Devi

I saw a job today that I fit the criteria for and pays around double what I currently earn. Out of interest I though I’d look at what house I could afford on that salary in my area.

The answer is none. I can afford no houses in my area even on double what I earn in a quite high up management position.

You may already know this, but don’t smoke near your aquariums. I used to work in a high end fish shop and smoking was such an issue for customers. Vaping is even worse.

I don’t see it as a negative if homeless people are warm.

Haha, yes. “What are you doing here?” the parents ask of the child in their own house where they live.

Same. There are a few kids in my road that will play directly outside their houses, but when I say ‘kids’, definitely 12+. One kid about 15 sets up skateboard ramps and does jumps which I love to see, but actual kids? Never see them without their parents. Kids are taken to school into their teens, I’d have been mortified if my parents came to school past like 9 or 10.

Woods aren’t often ‘owned’ here.

Nah, we definitely got in trouble if they found out we were doing stupid shit.

We used to scramble over barbed wire fences like it was nothing. My dad actually speared his leg on a fence spike as a kid, at least barbed wire just cuts you up a bit. None of our parents had any idea we were doing that though, we’d come home if we needed a plaster and say we fell off a bike or something.

You know, I think an adult show and tell wouldn’t be too different to a kids one, we don’t change that much in what we find cool from 7 to 70.

I’d bring some pets, I have geckos that are an all female species and reproduce only through parthenogenesis, most people find them cool.

I’ve never fallen for bad scams luckily but I fall for little ones sometimes. Like once I was entering the subway in a country where I didn’t speak the language and this guy coming the other way said the trains were cancelled, so I asked how do I get to X place, and he’s like “Oh, my friend has a taxi company, come with me and I’ll sort you out”. I was just about to follow him when I came back to my senses. Obviously there was nothing wrong with the trains and he was trying to fleece a tourist… or kidnap a woman, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

I think in the current climate, public community/leisure spaces would be good. Nobody has any money, a lot of people don’t have heat (or cooling) at home, spaces where people can just exist comfortably need to be made. What if a former office could be converted into tennis courts, chess rooms, libraries, computer rooms, just a room with sofas or tables where you can sit and not buy anything?

I know everyone wants to make a profit but loads of these spaces are just empty, surely something could be done?

Not all, but most don’t seem to have adventures. When I was a kid I’d go off into the woods and build a den or climb a tree, we once spent a whole week trying to dam a stream, god knows why. None of my friends kids go anywhere by themselves, a lot of them do ‘forest school’ where they’ll be taken by adults to a sanitised woodland and taught how to build a teepee with pre cut wood, and it’s just not the same thing.

That’s the brother, this is the ruining neighbours lives, openly cheating on all his partners head of the operation.