This is great.


I spend a lot of time on the Internet Atoll.

I am a seasoned traveller of the Railroad of cancelled plans as well as the River of daydreams.

On the self checkout:-

I prefer it if the line is short and I have few groceries. I do worry about taking away people's jobs, but I kind of like not having to deal with anyone. The thing is, often something happens at the automatic checkout where the supervising cashier has to come and intervene -- that is almost more annoying than having a human cashier to start with, whom I can mostly ignore and deals with my stuff without my having to wait or call someone.

WE went to the grocery store 30 mins before closing to pick up our things for thanksgiving.
We are going to friends house and are bringing a pecan chew(kind of like a pie but chewy), spinach mashed potatoes. and cranberry sauce with mandarin oranges. we got to the line right at 10 and they closed the store opened up a new register and we quickly checked out and she was very cheerful.
But by this time my Raynauds is acting way up and I have 3 white and painful fingers. I had to go home and not touch anything else cold and run my fingers under hot water to thaw them out. It is in the forties and I was stupid and did not wear my mittens that I HAD with me!!!!!
sigh
bizi

Gad.

I only started in the line once or twice to do the do-it -yourself groceries but
I hade no intention to do the work. First of all too much technology is involved.
Secondly, I get no discount for this.I called the manager over to get someone to do my groceries.

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It is a crappy business model that has failed.
A decade ago grocery stores hoped it would take off. No.
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…except Home Depot strongly encourages it (most other registers are closed) so I do not frequent their stores.

M

I am hyper aware of other people's job every moment I am out in the world.
It is weird. We did not used to have this way of thinking.

M

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This is interesting, because it brings up the aspect of choice, whether one can choose to be "introverted" or "extraverted" any or all of the time. This had occurred to me with the ambivert terminology as well.

An ambidextrous person can do most things with either hand -- they can choose which hand to use. Can an ambivert choose which way to be? Can they turn off the need for social support, or turn off the feeling of social erosion after overexposure? Defined by ability, then an ambivert has the gifts of both the introvert and the extrovert, however, defined by need, the ambivert also has the needs of both, not necessarily at convenient times.

I can't choose. I swing between elements of both, at intervals. And I don't have to be having mood swings although that will do it as well. My needs are sometimes of one and sometimes of the other, and I behave accordingingly. I do not "choose" which to be... I cannot draw upon some special capacity to use my "other hand" the way the ambidextrous person can.

Maybe I am an intervert? In between? That is probably where most people are, but many are more strongly outgoing and others more withdrawn. I oscillate or anyway shift between being introverted and extraverted. I guess I am a locovert.

Internet solves some problems for me as it does for many others I think. One can have a distant sort of social contact that protects from many of the difficulties of human contact.

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I am INFJ Introvert (50%) ]Intuitive (19%), Feeling (6%), Judging (1%)
But I suspect that I am as much Perceiving as I am Judging and could have gone differently on that one on any given day.

M

ISTJ
interesting!

One test somewhere else....I was the inspector.
bizi

ENFP but E was dubiously close to middle -- counselor said I am an E/I-NFP.

You have strengths in both. That is helpful.

Mari