My mom drove herself to the doctor after her stroke a few months ago, instead of calling me to say she was having problems. I took the car away from her.
I am from Vermont, now transplanted in South Carolina, I never had snow tires and most of my life had rear-wheel drive vehicles and *touchwood, never wrecked. The first year we were down here, we had a snow, in the morning before I left for work, it was just a light slushy snow, on my way in...
I don't need/use eye drops, my vision is just getting worse. I spend 10+/- hours a day on a computer, with 3 screens for work, for the last 20 years. :-(
'Chat talk' just makes complicated language differences more complicated. I am the annoying person that spells everything out when texting...LOL and I am not nearly as fast as my 35 y/o son. *sigh
Over here, abbreviations are capitalized to indicate that it is an abbreviation, although in the world of on-line communications, all caps is used as shouting, so that isn't necessarily a good indicator anymore. Typically you would use the period/full stop, A.C.V. or S.N.A.F.U to be more...
The coldest that I remember, from Vermont was -36, it was not pleasant, but it was survivable, the wind made uncomfortable. I like the cold, I just not that cold. :-)
Spud and Goldie always greet us, every time, Squeaky does sometimes, Walnut and Tater, rarely more than a look to acknowledge our presence and to see if we are bringing treats LOL.
I used to get in trouble in school for my mixed spellings, some of my early home learning came from my Scottish Great Grandmother and Welsh Great Grandfather. I am constantly mixing up my English'es'.
🤣 I love Michael ! Let's bring into the conversation that American English drops some letters from words, one of our favourites is aluminium v aluminum and mostly to just be contrary... 😉 If I want to bring out the die-hard cockney in the Egg Thief, I just ask him, "Where is the Aluuuuuuuuuminum...
I can't have a conversation that does not involve the chickens, turkeys or my dogs and I know most people are really not interested, so I spend a lot of time smiling an nodding.