Nicole Cliffe @Nicole_Cliffe Mar 4: What is the kindest thing a stranger has done or said to you?
@TweetChizone Replying to @Nicole_Cliffe: Oh God I can’t even tell this story and not cry. I used to manage an LGBT bookstore, when bookstores were still a thing. One night, a caller says he thinks he might be gay and is considering self-harm. We were not a crisis center! But as long as we’re talking, he’s safe, right?
@TweetChizone Mar 4 Replying to @TweetChizone and @Nicole_Cliffe: So I talk to this guy and I answer questions, and I try to be encouraging and I’m maybe sounding a little frantic and I’m definitely ignoring the 4-5 customers in the store, and this angel of a woman puts her hand on my shoulder and asks for the phone. “My turn,” she says.
@TweetChizone Mar 4: And SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone. And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER. Every customer in that store knows that call, knows that feeling, and every person takes a turn talking to that man. That story comforts me so much to this day.
the entire california central valley is experiencing silent hill in real life right now by the way
400 mile long fog cloud be upon ye
it really is like that
Fun fact it’s called Tule fog!
“Tule fog (/ˈtuːli/TOO-lee) is a thick ground fog that settles in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley areas of California’s Central Valley. Tule fog forms from late fall through early spring (California’s winter season) after the first significant rainfall. The official time frame for tule fog to form is from November 1 to March 31. This phenomenon is named after the tule grass wetlands (tulares) of the Central Valley.”
