(My four-year-old has started mimicking ads on TV as well as every adult conversation she hears. We were watching cartoons when an ad comes on for a brand of rather over-decorated shoes aimed at young girls.)

Daughter: “[Brand] school shoes….”

Me: *smiling* “You don’t need those.”

Daughter: “Yeah. They’re too expensive!”

I’m a 23 yo single female with no kids when this takes place. This is important later.
I’ve walked down the toy aisle at a local big box stores looking for a card game for a party with some friends. One side of the aisle has card and board games, the other side has 13in dolls and accessories.
I get distracted by a science themed doll, since I love science and they didn’t make dolls like that when I was a kid. I pick it up to look at it.
Cue Crazy Lady (CL) walking down the aisle
CL: you should be ashamed of yourself!!
M: Um… What?
CL: having a child at your age!
M: uh …
CL: I bet you had to drop out of school cause of your kid, huh? Can’t even get a GED I’d bet! And my taxes probably pay for you to get that doll for your brat!
M: (now annoyed at getting yelled at by random crazy woman) ok, first off. If I’m young enough to still be in high school with a daughter old enough to play with the small parts on this doll, I would have had to have a kid at like, 13. Which would have a lot wrong with it, none of which would be my fault! Second, I graduated from college two years ago with a degree in biochemistry, and have been employed since I graduated. Third, one of my friends has a daughter that would enjoy playing with the doll, so I could be buying this for a little girl I consider my niece! Fourth, none of that is your business anyway! Don’t tell at random people.
CL: well I didn’t know! You look young! How was I supposed to know?
M: that’s literally why you don’t tell at random people… (I left, and my friend’s daughter loved the science themed doll)

A bit of backstory; I’m a transgender male who attended an all girls school from the ages of 12-18. I came out when I was 14 and due to family circumstances I wasn’t able to move school and had to stay in my school.

This story takes place when I was in my final year on the second day of the first term, I had missed the first day (i had to go to a friend of mines graduation thingy) and I go into one of my classes who I had a new teacher for. After the class the teacher asked me to stay back (I thought he was about to give out to me for missing the first class) but instead he told he fully supports me and if he ever messes up my pronouns it’s not due to anything other than habit. I know it’s not much but it really stuck with me because no other teacher ever took the time to say anything like that to me and i still have so much respect and admiration for that teacher.

It’s around 15 of a Saturday when I’m home and the cellphone rings.
It’s a landline I don’t know, but I answer anyway because could be anything.
It’s somebody who knows my name and pretends to be from my electric company, saying I have two unpaid bills. This is strange because I have direct payment on my bank account, before calling they’ll send both snail and e mails and it’s a saturday. I pretend to be busy and asks that they send an email, to which the caller react like I’ve insulted his mother, and tell me they’re going to cut my electricity this evening.
I laugh a little and close the call, but since I’m anxious I first check my bank account and see no anomalies, then I call the actual electric company and they confirm that I have no unpaid bills or anything.
I’m not going to the police with this scam attempt because I know it will be buried under a lot of paperwork and go nowhere.

It’s probably about 6pm on a Saturday, and my coworker and I are both near a phone, so she answers it. I’m very confused by her half of the conversation.

Coworker: “No, that’s not true at all. … Nope. … Well, it’s five o’clock somewhere, right? … Okay, bye.”

Me: “What was that about?”

Coworker: “Some drunk guy. He said someone told him we were closing. I heard other people in the background, and I think they were all a little tipsy. He said they might have started drinking early.”

We periodically get people asking if our chain of stores is closing because of old posts on social media. We’re doing fine–we’re actually opening a few stores a year at this point. This was the first time I’ve heard of a drunk person calling to ask!