I’ve had a really weird interaction with this professor. So, total tangent, I, at the time, was working at a retail store and it was -- it would’ve -- must have been December. So, it would have been that winter semester, but around Christmas. And my professor had come in to buy something -- it was my professor and then their child. And I was really uncomfortable, not because I had an issue with this professor initially, but they had come in and I was trying to check them out and their credit card kept getting declined. And I knew like, “Oh, I have their exam in a couple days. Like, this is really uncomfortable.” And I kept saying, "Oh, I don't know. It says --" Um, what would that be? Uh, non-sufficient funds. "It says NSF, like, I don't know what that means." I was trying to, like, get him off the hook, trying to get him to use a different card. I said -- so I said that initially and then I said, "I think the card reader isn't working." So, I go into the back to talk to my manager and I said, "Hey, like, the -- you know, his card keeps getting declined. Like, what do I do?" And -- I said, "Can you come out there and just like razzle-dazzle and, you know, like, smooth this over?" I was, whatever, 20? Probably 20, 21, and I was just so uncomfortable. And normally my manager would be right there, but he was like, "I will not talk to that man." And I was like, "Excuse me?" And he was like, "You heard me, like, you're on your own." And I was like, “What in the world?” So I went back out and I don't know what I said. I think eventually I was like, "I need a different card. Give me a different card, this one is not working." And so he did and it was -- like, it was, like, 30 dollars. It was not a ton of money. So that card went through.  And after he left, I went in the back and I was like, "What the hell? Like, that was so lame!" You know, I -- and I had said when I went back there like, “This is my professor and I’m feeling really uncomfortable.” And then he launches into this whole story about…

And by far the best thing to happen to me this week, is that my friend's dad decided my friend needed a cat stroller. Not a cat backpack. Not a cat leash. A cat baby stroller. They make such a thing. They're very cute. But he didn't just decide any stroller. He decided that it wouldn't be fair if it was just one stroller because there was two cats in my friend's apartment: her cat and her partner's cat. So he got a double-decker cat stroller and ordered it for her and sent it to her house as a surprise. And then we got to take these two cats on a double-decker cat stroller walk. They both actually are very entertained and seem to enjoy it. They make a lot of noise, but they also seem to be having a good time. And because of that -- 'cause they were having such fun, you know, we decided to find out where you can take cats in your double-decker cat stroller. And we tried the grocery store. And we asked, we asked before we went in, do they allow cats? And they said, “Technically yes, but no one had ever asked them before.” So we took our cats into the grocery store. I wanna -- I wish I could say we took our cats grocery shopping, but we didn't. We weren't trying to shop. We were fully there to give our cats this experience. So we kinda had to make up some items to buy to sort of feel like we were having the full experience. But a bunch of people stopped and asked to take photos and talk with us and it was so cute. And our cats made a lot of noise, but people didn't seem that annoyed by it, hopefully. And they seemed to enjoy themselves a lot, the cats.