Odd day really. My wife had the idea of visiting the Belsen concentration camp memorial on our way back from the weekend away. I had mentioned before that I was interested in it (for personal reasons) but it really gave me the creeps.
It was largely empty when we were there, but the ambient sounds are really unnerving. I’m not superstitious, but it really feels haunted.
When we got home, her Facebook account had been suspended for undisclosed reasons and demanded a video selfie to reconnect. She has never had her picture in the profile and it wouldn’t validate. I tried it for her and it worked, because apparently I pass for a 55 year old woman…
I gathered that! I got misgendered by the police a few months back. I was a witness to a road accident and the officer at the scene wrote my first name (which is somewhat unusual) rather than Herr/Frau. His colleague contacted me and referred to me as “Frau” rather than “Herr”. Easy mistake, took a 50/50 on the name and missed. She spent more time apologising for the mistake than she did taking the statement.
Oddly enough, in Scotland, the main problem I had was that people would see my surname (a common Scottish name) and, because Scottish first and second names are largely interchangeable, would swap my names around.
For the most part I just use a shortened name (and it’s not Fido) but I can honestly say that I have never had my name spelt correctly in my entire life. I certainly never found it on a key-ring in the museum gift shop.
There seems to be some misunderstanding. I was supergluing some shoes and I spilt some glue on my index finger. If you have ever been in a similar situation you’ll know that superglue forms a hard skin soon after exposure to air. This has interfered with my fingerprint security on my phone and means that I can’t open my phone, get online, visit this site or post an explanation of the situation.
