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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Just believe and a small percentage of you will certainly make it.

Ignore you are 70 and still renting, ignore that rules to enter are constantly changing.
Just believe, cause one day you will be so sick and close to the end that you will have to.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dude we have shockingly similar overarching stories but my HR manager firing was for costing the company I work for 10s of thousands of dollars for not having the right visa to work in china and getting stuck in south korea for weeks due to the easter holiday making it so they forgot where they left me until I got ahold of someone again.

My retirement plan is skydiving.

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a partially stressful vacation in South Korea. Did you get in trouble for not having the correct visa? Or was that HR's fault?

My retirement plan is go gliding in a wing suit. I want to experience gliding like the birds do.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

HR was supposed to provide the Visa as I was going for a ship transfer and the political rallies and the north korea missile definitely didnt help but I did get to see fireworks on a beach after a night of crepe cakes and BBQ.
I actually was the reason the company implemented a system where a person was hired to check all visas manually from then on.

The main trouble was the HR Manager tried to dock my pay for the cost of hotels and flights and tried to get me fired for saying no and I threatened to sue. Had to meet with the captain who thought the whole story was very funny including me staying at his standard hotel room at a very nice hotel in the bahamas.

I just want to know what its like to go terminal velocity and see if my luck is bad enough that I miss the ground. But knife and skydiving is my plan for how.