That weekend when I was at the one brewery that I go to, the one (younger) (white woman) (local student) with (pulled-back) (brown) hair who's a new bartender was bartending, and she said that people at the one local hospital ER where she's doing her internship were remarking recently that they've never seen so many homeless people coming in when it got cold out.
"Were these new employees, or people who'd been there a while?", I was like.
"They'd been there a while," she was like. "And they said there'd always been some, it makes sense that you're cold and you need somewhere to go and so you go to the ER, but they've never seen so many, it's, like, a noticeable jump up."
We also were talking more about the recent midterm elections, and she said that she had a lot of faith in Generation Z, and she pays attention and votes but tries not to obsess about politics since her boyfriend does and gets all worked up by it and that doesn't do anyone any good, and she thinks that crime being up everywhere right now isn't just the pandemic, but it's also due to "the political climate."
"What is your internship in, by the way?", I was like.
"Dietetics," she was like.
"Like L. Ron Hubbard?", I was like.
And, she didn't laugh, and from the way that she stared at me blankly, I don't think she got the joke, either.
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