Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zed Clampet]

@BeardyHat Respect for trying it out, and I am happy to hear it was good

Back home and took a trip to the supermarket. An elderly person was almost screaming (he was hard of hearing,) that he wanted to take out as much money as possible. He did this several times and I felt uneasy for his sake, since the supermarket was crowded. I told the cashier to take a closer look when he was leaving, just in case he was taking out a huge amount. By the time I was exiting the building, I heard he was going to withdraw 110USD, so thankfully not that much. You never know these days, so good to have some extra eyes around.

Did you think he was being scammed?

Based on nothing but YouTube videos, they often send them to buy Google gift cards. If you are a cashier and an old woman walks up and tries to buy $10,000 worth of Google gift cards, and you actually sell them to her...well, I wouldn't say you had to pay back half. Cashiers don't get paid enough to take on that kind of risk. But you should at least be required to take some sort of training regarding scams.

 

[Frindis]

Did you think he was being scammed?

Based on nothing but YouTube videos, they often send them to buy Google gift cards. If you are a cashier and an old woman walks up and tries to buy $10,000 worth of Google gift cards, and you actually sell them to her...well, I wouldn't say you had to pay back half. Cashiers don't get paid enough to take on that kind of risk. But you should at least be required to take some sort of training regarding scams.

Not scammed, but I was more thinking about him yelling about taking out all the money they had and the possibility of someone listening in a bit more closely with bad intentions. I have lost items at the supermarket myself some years back and back then it only took a minute before I noticed I left some items in a shopping cart to someone stealing them. It was not much, but it was annoying as hell, especially since no camera was there to capture the crook. So while the majority of people are good, the rotten eggs are still out there thriving.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Not scammed, but I was more thinking about him yelling about taking out all the money they had and the possibility of someone listening in a bit more closely with bad intentions. I have lost items at the supermarket myself some years back and back then it only took a minute before I noticed I left some items in a shopping cart to someone stealing them. It was not much, but it was annoying as hell, especially since no camera was there to capture the crook. So while the majority of people are good, the rotten eggs are still out there thriving.

Many years ago, I had a retail job, and this was back when most people received cash on payday. I only worked there a year, but during that time I managed to find two envelopes filled with cash that people had lost track of or just left behind while shopping. I always just put them in the safe and told the cashiers to let me know when the customers came back looking for them. You've rarely met anyone more relieved and thankful than when you give them their payday back. The only time that was better for me was when a woman slid into my car in an icy/snowy parking lot, and I told her I couldn't see much damage and not to worry about it. She actually started crying and hugging me. Sadly, biology left me with an overwhelming amount of empathy, so I'm, unfortunately, constantly trying to make people happy, so that was much better than road rage

The right amount of empathy = good
Too much empathy = pathetic

Sadly, I'm in the last group haha

 

[Frag Maniac]

barriers such as stairs and grass stop me from going outside. The knee scooter isn't designed for off road and little rocks can be enough to get in the way.

Well I assumed at your age using crutches for stairs would be doable, and most parks in the US where I live have benches right off paved paths, maybe in Aus it's different? At any rate, I don't think I could stay cooped up for 3 and a half weeks indoors. I'd have been looking for any way possible just to even get out in the back yard. That said, if stairs stop you from using a knee scooter, how would an electric scooter somehow work?

As for electric scooters, personally I'd avoid them at all cost if you can. At my age I see plenty of seniors commit to them for the rest of their lives, and their health (especially mentally and emotionally) only plumets faster. I know you meant just for temporary use, but it's not the kind of thing you want to get used to. They can also break down unexpectedly. God knows I've had to fix my friend's chairs who knows how many times, and he can always qualify for the very best ones with hydraulics due to his condition.

We had a guy where I used to live that definitely needed some kind of chair due to amputations of his lower limbs, and I always respected that instead of an electric scooter he opted for a manual chair. Last one he had was a super light titanium model. He even tried a motorized prosthetic limb once that he managed to get access to, but it was too hard to control.

 

[Zloth]

Auckland seems like my kind of town!

 

[BeardyHat]

Too much empathy = pathetic

Sadly, I'm in the last group haha

You aren't alone.

Though I'm getting better at letting people know what I need and want, rather than just rolling over like I might have 20-years ago.

My family is actually significantly worse at that than I am now.

Auckland seems like my kind of town!

Auckland is a pretty cool place. In 2015 we visited my Sister-In-Law who lives there and I quite enjoyed it. Though Kiwi's are funny; it was the middle of July and they were apologizing for the cold, which was one of the mildest winters in my life I'd experienced at that point.

My attempted upgrade to 64Gb of RAM in my laptop has failed. Yesterday, I received the computer I had ordered, which was supposed to have a busted screen, but had a 13th Gen i7, 3050, 64Gb of RAM and 2Tb SSD. I'd intended to snag the RAM and SSD out of it and then fix the screen and give it to my kids. Unfortunately for me (and the seller, but that's not my problem) the PC came with a 1Tb SSD and 16Gb of RAM.

Just got back from the Post Office, dropping it off as a return.

Still tempted to look for another one to upgrade my laptop with, but maybe I should buy a video card for my desktop and/or nothing at all and just save my money.