My great grandmother actually did survive the Great Depression as a young kid (I'm pretty sure her parents were first gen immigrants too, egg on their face lol, shouldn't have moved to the US in the early 1900s for economic opportunity) and some of her stories were pretty off the wall.
It definitely made her value feeding people, every time I visited she'd try to get me to eat like a half a watermelon.
EDIT: I know this doesn't really fit the vibe of the thread but Grannie was great.
Gonna have to watch out for this, watch funny animal videos with my kid on my phone sometimes before bedtime.
Gonna summon this silly little dude to teach me everything about herbs and plants so I can be hella good in the kitchen.
When I was younger I worked for a small business (I mean, it was a McDonald's franchise, but it's not like I talked to corporate ever) and calling in was like pulling teeth.
One time I called in and my manager asked about sending another employee to pick me up. It was unreal.
Now I work for a company that has frequently got 1000 people all doing the same job simultaneously and while they're not cool with people calling in literally every other day, they know the average amount of days a person calls in and if you're under that they don't give a shit because with 1000 people you are forced to recognize that as a cost of doing business. You just hire 8% more employees than you expect to need or whatever.
Nobody at this company has ever asked if I was really sure I couldn't come in, nobody wants to know how exactly I'm sick, etc etc.
Not that there aren't downsides, but I never want the person who owns the entity I work for to say a word to me. I don't want that motherfucker to know I exist. They belong 7 rungs higher than me on an org chart minimum, and hopefully in a different state.
I can only speak for myself, but I grew up evangelical and the worst bigots I knew hated Catholics for being mostly non-white and constantly implied that they were cryptopagans who worshipped saints.
Anti-Catholic (as opposed to general anti-religious, or even anti-Christian) sentiment will probably always trip my "This person might be a radical right wing prosperity gospelist" alarms.
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