Had an childhood best friend across the street and his dad (the guy who brought Cold-Eeze to market) on Facebook is all like, being a proud patriarch and showing off pictures of his grandchildren, but between the pictures and the captions there’s this unmistakable note of pride that the teenage children of these older siblings I knew are now mature and attractive for him to show off, its hinky

(Is his family foreign? Yes. What kind? British Colonial and Irish Traveler. Which was always hard to parse, generally in such alignment with my own background the times it was completely different were quite the surprise.)