lesson learned:
it pays to keep your mouth shut.
the city I live in is pretty big, but it's small enough that you can't exactly hide from your past. at the grocery store I go to, I almost always run into this girl who went to my high school. if I go late at night (which I prefer to do, because it's less busy and I can be my mumbly, wandering self), I usually run into this extremely creepy male cashier who freaks me the fuck out. I will avoid her lane and I will avoid his lane.
tonight I went to get, among other things, "beer bottles with green glass and green caps." my sister (a minor) is doing an art project and she MUST HAVE green glass and bottle caps.
well, in avoiding creepy guy, I had the choice of waiting in line forever or going to my former classmate's lane. for some reason, it was really busy at the store at midnight tonight.
SIDENOTE:
I do not go by legal name. I have long since decided that I need to change my name, and had I known that it wouldn't be as easy to change it in Michigan as it is in Iowa, I would have done it there. in Michigan, it costs $150 and it is assumed that you are trying to change your name for fraud or crime or some debaucherous purpose, so you have to have a hearing to defend the reason you want to change your name UNLESS you are getting married. then it's just included in the $35 license fee. anyway. in theory, my name would have been changed in may. unfortunately, I had been out of that terrible, terrible relationshit for nine months already, so no chance of the marriage actually happening! enough of a tangent for you? h'okay!
so! I'm in former classmate's lane and, of course, she has to check my id because she is legally obligated to do so because I have a 12 pack of expensive beer along with my deodorant and toothpaste and chocolate covered payday bar and obviously I'm really getting ready for a party. so I'm thinking to myself that I'm really grateful I'm not in lane 10 with really creepy guy and I'm just about to say something, and she starts tallking about how she's going to get married soon.
well, congratulations.
she goes on! yep, see that handsome man down on lane 10? (wow, I actually thought his head was kind of misshapen...) yeah, he works here, too, but he went to the same college that she went to. she sighs happily.
great!
do you want your payday out with you, Kathy?
I think my teeth may have made an audible grind. 1. she probably didn't even remember my name until she looked at my id and was excited to exercise its use and 2. that is the ONE nickname that I have NEVER let people call me.
so I'm really glad I didn't insult her fianc, but I'm not going to tell her what she should be calling me.
it pays to keep your mouth shut.
the city I live in is pretty big, but it's small enough that you can't exactly hide from your past. at the grocery store I go to, I almost always run into this girl who went to my high school. if I go late at night (which I prefer to do, because it's less busy and I can be my mumbly, wandering self), I usually run into this extremely creepy male cashier who freaks me the fuck out. I will avoid her lane and I will avoid his lane.
tonight I went to get, among other things, "beer bottles with green glass and green caps." my sister (a minor) is doing an art project and she MUST HAVE green glass and bottle caps.
well, in avoiding creepy guy, I had the choice of waiting in line forever or going to my former classmate's lane. for some reason, it was really busy at the store at midnight tonight.
SIDENOTE:
I do not go by legal name. I have long since decided that I need to change my name, and had I known that it wouldn't be as easy to change it in Michigan as it is in Iowa, I would have done it there. in Michigan, it costs $150 and it is assumed that you are trying to change your name for fraud or crime or some debaucherous purpose, so you have to have a hearing to defend the reason you want to change your name UNLESS you are getting married. then it's just included in the $35 license fee. anyway. in theory, my name would have been changed in may. unfortunately, I had been out of that terrible, terrible relationshit for nine months already, so no chance of the marriage actually happening! enough of a tangent for you? h'okay!
so! I'm in former classmate's lane and, of course, she has to check my id because she is legally obligated to do so because I have a 12 pack of expensive beer along with my deodorant and toothpaste and chocolate covered payday bar and obviously I'm really getting ready for a party. so I'm thinking to myself that I'm really grateful I'm not in lane 10 with really creepy guy and I'm just about to say something, and she starts tallking about how she's going to get married soon.
well, congratulations.
she goes on! yep, see that handsome man down on lane 10? (wow, I actually thought his head was kind of misshapen...) yeah, he works here, too, but he went to the same college that she went to. she sighs happily.
great!
do you want your payday out with you, Kathy?
I think my teeth may have made an audible grind. 1. she probably didn't even remember my name until she looked at my id and was excited to exercise its use and 2. that is the ONE nickname that I have NEVER let people call me.
so I'm really glad I didn't insult her fianc, but I'm not going to tell her what she should be calling me.
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although i AM getting married, we can't do the legal thing, so that is out of the question. besides that i want my OWN last name that I choose, so that wouldn't work for me anyway.
basically.....the amount they cover depends on your income....and when you get married they count your spouses income as a good part of yours too.....which means you have to pay much more out of your pocket