@defense_of_fam My LDS Religions of the World Institute class was my favorite. We’re encouraged to learn about our neighbors to better love them. Doesn’t mean everyone does though 🙃
@latterdaylaura@FiredUpCoug Ooooooh! I served a mission in Tahiti (no hot chocolate) but Tim tam slams was the only way to make our boxed milk drinkable 😂
A customer at the library asked me a question I wasn't prepared for.
Customer: Excuse me.
Customer: Why does this machine require flesh?
Me: ...what?
Customer: This machine.
Customer: I am touching it, but it does not work.
Customer: Is because... flesh?
At this point I was trying very hard to figure out whether I had accidentally wandered into a horror movie.
Then she held up her hands.
She was wearing gloves.
Me: Oh!
Me: The touchscreen.
Me: Right.
Me: Yeah, it probably can't detect your fingers through the gloves.
Customer: Ah.
Customer: Okay.
Customer: Sorry to bother.
Me: No, no.
Me: That's the best thing I've heard all week.
She laughed.
The machine worked.
And I thought that was the end of it.
It was not.
Now whenever one of our library computers stops working, someone inevitably says:
Staff: It requires flesh.
Staff: The machine must be fed.
Another staff member: Who's volunteering?
So thanks to one perfectly innocent question, our library now sounds like a cult every time the self-checkout freezes.
@BombshellCole My grandma was the “hood” granny. She lives in a very small farm town in Utah where my gpa was a teacher. Last month she was telling me how she’d charge $2.50 a week per kid or $4 total for siblings. They got 3 meals, preschool education, her huge backyard and love/safety.
Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm.
Insane that I can’t do this already.
My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana.
@Spotify please fix this.
@ThrillaRilla369 Yes! All of them actually. :) my great grandpa was even able to meet my daughter before he passed, his great great granddaughter. (No, I was not 16 and pregnant, I was 25 😂)
Queen Esther stood up for the Jewish people not because she was unafraid, but because she chose courage over complicity.
Purim isn’t just a reminder to our enemies of the Jewish people’s strength.
It’s a reminder to ourselves that hiding won’t conquer hate.
Thinking about the *peak* Twilight phase where my friends and I drug our boyfriends to the midnight showing in our small town. We were 2 hours early. Nobody else came.