So, the other day when the wife from the (young) (Thai) married couple got her period and called in sick, she also called in for her dinner shift, and the (potbellied) (balding) (bespectacled) (Thai) restaurant owner asked me if I could come in to cover for her, which I did.
And, I worked with this (young 20-something) (tall) (thin) (Thai) guy, whose name I had seen on the schedule, but who I had never worked with before then.
He had a laptop out and was working on there in between stuff -- it was a slow night -- and I asked him if he was a student, and he said yes and then he said no, and then he said that he had been in school in Florida but he had dropped out, and now he's doing a coding bootcamp, and that it doesn't really matter with coding if you have a degree, it matters more what you know.
And, later in between stuff, we talked more, and he said that he had wanted to move to the big city where I had been living ,but it cost too much, so he came here, since it's cheaper to live and you can get by without a car, and what does it matter anyways, since he sits in front of a computer screen all the time, sometimes for like 12 or 14 hours a day.
And, even later in between stuff, when I mentioned that he probably was glad that he wasn't in Florida because of the hurricane, he said that he had had a house there that his parents had bought him, but they kicked him out when he didn't want to go into engineering like they wanted.
Plus, at some point he showed me this thin but substantial dull metallic ring he has that automatically monitors how much he moves and how much he sleeps, that's how he knows he sat in front of screens for 12 or for 14 hours, and he said he can get up in the morning and it tells him how well he slept and he'll know how he'll feel that day, and he pulled up on his smartphone his heartrate records and showed me where it spiked to 150, and he said that that was at a concert, and he pulled up videos of these neon green light shows from techno clubs where they were pouring out of the stage in these huge giant beams while all of these absorbed shellshocked kids were just jumping up and down with their hands outstretched towards the stage, just endlessly, and also at some point he pulled up some coding diploma or something like that and said it was an NFT registered on the blockchain, and also he said that his taxes this past year were a hundred and twenty-eight pages long, since he had to itemize all the crypto trades that he did.
"Cummies," he was like, pointing to the name of this one currency on the picture of his taxes that he pulled up to show to me. "You can use that to buy porn, I made a lot of money with that."
He also said that growing up, he never really ate (Thai) food, so when he started working at the restaurant, they thought he'd know a lot about it, but he just didn't.
"So if you grew up in Thailand and you didn't eat Thai food," I was like, "What did you eat all the time?"
"I don't know," he was like. "Like fried chicken and cereal, I guess."
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