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Mild Curses

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Mild Curse: Every time you go to use a singular shared resource, someone is slightly ahead of you and uses it first. (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to c/mildcurses@piefed.social
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Examples: ATMs, private bathrooms, the office refrigerator, and anything else you might wait in line to use or for which to receive service.

The person takes the normal amount of time, and then you go next.

Edit: spellimg

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*Me about to jump off a bridge and end it all.

Me: Dammit even here?! Sad stranger: What?
Me: Nevermind it's fine, you jump first I'll wait

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That's too perfect. It belongs in a "Dead Like Me" episode.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

I swear this is the sidewalk for me. Except the Person in front of me is walking slower than me, but too fast to pass them easily.