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Learning To Ask

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At restaurants, I'd rather eat food I didn't like than ask for substitutions. Ah I don't want to be needy, I'll just endure the pickles.(Here I'd be asking for LESS than what's offered but in my deranged mind omitting ingredients seemed like "extra work" for the cook and waiter). I wouldn't use the bathroom of a McDonald's without buying something first. No matter how full my bladder was. I'd have rather missed my flight than ask an agent if I could cut the security line. Part of my apprehension was moral. I thought we should act how we want everyone else to act. What if everyone just started cutting in the security line? No one would show up for their flights early enough. The strongest people would show up seconds to boarding and just shove to the front and society would crumble. Part of it came from spending so much time on the internet. Everyone on the internet is mad all the time. Over nothing. Every post, doesn't matter if it's about religion or baby elephant gifs, contains at le

Learning To Ask HIDE PHOTOS about / follow / topics KARTHIK BALA Learning To Ask 2019-10-05 • life Growing up, I never asked for anything. My problems were my own. Why should anyone else help me? Asking for more than what was offered felt rude, entitled, imposing. I took it a bit too far. At restaurants, I'd rather eat food I didn't like than ask for substitutions. Ah I don't want to be needy, I'll just endure the pickles. (Here I'd be asking for LESS than what's offered but in my deranged mind omitting ingredients seemed like "extra work" for the cook and waiter). I wouldn't use the bath

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