i just made possibly the weirdest 40 dollars of my entire life
so my landlord died recently and his son inherited everything all of a sudden. and there's this huge storage shed out behind my apartment building that the dude's been cleaning out the past few weeks
and i was taking my cat out for a walk and i see him there and we start shootin' the shit. and he's like "yeah, i locked my keys in the shed, don't know what i'm gonna do now. i'm gonna replace the doors soon anyway but i'm not sure how to break in"
and my cat decides it's time to go back inside so i grab my lockpick set and go out there and i tell him i can try to jimmy the lock open, but i'm only experienced with padlocks.
then i realize i probably sound like a criminal. but telling him the real reason i taught myself this (being a d&d nerd and also briefly getting into lockpickinglawyer's videos) sounds fake as FUCK. so i decide i need to make up a lie that sounds more believable than the truth. tell him my dad had really bad adhd and lost his keys to the barn a lot (that is true) and that he taught himself how to pick locks to let himself in and passed that down to me (that is false)
so i start picking the lock and it takes a few tries. i've only practiced on one lock so it's hard to get a feel for a new one, especially a (mildly rusty) door lock like that. but i eventually get it and we get the door to open.
and he starts thanking me a ton and telling me how cool it is that i could do that. and i just accept the praise, feeling glad that i got to make someone's day better. and then he hands me 40 bucks because "a locksmith would've charged me way more than that, and probably not been able to come til tomorrow"
N.B. Ukraine changes her hair to blonde when she's being genocided and to black when she restores herself. Based on the fact that some Ukrainians grow out from blonde-blue-eyed to black-hair-black-eyed.
History according to Netflix….
You can't understand how the Second World War played out in central and eastern Europe (and its aftermath that left tens of millions of people unwillingly trapped behind the Iron Curtain for half a century) without knowing about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the two years of collaboration between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that lasted from August 1939 to June 1941.
It looks like some people would prefer that you don't understand it….