Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I got in trouble with Costco tonight. They called the manager on me. What did I do you may ask? I walked in the store through the Exit door. They want all the cattle to enter through the Enter door and to exit through the Exit door. I guess I was impeding the flow of cattle. I told the manager that I have an anxiety disorder; meaning, I must come out the same door that I go in. But since I'm not allowed to exit through the Enter door, I choose to enter through the Exit door and exit through the Exit door. I don't see no major harm in doing so.
I was all ready for them to call the police on me. I wasn't worried about it because I know the police deal with the mentally ill everyday and they have a lot more understanding than your typical corporate store employee has. I told the manager that he was discriminating against me for being mentally ill. He asked me if I showed the employees at the door my Coscto membership card. I said yes, but they weren't interested in my membership card. I told him that under no uncertain terms, they wanted me to turn around and exit the store immediately.
We have equal rights for women. We have equal rights for blacks. We have equal rights for the physically disabled. We have equal rights for gays. We have equal rights for trans. But we have no equal rights for the mentally ill.
Bud, it's walking through a door to control traffic flow. If you're so "mentally ill" that you can't handle that, you're far gone. Get over yourself and just walk through the entrance like everyone else.
Everyone else? Why didn't you get your COVID-19 shot like everyone else? It's just a vaccine.
Are you legally retarded?
It’s an entryway. It’s not a vaccine. It’s walking through a hole in a wall.
You bring up an interesting point. Perhaps I should try to get some kind of legal medical exemption that I can show at the door.