Hiking. Swimming. Riding a bicycle. Jumping rope. Hitting a tennis ball off a wall.
2) Learn to cook and make your own food. This allows you to control what is going in, it’s pleasurable, and you’ll save money.
3) Don’t eat fast food or junk food. Just stop going to cheap restaurants and simply don’t buy bad food at the store.
4) Garden. This goes along with 2.
5) Eat a few hundred calories every 3 hours.
I don’t bother with weighing myself. When my pants get snug, I move more, eat less. I’m not that tall, so even just a few pounds makes me feel like a blimp.
Good luck.
I’d lose my mind if I had to fly frequently for work. Airports are soul killers.
Me too.
Ouch, a denim shirt? Zero denim rule for me.
This is very funny. Nicely written!
I’m on good terms, but not in touch, with most of my ex’s. The most recent ex and I still email and know what is going on with each other. She’s a great person, we just weren’t a good match. She’s had a lot of bad stuff happen in her life, so I’m always hoping she marries a billionaire and finds happiness. She deserves it.
Ouch, best of luck. Getting divorced has to be a major PITA.
I lived in DC during grad school and saw as much live music as I could fit in. Got VERY tired of people saying, “Oh, I wanna go” and then not turning up. I just got used to being happy seeing shows alone. Then again, you can’t talk during most shows, so it’s kind of a waste anyway.
I was gonna suggest sports, since that’s have I’ve met most of my friends. But.
I’d still suggest some sort of club/group. You must have hobbies, right? You can have fun with people you meet drinking, but unlikely to develop into steady friendships.But, ya never know.
Yup, I’m from upstate NY and a lot of friends had family cabins on lakes. Nothing fancy, just a house on a small lake in the middle of nowhere. Also have family in NY and NYC and plenty of them have modest summer/beach houses.
Now I live in NC and many of the wife’s friends/families have beach or mountain houses. Nothing fancy. But, I get the point.
Get out and meet new people. I don’t know anyone with that lamp.
Learn to garden, I can eat kale, tomatoes, and cucumbers for most of the year, then sweet potatoes. Plant a fig tree. Being a trained chef doesn’t hurt either, always able to figure out something with what’s on hand.
Thank god I never really dated much, as it is mostly a nightmare. Pretty much have had steady GFs from high school through grad school.
Most of this is spot on, but disagree about the drink prices. I was in grad school on a stipend in my late 20s. $18 drinks? I’d be a teetotaler. Also glad I’ve never gone a date at the Jersey Shore, and I was born in northern NJ.