It's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️ on Nostr: I was just thinking about earlier last year when me, freshly hatched, was in Florida ...

I was just thinking about earlier last year when me, freshly hatched, was in Florida visiting family. So we're at my wife's grandma's retirement Condo, and we've been just sitting in her old lady apartment for the past couple hours. My brain is reeling from having just come out to wifey the week before, and I had to get out of there for a bit. So I tell her I want to get my backpack out of the car with my charger. I go down to the car, grab my backpack, and then wander over to a shaded area to have a vape.

So I'm standing there in the shade, indulging my filthy habit and generally minding my own business when this car pulls up. The woman inside, mid-40s, total 'I want to speak to your manager haircut' says "Hi, how's it going?" I'm like, fine, how are you? And she says, "So, who do you know here?" And I say we're visiting my grandma and mention her name. She's all, "Huh, I don't know her. How long are you going to be here?" And I'm like, "For the day I guess." and she looks at me and says, "Huh. Ok." And slowly drives off. I look down at my backpack at my feet and realize, Oh shit, she think I'm a vagrant! How DARE I stop under the shade in HER complex? WTF, what a total Karen! I yell, "I'M NOT HOMELESS!" at her, but I'm pretty sure she didn't hear me. LOL

This was the first of several events that week that convinced me that Florida is indeed the shittiest place on Earth. It's like Hawaii, but if the Nazis had won the war.