forum Tell Me Something Good or Funny That Happened to You Recently!!
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@Vitae_

Life can be really demotivating, and I find it's a lot easier to focus on the sad or difficult things than to remember the positive things that make life easier to get through. So this is my attempt at helping myself, and hopefully others, remember something that made us happy or just gave us a good laugh!

I'll start.


So just the other day, I was working a closing shift at my job. I work at a pretty well-known grocery store chain, which isn't all that relevant to the story asides from the fact that said store is pretty dang big and we close at 10 PM. Normally we have the MIC (manager in charge plus key-holder), FEC (front-end coordinator), two levelers (people who pull everything forward on the shelves and make it look pretty), one staff member who closes the cash office, and two people running the floor machines after closing.

This particular night I was running one of the floor machines. My fellow cleaner and I were busy putting the machines away at around 10:40 PM when our MIC walked into the mop room to check in on us. He clapped once and said something along the lines of, "Alright, you guys are the last ones to finish. We're getting out early tonight!" and he went back up to the front to let the others out and to wait for us.

Well, my coworker and I finished up cleaning the machines less than ten minutes later and head up to the breakroom to clock out. And as I'm walking back out to the front doors, I hear a faint beeping from the wall nearest to the door. I follow the noise and see the alarm keypad, and just had enough time to read out loud, "Enter passcode to disable alarm" before the alarm started BLARING.

Our manager had left us.

Now at this point, I was already laughing because at that exact moment, I looked out the doors and made eye contact with the cash office closer as she was driving away. There was that moment of widening eyes and the realization on both parties that we were locked in.

Luckily our MIC wasn't too far away yet! Although none of us had his phone number and we had to call another manager instead to call him on our behalf. The MIC came running back into the store like ten minutes later and punched in the code, then just turns to look at us all wide-eyed. "Oops."

I think my favorite part was the college-aged guys wandering over from the gym next door to check out the commotion (talk about zero survival skills!!), purely because of the way they peered through the glass and started laughing at the sight of me sitting on the floor with my headphones on and my coworker casually leaning against the counter scrolling on her phone while the alarm was screeching.

Maybe it's a little weird, but the chaos of it all made my week! It's also a really fun story to tell at work, and I just know it's going to be an inside joke with that manager from now on. I definitely wouldn't want it to happen again any time soon, but the whole thing felt very comical and out of the ordinary.

@larcenistarsonist group

!! i won the school-wide art award! that was pretty big!! I'm also finishing up paying to go on a fun trip with my school to london, paris, and barcelona next spring break! i've also aced the three finals i've taken so far and my next three shouldn't be too bad!

@Vitae_

Something good that happened to me?! …………….I found notebook and made friends ^^ XD

That's a good one!! Honestly, online communities can be more supportive than real-life ones. That's not always the case, but at least for me, I find it's a lot easier for people to express honest thoughts through an alias and abundant time to phrase their words. I feel like it often brings out the best in people, and I've met many sincere friends through platforms like notebook because of that.

That's all to say, I'm very happy to have interacted with the people here! The creativity in others brings out the creativity in me, and I'm very grateful for that!! (That goes for you in particular, Eli! Thank you for your friendliness <3)

@Eli-the-transboi group

Something good that happened to me?! …………….I found notebook and made friends ^^ XD

That's a good one!! Honestly, online communities can be more supportive than real-life ones. That's not always the case, but at least for me, I find it's a lot easier for people to express honest thoughts through an alias and abundant time to phrase their words. I feel like it often brings out the best in people, and I've met many sincere friends through platforms like notebook because of that.

That's all to say, I'm very happy to have interacted with the people here! The creativity in others brings out the creativity in me, and I'm very grateful for that!! (That goes for you in particular, Eli! Thank you for your friendliness <3)

AWWWW ima cryyyy- T^T

@Vitae_

!! i won the school-wide art award! that was pretty big!! I'm also finishing up paying to go on a fun trip with my school to london, paris, and barcelona next spring break! i've also aced the three finals i've taken so far and my next three shouldn't be too bad!

Congratulations on your award!! I'd love to see what you made if you ever feel like sharing! I'm also big into art, so it makes me happy to see other people's work. And another very heartfelt congratulations on the exam results! It's always a great feeling to walk away feeling confident, and I imagine the relief that comes with finishing is another nice bonus ^^

Traveling sounds like a great way to kick off a spring break, especially if you get to go with your peers! I know it's probably a bit of a longer wait, but having something to look forward to is one of the best feelings.

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I found a forest nearby my house :) lots of mushrooms and weird nature things and foliage which you don't see a lot in my area! I also found some kind of water channel? I'm not sure what it is but it's super cool. I saw a luna moth there recently which was very exciting

@Vitae_

I found a forest nearby my house :) lots of mushrooms and weird nature things and foliage which you don't see a lot in my area! I also found some kind of water channel? I'm not sure what it is but it's super cool. I saw a luna moth there recently which was very exciting

Ooh, I bet that'd be a great place to run off to for a breath of fresh air! Also, prime photography grounds, if you're into that at all. I had to look up what a luna moth was, but they look super neat!

@Morals-are-for-mortals language

Yesterday a couple of my friends visited my new house. I hadn’t seen them for about 3 weeks, since it was a two hour drive from my new city to theirs. Usually we’d see each other a few times a week. It was nice. We talked, played some card games, and generally just hung out. Even though it made me miss my old house more, it made me feel like there were people in my life who really cared about me.

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I’m going to Universal Studios in Orlando to visit their Harry Potter parks :D

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I’m going to Universal Studios in Orlando to visit their Harry Potter parks :D

Update on Universal, I’m going in September :))) I’m really excited