Thinking about a conversation I was having with an acquaintance years ago. He was a friend of a friend and we were talking about food. I forget the exact phrasing but I brought up loving avocados. He said “what’s that?” I was a bit surprised and explained. He responded “OH thats crazy I thought that was one of those made up words”. The statement was like a flashbang I had to contemplate for a few minutes. PERSONAL STORIES ONLY, DO NOT INCLUDE A STATEMENT FROM A CELEBRITY OR POLITICIAN.

  • hypna@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    I’m having a conversation with a family member. Somehow the topic of firefighters comes up. She pauses, looks very thoughtful for a moment, then asks, “Do you not like firefighters, either?”

    “What? Why would I not like firefighters?”

    “Like how you don’t like police.”

    She knows me well. I boggle at how my distaste for cops could be this misunderstood.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    About 10 minutes ago my plumber said my problem may cost in the neighborhood of $30k to fix. Yay.

      • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Sewer line is sagging, so there’s a 30ft section that is trapping anything that gets flushed or drained. I called them out to fix a backup, and they found why it backed up alright.

        He had to leave to get a better locator to see exactly where in the yard/street would need to be dug up, but it seems to be pretty close to the city connection, so probably in or near the street, which could make the cost that high if it involves excavating the road.

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    231·
    3 months ago

    Talking to a relative about people in his retirement community, he told me “A lot of the people here can’t afford health insurance on their fixed incomes. If something happens to them, they just die.” And, as I was thinking how horrible that was, he switched gears to “Did you hear about how those democrats want to try and mess with healthcare again? I swear they won’t be happy until I’m broke!”

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    3 months ago

    I had a girlfriend many years ago who asked me to disconnect the ventilation fan in her bathroom. When I asked why, she said, and I quote “That’s for people who smell when they go to the bathroom”.

    This fellow human was literally telling me her shit don’t stink. I was flabbergasted…

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    I can’t remember the context, but a coworker said “I shouldn’t have to care whether the moon gives off light or reflects it.”

    I remember being stunned…

  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
    15·
    3 months ago

    My wife works in a cancer center. One patient undergoing chemo told her, “If I wake up and can put two feet on the floor, it’s a good. day.”

  • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    Many years ago I worked tech support for a software company. I had one caller who could not conceive that our software couldn’t print to two printers at once. She didn’t want to print to one then the other. She just kept repeating “this is the 21st century” whenever I tried to explain.

    Eventually I told her it was a question for her IT and she went away.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    A dear friend of mine claimed my actual advice is always beneficial, and that he likes having me in his life to talk him through his struggles as a parent, as a provider, as a husband; all that junk. And he promises he wasn’t taking the piss. And here I am just faking my way through being a human in this existence that I was at an actual loss for words. I now hope to one day fulfill that role. It’s not just quips and spelling corrections, guys!!

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
    11·
    3 months ago

    Was going to the gym for a while back in like 2015 (still do, but I used to too) and was feeling so much better than usual.

    I asked my roommate who was one of my best friends at the time if he’d be interested in coming too as it would probably be really fun and motivating if we went together. Dead serious he hit me with “nah, I don’t wanna get too buff.”

    🤨 WAT

    I think I offended him a bit with my incredulous response. I honestly couldn’t even believe what I heard. Dude was a string bean and would have needed a hard year at the gym to even get remotely “buff”. I was truly dumbfounded.

    • brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 months ago

      WOAH what a thing to come out of one’s mouth. Like…abusers always have mountains of justifications but something like this…it seems like it’s gotta cut through all the delusion…that’s not a thing a good person can feel, let alone say! Like…realizing you feel that way about someone should be a huge wakeup call that you’re a monster and need to do some serious work on yourself. Saying it out loud…wowee

  • Dry_Monk@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    I’m traveling through Portugal at the moment, and an Australian guy struck up a conversation with me on the train yesterday. He and I start talking politics, and he starts talking about how illegal immigration is a massive problem. He’s supportive of mass deportation, and generally likes how Trump is handling things. We debate this back and forth, and then move on to other subjects.

    Later in the conversation he reveals, without a hint of irony, that his visa in Portugal has expired while waiting on residence paperwork. I just stare at him for a moment, and then ask him if he realized he was an illegal immigrant. He doesn’t really see the irony. Absolutely stunned.

    • blueamigafan@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      That’s the trouble it’s always ‘them but not me’ the best example I know of is the protest march a bunch of fellow Brits did in benidorm, against immigration to the UK!

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 months ago

      That’s what makes me really angry lately. It seems there would have been a lot fewer Trump voters if people made the connection that rules apply to them.