I believe everyone should work at least one year in a customer service position.
Retail or working in a restaurant.

one of my first jobs was working in a fast food restaurant.
HATED IT.
HATED IT.
HATED IT.
it taught me very quickly that i don’t “do” food service.
my next job,
and many jobs after that,
was working retail.
i have done retail in many popular and high end stores.
i know what “working a black friday” means and the ping of terror it gives me.
retail is where i learned…

I’ve always had a soft spot for the old school hoes.

the ones who knew how to move in silence.
not just the 90s rappers and actors,
but the seasoned professionals of all careers.
the ones who knew how to keep things tight,
classy,
and above all,
private.
i wasn’t taught the game by attentionistos/nistas.
i learned from the real gold diggers.
the ones who bagged the blue checks or the finest of the fine,
whether they were straight or gay,
and like denzel said:

.they moved by a code and had poise.
when it was over…

do you know your worth?
you could have 1 dollar in your account but demand to be treated a certain way.
for many of us,
we forget our worth and allow ourselves to be treated any kind of way.
we think we need to “be a certain way” in order to get what we want.

People who know they worth don’t keep the peace.
They know to shake shit up until everyone gets it right.

when i saw usher calling for the doorman to hold the door for him,
i thought to myself that this was just usher being extra.

“he already had the door open so why did he need to call the doorman over.”
keyword: the doorman.
in a group chat i’m in,
i posted the video and karaoke had this to font…

the so-called kings of the nfl got their crowns snatched at the super bowl.
hell,
it was legit handed to them tbp.
last night wasn’t just a regular super bowl:

It was a reckoning.

while the forests were preparing for a “look at how taylor reacts” glaze sesh…
and can we font about what her manz was wearing last night?

ugh.
i would NEVER let my manz walk out the door like that.
like,
WTF is that?
i know him saying ( x he didn’t like gumbo ) made the spirits MAD too.
something far more satisfying ended up unfolding…

Khalid shutting down anyone who doubted his pull.
Hell,
maybe those who didn’t think he had pull.

calling khalid ugly is absolutely ridiculous.
i’m not shocked about khalid being gay.
ya’ll done told me it started with his song,
“location“.
apparently,
the clues are in the lyrics and the alleged grindr notification sound.

the real headline is…

Have you ever realized that no matter how you looked or acted,
you could pull the “same sex experimentation” out of certain males without a lot of effort?

my special powers is that i make anyone feel comfortable.
i wouldn’t have spent so much time hating myself for being different.
when i think about all the wolves i bagged without even realizing it,
i actually feel like the sexiest person alive.

I thought they were being standoffish but I’d always catch them staring.
Not only that,
when we were alone,
I couldn’t get them to shut up.

so those feminine traits of mine i once despised?
they were like magnets that pulled the curiosity out of my admirers.
instead of obsessing over the ones who wasted my time,
i should’ve just shrugged and said:

BYE BITCH!

because,
in reality,
i was always pulling someone even bolder and sexier.
i didn’t have the tools to understand my own power.
it wasn’t until i stumbled on someone like @martinurzua.com,
casually flipping the script in making wolves curious like this one…

that i realized…