Because you only go to the post office if it’s a life or death scenario and maybe not even then, those scenarios tend to get complicated and then you have some schmuck who thinks they need to go just to mail a package.
because we live in a simulation. same reason why if i look out my window the intersection by my house is calm. if i walk my dogs, seven assholes will drive by too fast and without stopping.
certain threads just … idle. 😂
Because they are stupid.
Conditional memory. You’re pretty much hard wired to remember unusual things and forget unremarkable things, also things that have an emotional response are likelier to be remembered, such as being frustrated. Therefore, you remember the bad (and occasionally good) things better.
yes, but that doesn’t explain why it takes people in front of me 5m to order a coffee and a pastry and it takes me 30seconds.
but i do know why, it’s because they are weird and needy and need to interact and question and hem and haw rather than just know what they want and ask for it. same type of person who will then come back and complain to the person behind the counter how it wasn’t good or they should get their money back or something equally stupid.
it’s that i have respect for service workers, as I was one for years, and I want to make our interact quick and pleasant rather than miserable and drawn out.
I see what you’re saying and I think that’s called the Von Restorff effect, but I’ve deliberately focused on checking if this happens more often than not and it does. I haven’t found an explanation yet, but you’d think it’d take about the same amount of time since the tasks are nearly identical in procedure (sending a package, using the ATM, using the hotel reception…). It’s interesting.
You are intrinsics more likely to get stuck behind people who spend a long time there than people who spend a short time there, even if the effective people outnumber the ineffective people by roughly under the same factor of how many times longer the ineffective people take
Yup. Survivor bias, just like when people say modern online dating sucks, one of the contributing factors is it’s rotating the same shitty people through the pool, because the good ones have already matched or left in frustration and gone permanently.
or they are just stuck dating the same crappy people over and over and don’t win the lottery, so to speak.
what strikes me about people i meet from online dating is they all have the same sob story on every first date. it’s like they are reading off a script. and if you try to take them off-script they get angry with you. it’s been years since i met someone who seemed like a genuine human being.
and what’s wild is these folks are often radically different jobs, backgrounds, etc. but they have the same ‘my life is sad and i need a boyfriend to make me not sad’ routine, despite how objectively amazing their life is.
also people have changed. social skills have atrophied, extremist thinking and echo chamber has massively increased, and folks are way more antagonistic over differences of political, preference, and activity. I used to meet folks who where not the same as me and we got along or even dated, now folks basically want you to be a carbon copy of them and dismiss you over what TV shows you watch, because it seems they just want endless validation of own choices, rather than trying to learn or try something different. I guess I blame social media? but I’m comparing dating in 2010s to 2020s mostly. and there was a huge shift post pandemic, even outside of dating, in how people socialize.
that’s not to say some of these folks are probably perfectly good partners for someone, but the specificity of their preferences is certainly not doing them any favors. I don’t recall my dates in 2015 demanding I be interested in love island or taylor swift whatever was popular back then… now they almost certainly do and they add an insult on top of it.
All the good ones are taken
That and every register will eventually fill up with long running processes.
If people usually take 1 minute, but only a few take 10-15 minutes, you’ll be far more likely to see the 15 minute customers than the 1 minute ones. And they’ll eventually fill up all the available register space as all the 1 minute customers finish up and move on.
This is why we need a different line for drip coffee
the secret is to online order ahead of time, so you don’t have to wait in line or interact with anyone at all.
Well if that’s what’s going on I’ll just brew at home. I prefer a little interaction just not a 10m line for people ordering full meals.
This is why we don’t leave memory clean up to the masses anymore.
Maybe you have a small package
mailed it
Or, if you prefer
boom, posted
I show up with unprinted labels and packages going multiple places and it still only takes like 3 minutes if you know.
I swear, I had one couple asking the clerk where they should send the presents they were sending to a country on the other side of the world. The clerk was trying to tell them he had no idea where their family lived and couldn’t help them. They tried half a dozen times to get him to give them an address, no fucking clue why.
I can’t even.
They probably thought foreign countries are islands with 3 habitants each
Clerk should have been legally allowed to escort them out at gunpoint
At my work, you can always tell who works on the manufacturing floor and who has a desk job by how efficient they are in the cafeteria. The suits (desk people) take their time, stand in the middle of walk ways, have small talk when they should be moving on, etc. The operations folk get what they need and skedaddle because we are trained to be efficient or make things efficient.
Move Karen! I know you have a long day of sitting on your butt, so why dont you move so I can have lunch? /jk mostly
As a salaried desk employee, yes. I have no need to rush unless I have a meeting to get back to, sometimes I have no tasks remaining after lunch so I could easily take a second hour. For me it’s not about being efficient at lunch, it’s about clearing my mind so I can remain productive (if needed).
i feel this so hard. they are entirely unaware that they are occupying the thoroughfare and i cannot imagine how one can be so oblivious.
Isn’t that just everybody? Well everybody except the 3 of us here?
Yeah, why can’t people be more like us?!
See also: banking and self-checkout lines.
And also regular checkout lines when it’s time for them to pay
I rarely feel more righteous anger than when someone has a full cart in the ONLY OPEN 12 ITEMS OR LESS LANE.
Fast food ordering, too.
Wait until you’re first in line to think of what you want, fumble for your payment method, fill out any deposit slip, etc.
I was checking out at Aldi the other day, and I shit you not, the woman in front of me with a huge cart of groceries waited until it was her turn to start slowly putting her things on the belt one by one.
Power play or stupidity? No matter either way, if you show reaction you lose
They only took two minutes too but there’s a time dilation field that increases the closer you get to the front of the line.
Some people slow down when people are behind them. This holds true no matter the location or circumstance. For some its the thought of having some control in their life. Even if that control consists of being a dick length.
I only slow down if you ride right up on my tail, especially if you have those awful headlights. Now this is going to take awhile for both of us.
If you drive long distances these people are everywhere. 100km/h zone, one lane, dude drives 95. Passing lane opens, you start passing, dude suddenly matches your speed. People like this should have their licences taken away, no leniency.
Because you go there more than once a year.
Sheeeeit, when I go I’m like “Why is this taking 10 minutes”
