Assorted Oddities and Fascinations

But if you mark an order as “leave at door” and then come pick it up in person, YOU ARE BEING THE OPPOSITE OF HELPFUL.

I’m required to take a photo proving I left the food at your door. If you pick it up, I can’t take a photo. Which means if you turn around and claim you never got it, I COULD LOSE MY JOB BECAUSE I CAN’T PROVE I DELIVERED IT. Drivers can and do get deactivated this way.

If you want to ACTUALLY be helpful:

1) tip a minimum of $1/mile from the restaurant to your house. We don’t actually get paid the whole delivery fee. I once got paid 47 cents for a delivery because the guy tip-baited me (means he took the tip off after delivery). There’s also a motto in the community: “no tip, no trip.” Want your food hot and fresh? TIP.

2) have your porch light on (at night) and your house number clearly visible. If for whatever reason, you can’t make your house number clearly visible, have a landmark noted in your yard. I always put my car in my driveway and put in the notes what my color and model is.

3) if you live in an apartment, GIVE DIRECTIONS. “Building 36 apt 3604” doesn’t tell me SHIT, especially when the buildings aren’t in numeric order. “When you pull in at the gate, turn right. Follow the drive to the end and turn left. Take your second left and follow it to the end. Building 36 will be on your right.” Now THAT tells me something! Waiting until I’m helplessly circling your complex and calling you, and then going “well if you’re at the entrance you can—” I am at the entrance 0% of the time if I’m calling you. Full stop. LEAVE DIRECTIONS. Please. The faster I get in and out, the faster you get your food and the faster I can get my next delivery. If I’m not moving, I’m not earning.

4) RATE US!! It helps us get gas discounts and stuff. (We are not paid for vehicle depreciation, mileage, or gas.) Don’t downvote us for stuff outside our control. Ordering a slush from a Sonic 15 miles away and being mad it’s melted by the time I get to you? Look, I’ve got a cooler and a thermal blanket. Not Elsa’s ice powers.

5) Check the correct delivery option. “Meet at door” means you open the door and say hi and we hand over your food. “Leave at door” means we put down your food, take a picture, and you come pick it up when we’re gone. “Wait in car” means YOU are coming to ME. (I’ve delivered to many construction sites and other unusual places like an Amazon warehouse. That last option is FANTASTIC for stuff like that.)

6) I love your dogs, but even if they’re super-friendly, please leave the doggos inside when you know I’m due. I’m walking on unfamiliar terrain balancing your food and my phone and car keys, and your dog smells D E L I C I O U S F O O D. I got knocked down once by an extremely friendly, very large mutt who just wanted to say hi but herded me right into a ditch. I wasn’t hurt, but it was a miracle I saved the food.

7) last but not least: KEEP YOUR PHONE ON!!! There’s nothing more frustrating than waiting out an eight-minute timer, standing at your door, knocking every minute, calling every minute, and getting sent to voicemail, only for the customer to mosey up to the door right at the “cancel order” mark and give you a grin and say “sorry, I didn’t see my phone.” You know you ordered food, you have to let us contact you!

Say that you’ve bought a concert ticket for $50 for a band that you don’t know that well. Half an hour into the show, you realize that you don’t actually enjoy the music and you aren’t having a good time - instead of leaving the concert to go do something else, however, you sit through the remaining hours of the concert because you don’t want to “waste” the cost of the ticket. 

Congratulations, you’ve just fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

The “sunk cost fallacy” is something that all humans are prone to when we make decisions. Simply put, it’s the human tendency to consider past costs when we make choices, even when those costs are no longer relevant. When you’re deciding whether or not to stay at that concert you aren’t enjoying, you will likely consider the cost of the ticket when you’re making your decision - for instance, you’d probably be a lot more willing to leave a $5 concert that you aren’t enjoying than a $50 concert that you aren’t enjoying. But taking the cost of the ticket into account at all is a mistake. 

When you’re making a rational decision, the only thing that matters is the future. Time, effort and money that you’re spent up until that point no longer matter - it doesn’t make sense to consider them, because no matter what you decide, you can’t actually get them back. They are “sunk” costs. If you decide to stay at that concert, you are out $50 and you’ll have a mediocre evening. If you decide to go leave and do something more fun, you are out $50 and you’ll have a better evening. No matter what you choose, you have lost $50 - but choosing to leave the concert means that you haven’t also spent an evening doing something you don’t like.

The sunk cost fallacy is sometimes also described as “throwing good money after bad” - people will waste additional time, resources and effort simply to justify the fact that they’ve already wasted time, resources and effort, even if it leaves them worse off overall. 

Common examples of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life include:

refusing to get rid of clothes that don’t fit or that you never wear because they were expensive

going to an event that you no longer want to go to because you already bought the ticket 

spending more and more money on repairing a car or computer (or something else that depreciates in value over time) instead of buying a new one because you don’t want to waste the money you put into earlier repairs

continuing to watch a movie or TV show you aren’t enjoying anymore because you’ve already watched part of it 

finishing a plate of food that you’re not enjoying or are too full to enjoy, because you don’t want to waste it

refusing to get rid of unused, unwanted or broken items in your home because the items were expensive

Perhaps the most damaging example of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life, however, is relationships. 

People often use the length of a relationship to justify staying in it. You’ve probably heard this logic - you may even have used it yourself: “I can’t break up with him or the two years we spent together will be for nothing.”

“If I leave her, it will mean I wasted the five years I spent with her.”

likely out-canon/Doylist reason: literally only air and space was large enough and cool enough looking for them to set up and film in. They basically had to make the entire exhibit there. (see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-captain-america-made-the-leap-from-the-museum-to-front-pages-180951242/)

La Femme Chauve-souris c.1890

like padmé and sabé have switched places, and anakin pulls sabé aside and then goes in for a kiss and sabé just like…decks him in the face because he startled her and they walk back to the group as one very angry decoy and a jedi with a broken nose

and the other handmaidens piece it together and just turn and stare at handmaiden padmé with looks of immense disapproval and disappointment

Leggings aren’t really so far from hose, which are also ancient.

Make tunic shorter for crop top. Very stylish.

Remove sleeves of tunic? That’s a tank top, which incidentally is like, the oldest form of tunic. It was simply two squares of fabric sewn together at the sides and the tops of the shoulders, with holes left for head and arms.

"Well, you're not brewing sulphiric acid or calling us idiots for not being into Astrology or whatever. You wanna go to the rager?"

And turns out he's a little twitchy around fire but hey that means he won't get high and burn his mattress in the hall, DAVE. So Adam goes to Victor's classes and gets on the football team and rushes a frat house and his New Bros think he's just swell so they... kind a help The Creature take over Victor's Identity. Get a Student ID with his picture on it. Go to finance office and 'get that paperwork straightened out'. Introduce him at Networking events where he does GREAT, because nobody forgets a dude with Presence like that.

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