I agree with you … But the contention mentioned above is mostly just a joke between us now. The good news is that I plan to be with her the rest of my life and die before she does, so how long we’ve been together is less of a concern to me than how long we will be!
That’s similar to what I was considering saying - my wife and I disagree whether we met when I was 22 or 23 and all the services we used to talk back then (IRC server, Skype, AIM) are gone, so there are no easily accessible records.
That said, I’m about to turn 38, so also fifteenish years is how long I’ve known her. We got married about seven years after that.
My wife also made a spreadsheet detailing her symptoms before her assessment (which was with a GP, not a mental health professional). Apparently the mere existence of the document was sufficient to earn her a diagnosis.
Username checks out.
Which, in itself, I suppose checks out.
That question (or similar) comes up any time someone notices my name. I hadn’t even heard of the tiles when I chose this - actually, not even sure they were a thing at that point. People also always assume my real name is Tony, which it’s not.
This is my username because, last time I was looking for a username, the first X-Men movie had just come out. I read the then age-appropriate novelization and I liked the Toad’s secret name, Mortimer Toynbee, and claimed it for myself. Sadly, there is at least one animated series in which they’ve retconned his name.
I’ve never intentionally used AI, but obviously it latched on to the “bee” part. I wonder what it did with the “toyn.”
But relevant anecdote! After I had been using this name for many years, I got a job in Philadelphia. I lived a long drive away, so I would take the train to the city and walk to work. One day I took a different route between work and the train and randomly walked over a real life toynbee tile I hadn’t known was there. I had my eyes down as I crossed over it or I wouldn’t have noticed it.
It was very jarring to see my online name in real life in a city where I knew literally no one other than my coworkers, who definitely didn’t know that name. I knew of the tiles by that point but didn’t know they’d started (or existed) in Philly and hadn’t been thinking of them at all until I read one in the street. I was so surprised that I think I stopped in the middle of a crosswalk. Seeing that tile eventually lead to me watching a documentary on the tiles, which itself was pretty interesting.
Apparently they’re closed now, but Artscow used to offer to print any image you provided on a shower curtain for you. I’m sure other alternatives exist these days.
It wasn’t as bad as some - no one was offended AFAIK - but recently a friend’s wife asked if I was close with my in-laws. I had recently moved geographically much closer to them, so I described the distance between us, about four miles.
I didn’t even realize I had misunderstood until her husband clarified later in the conversation.
Is this a Futurama reference?
That’s a fair question, and - based on the down votes - one you’re not alone in raising. I didn’t actually take the picture to post here, I took it to send to a friend and fellow parent because I thought my kid was being cute. I decided to share it more publicly because I thought the covering of their face was especially cute and obscured their identity. Seems I misjudged.
It definitely made me laugh harder than the usual version!
Afterwards, we went through the normal “don’t cry, it’s only a joke” routine… They thought about it, then said “I don’t get it. Who’s Boo?”
Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.
I thought that was pretty typical.
If it genuinely helped, I’m genuinely happy to have done so.
My shower door hasn’t shattered, but it has its own problems - I’m pretty sure the previous owner of the house tried to make it luxurious but had no idea what he was doing (as is tradition). Hoping I can learn some things about glass shower panes myself!
Excellent!
I was refraining from posting this, so I’m very glad someone else did. Back when we were masked up, I always appreciated the Maryland flag masks the most and made sure to compliment their wearers.