@alice
Funny thing: Together with other parents I'm doing a volunteer service for the local traffic police. Every morning at school days two of us are at an intersection as traffic guides. Originally we stop the traffic when school kids arrive at the intersection and let them cross the street, but since there are also elderly people in our village, we guide everyone across the intersection.

Anyway, last week I was doing my service when a bunch of school kids came up. In the winter months the mornings are quite dark in germany and visibility of pedestrians is always an issue. Before I stop the traffic I usually turn my head to the kids, say "Good morning!" And when they cross the street behind me I say "Have fun at school!". But in that particular group one of the girls had a new backpack. There were two tubes on it, running from the top down to the bottom along the left and the right corner of the backpack. And I'm not sure if there were diffused LEDs in there of if it was EL-wire, but they were glowing. Not in a bright, blinding way but bright enough to make her perfectly visible in the dark.

So when I turned around and say "Good morning!" to the group, I added "Hey, your backpack is very cool! I wish I had one of those when I was a school kid!". And she beamed back at me: "Yeah, I love it, too!". I stepped out into the traffic and said: "Here you go, have fun at school!"

Fuck, was that backpack cool!

@alice
You are the amazing person!

But ok, let speak about someone else: @h3mmy is a delightful person that is way too kind and patient with me  

Also my buns (@Moondancer, @AstraCeleste, @ArtemisCeleste and Selena (can't mention zir account from this server 😿)) are all lovely cuties 💜