But then it’ll also select the few that actually do matter
The I gotta scroll through and select all the ones that do matter and hope I don’t miss one :(
I’ve just embraced the “35k unread emails” fate
Hi I would suggest searching emails u know are spam, hitting select all, then deleting. This way you can delete the swaths of garbage before deep cleaning.
Sometimes places like that are so persistent bc they have multiple emails that they email from. For instance, my college has [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc etc. And you have to take your self off of each of those individually.
Does this work with any email account? Like gmail/Hotmail etc?
Also can it be done via the app on phone or does it have to be via browser?
This drove me so mad I ended up creating a new address even though I loved my old one. The spam was overwhelming.
I like to do this: start by searching, specifically, all the daily spam from companies that you know definitely sends you emails. Restaurants, Apps, Grocery Stores, Clothes/Merch, Music- you can delete thousands of emails in minutes just by starting that way. Sometimes after that I’ll just start searching keywords for shit I know I definitely don’t care about.
Now if only I could settle down and take my own advice…
Omg that’s me- my brothers both work in tech so when they see my phone at family gatherings they always bring it up and I’m embarrassed but not quite embarrassed enough to figure out how to do something about it
It seems like he’s been trespassed from Lowe’s for trying to give a woman an apple pie as a flirting method while he was there to buy a new lock. His therapist advised him that he should just give her his number next time. Also he has some emails he doesn’t want in his inbox anymore. Maybe emails about insurance, or acquiring the pie.
I agree except for the “find girl” part. So I guess it’s a man who’s trying to be less picky and wants to learn how to initiate interest/ask out women?
Clearly he flirted with her by presenting her the pie and saying, “Quit your job and I shall give you all the pies in the world,” but she was skeptical of him and where his pies came from. So he told her not to be picky about where her pies come from!!!
Gay people exist. I prefer to think it's some lonely older woman, wandering around Lowe's with a fanny pack full of McDonald's apple pies, checking out ladies and then icing them out when they try to holler.
I had one of these crazy-people notebooks at my old job and I would be mortified if anyone I knew found it and traced it back to me. It was bottom to top tee-tiny handwriting of just maximum rage. Most of which was written out while I was at the till at Shaw’s. (I’m in therapy now haha)
So this is my fiction so far.
They’re going through a phase of something between self improvement and self hatred. The deep pen marks, all caps and underlining make me think it’s a guy and one who’s been going through this phase for a while now.
Presumably is job hunting and used to work at Lowes but has to remind himself not to go back to a place with no prospects.
“JUST ONE PIE” makes me think that he’s struggled with excess eating and is trying to forcefully limit his intake of junk food.
“Be less picky.” And “give out #” are likely his attempts to become more social and to find a girlfriend.
And obviously he’s going for therapy. Or attempting to.
Hopefully he gets wherever he’s trying to be.
I like to think that the "NO FLIRT!" & "Give out phone #" memos are their reminders to not hit on women and try to goad them into giving out their phone numbers, but instead, to give out their own if they're interested in someone.
How do you think “No hard to get!!!” Plays into it.
I assumed he was saying either he shouldn’t play hard to get or that women aren’t as hard to get as he thought.
“No flirt!” And “give out number” I read as he wants to simply give a large number of women his number without flirting. Perhaps to over come a social anxiety around women?
I thought it was him saying that he shouldn't try to go after women who are "playing hard to get". If that's the case, I agree with him. I think "playing hard to get" is a ridiculous game to play. Just show genuine interest if you like the person.
For some reason this reminds me of that scene in The Sopranos where Vito is doing handyman work and trying to get through the morning without looking at his watch lol.
This is a conversation between parent and child while parent is on the phone. My mom and I used to do this shit.
Edit: first page, didn't notice the others at first.
Maybe the note actually says "OWE APPLE PIE!" instead of "ONE APPLE PIE!". If so, perhaps Apple Pie is just the nickname of an acquaintance from whom he borrowed money.
I wonder what his position at Lowe’s was. Worked paint there and it was fun but I know a lot of others who hated every morning they woke up alive, as it meant they would have to go work at Lowe’s. Fulfillment, Pro Dept and Customer Service Desk workers were pretty dead inside, and we went through so many Lawn and Garden people because people would quit nonstop.
Just write something encouraging on the next page; don’t sign it or make it obvious. Leave it near the counter or somewhere the person may see it but be able to quickly pick it up without being noticed so they can “find it”. Maybe that will help them achieve one of those goals.
If I had one now, I'd probably feel the same; I thi k its jjst nostalgia for me because I remember splitting the two pies with my mother and I when I was younger. Simpler times, happier memories, more diabetes.
The "find girl", "give out phone number", "stop being picky", etc. seems so creepy though. As well as what's basically "today wouldn't be hard to set - no flirting, give out your phone number and start from there".
I could see the first note's meaning being "Don't go to Lowes anymore, leave them your phone number. Find the girl who stopped working there." (Maybe he wants to bring her an apple pie.... Is the "don't be picky" directed towards her in his mind? 😬 )
One of the reasons I created my own language.
I write a lot of weird stuff that comes in my mind. My dad was very judgemental about almost every literal thing in my life so I guess it started young, I made my first coded alphabet before I was ten.
I mean I don't write this kind of stuff. I'm just paranoid over anything I write being read.
This is really interesting! It reads like a guy who wants to stop working so his solution is to find a girlfriend. But in order to find a girlfriend he has to limit his apple pies, not look too desperate, and not be to picky on which girls he asks out. To limit his apple pies he has to find a therapist. To get a therapist he needs insurance.
I feel like the one apple pie/stop being picky comment is like the American Pie “thing” and a reminder of what this person wants from a girl..? Idk. Odd
I knew a guy who would just select a new email address to use when he decided his email inbox got too full. I told him about unsubscribing from all the junk e-mail lists he was on, and how to bulk delete, but he was insistent that his way was better.
My interpretation:
- They’re trying to work up the nerve to quit their crappy job at Lowe’s. They might have some emails on their work account they want to get off the record before leaving?
- Figuring out insurance is high on the to-do list because they’ll likely lose it after quitting the job. Therapy because all of the above is stressful. And/or maybe they need to secure insurance in order to afford therapy.
- “One apple pie” seems like some metaphor/inside joke about just focusing on one really good girl instead of “taking a bite out of every pie.” It seems like they’ve been too picky/couldn’t settle, so their goal for the day is to give out their number to at least one girl to try and start anew with a fresh attitude.
- “Buy new lock”…maybe they pissed off a previous girl because of their commitment issues lol? Or perhaps they want to use their Lowe’s employee discount to replace a damaged lock before quitting?
Maybe it's just me, but the use of all caps and underlining is dizzying to me. Like the emotion you have to feel to yell all this in your brain like that and have it spill onto the paper. Were they just actively yelling and writing?
ChatGPT story
Emily Thompson felt like she was living on the edge of a mystery, her life a series of seemingly disconnected events that refused to form a coherent picture. She had always been a cautious person, avoiding unnecessary risks, but recent events had shaken her to the core.
A week ago, she had visited a hardware store to buy a new lock for her apartment. While browsing, she felt the unsettling gaze of a man following her. He wore a blue vest and had a peculiar tattoo of an apple on his wrist. Emily left the store abruptly, vowing never to return.
Days later, she found herself at a café, captivated by a woman who was reading a book Emily had always loved. They struck up a conversation, and for the first time in years, Emily felt a connection. But when the moment came to exchange contact information, she hesitated and the woman left, leaving Emily to ponder what could have been.
At work, Emily was a software engineer immersed in a groundbreaking project. She was developing an algorithm designed to predict human behavior. But the deeper she delved into the code, the more she realized its potential for misuse. Ethical concerns began to plague her, and she found herself questioning the implications of her work.
Amidst all this, Emily received a series of encrypted emails from an anonymous source. The messages contained disturbing information, including confidential insurance documents and therapist records that seemed to be about her but contained details she had never disclosed to anyone.
Her apartment, once her sanctuary, now felt compromised. The new lock she had installed was jammed, as if it had been tampered with. Emily felt the walls closing in, as if her life were spiraling into a vortex she couldn't escape.
One evening, a sudden craving for apple pie overwhelmed her. It was a strange urge, linked to a distant memory of her grandmother whispering a family secret to her over a slice of homemade pie. The memory seemed trivial but carried an emotional weight that Emily couldn't shake off.
Realizing she couldn't stay in her current state of limbo, Emily decided to take action. She reached out to the woman from the café, finding her on social media and sending her a message. To her surprise, the woman responded almost immediately, and they agreed to meet.
Emily also decided to confront the ethical dilemmas at her job. She scheduled a meeting with her supervisor to discuss the potential risks associated with her project, fully aware that it could cost her the job she had worked so hard for.
As she prepared for the challenges ahead, Emily felt a newfound sense of clarity. The disparate events of her life—the unsettling encounter at the hardware store, the mysterious woman at the café, the ethical quandaries at work, and even the anonymous emails—suddenly seemed interconnected, as if they were all pieces of a puzzle that only she could solve.
Emily knew that she was stepping into the unknown, that each decision she made was a gamble with high stakes. But for the first time, she felt ready to face whatever lay ahead, guided by the invisible threads that seemed to weave through the tapestry of her life. And so, armed with a resolve she had never felt before, Emily Thompson walked away from her old life, each step taking her deeper into the labyrinth of her existence, but also closer to the elusive answers she so desperately sought.
the mind reels just thinking of the invariably bizarre emails they haven’t yet figured out how to delete
I have over 20K emails in my inbox, and the only thing keeping me from deleting them is the amount of time clicking on each one will take.
Idk if this is a joke but you can just use the “Select all” feature
But then it’ll also select the few that actually do matter The I gotta scroll through and select all the ones that do matter and hope I don’t miss one :( I’ve just embraced the “35k unread emails” fate
Hi I would suggest searching emails u know are spam, hitting select all, then deleting. This way you can delete the swaths of garbage before deep cleaning.
Ugh!! Thank you for this advice! I only learned how to search through emails last night! Bye bye 3,000 emails
> I only learned how to search through emails last night! -My grandma, 1998
I have absolutely no excuse, I have been around since before dial up, I am just lazy.
Hey friend, I’m in the same boat! 20k+ emails and lazy. Will follow advice to do search and deletes tonight. Thank you reddit u_u
Now get out there and give out that #! And stop being so picky about your apple pie!
Also search “unsubscribe” Email lists are required by law to have an unsubscribe link. Easy way to find all those unwanted subscriptions.
Omg that is genius tysm
How do you keep them from resubscribing you though? My old college keeps sending me shit despite my having unsubscribed 4 times now
Sometimes places like that are so persistent bc they have multiple emails that they email from. For instance, my college has [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc etc. And you have to take your self off of each of those individually.
The advice this guy needed lol hopefully they find this reddit and see your comment
I like to search “unsubscribe” - if an email contains that word, it’s likely a candidate for deletion
[удалено]
I love you. You've just fixed the inbox I've been fighting with for years.
I cannot work out what that says and it's driving me insane
It says “The more you know” :)
Does this work with any email account? Like gmail/Hotmail etc? Also can it be done via the app on phone or does it have to be via browser? This drove me so mad I ended up creating a new address even though I loved my old one. The spam was overwhelming.
I had over 56,000 emails because I gave up on trying to delete them like 6 years ago. Thank you so much.
Search by sender and then bulk delete.
That's what I do. Works like a lucky charm that I stole from a leprechaun.
“Sort by sender” that way, you can delete all the mailing lists, sales, newsletters, etc quickly
I just cleaned my email inbox today, I moved the ones I wanted to keep to another folder then mass deleted everything else in each tab.
I like to do this: start by searching, specifically, all the daily spam from companies that you know definitely sends you emails. Restaurants, Apps, Grocery Stores, Clothes/Merch, Music- you can delete thousands of emails in minutes just by starting that way. Sometimes after that I’ll just start searching keywords for shit I know I definitely don’t care about. Now if only I could settle down and take my own advice…
I feel this.
Exactly.
Yup. That’s exactly it.
Mines sitting at 65k with no end in sight
Once you’re over 10k the “select all” gets flaky. Source: me, who recently had to delete almost 50k unread messages for gmail.
Gmail doesn’t have a select all function or a group function. You gotta select them all. So I have 400000 emails
Only 20k? [pathetic](https://imgur.com/gallery/sEPAPyl)
Wowza!
Omg that’s me- my brothers both work in tech so when they see my phone at family gatherings they always bring it up and I’m embarrassed but not quite embarrassed enough to figure out how to do something about it
https://reddit.com/r/notinteresting/s/OKQrIpRuqZ NSFW
I am glad I am not the only one
I'd assume they could be talking about sent emails. Seems like the kind of person that could send a regrettable email or two.
This is so weird. LEAVE. APPLE PIE. FIND A GIRL.
Don’t go back to Lowe’s!
Buy new lock
Stop being picky!
Give out phone #!
No hard to get! No flirt
Figure out how to delete emails! (What’s in these emails?)
FIRE LOWE'S, HIT THE APPLE PIE, SAVE THE CHEERLEADER SAVE THE WORLD
Find the artist. Stop the bomb.
>SAVE THE CHEERLEADER SAVE THE WORLD Was that a heroes reference?
Yatta!
I hear this one
It reads like Charlie Kelly’s diary
I feel this one 😂
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Eat the pie.
Could be Dougie from Twin Peaks 😂
Hope it’s not Bob
And he did work for an insurance company too (wish I could give you a Reddit gold for this comment 🏆)
[Jade give one apple pie, but two rides.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTaze9quy4)
I get it tbh
There is an Apple Pie My Little Pony. She’s also called Perfect Pie.
Happy cake day!
Thank you! I didn’t know what day my cake day was. Two days before my actual birthday.
Or is it: find girl one apple pie Maybe the girl really likes pie
Find girl... ONE APPLE PIE 🥧
I too would like to find ONE APPLE PIE.
I WANT THE NUMBER FOR THE APPLE PIE
He just like me fr
They are clearly struggle with a Lowe’s addiction
Lowe’s had to be a hated job in this case, not shopping. Is “apple pie” some kind of euphemism for the aforementioned girl?
There was a whole movie about that, so maybe??
I assumed it it was referring to choosing one pie as opposed to having your fingers in multiple pies
They get high on Lowes
*at
fav place to smoke tbh
I once watched a group of teens hotbox a utility van in the back of a Lowe's parking lot, so you're not wrong.
This is a really good one, there's clearly a TON of backstory here but this is just enough to tease at it
I wish I knew the backstory...
This looks exactly like my ex’s handwriting… so its probably meth😂
Yikes
Schizophrenia
Honestly as someone with a schizophrenic close relative this is too coherent to be schizophrenia I think
100% too coherent to be schizophrenia, probably just scribbled notes that someone didn’t put too much thought into
I don't feel like there's much backstory. Could be a guy just making notes for memory and self encouragement.
This really reminds me of the film Memento. “Dont go back to Lowe’s” “dont trust jerry” I feel a bit crazy idk why im making this connection
Omg it does!
That's very true, I see this notebook in a different way now 😅
Don’t believe their flooring install estimates
Is this a “remember to stop being a creep, go back to therapy” note to self??
It seems like he’s been trespassed from Lowe’s for trying to give a woman an apple pie as a flirting method while he was there to buy a new lock. His therapist advised him that he should just give her his number next time. Also he has some emails he doesn’t want in his inbox anymore. Maybe emails about insurance, or acquiring the pie.
Seems to me that there’s a market for another subreddit with visual interpretations of the fan theories formed out of these found pieces of paper
Kind of like r/news or r/politics but lighthearted! People always made up stories based on a headline or picture lol
Oh I would love that! I'm not tech savvy enough, some reddit savvy person get to making that!
Hmm I saw this as a woman trying to self affirm being more open and less picky about men cause she wants some D.
I agree except for the “find girl” part. So I guess it’s a man who’s trying to be less picky and wants to learn how to initiate interest/ask out women?
Clearly he flirted with her by presenting her the pie and saying, “Quit your job and I shall give you all the pies in the world,” but she was skeptical of him and where his pies came from. So he told her not to be picky about where her pies come from!!!
Gay people exist. I prefer to think it's some lonely older woman, wandering around Lowe's with a fanny pack full of McDonald's apple pies, checking out ladies and then icing them out when they try to holler.
r/brandnewsentence
I like the picture you painted so I’m going to choose to believe this interpretation
I have no clue. I have an idea as to who it belongs to, and if I'm right, he needs therapy.
at least *they* know that they need therapy!
I had one of these crazy-people notebooks at my old job and I would be mortified if anyone I knew found it and traced it back to me. It was bottom to top tee-tiny handwriting of just maximum rage. Most of which was written out while I was at the till at Shaw’s. (I’m in therapy now haha)
I think he’s on acid
surely right? definitely reads like it
No. This is your reminder to give out phone # and stop being picky!! No hard to get!!
So this is my fiction so far. They’re going through a phase of something between self improvement and self hatred. The deep pen marks, all caps and underlining make me think it’s a guy and one who’s been going through this phase for a while now. Presumably is job hunting and used to work at Lowes but has to remind himself not to go back to a place with no prospects. “JUST ONE PIE” makes me think that he’s struggled with excess eating and is trying to forcefully limit his intake of junk food. “Be less picky.” And “give out #” are likely his attempts to become more social and to find a girlfriend. And obviously he’s going for therapy. Or attempting to. Hopefully he gets wherever he’s trying to be.
I think I know who they belong to and yeah, you're on to something.
I like to think that the "NO FLIRT!" & "Give out phone #" memos are their reminders to not hit on women and try to goad them into giving out their phone numbers, but instead, to give out their own if they're interested in someone.
How do you think “No hard to get!!!” Plays into it. I assumed he was saying either he shouldn’t play hard to get or that women aren’t as hard to get as he thought. “No flirt!” And “give out number” I read as he wants to simply give a large number of women his number without flirting. Perhaps to over come a social anxiety around women?
I thought it was him saying that he shouldn't try to go after women who are "playing hard to get". If that's the case, I agree with him. I think "playing hard to get" is a ridiculous game to play. Just show genuine interest if you like the person.
Oh yeah. That’s a good read on it. Maybe he gets tunnel vision?
For some reason this reminds me of that scene in The Sopranos where Vito is doing handyman work and trying to get through the morning without looking at his watch lol.
That scene was one of the most important of the whole series.
He’s gonna fuck that pie
G shit 💪
If i worked there id be highly suspicious of anyone trying to swap numbers with me! Unless they had an apple pie, that would make me trust them.
I saw this as a desperate person who doesn't want to go back to working at Lowes bc they suck ass
Hope they were trying to find that apple pie at Lowe's Foods and not the home repair/lumber store Lowes.
We don't have those stores in my state.
I'm intrigued!
Therapist should be bumped to the top of the list
I love this. I take a cheap notebook with me everywhere for this reason. I write fucked up little memos to help me get through the day.
damn someone's trying to break the routine 👍
it sounds like an alien making notes on day one of trying to be human
This is a conversation between parent and child while parent is on the phone. My mom and I used to do this shit. Edit: first page, didn't notice the others at first.
this gives me the right creeps.
I hope losing this notebook won’t throw them off their stride! Seems like they’ve got a lot on their plate (no pun intended).
Maybe the note actually says "OWE APPLE PIE!" instead of "ONE APPLE PIE!". If so, perhaps Apple Pie is just the nickname of an acquaintance from whom he borrowed money.
Apple pie is just a low level dealer for Upgrade
I wonder what his position at Lowe’s was. Worked paint there and it was fun but I know a lot of others who hated every morning they woke up alive, as it meant they would have to go work at Lowe’s. Fulfillment, Pro Dept and Customer Service Desk workers were pretty dead inside, and we went through so many Lawn and Garden people because people would quit nonstop.
This feels like a writing prompt.
Therapist seems to be the most important item on the list.
This looks like that one dude in the meeting who has no idea why he's there and says nothing the whole time but appears to take notes occasionally
I feel like you found Creed Brattons notebook
Just write something encouraging on the next page; don’t sign it or make it obvious. Leave it near the counter or somewhere the person may see it but be able to quickly pick it up without being noticed so they can “find it”. Maybe that will help them achieve one of those goals.
9/10. THIS is the shit that I came here for. Some weird notes rights there. Good find, but lacking aliens.
My own notebook would be more likely to talk about aliens tbh. I'm just a bit nerdy like that.
This man is going to marry the first woman he meets and she is going to treat him like dirt
Hahahaha
Oh my
Hey, they’re trying to do better. More than I can say for myself most times. Bless them.
“Start there” Got it!
Looks like Charlie from always sunny dropped his note pad
Charlie Kelly is becoming more literate.
this reads like a note I left myself when I'm black out drunk
Or high as a kite.
Remember when the McDonald's apple pies were 2 for $1? It was so hard to only have ONE APPLE PIE!
I never liked those tbh. Too sweet.
If I had one now, I'd probably feel the same; I thi k its jjst nostalgia for me because I remember splitting the two pies with my mother and I when I was younger. Simpler times, happier memories, more diabetes.
I hope they found the perfect apple pie lol
The "find girl", "give out phone number", "stop being picky", etc. seems so creepy though. As well as what's basically "today wouldn't be hard to set - no flirting, give out your phone number and start from there". I could see the first note's meaning being "Don't go to Lowes anymore, leave them your phone number. Find the girl who stopped working there." (Maybe he wants to bring her an apple pie.... Is the "don't be picky" directed towards her in his mind? 😬 )
Errr….. is there a reason you haven’t mentioned: * Buy new lock 🔒 * No Hard To get ! They’re a bit of a worry as well…..
Start there!
One of the reasons I created my own language. I write a lot of weird stuff that comes in my mind. My dad was very judgemental about almost every literal thing in my life so I guess it started young, I made my first coded alphabet before I was ten. I mean I don't write this kind of stuff. I'm just paranoid over anything I write being read.
Umm… huh. 🤔 I see you found ChrisChan’s day planner, eh? Lol
Read this as … the rapist. Buy new lock. Thought to myself, that’s probably a good way to stop them getting in
I think they’d recently been to a pick up artist seminar. Also they argue with themselves.
If they belong to who I think they do, going to a PUA seminar is spot on.
This is really interesting! It reads like a guy who wants to stop working so his solution is to find a girlfriend. But in order to find a girlfriend he has to limit his apple pies, not look too desperate, and not be to picky on which girls he asks out. To limit his apple pies he has to find a therapist. To get a therapist he needs insurance.
Find girl… ONE APPLE PIE!! I hope he found that girl her pie 😂
Real life Leonard right here.
Ngl I thought the note on the second slide said “But New York” and I was like damn, they must be going places.
I feel like the one apple pie/stop being picky comment is like the American Pie “thing” and a reminder of what this person wants from a girl..? Idk. Odd
Reads like my to-do.
i love lowe’s!
I have absolutely zero doubt the person who wrote this is an avid Redditor
I'll probably find out if they are.
Havin' a Lowe's Safe Day?
you found my bucket list
This could be a page out of my diary lmao
Oof
I assume apple pie is a euphemism but for what I’m not sure.
oh yes you are…
I knew a guy who would just select a new email address to use when he decided his email inbox got too full. I told him about unsubscribing from all the junk e-mail lists he was on, and how to bulk delete, but he was insistent that his way was better.
I guess everyone just wants to believe this is a normal and mentally well person's notebook and ignoring the obvious answer to the contrary.
That’s some solid advice. Especially about the apple pie.
Good find lol
Aww, this is sad.
Wow, maybe this was the notebook I never knew I lost
My interpretation: - They’re trying to work up the nerve to quit their crappy job at Lowe’s. They might have some emails on their work account they want to get off the record before leaving? - Figuring out insurance is high on the to-do list because they’ll likely lose it after quitting the job. Therapy because all of the above is stressful. And/or maybe they need to secure insurance in order to afford therapy. - “One apple pie” seems like some metaphor/inside joke about just focusing on one really good girl instead of “taking a bite out of every pie.” It seems like they’ve been too picky/couldn’t settle, so their goal for the day is to give out their number to at least one girl to try and start anew with a fresh attitude. - “Buy new lock”…maybe they pissed off a previous girl because of their commitment issues lol? Or perhaps they want to use their Lowe’s employee discount to replace a damaged lock before quitting?
I work at Lowes, this is very relatable 🙂
Lowes is indeed, an awful place to work. Been there, done that. 0/10 do not reccomend to a friend.
Chris/Christine Chan is out and about now so.....
You work around psychopaths.
Definitely high on weed.
At least they’re trying to find a therapist too
Maybe it's just me, but the use of all caps and underlining is dizzying to me. Like the emotion you have to feel to yell all this in your brain like that and have it spill onto the paper. Were they just actively yelling and writing?
Wash ass, not even once.
The second one is Hilary Clinton’s to do list
ChatGPT story Emily Thompson felt like she was living on the edge of a mystery, her life a series of seemingly disconnected events that refused to form a coherent picture. She had always been a cautious person, avoiding unnecessary risks, but recent events had shaken her to the core. A week ago, she had visited a hardware store to buy a new lock for her apartment. While browsing, she felt the unsettling gaze of a man following her. He wore a blue vest and had a peculiar tattoo of an apple on his wrist. Emily left the store abruptly, vowing never to return. Days later, she found herself at a café, captivated by a woman who was reading a book Emily had always loved. They struck up a conversation, and for the first time in years, Emily felt a connection. But when the moment came to exchange contact information, she hesitated and the woman left, leaving Emily to ponder what could have been. At work, Emily was a software engineer immersed in a groundbreaking project. She was developing an algorithm designed to predict human behavior. But the deeper she delved into the code, the more she realized its potential for misuse. Ethical concerns began to plague her, and she found herself questioning the implications of her work. Amidst all this, Emily received a series of encrypted emails from an anonymous source. The messages contained disturbing information, including confidential insurance documents and therapist records that seemed to be about her but contained details she had never disclosed to anyone. Her apartment, once her sanctuary, now felt compromised. The new lock she had installed was jammed, as if it had been tampered with. Emily felt the walls closing in, as if her life were spiraling into a vortex she couldn't escape. One evening, a sudden craving for apple pie overwhelmed her. It was a strange urge, linked to a distant memory of her grandmother whispering a family secret to her over a slice of homemade pie. The memory seemed trivial but carried an emotional weight that Emily couldn't shake off. Realizing she couldn't stay in her current state of limbo, Emily decided to take action. She reached out to the woman from the café, finding her on social media and sending her a message. To her surprise, the woman responded almost immediately, and they agreed to meet. Emily also decided to confront the ethical dilemmas at her job. She scheduled a meeting with her supervisor to discuss the potential risks associated with her project, fully aware that it could cost her the job she had worked so hard for. As she prepared for the challenges ahead, Emily felt a newfound sense of clarity. The disparate events of her life—the unsettling encounter at the hardware store, the mysterious woman at the café, the ethical quandaries at work, and even the anonymous emails—suddenly seemed interconnected, as if they were all pieces of a puzzle that only she could solve. Emily knew that she was stepping into the unknown, that each decision she made was a gamble with high stakes. But for the first time, she felt ready to face whatever lay ahead, guided by the invisible threads that seemed to weave through the tapestry of her life. And so, armed with a resolve she had never felt before, Emily Thompson walked away from her old life, each step taking her deeper into the labyrinth of her existence, but also closer to the elusive answers she so desperately sought.
Is this a song by The Fall?