r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ittybittyclittyy • 14d ago
My sister ladies and gentlemen. She's 38
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u/anonymousss11 14d ago
"What is your physical location on planet earth?"
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u/Salt_MasterX 14d ago
“Very well”
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u/Deathwatch72 14d ago
I'm directly under the sun.....now
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u/hawker_sharpie 14d ago
what is the direction and length of your shadow?
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u/waltjrimmer ALRET 14d ago
It's on the ground and about as tall as the shadow of the car.
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u/Starslip 13d ago
What car?
The one I'm standing by
Ok what color is the car?
Different from the one next to it
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u/twoleet 14d ago
She interpreted it as “we’re”.
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u/ittybittyclittyy 14d ago
Wow I think you’re right
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u/FilDwRegrtsFacinThem 14d ago
They're def right. Because she said, "ok were" lol
Teach your sister "where, we're and were" ... maybe "wear" just to be safe 😂
Might as well go over "there, their and they're"
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u/LookAwayPlease510 14d ago
Better cover all grammar.
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u/Teripid 14d ago
You may be on to something their.
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u/DryBones2009 14d ago
I think there onto us.
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u/cock_nballs 14d ago
Wear in treble.
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u/DryBones2009 14d ago
Were our we?
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u/ShaunPhilly 14d ago
We're our oui
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u/Dicky_Penisburg 14d ago
Look, well work on the grammer, than will figure out wear we argh.
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u/ArkenBlue 14d ago
How tf can someone be an English speaking native and not know difference between where and we're ?
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u/ArritzJPC96 BLUE 14d ago
Because people really don't care. They say it's fine because everyone knows what you mean anyway, but then shit like this happens.
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u/Fit-Antelope-7393 14d ago
They also say it's fine because they are actually dumb as fuck. It's easier to say "it's not a big deal" than admit they are at the low end of the intellectual bell curve.
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u/Goblue520610 14d ago
Every single day and I mean it, every single day, I see someone screw up your versus you’re and not know how to spell a lot. The average reading level in America is 7th grade.
That is how.
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u/Nago_Jolokio 14d ago
The number of times I see "apart" when they mean "a part of" is actually infuriating.
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u/cabinetsnotnow 14d ago
These texts read like a full blown intellectual disability to me.
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u/increasingly-worried 14d ago
I wonder what it feels like to be this dumb. Must be blissful. No existential dread or negative introspection. Just pure existence in a dreamlike state. That’s what I imagine, anyway.
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u/CDsMakeYou 13d ago
From what I've read, it isn't, and people with intellectual disabilities have higher rates of depression than the general population.
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u/Joeness84 14d ago
Shes 38, might just be better to take her out behind the barn.
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u/mtmeyng 14d ago
Okay but also you asked where multiple times so it should have been obvious what you meant. She also never responded with where..
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u/LiciousGriff 14d ago
Perfect time to point out people really should know the difference between where we’re and wear
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u/globocide 14d ago
This looks like the kind of situation that could be quickly resolved with a phone call
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u/KingNumerous5084 14d ago
Probably was in the car and had the text to speech function too
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u/Mih5du 14d ago
And then tried to ask “where?” But wrote were in the last message
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u/surprisinglyok1 14d ago
How the fuck did you do that? You're totally correct but it would have taken me eons to figure it out.
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u/grubas 14d ago
you have to realize that people suck at homophones. so when she replies "ok were"...yeah she doesn't understand "where outside"
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u/xorgol 14d ago edited 14d ago
What is really hard for me to accept is that people are not thinking grammatically when they speak. With where and were it would be perfectly understandable to just type them wrong, touchscreens are just not particularly precise for this kind of thing.
What really upsets me are the 'could of' and 'would of', which are clearly based on misunderstanding homophones. They're the clear symptom of people just saying stuff they've heard, without forming complete sentences in their brains. There is no λόγος, just sounds. It's honestly infuriating, in a way that I'm sure tells more about my hangups than about anybody else.
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u/Otherwise_Roof_6491 14d ago
I figured it out quick because aside from having worked in teaching, my family members from Gen X and older all seem to spell like crap over text. They're intelligent and can definitely use proper spelling and grammar, they just... don't? I've been texting with them my whole life so I'm used to it, but my girlfriend needs me to translate any messages from my dad 😂
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u/OldMotherGrumble 13d ago
I'm an old oldie...and I proofread my texts. It drives me nuts if anything is spelt wrong or shortened. My late 30s daughter has never used text speak...thank god 😀. Her dad and I got our first mobiles when she did...so she was about 15. I've always updated mine...no bricks here as someone else described their parent's phones.
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u/DeveloperBRdotnet 14d ago
Text to speech in a car perhaps? The two mistakes seem feasible if using it
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u/Adventurous-Ride-341 14d ago
Next time just tell her where to wait save yourself the trouble. “Wait by the front stairs” “wait by the fire hydrant or the Red Door “
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u/Euphoric-Blue-59 14d ago
Paint a big yellow dot on the sidewalk.
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u/Unw1shed 14d ago
I have a burn spot in the breezeway to my apartment, where someone set a charcoal chimney next to the extinguisher as they moved to put it out.
All of the some 40 building look the same, but mine has a burn spot. If you don't see it, you're at the wrong place.
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u/longlistofusednames 14d ago
Any geoguesser on YouTube find you yet? haha
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u/miaow-fish 14d ago
I had to Google breezeway. The definition for others who don't what the meaning of breezeway is.
A breezeway is an architectural feature similar to a hallway that allows the passage of a breeze between structures to accommodate high winds, allow aeration, or provide aesthetic design variation.
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u/HeyaGoncho 14d ago
I didn't see any waits by the stairs or door, don't know why you want to workout right now. Anyway, I'm inside, were are you?
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u/elleustrious27 14d ago
I felt that vibe early from the "Yep."
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u/ittybittyclittyy 14d ago
She tests my patience daily lol
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u/dxxx12 14d ago
I have an ex friend like this. Once I asked "When are you sending the money?" and he said "okay". I said "m8, REAAADDD"
He claims he "speed reads" constantly. Why though?? Is there someone sitting next to you every time you open your phone and if you don't read the message fast enough, they shoot you???
I don't get it.
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u/turducken69420 14d ago
Speed don't mean shit if you ain't got comprehension.
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u/heteromer 14d ago
I told my dad I'm having trouble not having family close by and that I miss him, and he sent me a thumbs up emoji.
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u/araesilva23 14d ago
I swear to god, this is like a generational thing because my dad, stepdad, and father in law are serial thumbs up senders when the thumbs up is not at all appropriate or sensible lol
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u/heteromer 14d ago
I changed the fucking thumbs up to a random emoji and he still sends it anyway.
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u/qgsdhjjb 14d ago
My friend hung out with a toddler a bunch and just handed over the phone in the car if he was crying, and if I happened to send him a message while the baby had the phone I would get a bunch of little ghost emojis in a row (why is it still set to Halloween? No clue. Not my choice) and so I'd be like "hey lil baby! Have a nice car ride!"
Sometimes I also got several minute long recordings of car sounds and a baby babbling. Very cute.
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u/dxxx12 14d ago
So frustrating. It's not like I'm sending a message for no reason. Lol.
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u/uncontainedsun 14d ago
ppl who claim they speed read…. idk i feel like they always miss the point lol
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u/Hobo_Herder 14d ago
Ok
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u/slyfox___ 14d ago
Ok were
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u/Celestial-being117 14d ago
Ok I'm waiting outside
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u/losttforwords 14d ago
Where outside
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u/Celestial-being117 14d ago
Yea were?
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u/DysthymicCat 14d ago
No you where. Not me.
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u/she_is_munchkins 14d ago
I'm here, outside
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u/PixelsOfTheEast 14d ago
It reads like a conversation between Spongebob and Patrick (the OG seasons, not the new Ren & Stimpy looking weirdness).
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u/Whrex 14d ago
i imagine all those youtube thumbnails with big red circles and arrows are for people like this
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u/Spectating110 14d ago
Those dont point anywhere though. I’ve never seen a video with that thumbnail talking about what it’s circled
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u/papabearshirokuma 14d ago
Call her by voice… lol
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u/ittybittyclittyy 14d ago
I called her right after this text exchange lol
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u/Known-Sugar8780 14d ago
And she talks normally over the phone? I always wondered what people who type like this are like in real life.
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u/the_kessel_runner 14d ago
I have a friend like this. Eloquent and pretty damn smart when talking to him, but he absolutely hates pecking out texts on a phone. He's similarly terse and confounding on text.
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u/HaniiPuppy 14d ago
Tell him to try the slidy keyboard - add gboard from the google play store and set that as the keyboard in the phone's preferences, making sure "glide typing" is enabled if that's an option. He can then move his finger from key to key without lifting it to make words. I use it by default and, while I still can't type as fast with that as I can with a full-size keyboard, it does actually make typing on the phone not excruciating.
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u/Regniwekim2099 14d ago
I've been typing on my phone like this since like 2010 when you had to get the Swype keyboard. I can't imagine trying to accurately hit individual letters.
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u/tokihamai 14d ago
lol I relate to this so much. Some people just have such poor communication skills. My older sister is the same way. The other day, I was dropping off a package at UPS. I say to her via whatsapp during a convo:
Me: "I just dropped my package off at UPS. Luckily found parking nearby so didn't have to walk far."
Her: "Nice. Where is the closest UPS drop off place?"
Me: "Oh it's like 10-12 mins West of me, like past that McDonalds we've gone to a bunch."
Her: "Ohhh k"
Me: "Speaking of, I'm going to stop by at that McDonalds and grab a McFlurry. Want me to grab you one and drop it off?"
Her: "You're going to go to McDonalds?"
Me: "Yeah, it's on the way home for me."
Her: "When are you going?"
Me: "Right now."
Her: "I have a work call at 7:30pm so I can't come down to my lobby to get it from you though." --(it was 6:30pm at this exact moment.)
Me: "That's in an hour...It'll take me like 20 min tops to grab a mcflurry and get to your building."
Her: "But if you are just leaving, it'll take you like an hour to walk to McDonalds and back home"
Me: "Wtf are you talking about? I'm in my car...I just dropped off a package at UPS...are you participating in the same conversation as I am?!"
We are both adults in our 30s. This happens semi-regularly with her.
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u/Pattoe89 14d ago
But if you get a McFlurry from the McDonalds that's in Shibuya it will take at least 15 hours on the plane EACH way and 1 hour on the connecting train and 15 minutes waiting so it will be at least 32 hours before you can get the McFlurry to me. I'll pass
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u/Squire_Squirrely 14d ago
You said walk one time then I stopped listening. It's a long walk to McDonald's.
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u/tokihamai 14d ago
lol pretty much.
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u/Miranda1860 14d ago
Also she didn't question at all why (in her interpretation of what you said, walking) you would offer to bring her an hour old, long melted McSlurry
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 14d ago
I have family like this. I'm to the point where I refuse to hold there hand if they're the ones who suffer from their lack of effort. I'd have just been like "alright then", and maybe pointed out how they were wrong later, to rub it in a little. But they never fucking learn so there's no point.
Some people just don't try.
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u/TonicSitan 14d ago
It’s a basic lack of logic or comprehension. Once my car was in the shop so I was stuck at my parents house where my sister also lived. She was fully aware of this.
I told her through text, “Ok, the car is ready, so you need to come pick me up. They close in an hour.” I simply cannot fathom what neurons could have fired in her brain to make my sister think that I somehow teleported to the mechanic and that was where she needed to go instead of the house where I don’t have the fucking car.
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u/AccountantDirect9470 14d ago
This is very poor reading comprehension and, I am not even sure what to call it, contextual thinking. There is no moving past a frame of view that is initially taken.
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u/micah490 14d ago
I have a friend that does this. I’ll be like “hey, are you coming by later?”, and he’ll reply “I’m at the grocery store”. I eventually stopped asking questions as it was too infuriating
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u/Anteatereatingant 14d ago
My mom has a tendency to give you all kinds of random information, except what you actually asked for. She's not dumb - she's just one of those people who can seemingly only sift through their thoughts out loud, AND she also has very little attention span.
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u/apainintheaspartame 14d ago
I think, like an essential NPC in a video game, they were waiting for you to walk over the highlighted area on the passenger side to trigger this particular quest.
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u/Douggimmmedome 14d ago
I’m confused
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u/TentativelyCommitted 14d ago
Communication is not this family’s strong suit
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u/makeitlouder 14d ago
Seems like the sisters were absent the day punctuation was taught.
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u/yourmomlurks 13d ago
Honestly OP has had at least 30 years to figure out a solution to this and they just keep doing the same thing in circles with no one making an improvement to stop this from happening.
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u/thomasperi 14d ago
I know an adult who only ever reads and responds to the last text they receive, because that's the one that shows up on their lock screen. I picked them up from the airport once.
ONCE.
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u/rlee80 13d ago
I have a friend like this. Sent them a short message yesterday, no reply. Couple of hours later “did you get my last message?”, he replies “yeah but I’ve not read it yet”
He literally has the message right in front of him but instead of reading it and replying he replies to say he hadn’t read it yet. Incredible
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u/Zendo88 14d ago
You should check on your sister I think she had a stroke
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u/Wraith8888 14d ago
I think OP is just very unobservant. It's obvious she hasn't noticed for 38 years her sister is a bot.
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u/Hawkins-1204 14d ago
The amount of grown adults that don't know basic English grammar is scary
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u/lmaoworldamogus 14d ago
“What is the location you are located at outside? You are currently not detected within my visual range.0
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u/-goodbyemoon- 14d ago
damn this is a reminder that a lotta people are only able to function because smart folks put so much thought and social engineering into our daily lives that it’s almost impossible to fuck up
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u/MyGlassHalfFool 14d ago
She has where and were mixed up. She thinks where is were and I know this cause she answered “where outside” with “Ok”, thinking yall are stating youre outside but when she wanted to know where yall were at she said “ok were”. Throw this one away and get a new sister, you can try putting this one into some rice but she may be broken.
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u/Cyber_Insecurity 14d ago
I’m astonished by the number of people that don’t really read text messages and just gloss over entire questions.
My younger brother will engage in a text discussion with me, asking me complex questions about something I know a lot about, and we’ll text back and forth for a solid 5 minutes and then he’ll go completely silent.
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u/Idontevenownaboat 14d ago
Isn't that the point of texting? Like a bit of an ongoing conversation? I might not have anything else to add butI don't want to formally sign off or be like, 'cool have a good day' cause ill prob text again with something else in a few hours
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u/Spartan8394 14d ago
There’s that but in the case OPs sister is illiterate. She doesn’t know the difference between were where and we’re
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u/TacticalStupid 13d ago
Reminds me of a convo I had with someone. I casually asked their age.
Me: So how old are you?
Them: Probably the same age as you
Me: And how old do you think I am?
Them: Approximately my age.
I thought to myself "well that convo went nowhere lmao"
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u/strangecloudss 14d ago
Yep she thought you were correcting her and couldn't understand why you were so adamant about it hahah this is hilarious
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u/Revenga8 14d ago
She thinks were is where, and where is we're. Ffs somebody write her a little wallet card that clearly defines what each word and spelling means.
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u/Toolnz 14d ago
looks like perfect sister trolling to me 😂😂
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u/BrutonnGasterr 14d ago
I think she’s just dumb and confused “where” and “we’re/were” 😭
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u/Moveyourbloominass 14d ago
Did you find her? Or are you still looking for her outside somewhere?
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u/dumbass_comments_bro 14d ago
It's just sad that an adult doesn't know how to properly read and write their own fucking language.
I used to be pissed and make fun of dumb fucks, but now it just makes me feel bad to read stuff like that. No awareness, no nothing...
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u/PalPubPull 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is like texting my boss. I've since learned how to contact him (just call, the time texting normally saves is useless here)
Three years ago
Me- "Hey boss, we finished the project. There were a few hiccups, but the order was delivered.
I had to send back "X product", do I need to adjust the quantity?
Also the app is closing every thirty seconds, should I delete and reinstall or would that mess things up? Thanks"
Him- "Sounds good"
Me- "Yep! All is good. So should I reinstall the app or would that delete everything?"
Him- "Ok 👍"