That's sad. We got our cat Tommy because he came to our door hungry and exhausted two years ago. He was a neighborhood stray, about 12 weeks old (probably dumped), with a bad limp. His shoulder infection took two surgeries to fix. He's a happy cat now.
We were discussing the day JFK died at work. One of my co-workers mentioned she hadn't been born yet when that happened. So we switched to when RFK was assassinated. She hadn't been born yet then, either! It made the rest of us feel so old. The kicker is that the conversation happened 26 years ago.
In case any reader is fuzzy on the concept of mansplaining, you should read Rebecca Solnit's 2008 essay on the subject. In which a man at a party schooled her on a book that she herself had written ...and he hadn't even read.
When I moved into my current house in 2008, we never bothered to get landline service. I don't even know where the outlets are, besides the one in the kitchen. Recently, a storm brought the wire down onto my driveway, and I just rolled it up and hung it on the outside wall.
Neatorama had permission to publish one time, but any other requests will have to go through the book publisher.