That sounds like a Barry quote. I don’t think that quite fits here.
“I’m thinking of socks and underwear.”
Ok, yes, socks and underwear. That makes sense. I’m inspired by my friend to purchase 100 pair of socks and underwear so I won’t have to shop for them anymore and I’ll never run out of clean laundry. Who wants to wash only 5 pair of socks?
Years later, I’m running out. 100 didn’t last the rest of my life.
Aaron’s inspiration was to buy a 100 pair of socks so I don’t have to worry about laundry or doing a very small load just for socks. Even 100 will eventually be gone.
They say you can only keep up with 100 people. One hundred seems like a lot, but it isn’t.
When I count my friends, even one thousand isn’t enough. Some will never be friends irl. You’ll never see them. Some want to, but cannot. Some just have too much happening to have time for you. Even a pen pal will fade for reason’s you’ll never know. If you do find out it’s just sad. It isn’t anyone’s fault, nobody is deliberately doing this. This is life, in a place time and that is going to end. You can’t stop time.
I have to make new friends. I want to do things. Maybe have dogs again? Maybe I don’t want to do everything again. Maybe somebody else’s dog will be good enough. Dance, shows, entertainment, life. All of that I still want. Can you do it alone? Most people don’t.
Some don’t even make the next reset. We called them ‘posers’ because to them it’s about the look. They show up for a day, get drunk, sunburned, and take pictures. The rest of the week they dry heave in their hotel rooms. They probably go on to invent Instagram and every other ‘look at me’ social media platform.
“I bet they are super rich!”
“They call it ‘monitized’ in the current place time. No cars on the beach either.”
We must have been better people in that place time because there were tens of thousands of us on that beach and no law. Nobody died (that I know of), there weren’t even any fights. It seems like a dream now.
“The 7-11 selling beer and the local distributor made a fortune. Nobody else made money on all those visitors so you can expect change is coming.”
If the sponsors are beer and liquer it’s easy to get that corporate interest going. After all, these are tomorrow’s leaders.
“Corona and Hiram Walker. Couple of good ones there! Your mom?”
“We? Sponsored by MegaCorp. McLame. Don’t get drunk, get diabetes.”
‘We’ aren’t ever coming back here.
“Who is us? Huh?”
My best friend from lets say 12 to 16 was the kid down the street and up a couple. Just far enough away no family member is going to come looking for me there. It is on the way to school. And of course that also means it is on the way home from school. The basement is the party room. He’s got a little brother too. The whole basement is the ‘boyz’ place. It’s covered wall to wall with Heavy Metal music pictures.
I’m not sure who’s influencing who this time. I think he’s out front. He’s a national honor student but you’d never know it by the lifestyle we have at such a young age. I’m not a national honor student. We’re pretty extreme and the next level takes you to jail or maybe just an early death so we stay on the good side. These are life lessons we learn by watching the other kids die or have unfortunate encounters with the police and the local newspaper which loves to ‘expose’ troubled youth. We lose a handful of those kids before we even finish high school.
My friend and I have great role models too. His mom and dad are party people yet upstanding citizens in the community. Oh, he’s half Japanese. His mom is Japanese and is the first mom I see who doesn’t look like the rest of the moms. She could be as young as thirty when I first meet her. She works at the hip clothing store in our town and has the stylish clothes. She’s the first mom I’ll ever see as attractive and she’s making us sandwiches and telling us to clean up the party room. I feel loved.
“Ah HA! I see what happened. Your programming is so simple.”
His 10 year old cousin is trying to play doctor with me. I remember thinking she’s cute but I’m too young for that. I’ll be 16 before any girl is going to get me. I do remember she wasn’t the first to try. These memories come back to me when I hear new ‘moms’ or ‘moms moms’ or even the new boyz think a 25 year old woman hasn’t lived a lifetime already. The innocence bit is funny but watching the parents and the politically correct comments promote a lie is proplematic. It really makes it hard to understand where their programming comes from.
In this place time the women are the aggressive ones when it comes to sex.
“Individual results vary. Past performance is no gurantee of future – anything.”
There are lots of reasons you lose friends. It doesn’t have anything to do with you. Whatever the reason you will have to make new friends.
Even your new friends can be gone in a minute.
There will be many reasons but you’ll never know. Sometimes they drop off and you Just see ‘user’ no longer exists if anything at all. Most calls or texts just go unanswered.
The worst loss is when you see the family and friends posting desperate messages. What happened to them? Last seen…
The rest of us get another reset. I’m looking for the next job-house-lifestyle and I hope I’ve learned to make adjustments to improve the results.
I got a Job and a strategically placed home for the next life. It took a few years to transition to it but there’s no doubt about it, I have a new life. What I don’t have are friends required to keep from anything resembling a relationship. I don’t need one of those right now.
“I’m good for now. Lets just be friends. I don’t have to tell you I’m not really interested. I can just pretend like I’m shy or something.”
Steak house to rave to strip joint. The steakhouse is cool but weird. The rave is fine. The strip joint is a problem. I haven’t been to one in a very long time and they weren’t anything like now. They used to be a table next to the pool table in the neighborhood bar. They would dance for a dollar while you drank beer and played pool.
“So naked girls dancing around while rock music is playing, you and the boyz drinking and playing pool is what? Atmosphere?”
You know it sounds bad when you say it like that. We really appreciate them. Every other song. Sometimes ‘on paper’ isn’t what it sounds like.
“Exactly.”
“The Ai is so kind when it says some psychopaths function well in society.”
The Ai isn’t ‘kind’. The Ai was programmed that way. It is collating the same garbage it finds online. What society needs pathalogical liars with no empathy to go along with their manipulativeness, irresponsibility and lack of remorse?
It’s a dangerous world for a lot of reasons. You can’t just trust people. There needs to be some external validation.
Fingerprints, DNA, security clearances. I am property of USA. At least my corpse will be easily identified. Besides that I can pass any background or security check.
People in the clubs mistake me for Billy Bob Thornton so I’ll just put his picture on my badge. I’m the security chief here so who do I need to identify myself to? Nobody that’s who.
In this job I only have to do a fraction of it. My colleagueas are the best I’ve ever worked with. Three of us do different things and the best part is I am not part of the production line. It’s the dream job that’s going to allow me so much freedom. I just need some friends to enjoy my hobbies with.
“Not quite. But close.”
They don’t sound good ‘on paper’.
What do other people do?
In another place time I looked at your credit card bills. Very interesting. They are definitely patterns and I can tell what kind of person you are just by looking at your charges. I’ve seen a million statements.
“OMG you are such a normie’s normie with your 20 starbucks charges M-F between 7:35 and 7:40 in the morning. My eyes hurt so badly from rolling into the back of my skull.”
I should buy Starbucks stocks but I too busy being judgemental. Don’t look at the name. Don’t look at the name. Don’t look at the name. Dammit Karen!
I’ve seen thousands of resumes too. All for tech jobs and all over the place in believability and honesty. I can spot a fake in just a couple seconds. The others I have to look more carefully and maybe call you in for an interview and test of some kind.
In this place time the thing of interest is millions and millions and millions of pictures from all over the world. These pictures are of family, friends, weddings, and so many of those moments people like to put on the walls of their homes. All this data in graphic format!
“Eye candy yummy! This is so much better than those boring old numbers and whiny people crying about dying.”
One picture in 10,000 stand out. Here’s one. Isn’t this interesting! I don’t know who is purchasing this. It could be either one of them or maybe another person. They look like they are having fun. Are they friends? Did they do this together as friends? Is this their hobby, alligator hunting from a boat? I have a good clue these rifles belong to them. They do this for fun! They are probably friends or could become friends after this.
Doing things you like to do with other people that like to do the same thing sounds reasonable, at least in the friend ‘zone’.
“There are two groups of people in this world, and you sir aren’t in the group you think you are.”
When we were children we shared home movies and pictures with our friends. This feels the same to me. You are inviting me in and I’m interested in you!
This is Kammery. She is a Native American.
“That’s what you think.”
I’ve seen enough social media to know when someone is fishing for attention and when someone is really sharing their problems. I’m not sure until I see her face to face if she really does have this tiny insignificant flaw that stops her from being happy. I have something to say to her.
I’m not going to see her. A lot of my friends will be in this category. They are out of reach. It isn’t because they don’t want to, they can’t. There are a lot of reasons and they don’t have anything to do with me.
I still value them. Each one is special in some way. I wouldn’t think Kammery represents all Native Americans but she is one so I’m happy to know one. It isn’t the only reason I want to be her friend and say she’s mine too. We have things in common.
None of my friends are Normies. I can spot them and I’m just not interested. I’ll delete delete delete. Normies don’t count, the number is 1,000.
“Portfolio.”
The one we pray to when we make mistakes?
“Oh God please let this horse win just this once. C’mon Lucky Number Slevin! Daddy needs a new life.”
Plz
“Just because Aaron goes in there to chat up the DJ doesn’t mean we go in too. If your friends jump off a cliff are you going to jump too?”
Yes?
“I guess she’s not as selfish as you thought?”
Between her and the ‘establishment’ she works at they got all my cash and a hefty credit card bill. They were so slick and crafty to get by the credit card companies fraud detection. I won’t give away their secrets. I did get something.
“Ewwwwww”
I mean I got to meet another Native American. This one is an Alaskan Inuit. She says she’s here to make money and then go home. At this rate she’s going back with a million dollars. I doubt the story though. This woman is extremely attractive yet she’s a zero. It’s very contradictary. This is a new experience for me, I’ve never talked to an ‘entertainer’.
Serial killers leave lots of bodies. They get national exposure if just a handful of people dissapear. It happens that is a sad fact but more than 5,000? Over a decade people pay money to get my attention with these billboards. I have to ask now, where did they go? Do you really have thousands of unsolved missing person cases? Only 2% of those were reported to the DOJ missing persons database. What’s really happening?
“Based on our three data points; One is doing well as a model in a big city, another is making a fortune flesh peddling and is probably a runaway or just plain left her tiny boring village in icy cold Alaska and didn’t tell anyone. The third is missing from social media. We only have that link so we can’t say what really happened.”
Hopefully she deleted her social media account becuase it was a negative influence in her life. No need to look for validation that way.
That runaway thing sounds like something I would do if I didn’t want to live like the tribe does. Maybe I don’t care about tradition. Maybe I want things and want to be with the people I see online.
“Those hot dogs?”
If you were lucky enough to find yourself at a Supercuts in some flat Iowa suburban town you might have met this nine.
“Not a ten?”
No, there are no tens. The scale is Zero-Based.
For i As Integer = 0 To 9
Console.WriteLine(‘Ohhh baby! That’s a ‘ & i)
Next
This is a nine. Oh sure she has the requirements valued by the superficial man. Pretty easy transition from nurture and protect to hot and sexy. She posts the logs from her Garmin. You can see where she runs and how fast. She’s strong. Her personality takes her to nine. I don’t tell anybody about her. I don’t want anybody to find her. Stop posting so many details I worry.
She’s not the one for me but I can see there are more perfect women out there than I ever thought. I really hope they are lucky and happy and I wish I could tell them so.
If I judge my happiness knowing them I will say it was worth the effort. Just knowing they exist can really help me. Even if I never find one I could say is just for me, it is better to be in the sea with them than in a lake without them.
“Ya, still needs work on phrasing that sentiment. How about this?”
“Not for you!”
That’s funny. Thanks Jerry. Really appreciate you giving me the razzberry from the grave. Jokes on you though. There are hot women after me. Plenty!
Filters aren’t here yet. That’s real. She’s good at makeup. She has many looks.
Shénme?
“Only if you pay. But this one is different.”
Because she’s not an Inuit?
“Because she knows who you are. You’re a local. She likes you. She’s trying to get you to be a regular client. She’ll do anything you want and dress and act just like you want her to. She wants to be your mistress. Its better for her than tourists.”
But it’s not real.
“It is real. You just don’t like her motivation for doing it.”
She’s not special.
“Shénme?”
She says she likes me and would rather spend the night with me. She’s an erotic dancer and escort back home but she’s here on vacation. She will be with me tonight for a price.
“So she’s moonlighting? Who are her friends? Are they really on vacation or did they come here to work? Is that a lie, is she here alone? What price?”
I’ll never know. I left her there in the bar. I think I know what just happened but when I think of all the possibilities maybe she was having fun with me just to see what I’ll do. If we are just playing, swimming out to sea, then I turned back first. Many times I’m left to think whatever I want to think.
“I would do this to you. Just to see how you react.”
I ran away.
In some other place time this might be my girlfriend or even wife. This time it is just a reminder. It is a taste. Its fun to make someone laugh and smile at you. That was real.
I keep asking the same question in all kinds of situations. How much of what’s happening is real. If you can’t tell, does it matter?
“I want to know.”
I read somewhere long ago the Sheriff’s office estimated 25,000 prostitutes are working in Clark county at any time. I wonder if that includes the tourists looking for a bonus. They used to come here and have random hookups, now I wonder if they just charge the guy they were going to hookup with anyway.
You can use the Internet. You can get used on the Internet. People don’t always stay inside the lines. There are ‘alternate’ uses for every app.
“It’s not what you think?”
“Common friends. I know what kind of friends you have so these people are probably gonna stand out.”
“Hi! Is your name [HER NAME]? We were at the [INSERT SHOW HERE] show last month. I saw you across the crowd in your [INSERT OUTFIT HERE]. You looked amazing. I wanted to talk to you then but my friends dragged me to [SOME PLACE IN HER CITY]. You know how that is haha. So wow you look sexy in your [BETTER BE A BIKINI]. How long are you in Vegas?”
Hunters and gatherers in the modern tech age. Some are seeking you out and others just scrape all your data.
“Or create new data as you go.”
It makes me ponder what a relationship with Koco would be like. She’s got ten thousand guy’s names and numbers in her phone. They are texting and calling 24/7 and she’s answering all of them. It’s been this way for years. You can’t be the jealous type or needy for attention. How do you fit in?
“Some sort of time share attention mult-tasking…”
Married to her job maybe. Lots of Succe$$.
“Hey! Maybe she will retire early and what a catch she would be then. We should checkin.”
We know her like so many of our friends know her. She’s always working. I wonder if a million people know her. A million people have seen her. What’s that like? Her life is so different than mine but we are in the same place time quite a lot.
“Often.”
The Mandalay Bay conference center is 5 miles away. We are lower right to the strip and our geometry makes the distance pretty accurate. That and the web developer conference happening right now. It wouldn’t be so hard to find her but we need a little confirmation of interest like a dm or even a post from a club or pool to show she’s available for flirting. I have questions.
“How is Chinese ‘Snow Flower’ working for a Japanese company?”
I was gonna ask if four and half inches was enough for her.