working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy

Carl Ludwig Jessen - Interior of a Friesian house with two cats (1907)

Brandt's hedgehog (Paraechinus hypomelas)

i understand you guys now. like i get it

what is the lamest thing that ever genuinely scared you like either as a kid or adult. i got scared of those halloween cartoon scooby doo ass eye stickers ppl put on mirrors when i was 9 and screamed so hard i fainted

you are an R L Stein protagonist my friend

US Air Force 1LT Greg Yost, 446th Aerial Evacuation Squadron, wears his traditional Rodeo Hat for good luck at the start of the USAF Air Mobility Command sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition, June 19, 1998. 

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Image description: Close up photograph of a man looking off into the distance.  He is wearing a hat that looks like a fuzzy white and red chicken is sitting on his head.