“I’ve been looking for a job for the past few weeks like going around to places in person with my resume and being like ‘Hey, are you hiring?’”

Oh! I got a job this week, I think. So, I've been looking for a job for the past few weeks like going around to places in person with my resume and being like "Hey, are you hiring?" But my dad told me to go on Indeed, which my mom was really resentful because she was like "Indeed is so dumb. You don't need Indeed." But I went on indeed and I got two interviews and one of them was for Panera and the other was Jimmy John's. And I went to Panera first and they were like -- it was barely even an interview. They just gave me a form to fill out and they asked me some basic questions. And then I filled it out, brought it back in, and today I got the onboarding info and like the Jimmy John's member handbook and stuff. So I guess I'm -- I don't know. I mean I like I gave them my tax info. So I think I might be working there. Like no one's actually come right out and been like "You're hired" but also they've given me so much like personal -- I've given them so much personal information that it feels like they must be hiring me. Like, I don't know. And then I didn't even show up to the Panera's interview. I canceled it. ‘Cause that was today, and I assumed like, you know, I'm probably working at Jimmy John's -- like it seems weird for me to give them my tax info and like all of this private stuff and not be like -- and I'm not be hi- -- being hiring me.

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“And then my lips started swelling up…”

My family went to Chicago this past weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July and it was really nice 'cause my cousins live there and stuff so we don't really get to see them that much 'cause it's a couple hour drive. And they have this super cool rooftop. It's really nice 'cause my aunt is a e- -- she's an engineer and my uncle's a lawy- lawyer. So they, they have a decent amount of money and they could get a nice place. So we were sitting on their super nice rooftop and I've never seen like the Fourth of July in a city 'cause I live in a suburb. But it was so cool because there were fireworks like all around the entire rooftop. Like the entire skyline was filled with fireworks, and it was just -- it was such a beautiful thing to witness. And I'm really glad I got to spend that day my cousins. But there was a little bit of an interesting mishap that happened while we were watching that fireworks show. I was eating some popcorn and it was just normal popcorn with like cheese and truffle sauce on it. And then my lips started swelling up and I'm like, "Oh my gosh. I'm having an allergic reaction." So I took some Benadryl and it was fine. I was a little bit loopy after but you know. It all worked out.

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“She goes, ‘We’ve never seen this man before. We don’t know who he is. When all else fails, we try to run.’”

Also on this trip, we got to -- we stayed in a hotel. And my daughter and I decided that we were kinda hungry and there was a Sonic Drive-In. And we had never been to one and it was in the parking lot just about from our hotel which was next to a Walmart and kind of a commercial area. So my daughter and I decided that we were gonna go down to the Sonic and they had some picnic tables outside and we were just gonna eat, get a snack. Well, my dad saw that we were gonna go and he wanted to come with us and I, "Okay." So he and his wife, you know, got their stuff and came along with us no problem.  We get down there and we realized that this is not a Sonic where you can go inside and order inside like you would in McDonald's or any place else you had to order from the speakers outside and they had -- even though they had this picnic area, they had speakers and one of those big boards and you ordered outside. So my daughter says, "Well, we'll just order out here." My dad says, "No I wanna order inside." I said "Dad, you can't. They don't have -- it's not open to be inside. You can't go in and sit down." "Well, that's what I wanna do." I said, "You can't do it. It's not set up that way." So he goes to the door. The door is, is a solid door. It doesn't have glass in it or anything else and it's marked kitchen in large letters, “kitchen and loading zone”. It also has words underneath of it that said the “kitchen and loading zone” that says “this is not a customer door.” Okay. Should be obvious. My dad insists no. So he, he opens the door, the door was unlocked. He opened the doors and goes inside. My daughter looks at me and I look at her and she goes, "We've never seen this man before. We don't know who he is. When all else fails, we try to run." He comes right back out and he comes over. He grumpily says to us, "Why didn't you tell us you couldn't go?" I said, "We did tell you couldn't go. Plus it says kitchen, customers -- er, no customers…

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“And I found myself like concerned that we would somehow, like, not recognize our driver or our vehicle.”

When we were in Iceland, two summers ago, I booked a tour with a group that was called, like, Super Jeep Tour Company. And they -- the tours are literally on like super Jeeps, souped up Jeeps -- or in my case, it turns out it was a Ford truck -- but they're pumped up. They have like an extended passenger cab. They have huge wheels and they are set so that they can be like inflated or deflated, depending on the terrain. And they do this so that you can go up on glaciers and other places and go like off-roading. So we booked this tour and when we were -- it was our very first day in Iceland and the way Reykjavik handles all of the many, many, many tour companies and buses that come through is that they have specially appointed bus stops throughout the city where buses can come and pick up tourists. You know, like, tour buses can come.  And so as we're waiting at our assigned stop which fortunately was right across, like, the street from our hotel, so very convenient, I kept seeing all of these tour buses pull up. And sometimes they would have signs in the window that were like easy for you to figure out who they were picking up for, but not all of them did. And I found myself like concerned that we would somehow, like, not recognize our driver or our vehicle. Um, you know, or we would get on the wrong, you know, bus or whatever, I was gonna have to, like, ask everybody. So I'm, you know, just being my usual kind of nervous self, like looking at every bus that comes by and stops. And then this big car, this big truck turns the corner and I started to laugh because I was like, "I don't know what I think I was worried about, but that is obviously for us. This is obviously our Super Jeep tour." Which, as I said, it was not in fact actually a Jeep brand, it was Ford. But it was huge. Like, you practically needed a ladder to get up into the seat. I mean, you did -- I did have to, like -- it was basically climbing up, you know, like there was, like, a running board and then, like, another thing and I'd get up and…

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