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Trans girl Albus Severus Potter changing her name and consulting Professor Longbottom because she thinks that by doing that she’ll be insulting the bravest men her father ever knew. Neville reassures her they weren’t that great anyways.
and then she calls herself ‘Ruby’ and the moment Hagrid hears this he bursts into tears because he adores this little girl so much and to her this big giant of a man is one of the greatest she ever knew
Shout out to all the janitors that clean public bathrooms. Seriously thank you. You make going to public bathrooms a little more bearable when it’s clean. You’re all under appreciated heroes.
it takes like half a second to thank janitors/custodial workers and wish them a nice day with a smile and you should definitely be doing it
Okay, so sort of related.
When I was in elementary school, my favorite person was not any of my teachers, not my principal, not my school nurse, but John the custodian. He was like Ned Flanders’ cool brother.
Every day without fail I would find him in the cafeteria or the hallway and tell him about my day and the cool things I was learning. I talked to him about my parents’ divorce. I told him about the stray dogs I was feeding and letting sleep on the back porch, and then told him how my mother made me stop and bring them to a shelter. After my friends, he was the first to sign all my casts (I was clumsy af in the third and fourth grades). To his credit, he always stopped what he was doing to listen and ask questions, and never once did he make me feel like I was bothering him. I always thanked him for making sure there was toilet paper and soap in the girl’s bathroom outside Mrs. Tewky’s room and never understood why he laughed whenever I did. He even let me wear his super cool sunglasses with the iridescent lenses (hey, it was the 90s).
I was devastated when I eventually moved to the middle school, because it meant I’d never see him again.
Cut to like a million years later. I was student-teaching at the high school and was having my first open house, and who walked in but John the custodian. Turns out, his daughter was one of my tenth graders. He came in not to talk about his daughter (who was loving the Hamlet unit), but to tell me how proud he was of me. He said the bright points of his time at the now-demolished Willis School were when I would come running down the hall to talk to him. “When you’re a janitor, nobody tends to look at you, let alone talk to you,” he said, “and here was this crazy-haired girl who would bring me drawings and trusted me enough to tell me about what was going on at home. You’ll never know what that meant to me.”
And once I stopped crying and we stopped hugging, he told me that he was now the head of the maintenance department for another city’s entire school system. “I always thought about quitting and maybe going back into carpentry, but I stayed because of kids like you. When I had my baby girl, I hoped she’d turn out a little like you. I hoped she’d brighten someone’s day.”
Every so often, I visit my hometown and I’ll see him in CVS or coming out of Nick’s Subs, and we’ll catch up and talk like it hasn’t been over two decades since a second grader with seriously insane hair walked up to the janitor standing at the front of the cafeteria and asked if he wanted some of her Gushers.
Thank the janitors and custodians whenever you can. They are people, they are important, and the world is better because of them.
This is the best story ever T_T
the neopets economy is proof that capitalism will fail
consider the following
- “please for the love of god help you’re the only one here who speaks English” AU
- “i go to this restaurant every week and sit at the same table and suddenly you’re my new server” AU
- “i’ve been breaking my phone on purpose just because you work at the help desk” AU
- “i saw you taking selfies and i wondered if i could take one with you” AU
- “i’m the sarcastic techie who got dragged into running your stupid presentation” AU
- “we somehow ended up in charge of senior prank” AU
- “i’ve walked into your classroom four times by mistake can you please help me learn my way around this stupid school” AU
- “your music’s way too loud bUT THAT’S MY FAVORITE SONG” AU
- “bored single parents at a OneDirection concert” AU
- “mutual drunk friend called BOTH of us to pick them up from a party well this is awkward” AU
- “for the last time we do not sell hydrochloric acid I’M CALLING THE COPS” AU
- “your email address is one letter different from my friend’s so i keep emailing you by mistake” AU
- “you accidentally added me to this group chat and i don’t know how to take myself off” AU
ya’ll really liked this so i’m bringing it back with some more
- “i’m at a climbing gym and i need someone to belay me and hey you look about the right size” AU
- “good old fashioned pawn shop waffle iron bidding war” AU
- “Netflix support” AU
- “rival sandwich shops” AU
- “met at a panel at a convention” AU
- “we work at the same office and never really interacted but suddenly we’ve been taken hostage” AU
- “i thought someone was breaking into my apartment but it turns out you just forgot your key and thought this was your place” AU
- “you think i always forget pencils in this class but actually i just want to talk to you and now have a little over 200 pencils at home” AU
- “STOP BEATING ME AT THIS STUPID MMO” AU
- “actor at a haunted house/person who punches the actor in the face” AU
- “somehow we’re both closeted fans of the same stupid thing” AU
- “hate each other but got thrown in the same group during a team building exercise” AU
- “oh, these are your Birkenstocks?” AU
ooookay so i told myself that i’d do some more if this got to 1K and to my ultimate surprise and genuinely pleased shock here we are so let’s go kiddos
- “i know i stole your headphones but believe me I REALLY NEED THEM” AU
- “i need to knit my friend a present so can you maybe teach me how to knit” AU
- “does anyone here have an iPhone 5 charger? ANYONE?” AU
- “you’re my gardener and i hired you to plant some roses but would you like to stay and plant some sunflowers and stay and have some dinner” AU
- “is that REALLY what you want us to write on your custom-order cake?” AU
- “our stage got flooded, can we borrow your theater?” AU
- “at a concert and you kinda saved me from being trampled” AU
- “we work at opposite ends of a library but we have this book swap thing going on and somehow we started leaving notes in the books” AU
- “can i borrow your blanket? i need to cry.” AU
- “OMG, you speak Klingon too?!” AU
- “THAT IS NOT HOW YOU HOLD A CHILD” AU
- “hang on a second, that’s my car you’re towing!” AU
- “singing along to the same radio station in separate cars with the windows open” AU
Bad credit? No credit? First time buyer? First time baby? No legs? 8 legs? You a spider? Are you a Spider trying to buy a house?
