Dirty tap card

The controversy around the new tap debit card is buzzing, and being on the banking front line, I hear it all. People don't trust it, but don't realize the security measures that are already in place..blah blah blah. But the most fun I've had with the new pay wave come from my retail job actually. I had a gorgeous guy at Christmas hold his card over my point of sale machine, look me right in the eyes and say "can I tap that?" My eyebrows went up, and we both burst into hysterical laughter. 

Surprised by a song

When I first heard Let your hair down by Magic, I was entranced. The lyrics got me. "Baby let your hair down, let me run my fingers through it..." which, little known fact, I LOVE it when people play with my hair. Not strangers who tuck tags in, ew. My mom says when I was a baby, she'd run her fingers over my scalp and my eyes would roll back. I'm not going to lie, not much has changed since then. But then he goes on, "we can be ourselves now, go ahead be foolish, no ones on the clock now, lying in the simple moments, you don't gotta worry now..." *sigh* I'm in. 

But then I wanted to hear the song at home, and watched the youtube video. And found this. 

A skinny guy with bad dances moves, and long hair. 

...and then he ran his fingers through it. 

..and again. I'm not in. I'm definitely out. Sorry Magic, you're just really not my type. 

Not even if you give me those puppy eyes. Nope. I hear the song now and I laugh a little to myself that I was so taken away by your words. That being said, I had the complete opposite experience last night when I inadvertently watched a little of the Grammy's. I don't go out of my way to watch any tv, but I just happened to be watching when Ed Sheeran performed Thinking Out Loud. Now lets be clear, I LOVED this song before I saw his performance....

but...Uh....he's a GINGER??? With piercing blue eyes?? AND AN ACCENT?? I'd seen the music video before, but then I realized, IT'S HIM DANCING IN IT!! 

How freaking romantic was that? I watched the behind the scenes, he never danced before attempting this!!

He was doing lifts, and catchy moves...I agree with his choreographer, he NAILED this video.  

And yes. I do wish that brunette was me. If I lost 30 pounds, and could actually move to a beat, which is even more ludicrous than loosing 30 pounds. I don't even care that your name is primarily taken up by 72 year olds, Ed - you are my new "one". The get out of jail free card you get in any relationship where if you had the chance to jump into bed with any celebrity, who would it be? I'm in Ed. You got me. 

PS: I hope you appreciate all the screenshots. This was not an easy task! But for you reader, and for Ed, it was worth it. ;) 

Stranger tag

I had a client in yesterday, whom I feel quite chumey with, so I quietly mentioned to her that she had lipstick on her teeth. When she got embarrassed, I said, "I'd rather someone told me, so I was embarrassed for 10 seconds instead of getting home and realizing I should have been embarrassed all day." And she agreed.

But then she said she hates it when people do the same about tags sticking out. Now lets be clear, she wasn't uncomfortable with people TELLING her about the tag, she was uncomfortable with strangers tucking it back in for her.

Have I ever done that? Maybe when I was younger and had weird notions about personal space. (what is that anyhow?) But I doubt I'd do that now, unless I had a previous experience or interaction with the person. She went as far as to say that people get superiority complexes about it too, pointing it out to make her seem lesser, because she can't dress herself in the morning. I've never had that experience yet, but I usually look somewhat disheveled, and I've just come to terms with it, that it's part of my charm I never look put together properly. I'd hate to think I'm offending someone though, especially a stranger.

Does that have the potential to ruin someones day? I've met people who have copious amounts of personal pride, and for sure I could see that in the realm of offending them.

So next time you see someone with their fly down, tag out and something in their teeth...do you tell them?

False sidebar

I was looking up a recipe recently, which always brings me to the dodgy sites, and I saw the most interesting ad in a sidebar.

 

Evidently this one simple trick to killing belly fat will also give you a boob job, longer hair, a tan and eyelash extensions! It's also not even sure of itself, adding a question mark to its claim to loose weight. So you might, might not. For 6 easy payments of $99.99 you can also have the chance to maybe loose weight and look fake! Lucky you. 

Buttered up

Is it just me, or do you agree Groupon is complimenting me to make me buy one?

Plunger anger

I used to say there are only two things in this world that get me instantly infuriated, chauvinism and my mother, but recently I've discovered plunging. Zero to extremely angry in 60 seconds or less. Recently the situation arose, and my poor sister had to experience the after math. My running into her bathroom, colourful language and shoes flying about. There's nothing happy about needing to plunge a toilet. *insert poo pun here* How awful. I don't heart plunging. 

Nice money

So I had this customer come in the other day to close his accounts because he was moving back to the UK. In needing the funds out of his account, I talked him into taking a money order. Gave him a bunch of reasons and then said, "...and besides, then you're not waking around with that much cash." He said he wouldn't do that back home, but here we're just too nice and polite. "You'd probably give it back to me if I dropped it!" 

In my head I was thinking, "Yea. You woudln't?" But in thinking about it, I realized I had a limit to my honesty. If I found $3000, I'd turn it in, no question. But $5? No chance. That being said, I turned in $10 at my local community centre because it has a teen centre and I remember how hard I had to work for $10 when I was that age. Took me three months to get back when no one claimed it! Talk about being punished for being good...

My coworker said she'd turn in $100, because of it goes unclaimed, you get it back and she couldn't handle the karma implications. I found a kobo reader one time and since it was in a purple case, I just assumed fate was treating me. I felt so guilty I had to turn it in to a store that sold them so they could look up the account, and hopefully get it back to them, but either way my conscious is off the hook. So it begs the question, what would you turn in? What would you keep? I love hearing people's reasoning most of all!