it reminds me of times I would go with my friends to a country bar in the suburbs of a major city. hats on inside, pants tucked in boots, just a lot of middle managers cosplaying country

Concur. I did enough HS accreditation visits in rural northern New England that I can do the community profile in my sleep. The five biggest employers

The school district
The hospital
The largest supermarket
One mill/plant/factory
One wild card (tourism, a 2nd factory, distro center, rail yard.)

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Every time you talk to someone about "what we did before" things like commercially available formula the answer is "babies died" (or suffered nutritional deficiencies, or or). I can tell you every household manual from the 19th c back has recipes for replacements for breast milk. Not a new issue.

I am right there with you! And also, adorable name.

tldr: apartment dwellers install a chain on your door and remember to use it

And I knew the guy and he's great, like, came in 2 hours after a call on Saturday to help me out before kind of great, so that helped, but yikes I would be paranoid about making that mistake in his shoes.

Like, I installed a chain on the door for that very hypothetical. And failed to bolt it that day.

I had considered the version where instead of illegal entry without notice for scheduled maintenance I wasn't told about or crime. Not "oops sorry wrong number, or right number wrong hall I guess"

My Kingdom for Appliances That Won't Increase My Heart Rate, by Fallout Boy (feat. AuDHD and cPTSD)

Also, to explain, I don't have a microwave because:

a. Tiny apartment = tiny counterspace
b. They weird me out
c. The noises alone stress me out

and especially for the last reason, I don't have a toaster or a whistling kettle or anything else with aggressive Bad Sounds (instapot is on thin ice)

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