So, sometimes I see that “if it sucks, hit da bricks” graphic and I think for a moment: “Who is this even for? Nobody actually forgets that you CAN leave bad situations, right? Like… that’s just obvious. When people don’t leave a bad situation it’s because they know there’ll be consequences. Quit your job and you have no money; drop out of school and your future could be fucked; leave a toxic relationship and you could be stranded with no support structure. Cops if you’re quick, but if you’re not quick enough then you get shot dead at worst, and hit with a resisting-arrest charge at best… Everyone knows this, right? Like, we don’t need to be convinced that we CAN…. only that the benefit MIGHT, in some circumstances, be worth the consequences. Right?”

And other days I wake up on day two of a three-day con, and think, “dammit I wish I didn’t have to go to any more days of this con, I did not enjoy the first day at all.” And THEN the hit-da-bricks guy goes “WHAAAA? IT’S NOT LIKE YOU’RE TRAPPED, BESTIE, YOU LIVE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THIS CON, YOU ARE AT HOME AND THERE ARE A GAZILLION OTHER THINGS YOU COULD DO IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IF YOU’D RATHER! SURE YOU PAID LIKE $60 FOR THE CON, BUT THIS IS A CHOICE BETWEEN ‘YOU PAID $60 FOR 1 DAY YOU DIDN’T ENJOY’ AND 'YOU PAID $60 FOR 3 DAYS YOU DIDN’T ENJOY’ AND YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL WHICH OF THOSE THINGS IS BETTER”

and that’s a hell of a brick to get hit with, and I take back everything I said before