Feb 18 2026

Was at work with my brother. I got off at 5 and he got off at 5:30. It had just turned to about 5, and my brother had already done a shift change, but i guess I had to do another one. So I counted the register down and left it for him to verify and close it down, then reopen. During that, I was wondering where the other people for closing shift were at. I wasn't really rushing, but i was ready to go home and take a nap or something. It was a lot of back and forth after that, wondering when closing shift was coming in, then doing the register stuff myself right quick because my brother didn't do it, and then my brother trying to get in contact with the store manager to figure out what to do because an hour and a half passed and no one was here yet. He had tried to call the manager but they weren't answering, so I called them myself. It took a few tries trying to find their contact in my wonky ass phone, but I was able to call them successfully. As soon as I called, they sent me like 3 texts and it made my phone glitch and run really slow. They answered the call and my brother told me to hurry up and hang up, but I couldn't. So instead, I tried to figure out the unintelligible instructions they sent me on what to do. From what I understood, they wanted me to look at the schedule, then I guess just find someone to come in??? Didn't matter if it was from our store or not. And a part of me was thinking that this is definitely NOT my job. But I'm a little bit of a pushover and just accepted it. They ended up hanging up on me before I was even finished, and I had to call their name a few times to check, but they did. So I vaguely tried to figure out what I was supposed to really do, and no one had come in yet. I thought about maybe going out to eat after, as a little treat. But I genuinely don't know if anyone came to take over, so we might've done a double, which is unfortunate. Everything after that was pretty disjointed. I was trying to find an outfit, so I was on the third floor in my brother's room. Immediately found a pair of pants I'd worn recently, but no shirt that I wanted to wear that was fitting for the weather. I had to go downstairs and look around for a while. During a small moment, I was at a store or something and found a cute hoodie with black stripes and red hearts on a white background. It was just sitting on top of the computer or something so I grabbed it and took it, said it'd look good with the platform sneakers I just bought. Then I was somewhere on a cruise??? The kids and my sister and my brother were there. Me and my sister tried to talk about something, but I don't remember what it was. Then we were back in the house, and i was about to go somewhere. I ended up singing and dancing to part of Doechii's Alter Ego (the remix version) and we were having a great time. I did get a little sweaty though, and my hands got dirty somehow so I went to wash them. There was someone at the sink already washing dishes, someone i didn't recognize. But he put a generous amount of soap in my hands and I washed them. We talked, he said something about the hand soap having like, oat in it or something. I told him I'd bought it for the house, and he said something about liking this plum scented soap. I made a mental note to probs get some. My nose started to run from both nostrils suddenly, it was a small amount, but it was clocked watery. I wiped my nose. Ngl I think he clocked me as being neurodivergent, and said something about me never getting him things. I thought about it, and thought about my response. I wasn't even confident that I knew his name, and I feel like I hadn't seen him anymore than 3-5 times. I don't think I said anything.