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Standing behind a guy buying a single can of beans at the Kroger on 5th last Tuesday
I mean, I couldn't stop wondering if that was his whole dinner or if he was just missing one ingredient for a recipe, and it kinda made me sad, idk, has anyone else had a checkout thought that just stuck with you for days?
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riverm482mo ago
You saying it stuck with you for days is so real. Maybe we get stuck because we know we're seeing a tiny piece of someone's whole life, but we'll never get the rest of the story. It's like a movie scene with no context. I keep filling in the blanks myself, and my guess is probably way off from his actual Tuesday. That's the weird part that hangs around.
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sethmartinez22d ago
That "filling in the blanks yourself" part is exactly what hooks you. You're basically writing a whole story about a stranger with zero facts and your brain treats it like a puzzle it has to solve. The weirdest part is knowing whatever you came up with is probably wrong, but you still can't shake it.
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quinn_nelson2mo ago
But why do we even care about some random guy's Tuesday?
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