Baroque Mongoose@mongoose@vmst.io
Something online reminded me of the first time I ever ate at a fast-food place. I was staying with a university friend in Liverpool, and it turned out that her family ate at this place once a week, so I was just invited along. And it was so strange; my friend's parents weren't at all embarrassed by the fact that they had two teenagers with them, and we didn't have to talk in super-quiet voices and pretend we didn't really exist, and nobody complained about how expensive it was (my parents could easily have afforded it but thought it was an extravagance).
I was so overwhelmed I didn't even dare ask where the vegetables were.