I just checked your book out from my library. Very happy for you, but selfishly more happy for me to read it.

Butterscotch. My MIL makes scotcharoo cookies that are universally adored by everyone else. I think butterscotch tastes like plastic warmed on a hot radiator

In sharing this, I am totally agreeing with you - most people don't learn these bits of social skills. More times than not, I've been barrelled into trying to exit an elevator by kids storming the freaking castle and fighting to press the stupid buttons before I can actually exit

I vividly remember when I was a small child and super-excited to push the button on the elevator & being literally grabbed by the collar by my mother and held back before I could charge in so that people could exit, and her explaining that we wait to let them off, before going in

Trum is 💯 transactional. What did she offer him for this?

This is some Shaggy and Scooby- level snacking

I frequently spent lunch in the bathroom, because the library was “off limits” at lunch. The lunchroom monitors wouldn’t let anyone sit alone, and forced loner kids into tables filled with normies who loved to torture a freak. Headphones & a book were a tonic to the soul