imagine a muggleborn enchanting a bath bomb so it works like normal but it works instantly and never dissolves so it can be re-used over and over again but then they’re showing it to their friend on the deck of a cruise ship and they drop it overboard into the ocean and because all the oceans on earth are connected it only takes a few hours for all the water in the world to be contaminated by the bath bomb and because the water cycle is broken the only potable water left on earth is the stuff that was already bottled but that runs out quickly and all the plants die, destroying the food chain and rendering Earth uninhabitable. Within a few years, earth is completely lifeless, although fragrant, and from space it is a brilliant sparkly pink.
Seriously. I work at a food place and this one woman came in with a 4 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter. She takes the child seat so nothing unusual there, she’s probably gonna sit her toddler in it. Boy were we wrong. She puts her purse in the child seat and her youngest child on the table.
Her youngest stands on the table with her filthy shoes and starts hitting the light. Now, here’s the thing about our lights. While there is one hanging above each table, every 8 or so are connected to one hanging beam up high. When you hit one light, you move hit the other 7 too. She was standing on the table and slapping the lights which was causing the entire beam to swing. The mother wasn’t doing anything to control her.
Now to make things worse, over at the soda fountain was the son. He thought it was a good idea to hold down the ice machine. Ice filled up the bottom of it and fell to the ground. This kids were walking safety hazards and we couldn’t do jack shit because our manager would fire us. The mother was neglectful and she still had her fucking purse in the child seat instead of her two small children and guess who had to clean the table after they left and clean the soda fountain and the floor of all the ice? Me. She was one of the worst customers and the worst parents I had ever seen.
I have absolutely zero tolerance and respect for people who think it’s okay to jip artists by either running off with the art before paying, or not paying the full price on completion.
This is why I encourage people who do commissions to ask for payment prior to the commission being worked on and if they refuse, deny them service.
They shouldn’t be asking for art if they can’t afford to pay the price. Don’t trust people who don’t pay or don’t want to pay. You deserve every cent for every minute of work you put in.
American education:
we need another standardized test and more homework!
Finland:
actually, we became one of the worlds' best education systems by getting rid of homework and standardized tests - also, we pay our teachers better than you.
China:
same
Belgium:
same
American education:
better make it two more standardized tests.
