I had a coworker that started to hate his job and feel trapped. We all did, but he was more vocal about it to his friends. He said:

“I think sometimes, what if I didn’t take that turn on the highway and just kept going?”.

Well one day he didn’t come in. Emailed the boss he quit later. I like to think he just kept driving on to a better future.

I remember this as a kid, too! My mom said she wore a metal bra in a music video. We didn’t have MTV so I didn’t know who Madonna was, even. So I still had a bunch of questions that could’ve been solved with a Google search, had it existed.

I don’t think I got this joke until maybe a decade later when the Internet was a thing and I saw a picture or a meme or something.

I expect it’ll be when one of the writing class gets chronic pain or a death sentence diagnosis that could’ve been prevented if healthcare didn’t suck.

Not unlike Luigi is accused, except he’s innocent.

Working late, heart problems when stressed, no time to work on the house, snapping at your family when they cause a bigger setback?

Dude, your job is killing you. You are being worked too hard. Your stress is too high. How many panic attacks have you had since you’ve worked there? Your family will mourn you if you die for your job. Your job will post your position on Indeed the day after.

I was in your boat. I tried working less, asking management for help, taking vacation, meditation, etc. Some of those helped a little, but it didn’t fix it. I got a job elsewhere and while it’s not perfect, but my family life is better, I feel much better and my heart doesn’t hurt.

Take care of yourself. Your job won’t.

His perfect genes enable him to constantly hide his baldness, I see. Nothing wrong with being bald, but he’s certainly trying to hide it so hard it’s clear he wishes he wasn’t.

He hates himself so much and it’s clear it’s just a cover. Better blame everyone else and make his genes their problem!

If he wasn’t born rich, we’d never have heard of him.

The entire Year Zero album was Trent’s revive of what would become MAGA. Unfortunately, the only solution for the problem in his album was aliens killing everyone.

It’s still a great album and very relevant today.

I think I had maybe 2-3 beers from 18-21. It wasn’t a priority. I didn’t miss anything.

He seemed capable of following the conversation and being coherent. Even if he’s an insane asshole.

I guess his dementia treatments are working.

I think I will be dead by that point. Not sure if you read my previous comment or not.

The Cherokee were disarmed just prior to the Tail of Tears. They had to surrender their weapons as invaders broke into their homes, destroyed their crops, and split families apart. They were then reliant on the federal government’s soldiers, who rounded them up into camps until they were marched to what was to be only their land forever, Indian Territory. Now Oklahoma. Where we still fight the state and governor Stitt for our treaty rights.

There are still Cherokee in North Carolina because one man, Tsali (pronounced like Charlie), fought back when his wife was being stabbed by a soldiers bayonet and killed him. He then led survivors to the mountains for a hard couple of years of starvation until the government relented. They worked with Yonaguska, a chief, to reach a diplomatic solution to allow the refugees to stay in their homelands. If they executed Tsali and all of his children do no one else would rise up.

They killed him and his son for trying to defend his home and family. They killed many others in the camps and the trail itself. Many children were stolen and enslaved. But the Cherokee wanted a reasonable, diplomatic solution that didn’t involve violence when the US government absolutely wanted all of those things.

I’ll keep my guns.