DAD: “At your age I already had two kids.”
ME: “How much was your apartment?”
DAD: “About $650.”
ME: “Mine is $1,850.”
DAD: “Yeah but salaries were lower.”
ME: “What did you make?”
DAD: “Maybe $35,000.”
ME: “I make $58,000.”
DAD: “Exactly. You make way more.”
ME: “My salary went up 66%.”
DAD: “Right.”
ME: “The rent went up 185%.”
Long silence.
Then he asked if I had considered getting a roommate.
I'm starting to think percentages only count when they're convenient.
Ms. Rachel reveals she was warned she might lose partnerships and views for showing her support for Palestine:
“That doesn’t faze me because the kids gave me the platform. I’m going to stand with them no matter what. People on the ground in Gaza are risking their lives all the time to help kids. I can do it from Manhattan.”
(https://t.co/4bmeptxvPz)
I tried to argue that Hallmark-style Christmas movies are inherently republican propaganda and it’s the most viscerally upset my friends have ever gotten but ya know what I STAND BY IT