When I was in my first year teaching we took the 9th graders on a field trip, on our way we cut through a posh little garden store & my two most troublesome students were gawking & joking about how expensive the "trees in pots" were. (like $300) "I can get a tree" one of them said. I didn't realize how ominous this was.

The next day they cut school, dug up a sapling in the neglected park near the school. Somehow they got caught and it was a whole thing.

One of them works at Home Depot now.

I need a sanity check from the fediverse. After all, I'm a mere Illinois driver. I was just informed my dad and his friends have this deep pet peeve while driving that I have absolutely never been aware of or concerned by on safe roads in America.

Imagine you are driving on a multi-lane highway. Yes, I get the "right lane is the slow lane, left lane is the passing lane" thing. But imagine it's like pretty empty road, out in the country, and you're driving the speed you want to go in the right or middle lane.

Another car is along side you in the left lane. There's nobody behind them who wants to go faster. They just hang out at the same-ish speed as you. So you have a car kind of driving next to you.

This makes my dad deeply uncomfortable and he finds it incredibly rude. Fediverse, if the driver is doing nothing else objectionable, is it him, or me?

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Uhhh my nephew (18) just told me he and his friends are "getting libed the f up" and "going balz to the walz" doing phone banking.

I've never been so comforted and disturbed at the same time in my life.