Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE 禄

Tell me a story from your life

I鈥檓 listening 馃
CountScrofula41-45, M
It's 2002 or so. I'm a member of the IWW before it started to really find its niche and become the thing it is today. At the time we did solidarity work. So if someone else strikes, we help 'em out.

A local TV has a strike. It started out as a "We'll pay you less than everyone but we believe in this so hang on and you will be rewarded". The station is successful, and they decide to expand instead of paying the staff. The staff go on strike, and the TV personalities do not strike which makes everything awful. It was a reasonable strike too - forced relocations and fast food wages for the producers of the biggest morning TV show in a large city for example.

If the TV personalities joined the strike, it'd be over in seconds because you no longer have that reliable face reading the news (which mattered back then). I can't stress how selfishly these people fucked their colleagues.

In a strike, that means pressure tactics and a part of that is letting scabs know the social consequence of hurting their colleagues os badly. One of the scabs was the weathergirl, and she was a jazz singer.

So the union asks us to heckle her at one of her gigs. We do so gladly. It's in a martini bar. we're all 20 and have never been someone that fancy. There's six of us. We split into three groups of two, buy some martinis (FIRST MARTINI EXCITING) and settle in for the show.

This is a small venue, and we're like two feet from her. I'm in the last group. The first group goes and starts shouting about the strike. It's at this point I notice strikebreakers, enormous beefy ex-cons. So the first two shout and get escorted out roughly, but without violence. A half hour goes, and the second group goes.

The idea is that she doesn't know how many there are or when it will end. Aka "RESOLVE THE STRIKE OR THE ANNOYANCE WILL CONTINUE."

Finally, we go. I recall shouting "The forecast calls for suck!"

The strikebreakers -lose it-. I get slammed against aw all, and my friend Nick gets his tie wrapped around his neck and his face hammered into the table repeatedly. We manage to get out, and I get in a tug-of-war with another friend of mine and one of these howling goons. I get him away, and the security guard we bribed with a bag of weed leads us out to safety.
CountScrofula41-45, M
@wackidywack Gotta stand up for what you believe in, wacky. In my case that means making local celebrities cry.
Effloresce26-30, F
@CountScrofula Holy shit dude that's crazy. Your level of determination is as high as I bet that security guard got from all that weed 馃槑
CountScrofula41-45, M
@Effloresce Hahahaha
wackidywack22-25
one time, I used my psych abilities for [i]the bad[/i] on my brother because he was unnecessarily being a dick and I had enough of it. he gave in and couldn't give anyone shit anymore. i thought maybe i should use my powers more often
SW-User
wackidywack22-25
deadgerbil22-25, F
@SW-User dang, you're kinda right ._.
When i was in college, i always go to school early and hang out in the library. One morning, i was going upstairs the library and i was eating lollipop. Then a nun from our school saw me and told me it's too early to be having sweets 馃槀 i think she also said that its not good for teeth 馃槀馃槀馃槀
Effloresce26-30, F
Oooh 馃槷 did you have to throw it away?@Dewms
@Effloresce heckkkkk no!!! Cant stop wont stop!
Effloresce26-30, F
Dang right 馃槑 @Dewms
Degbeme70-79, M
Once upon a time a cute little boy was born. Grew up to be an old fart.

The End. 馃槵
XReaganX26-30, F
I finally have a good one that I think people should know. ;)
XReaganX26-30, F
[@Efflorescence] I can't remember much of life due to a variety of factors. It was traumatic mostly, and due to one of my disorders I had to take medication (I probably still do for other things but I digress). My parents gave me a pill. This drug was a mild strain of Methamphetamine. It was supposed to be a cure all for mostly my A.D.D.! See, I wasn't doing so well in school because I had the attention span of a goldfish. The drug made me focus, served as an antidepressant, and I was very quick witted and sharp. There's an issue though...it didn't work in the way they had hoped. As smart as I am with and without, I was still failing. Nobody could understand why...

I won't get into the traumatic events and the things I had to live with, but this cure all pill made it all worse. Nobody knew me really because I was high on it, I would get massive headaches, and it would wear off around the last two hours of school. When that happened my body crashed, my mind went insane. The side effects threw me into a drug induced rage. I did things that weren't good...but to put all of that on a kid who was already dealing with abuse, it was more than anyone could take.

The moral of the story is: There's no easy way out. In fact, the "easy way" could actually make things harder on you. When you're going through something, go through it, and you will learn to overcome what sets you back. There's never a such thing as a quick fix.

That pill was experimental. It hasn't been used very often at all. In turn, because I was on it for almost two decades, it had taken its toll as the trauma certainly did. When I got off of the medication, I had to go through a little rehab and learn to function without it.

So, I figured I'd share that with you since we live in a Burger King society. There's never a cure all, quick fix, whatever. Certainly do not do drugs either, not even to "escape" the hard reality of life. It can mess you up through your brain chemistry like it has mine, and you'll never know what [b]you're[/b] capable of without it.
Effloresce26-30, F
Wow, thanks for sharing :) it can be so frustrating when trying to deal with or fix something that鈥檚 making life unbearable. This really inspired me because I鈥檝e had to force myself away from drugs and alcohol during times when I was only using them to forget about my problems. It鈥檚 great that you were able to have such a helpful takeaway from an experience like that @XReaganX
@XReaganX 馃枻
BeefySenpieM
I once gave a lady bus money, and she didn't even say thanks -.-
BeefySenpieM
@MarkPaul You're confusing me with that fanfic you read
MarkPaul26-30, M
@BeefySenpie But you both look exactly the same.
Effloresce26-30, F
@BeefySenpie yikes that's rude
One from when I was a teen on the farm?
Effloresce26-30, F
Thanks for sharing :) it鈥檚 great that you were able to get so much out of that one experience with your dad. I鈥檓 known to be very stubborn when it comes to wanting to do things myself so I probably would have done the same thing @DarkHeaven
@CountScrofula He鈥檚 my hero.
@Effloresce 馃枻馃 I鈥檓 a tough girl.
quitwhendoneM
There are things that happened in my life that would make for great stories but I don't want to admit to in a public setting.
popmol22-25, M
when i was young i was stubborn and i didn't want to stop drinking from a bottle.
however in that time we went camping, and where we stayed there was a horse ranch.
when my mom opened the bottle and placed the drinking part on the side of the fence and when we weren't looking the horse ate the thing xD
Effloresce26-30, F
Hahaha really? That鈥檚 crazy 馃槅 I guess you had to learn to drink without it after that happened @popmol
popmol22-25, M
@Effloresce well i could i just didn't want to its like those drinking flask right now instead of opening the top and have potential for spill it all out and doign stuff liek that you can have a spout instead XD
goliathtree56-60, M
I was born. I laughed. I cried. I made a little love. I got fucking old.
SW-User
I don't think you would want to hear anything about my life. It has mostly been weeks or months of absolute boredom where the days blend together only to be broken by periods of absolute suffering.
SStarfish
Once a guy at the Laundromat moved a machine for me and i didnt even ask 馃槼
Effloresce26-30, F
whaaat?@SStarfish
SStarfish
Yeah cause id dropped something and he saw me looking down between the machines and came over and moved them and smiled at me (i was super shy and embarrassed cause it was an underwear) 馃槅馃槅馃槀 omg (i was like 14 in new jersey)馃槃馃槃 馃槼
ActuallySatan31-35
I was born, some sad stuff happened, some good stuff happened and here we all are.
XReaganX26-30, F
What kind of story are you in for?
Effloresce26-30, F
Anything you feel like sharing :) it can be about anything, happy or sad or in between @XReaganX
XReaganX26-30, F
@Effloresce There's not a whole lot I can remember. But perhaps I will share with something meaningful that you can learn from?
Effloresce26-30, F
Sure!@XReaganX
SW-User
Not going to type all that out. So far, it's not sorted out
ZorannaF
Well there was this time when ....

Nah 馃き
Effloresce26-30, F
Awww@Zoranna
ZorannaF
@Effloresce 馃槈
Talesfromthedarkside26-30, M
Started from the bottom and now I'm here
MarkPaul26-30, M
I keep trying. Fin.
JoyfulSilence46-50, M
They are all on here!
HatandCloak31-35, M
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDG1fWZ6hVg]
vetguy199151-55, M
Not much to tell
MartinTheFirst22-25, M
It sucks the end

 
Post Comment