• Mothra@mander.xyz
    4·
    4 days ago

    More like a wow moment and not so much a smile or laugh moment. But anyway, today at work I was serving this old lady with a walking frame and a personal assistant. She was pretty self reliant and looked just like any other elderly customer. A bit hard of hearing which isn’t unusual. Asked if she had her customer loyalty card, had to look her up in the system so asked her details.

    Asked her date of birth. She was born in 1927.

    1927

    That’s the lowest number I ever entered in that field. It really surprised me. I was expecting something 1940s or mid late 1930s. The previous record was a customer from 1928 and she wasn’t in the same condition as today’s lady unfortunately.

    I don’t know, I just felt like sharing that somewhere. It’s kind of awesome meeting someone that old who is also in such good condition.

    • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I was at an event recently, and one of the speakers was a hair over 100 years old, born in 1925. They were remarkably articulate, and it was so interesting listening to the perspectives they had with the massive amount of life experience they have. It was super impactful listening to them talk.

  • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I was hanging out with some people this weekend, and we somehow got on the subject of fiber consumption, and how americans eat far too little fiber. Over the course of the day, we continued to joke about fiber, and built a made-up authoritarian town government based around maintaining healthy fiber intake for its citizens. Increased septic pipe diameters, Navy Bean distribution infrastructure, mandatory weekly stool scans, “fiber re-education” camps for failing a scan. When people die, their fiber will be reprocessed and returned to the citizens (like the sacred water in Dune)…

    When we all parted ways, later in the evening, one of them sent a link to the group chat they had been talking about earlier in the day. IMMEDIATELY someone responded “This isn’t fiber related :(”

    It’s been a long time since I’ve witnessed the birth of a stupid inside joke, it was providing smiles all day. “Hey Alex, I bet that tree bark has a TON of fiber…”