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Customer: "I measured it on this app thingy. One sec. It's in metric, but I hope you can convert. It says… a hundred square kilometers."
Me: "Do… do you mean a hundred square meters?"
notalwaysright_feedRead Analysis Paralysis
Me: "Love the enthusiasm! Make sure you keep focused on the end goal. When I first started my own projects, it was easy to get sidetracked by every good idea, and I got delayed by some major project creep."
Coworker: "Oh, I'll be fine. I already have everything laid out in my mind.
And so, he spent all day making elaborate lists, color-coded files, and creating detailed and complex spreadsheets that covered every eventuality, even those outside of the project's purview.
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A few minutes later, she storms back to the counter, and there is a huge knot of toilet paper sticking out of the back of her waistband. It looks like a fake-flower craft project gone terribly wrong.
notalwaysright_feedRead The Gospel According To Hollywood
Mom: "Ugh! Why do they gotta do that every time?"
Me: "Do what?"
Mom: "Always changing the race of the character! We don't need everyone to be Black in these shows anymore!"
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The Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025 continues, and today we move away from books and focus on other gifts and crafts — which you can take to mean just about any other sort of thing a creative person might make: Music, art, knitting, jewelry, artisan foodstuffs and so on. These can be great, unique gifts for special folks in your life, and things you can’t just get down at the mall. I hope you see some cool stuff here.
Please note that the comment thread today is only for creators to post about their gifts for sale; please do not leave other comments, as they will be snipped out to keep the thread from getting cluttered. Thanks!
Creators: Here’s how to post in this thread. Please follow these directions!
1. Creators (of things other than books) only. This is an intentionally expansive category, so if you’ve made something and have it available for the public to try or buy, you can probably post about in this thread. The exception to this is books (including comics and graphic novels), which have two previously existing threads, one for traditionally-published works and one for non-traditionally published works (Note: if you are an author and also create other stuff, you may promote that other stuff today). Don’t post if you are not the creator of the thing you want to promote, please.
2. Personally-created and completed works only. This thread is specifically for artists and creators who are making their own unique works. Mass-producible things like CDs, buttons or T-shirts are acceptable if you’ve personally created what’s on it. But please don’t use this thread for things that were created by others, which you happen to sell. Likewise, do not post about works in progress, even if you’re posting them publicly elsewhere. Remember that this is supposed to be a gift guide, and that these are things meant to be given to other people. Also, don’t just promote yourself unless you have something to sell or provide, that others may give as a gift.
3. One post per creator. In that post, you can list whatever creations of yours you like, but allow me to suggest you focus on your most recent creation. Note also that the majority of Whatever’s readership is in the US/Canada, so I suggest focusing on things available in North America. If you are elsewhere and your work is available there, please note it.
4. Keep your description of your work brief (there will be a lot of posts, I’m guessing) and entertaining. Imagine the person is in front of you as you tell them about your work and is interested but easily distracted.
5. You may include a link to a sales site if you like by using dropping in a URL. Be warned that if you include too many links (typically three or more) your post may get sent to the moderating queue. If this happens, don’t panic: I’ll be going in through the day to release moderated posts. Note that posts will occasionally go into the moderation queue semi-randomly; Don’t panic about that either.
6. As noted above, comment posts that are not from creators promoting their work as specified above will be deleted, in order to keep the comment thread useful for people looking to find interesting work.
Now: Tell us about your stuff!
Tomorrow: Fan Favorites!
notalwaysright_feedRead Some People Are A Breed Apart
Her papers VERY specifically forbid any breeding, and that we had to have her fixed as soon as possible- I guess the breeder had been really insistent on that point. Fine for us; we didn't care about the show dog part, just that we were getting a dog at all, and so we took her home, and she was truly the happiest, roundest, most barrel-y dog that would give us lots of happy memories as she grew up.
notalwaysright_feedRead Will Not Be Browbeaten Into A Refund
Customer: "I'd like to get my money back for this lotion; it made my eyes burn."
Me: "I'm sorry, ma’am, we don’t issue refunds for open products; however, you may exchange it for another."
Customer: "No, I'd like my money back."
notalwaysright_feedRead Hold The Note, Not The Instructor
Student #1: "Mr. [My Name], can I hold you?"
Me: *Blink blink.* "What?"
Student #2: "Huh?!"
A look of realisation and horror dawns over [Student #1]'s face.
notalwaysright_feed(I’m heading to my lunch break, when our door greeter asks me a question.) Door Greeter: “Hey, [My Name], *gestures to a man in front of her* this customer is trying to get to California, do you know how to get there?” (I completely blank on a response. We are in Massachusetts, all the way […]
notalwaysright_feedRead And Your Bad Mood Is My Problem How?
Me: "Can you please confirm your phone number on file?"
Caller: "What the f*** are you going to ask from me next, b****, my menstrual cycle? Just f****** help me."
notalwaysright_feedRead Being A Customer Whisperer Actually Involves Screaming
Customer: "WILL YOU JUST HELP ME?!"
Something in me snaps perfectly into place. I match him exactly; same tone, same volume.
Me: "I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU, SIR!"
We stare each other down for a moment.
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ysabetwordsmithgs_silva. It was inspired by a prompt from siliconshaman. It also fills the "What are you?" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem belongs to the series Schrodinger's Heroes and Polychrome Heroics. It follows "And Everything Collapses," so read that first or this won't make much sense.
notalwaysright_feedRead It’s Mathematically Impossible To Figure Out What You Want
Customer: "Excuse me."
Me: "Yes, can I help you find something?"
Customer: "Where do you keep your books?"
I blink. At first, I can't believe this is happening.
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