Post by kidkazushi on Dec 29, 2020 20:17:33 GMT
So the craziest thing just happened to me.
I finished my last field report during lunch.
While writing it I remembered a lot of the tools for success I once had.
I decided to drive to chipotle wearing joggers, a hoodie, a sweatshirt, and I haven't shaved or showered.
I straight up look like a bum by my standards.
As I pull in and get out of the car, a girl from the car next to me asks.
"Excuse me, my car battery is dead, can you give me a jump"
I haven't done this since high school and I have no idea how to do it either.
I think to myself "be true to your inner self and say yes. Who gives a shit what you look like and if you can't do it. You'll figure it out."
I then say "I'm always here to help a damsel in distress, let me see if I have some cables".
I was trying to seed the pickup before I actually did it.
I don't have any jumper cables, luckily she does.
We pull them out and I think to myself, "please God don't let me electrocute myself and die".
I tamper with my battery, and I have to admit I need help.
I say "one second" to her, and then walk into the Chipotle and at the top of my lungs say
"HEY, WHO KNOWS BATTERIES"
and just like that, I've instantly overcome any social anxiety from total strangers and I enlist some help.
I get lucky again and it turns out something on her battery wasn't connected.
She connects it and it works just fine.
She thanks me anyways.
I say to myself "close this opportunity, use something funny like you used to be able too".
I say to her "You from here?".
She says "Yes"
I say "Welp I'm on a streak of bad decisions lately, any chance you can help me make some more?"
She laughs and says "I'm good at that."
I get her number and we agree to go get a round and make some bad decisions sometime.
Just after writing that last thread I'm already picking up where I used to be.
It happened just like that.
All comments and help are greatly appreciated.
宜しくお願いします,
Kazushi
I finished my last field report during lunch.
While writing it I remembered a lot of the tools for success I once had.
I decided to drive to chipotle wearing joggers, a hoodie, a sweatshirt, and I haven't shaved or showered.
I straight up look like a bum by my standards.
As I pull in and get out of the car, a girl from the car next to me asks.
"Excuse me, my car battery is dead, can you give me a jump"
I haven't done this since high school and I have no idea how to do it either.
I think to myself "be true to your inner self and say yes. Who gives a shit what you look like and if you can't do it. You'll figure it out."
I then say "I'm always here to help a damsel in distress, let me see if I have some cables".
I was trying to seed the pickup before I actually did it.
I don't have any jumper cables, luckily she does.
We pull them out and I think to myself, "please God don't let me electrocute myself and die".
I tamper with my battery, and I have to admit I need help.
I say "one second" to her, and then walk into the Chipotle and at the top of my lungs say
"HEY, WHO KNOWS BATTERIES"
and just like that, I've instantly overcome any social anxiety from total strangers and I enlist some help.
I get lucky again and it turns out something on her battery wasn't connected.
She connects it and it works just fine.
She thanks me anyways.
I say to myself "close this opportunity, use something funny like you used to be able too".
I say to her "You from here?".
She says "Yes"
I say "Welp I'm on a streak of bad decisions lately, any chance you can help me make some more?"
She laughs and says "I'm good at that."
I get her number and we agree to go get a round and make some bad decisions sometime.
Just after writing that last thread I'm already picking up where I used to be.
It happened just like that.
- To be completely honest I was a little jumpy during the entire thing.
I've got her number but I think I still need to take baby steps? - What's the move? I'm so far from where I used to be that its hard at this point to take the initial first step correctly.
I will literally listen to any suggestion. - I was thinking of texting her something along the lines "Trying to make some bad decisions? -Jumper cable guy (Ryan)"
- Any thoughts?
All comments and help are greatly appreciated.
宜しくお願いします,
Kazushi