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    Sorry I haven't been around lately. Spring Break started yesterday, so it's been midterm season. However I am back with some lovely stories

    SC= Sucky Customer
    Me= The lovely amazing, looks her age, totally cool hinakiba777

    That would make me 12
    As I've stated before people have a tendency to think of me as younger than I am. Everyone likes to tell me that when I get older I will look back and say "Wow when I was 20, people thought I was 15." I don't see it that way. I get carded everywhere like crazy. Sometimes i get double carded. Anyway, I was working the other day and i got a new age comment. Keep in mind I actually know this SC as a classmate.

    Me= May I have your ID?
    SC= Why?
    Me= To exchange for the key?
    SC= Oh right. *hands me the ID*
    Me= hehe. Your driver's license photo is adorable.
    SC= Yeah, hina, check out the date.
    Me= 1996?
    SC= *in a mean way* You were 2 then right?


    Then don't lock yourself out
    Everyone is a little unreasonable about waiting to be let in when you are locked out. Most of the time it's because you aren't properly dressed. There are a lot of middle of the night lockouts with students just in their robes or undies. This boy was in his boxers.

    SC= Hina, I'm locked out
    Me= What's your room?
    SC= You know my room. Come on I'm in my boxers here.
    Me= Actually I don't.
    SC= it's 555!
    Me= Okay, well I'll just call security. *does so* they'll be here in 15 minutes. Just wait in the common room.
    ~Two minutes later~
    SC= They aren't here, can you call them again?
    Me= They said they'd be fifteen minutes.
    ~five minutes later~
    SC= Can you call them again?
    Me= They are busy. They'll be here as fast as possible

    So this continues for a while until he informs me that he's been waiting 30 minutes to be let in. He asks if I can call Security again, and I was about to when Security arrives. I honestly felt like a parent of a child saying "Are we there yet?" Not what I want to deal with at 5am

    Hina isn't handy
    So yesterday at lunch I discovered my left wrist hurt. Severely. It's better now, but I had to wrap it because the pain was too intense not to do so. Anyway, my left hand is my dominant hand, and to make sure the wrist didn't move i had to wrap up my hand as well. So I had no use of my dominant hand at all. Later I picked up the ending of someone's shift.

    Me= *slowly writing desk log with my right hand. Wrapped wrist resting on the desk*
    Student= You writing is really messy. (This is a double piss off because it's rude, and students aren't allowed to look at the logs)
    Me= *bubbly smile* Yeah, I know. But I'm not right handed.
    SC= So why don't you write with your left hand?
    Me= *waves wrapped arm*
    SC= So?


    And those are my stories for the week. of SCs, I also have some general work chat stuff I might post.
    Hinakiba777- Student of Divinity-Always trying to get laid.

    Annoying student=I pay tuition here so I pay your salary!
    Desk Worker=I pay tuition here, too. So I guess I pay myself.

  • #2
    Quoth hinakiba777 View Post
    Me= *slowly writing desk log with my right hand. Wrapped wrist resting on the desk*
    Student= You writing is really messy. (This is a double piss off because it's rude, and students aren't allowed to look at the logs)
    Me= *bubbly smile* Yeah, I know. But I'm not right handed.
    SC= So why don't you write with your left hand?
    Me= *waves wrapped arm*
    SC= So?
    RW: *Smacks SC with the clipboard* I'M NOT RIGHT HANDED YOU JERK! Try LISTENING.

    Actually, I'm a lefty who was taught how to write with my right hand because all my teachers were rightys and that made them "superior" than me. -_-' So I'm ambidextrous!
    Now a member of that alien race called Management.

    Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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    • #3
      I'm left handed... and even writing with my left hand, it's still horrible. The right hand is right out. I'd take up a whole page just to write my name. Badly.
      Supporting the idiots charged with protecting your personal information.

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      • #4
        I'm right-handed and my handwriting looks like a pen projectile-vomited on the paper.

        Writing with my left hand---no. Just...no.
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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        • #5
          Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
          I'm right-handed and my handwriting looks like a pen projectile-vomited on the paper.

          Irv, you just have the best mental images to share.

          Hina, if your wrist is still bothering you it's easy to get a cheap but useful wrist brace at Wal-Mart. When I had a round with pre-carpal tunnel I wore those things like crazy and they helped.

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          • #6
            Quoth Moggie View Post
            Hina, if your wrist is still bothering you it's easy to get a cheap but useful wrist brace at Wal-Mart. When I had a round with pre-carpal tunnel I wore those things like crazy and they helped.
            Thanks Moggie. My wrist is all better now. If it comes back and is persistent I'll look into a brace. Right now I just love using wraps, since I can use them on multiple injuries. Either wrist or ankle, and i think other places.

            Tonight is my last shift (12am-8am as alway) before I go away for my break, so since the rez is mostly empty I'm looking forward to a quiet night. Or, the people left over will be extra crazy because they think there's no one to bother.
            Hinakiba777- Student of Divinity-Always trying to get laid.

            Annoying student=I pay tuition here so I pay your salary!
            Desk Worker=I pay tuition here, too. So I guess I pay myself.

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            • #7
              I can write with either hand as well. I actually started out as a leftie, but due to a fanatical 1st grade teacher who thought I was possessed by Satan, made me switch to my right hand.

              Within a year of my graduating high school, I started writing with my left hand again. My handwriting isn't quite as pretty as my right, but it's there.

              Practice makes perfect . . . so I'm hoping one day my left writing will look prettier.
              Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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              • #8
                Quoth hinakiba777 View Post
                Sorry I haven't been around lately. Spring Break started yesterday, so it's been midterm season. However I am back with some lovely stories

                SC= Sucky Customer
                Me= The lovely amazing, looks her age, totally cool hinakiba777

                That would make me 12
                As I've stated before people have a tendency to think of me as younger than I am. Everyone likes to tell me that when I get older I will look back and say "Wow when I was 20, people thought I was 15." I don't see it that way. I get carded everywhere like crazy. Sometimes i get double carded. Anyway, I was working the other day and i got a new age comment. Keep in mind I actually know this SC as a classmate.

                Me= May I have your ID?
                SC= Why?
                Me= To exchange for the key?
                SC= Oh right. *hands me the ID*
                Me= hehe. Your driver's license photo is adorable.
                SC= Yeah, hina, check out the date.
                Me= 1996?
                SC= *in a mean way* You were 2 then right?
                This wouldn't make YOU 12, would make HER 12. And her guess that you were "2 then" would make you 14 in her estimation.

                So ... people think you are younger than you really are, and your classmate is much younger than you thought? Is that it?

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                • #9
                  Quoth RetailWorkhorse View Post
                  Actually, I'm a lefty who was taught how to write with my right hand because all my teachers were rightys and that made them "superior" than me. -_-' So I'm ambidextrous!
                  actually, as a complete off topic, there is some cultural background to that. If I remember correctly it is certain Middle Eastern tribes (I know it's some tribes, I want to say Middle Eastern) have the tradition of using the left hand, and the left hand only for the *cough* dirty jobs *cough* and therefore anyone who could only write with their left hand must be dirty... there, that's Professor Blake's Intro to Sociology explanation behind why right handed people in the past were considered superior... sadly, that's about all I remember from Professor Blake's class.
                  If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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                  • #10
                    Quoth SpyOne View Post
                    This wouldn't make YOU 12, would make HER 12. And her guess that you were "2 then" would make you 14 in her estimation.

                    So ... people think you are younger than you really are, and your classmate is much younger than you thought? Is that it?
                    No. His lisence was issued in 1996. So he's 29.

                    Also, yes, my math was off sorry.
                    Hinakiba777- Student of Divinity-Always trying to get laid.

                    Annoying student=I pay tuition here so I pay your salary!
                    Desk Worker=I pay tuition here, too. So I guess I pay myself.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth smileyeagle1021 View Post
                      actually, as a complete off topic, there is some cultural background to that. If I remember correctly it is certain Middle Eastern tribes (I know it's some tribes, I want to say Middle Eastern) have the tradition of using the left hand, and the left hand only for the *cough* dirty jobs *cough* and therefore anyone who could only write with their left hand must be dirty... there, that's Professor Blake's Intro to Sociology explanation behind why right handed people in the past were considered superior... sadly, that's about all I remember from Professor Blake's class.
                      It actually goes farther back than that... In the Middle ages, your left side was considered evil. Lefties were thought to be possessed by the devil. The saying, Putting your best foot forward, comes from when one would bow to a superior, they would put their right foot forward, their left foot back and their left hand behind their back.

                      Its also where the medical terms for left and right originate. Dexter is right, as in oculus dexter, which means right eye and Sinister is left as in oculus sinister which means left eye.

                      So after that total non-sequitor,

                      I have no idea how you deal with students on a regular basis without causing serious damage to them. I'm a student and I can't stand us...
                      Cats are like greatness, Some are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats and some have cats thrust upon them...

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                      • #12
                        Quoth hinakiba777 View Post
                        Then don't lock yourself out
                        Everyone is a little unreasonable about waiting to be let in when you are locked out. Most of the time it's because you aren't properly dressed. There are a lot of middle of the night lockouts with students just in their robes or undies. This boy was in his boxers.

                        SC= Hina, I'm locked out
                        Me= What's your room?
                        SC= You know my room. Come on I'm in my boxers here.
                        Me= Actually I don't.
                        SC= it's 555!
                        Me= Okay, well I'll just call security. *does so* they'll be here in 15 minutes. Just wait in the common room.
                        ~Two minutes later~
                        SC= They aren't here, can you call them again?
                        Me= They said they'd be fifteen minutes.
                        ~five minutes later~
                        SC= Can you call them again?
                        Me= They are busy. They'll be here as fast as possible

                        So this continues for a while until he informs me that he's been waiting 30 minutes to be let in. He asks if I can call Security again, and I was about to when Security arrives. I honestly felt like a parent of a child saying "Are we there yet?" Not what I want to deal with at 5am

                        I think you should give this guy a break. He's in his underpants i'm sure he was pretty embarassed... especially since he had to go to a girl for help. I guess that doesn't give him any right to be a jackhole about it but i'm sure sitting almost naked in a "common room" in the godawful hours of the morning isn't what he wants to be doing.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Getoutofmylobby View Post
                          I think you should give this guy a break. He's in his underpants i'm sure he was pretty embarassed... especially since he had to go to a girl for help. I guess that doesn't give him any right to be a jackhole about it but i'm sure sitting almost naked in a "common room" in the godawful hours of the morning isn't what he wants to be doing.
                          Honestly if he hadn't asked so many times, I would have felt bad for him. However, he asked like ever 2 or 5 minutes. If he hadn't asked so often I might have just recalled security on my own. With the usual "Security the kids in his boxers, and it's been fifteen already."
                          Hinakiba777- Student of Divinity-Always trying to get laid.

                          Annoying student=I pay tuition here so I pay your salary!
                          Desk Worker=I pay tuition here, too. So I guess I pay myself.

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