saliva plath
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Hotel lobby. 1998. You’re 8 years old. Dad’s checking in. You spot this rack and immediately grab 14 brochures for places you will absolutely never visit. Caverns. Ziplines. Some outlet mall 40 miles the wrong direction. Doesn’t matter. You needed them all.


My favorite weird family lore is that my great grandmother went a little batty in her middle age. She had all of these paranoid fantasies and accused people of outlandish things. She was put into a nursing home but got in trouble for waking up all of the patients and making them exercise with her in the middle of the night. My grandmother said one day she approached her mom and said “Mom, you have to stop this. Shape up so you can come home” and overnight she was normal again. To this day we have no idea what was wrong with her but she was completely fine for the rest of her life. It’s our unsolved family mystery.






