I personally have finished three chapsticks from top to bottom. (using them correctly, not eating them.)

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    I’m downtown right now. For me that’s big. I hate the city. It feels like one big cage and there’s too many people. This whole time I just want to run away and let them throw me in jail for skipping jury duty but I’m keeping it together. So that’s a w I guess

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    In line with your submission, I kept a Bic pen from brand new to absolutely gone. It took years, but I’m not exactly jotting down notes all day.

    Now I carry a nub of a carpenter’s pencil with me and I’m much happier.

    • derekabutton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      In the last few years I’ve finished a dozen or so. In college I used about 1 pen per semester from start to finish in the same way. I tend to use nail clippers until they are dull, too.

      I leave a chapstick (Burt’s bees) at my desk at home and another in the pants I go out with (which moves to new pants with my wallet as necessary). Hard to lose things when I have a system, I guess.

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ve kind of wanted to die for over a year, but I dropped the hand scanner in the self checkout and it landed between the wires of the rack on the underside of the shopping cart so that it was hanging perfectly, and that was pretty cool

    • flubba86@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Did you work out where the drier puts them? Every load, two matching socks go in, but when I unload them there’s either; just one sock, or two different socks.

      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
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        7 months ago

        No shit, most washing machines really eat socks. They sometimes slip between rubber and drum and then slowly dissolve. Have seen a video of that happening. And have found a lost sock when I had to repair the machine.

      • lilmo037@infosec.pubEnglish
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        7 months ago

        There is a pocket dimension, just behind the lint filter. I use one of those grabbers to fish socks out and I toss back ones that aren’t mine.

  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I can place my hands in front of my chest and make circles, hands going in opposite directions.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Had that happen in an elevator. Elevator call boxes have a phone line for emergencies.

      RING!
      (pushes button)
      “Hello?”
      “Hello, who is this?”
      “This is an elevator.”
      “No, seriously, who is this?”
      “No, seriously, this is an elevator.”
      (Everyone in the elevator starts laughing)
      “OMG… this really is an elevator!”
      “Well, yeah, that’s what I told you.”
      “How are you talking to me?”
      “The call box started ringing so I pushed the button.”
      “Um, OK, can you hang up now?”
      “Well, there’s no real phone, just a button and a speaker, so I think you have to hang up.”
      (CLICK)

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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      7 months ago

      In a public school that had is own number, a harmless prank people used to pull was to dial the payphone’s own number then immediately hang up and dash off. It would then ring and confuse the person who was nearest.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@piefed.socialEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I was in a train station, a woman was looking for her skateboarder son who was supposed to be waiting for the next train. He wasn’t there.

    • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radioEnglish
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      7 months ago

      This happened to me one time like 15 years ago. I was sitting on a bench and a pay phone next to me started ringing. I picked it up and the local police department was on the other end.

      They said they’d gotten a 911 call from this number. I said this was a pay phone and they were like, “Oh. Are there like, any kids or teenagers around?”

      I looked around. There was a big group of teenagers maybe 30ft from where I was sitting. “Yep, there’s a few nearby.”

      They said, “It was probably them. But we’re gonna send someone by just to make sure everything’s okay.”

      A few minutes later a cop came by and asked if I was the person they spoke to on the phone. “Yep.” He looked around and verified there was no emergency and then left.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I ended up with the absolute worst shopping buggy in the store, constantly clacking and hanging up. I found it was somehow much easier to push backwards…

    People looked at me funny, but hey, if it seems stupid but works, it’s not stupid.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      7 months ago

      I always get stuck with the cursed cart but I roll with it. In a crowded store on the weekend nothing is more fun than power walking and doing extreme maneuvers with a loud as fuck cart.

    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      I actually like driving backwards sometimes because you can do cool reverse 180 spins

  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I can hum and whistle at the same time. Dogs always snap to attention and look at me when I do it lol

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 months ago

        It’s really easy! Hum using the back of your throat (it’s bassy) while pursing your lips, you use the air to push the whistle. You don’t have a lot of control over your tones but it’s fun.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Huh damn just gave it a more concerted effort and I can get them pretty much in sync/harmonized haha. It feels so weird!

        Sample

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Nah don’t enough control for that though sometimes it gets close on accident . Whistle I can bend the pitch a little bit but mostly sharp/flat. Can’t really shift full on notes easily