i really fuck with it when my oomfs start their posts in media res. they’ll open it with a phrase like “it’s just funny because…” and then i look at their blog to see what’s funny and. nothing.
It’s like how Beowulf opens with a call to attention.
my wife draws two tarot cards a day and todays were 1 related to “ingrattitude” (forget which) and 1 called the king of wands. who she interprets most routinely to be our landlord.
so she said that the cards were saying that we needed to be more grateful for our landlord which was kind of sort of relevant because he was coming that day to fix our fridge. our powerbill went up about $100 over the previous month and i was pretty sure it was from the seal on the fridge door failing which i was slightly salty about.
anyway i teased her for literally being such a weenie that she was going to basically tip our landlord. but hes honestly a good guy and im in general favor of making friends with people. so when she asked if she could buy him a little gift basket from the bakery down the street i was like. okay. you can get our landlord a gift basket. i guess. if you reaaaaaally want to. you wimp.
but now i have come back from work and hes comped us for the previous months power bill AND hes fixed our fridge AND hes said hes got a spare weekend up at his cabin next month and hes given it to us because he likes us. like as a freebie. and my wife is possibly the smuggest person in the entire world. i am very skeptical of her tarot cards and shes like hey. hey. guess what just saved us $100 and got us a weekend getaway? hm? was it common sense? was it practical budgeting? was it being standoffish with our landlord? no. it was my tarot cards. kiss my mystical ass you arrogant nerd.
i still dont think i can recommend this as a rule. i have a very weird and friendly landlord. our lease with him is 1/3 of a sheet of paper long and has multiple typos in it. he is both very trusting and very trustworthy. mormon in the martin harris sense.
I didn’t really have an opinion on the Tarot deck draw until I read this. This is the best part. Why would you hide this is the notes? It’s both great and terrible.
i don’t know who needs to hear this but you need to stop reacting like everything you read online was written out of superior anger and not a desire to educate or inform. not everyone who writes a post explaining something is condescending you, and if you get snappy and defensive back every time you see somebody explaining something, because you feel like they are being condescending, or worse, because you do do the thing they’re calling out, then it might just be a you problem and you should work on understanding the tone of what they’re saying before immediately assuming they wrote it as mad as you feel about being called on it
