This is the first place I’ve ever been where I’ve wanted to reshape myself to fit it rather than the other way around, and I really do appreciate the way people get along, but

I’m still suburbanova professional class stock, loyalties attendant

I was in a bar once and overheard a ‘tender talk about how she and her boy made a baby, and this gay dude couple adopted it, all 4 of them co-workers, and all took 3 months off on family leave

And this is all unpaid leave, and it’s pretty much impossible to walk a dog in this town without running into 10 people looking to pick up bar shifts, and now that I look it up a single employer can insist couples go consecutively rather than concurrently

But jesus christ did my sympathies immediately go out to the owner/managers.