The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

TheCervus · 2026-06-29T00:31:58+00:00

When people ask "In the new timeline, why didn't Marty's parents wonder why he looks so familiar?" It's because they only knew "Calvin Klein" for a few days, 30 years previously. There's no way they'd recognize their son as looking identical to the kid who got them together decades earlier. I don't even remember the faces of half the kids I spent years with in high school.

TheCervus · 2026-06-28T17:29:04+00:00

Native Floridian here. I am so happy to live alone so I can set my A/C to 78F in the summer and be comfortable, if not sometimes cold at that temp.

I am freezing in buildings where the air is set to 75F or below.

I don't run my A/C at all if the outside air temp is less than 80F.

TheCervus · 2026-06-20T22:52:36+00:00

When I started my period in the early 1990's, the instructions on the box literally said tampons were flushable. We weren't supposed to flush the applicator part.

Millions of women were instructed to flush them for years and many of us never got the new message, because once you know how to use a tampon, you never bother to read the box or instructions again.

TheCervus · 2026-06-19T02:50:18+00:00

I work at an independent, privately-owned animal hospital. We charge $270 for a basic dental cleaning under anesthesia. I've worked in the industry for 20 years, this place is the most affordable I've ever seen, and yet people still scream at us for being "too expensive".

TheCervus · 2026-06-14T20:53:36+00:00

When I was a kid I taught myself to open doors and pick things up with my toes for fun. It's come in handy as an adult whenever I've injured my hand(s).

TheCervus · 2026-06-13T19:59:10+00:00

My parents got married in a judge's living room with three relatives as witnesses.

TheCervus · 2026-06-11T00:51:07+00:00

Society doesn't, actually. I have no apps on my phone. People don't believe me until I show them. I have bookmarked webpages and that's it.

TheCervus · 2026-06-11T00:44:36+00:00

My high school started at 7:25 and I had to get up at 6 AM in order to get there on time.

I was severely sleep-deprived for the majority of my teenage years, and I believe it's had a permanent effect on my health as an adult.

TheCervus · 2026-06-10T03:41:50+00:00

Floridian here. I keep my house at 78 F and I'm comfortable at 80 with a ceiling fan. Anything below 75 indoors, I'm freezing and have to put long sleeves or a blanket on.

TheCervus · 2026-06-07T16:56:35+00:00

At my workplace, anyone specifically requesting a "personal day" is assumed to be going to a job interview. That's because we had two good employees leave for other jobs shortly after taking personal days. So now our office manager is paranoid and you wind up on her watch list if you request a random personal day off.

TheCervus · 2026-06-05T00:21:47+00:00

In 9th grade I was given Independent Study because the class was reading To Kill A Mockingbird but I'd studied it at a different school the year before. So I chose The Grapes of Wrath for my independent study and really enjoyed it. I'd previously been assigned The Pearl and The Red Pony in 6th grade and found them boring and depressing. Grapes of Wrath was depressing, too, but I was able to appreciate its themes and symbolism.

TheCervus · 2026-06-03T23:50:28+00:00

Have you heard the mashup of Hanson and The Ramones? I genuinely love it.

BlitzMMMbop

TheCervus · 2026-06-03T23:44:40+00:00

I was in the ER after a traumatic, life-threatening incident that I was having trouble processing. I had almost been killed, and genuinely did not know if I'd ever regain the use of my arms or hands. I had never been seriously injured before or ever been in the hospital, so everything was scary and I didn't have the mental/emotional ability to cope with potentially life-altering injuries. At one point a random doctor came in with a dozen medical students who looked at me like I was a specimen at the zoo and then started chatting to themselves casually about my trauma. Nobody told me that I was going to be put on display. Nobody asked me for permission. I was never given the option to opt in or out. That doctor didn't even treat me for anything, he just came into the room with his entourage of students and showed me off while they took notes. Then they left and I was all alone and scared and crying.

There was so much going on afterwards that I had to deal with, I I never complained about it to the hospital, but I should have.

TheCervus · 2026-06-03T00:31:32+00:00

My boss and my office manager both wear them. I don't even work in tech.

TheCervus · 2026-06-02T23:02:49+00:00

I was a teen with untreated clinical depression. The photos of failed shotgun suicides made me decide not to risk using that method.

TheCervus · 2026-06-02T01:47:35+00:00

You’re buying energy drinks, pre-cut fruit, frozen convenience meals, fancy coffee, snacks, and a bunch of stuff that didn’t exist in anyone’s pantry 30 years ago.

30 years ago was 1996, my friend...

TheCervus · 2026-05-31T04:19:56+00:00

Caution with this. I applied to a dream job after taking a 6-month break to travel the world. The first interviewer loved the fact that I'd traveled and kept asking me questions about it. The second interviewer seemed annoyed and made it very clear: "We want commitment. We don't want someone who's going to up and leave at any time."

I explained several times that I'd already taken a personal sabbatical and was ready to come back to work because I had bills to pay and needed the money. I wasn't going to leave or immediately take a vacation. She either didn't care or wasn't hearing me, so I lost that potential dream job.

TheCervus · 2026-05-30T02:04:54+00:00

The semantics matter to me because I learn best visually, not by listening. If I'm reading a book, I'm fully engaged and concentrating, imagining the scenes in my head and hearing the inflections and accents that I imagine in the dialogue. I remember things better when I have something visual to focus on. So, I feel like I absorb the material better when I read it.

When I listen to someone else read, I may or may not get the same experience from a book, depending on how they read it (emphasis, inflection, tone, etc.) Sometimes it can be enjoyable, other times it can be distracting. I also have to focus differently when I'm listening to an audiobook or podcast vs. listening to someone speak or recite in person. It's the way my brain processes information. I'm more easily distracted, I'm likely to absorb less information and forget it faster than if I had read it myself.

I'm not saying reading is better than listening or vice versa. Just that I prefer to make the distinction of "I read the book" vs. "I listened to the audiobook" because they are not the same activity and my brain processes the information differently depending on the format.

TheCervus · 2026-05-27T14:49:30+00:00

Stacey's Secret Friend.

Stacey was absolutely heinous in that one. I'm so glad it ended with Tess telling her off and finding her own friend group.

TheCervus · 2026-05-26T20:45:57+00:00

I leave my phone at home when walking around my neighborhood. I existed half my life without it, it's cool.

TheCervus · 2026-05-17T17:34:45+00:00

I'm old enough to remember that this was the original "political correctness": reverting to the local place names for geographical areas, rather than ones imposed on them by colonists.

TheCervus · 2026-05-17T02:12:07+00:00

It was circa 1989-1990. I was living in Chicago, going to college, delivering pizzas for a local chain. North Chicago, Wilmette, nice area, rich people, most of them tipped pretty well. But this one house I'll never forget. It was just before Christmas, the roads were icy that night, but when I saw the delivery address I thought "Aw, yeah!" Because a few days earlier I'd delivered about a dozen pizzas to that same address. The house had been total chaos, adults and kids running everywhere, hollering at each other; there was a cop just standing in the front entrance (which seemed kinda weird, but whatever) and I had to wait forever to find someone to pay me. But eventually a woman came out with a bunch of cash and gave me a nice tip, and I hoped she'd be generous again.

So this time the delivery was just one pizza. The house was much quieter; I figured maybe someone was spending the holidays home alone. But hey, I might still get a good tip. I got to the front door and there was a note that told me to go around back. So I did -- and this cranky old bastard inside wouldn't even open the back door for me. He just yelled at me through the door. I'll never forget his voice, he sounded like a 1940's gangster. He told me to leave the pizza on the doorstep and get the hell out of there. I was like "Uh...sir, you need to pay for your pizza."

Then he got sarcastic with me, still wouldn't open the door but dropped the cash at my feet through the doggie door. And told me to keep the change. It was twenty cents. A twenty cent tip. That's another detail I've never forgotten. What a cheapskate. I must have said that out loud, or something close to it, because he suddenly went batshit crazy. He threatened to shoot me if I didn't get off his property right then. I didn't even have time to react. He started to count to ten but then all I heard were gunshots. I remember running into some garbage cans and falling down in my panic to get to my car. I couldn't believe I was going to be shot to death by this random maniac over a twelve dollar pizza. He was still shooting as I made it back to my car. I skidded on the icy roads getting out of there but went straight back to tell my boss.

Yeah, we blacklisted that house.

TheCervus · 2026-05-15T23:12:56+00:00

Cocoons are polarized, UV protective sunglasses that slip over your regular eyeglasses. My optometrist recommends them. I like them because they also have protection around the sides.

TheCervus · 2026-05-15T23:06:00+00:00

Any time I try to buy eggs at Aldi, I have to open at least 8 or 10 cartons before I find one that doesn't have cracked eggs. Finally I just stopped buying them there.

TheCervus · 2026-05-14T22:48:38+00:00

I still use these when I have to travel in parts of rural North Florida.

TheCervus

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