Way back B4CP (before cell phones) my daughter took a ballet class and I was one of the few with a video camera. The school asked me for a copy because the person working their official camera screwed it up. Parents started asking me for a copy and I referred them to the school because there was no social media back then and I’d would have had to burn a CD for each of them.
When I moved to Connecticut a real estate agent saw my out of state plates and blocked my car so that I’d have to come out and talk with him. I decided to waste his time and look at a few houses that I didn’t buy. No problem there, he tried to push off his garbage houses on me. One that had trees growing through the foundations, another right behind an theatre that showed only x-rated movies, etc.
We were lucky when we needed a house/pet sitter. A coworker’s 2 teenaged daughters loved our puppy and enjoyed doing it for us. Plus their grandmother lived across the street, making them feel secure. In return I used to take care of her cats, including the 3 litter boxes. All 12 cats.
I had to check mine because of your comment. Mine went up a little. Hard to tell over the past 12 months because I’m retired and taking withdrawals from it.
I had a CD of soothing sounds. Some genius decided to add screeching seagulls to the surf sounds, sharp crack of lightening to the rainfall, etc at the 12 minute mark of each.
One of the reasons I moved from Port St. Lucie when I retired. The other and more important reason is that all of our family moved away.