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18 Jul 2016, 2:08 pm

For slightly over year I have been unemployed. During the day I get bored and just walk around like a ghost in my local town centre (I live in quite a small town) and sometimes 'I' myself find it funny that I aimlessly walk around.

Today I walked past this group of youths at my local towns park and I heard them saying behind my back "Have you seen that guy before he just walks around town all day" I then turned around to look at them and they burst out laughing at me and I felt really embarresed.

Do you think I deserved to be laughed at for my actions? :oops:



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18 Jul 2016, 2:17 pm

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For slightly over year I have been unemployed. During the day I get bored and just walk around like a ghost in my local town centre (I live in quite a small town) and sometimes 'I' myself find it funny that I aimlessly walk around.

Today I walked past this group of youths at my local towns park and I heard them saying behind my back "Have you seen that guy before he just walks around town all day" I then turned around to look at them and they burst out laughing at me and I felt really embarresed.

Do you think I deserved to be laughed at for my actions? :oops:

British youths living in a small town have nothing to do but insult passersby? They are, perhaps, the most useless of humans in that region of Earth. I would advise fastforwarding your imagination about 10 years, and seeing them as the stunted slothful slugs they will very likely become. You, on the other hand, are getting daily exercise and surveying of your community.

So, no. You don't deserve to be laughed at for your actions or any other reason. They are bullies. Shun them.


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18 Jul 2016, 2:20 pm

What AspieUtah is saying is true. Forget those punks. They don't have jobs, either, and are not trying to improve themselves in other ways.

But you should still try to get a job, anyway.

I used to do the "wandering" thing. It really wasn't pleasant.



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18 Jul 2016, 2:22 pm

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What AspieUtah is saying is true. Forget those punks. They don't have jobs, either, and are not trying to improve themselves in other ways.

But you should still try to get a job, anyway.

I used to do the "wandering" thing. It really wasn't pleasant.

Hehe, thanks, kraftiekortie. It is just that I have been there, done that.

So, my mind sees a 14-year-old you mindlessly wandering into Connecticut without meaning to do so?


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18 Jul 2016, 2:41 pm

British youths these days have become very nasty haven't they?

Is the media to blame?



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18 Jul 2016, 2:42 pm

That would have been cool, actually.

When I was 14, wandering from 86th and 2nd to the Museum of Natural History on 81st and Central Park West was a pretty big deal LOL

When I was 19, though, I didn't have a job at one point. I was hanging out with a bunch of fellow unemployed people in an abandoned car near Jamaica Avenue (not a nice part of Queens). I bought myself some Franco-American something or other. When I got back to the car, I realized no one had a can opener!

At that point, I split from the scene, and started diligently looking for work again.



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18 Jul 2016, 9:36 pm

Nothing wrong with walking around aimlessly -- it's nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about.


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18 Jul 2016, 9:53 pm

When a group of young people laugh at you, It's wrong to wonder if you deserved it. That's just what they do. Walk further away. I used to walk through the woods to the next town.