• The window curtains clichédly blowing in the wind, letting in a sliver of bloomy light every time they split apart.
  • Eating mashed potatoes right after brushing.
  • The ice cream distributor workers wearing winter parkas between walk-in freezers in 80-degree weather.
  • The professional mover with a bald head who looked like Furiosa from Mad Max.
  • The shrimpy, older Hispanic dude wheeling a library ladder down the street.
  • The deep, deep relief of shaving an itchy rat-beard off my face.
  • Mojitos and guacamole with Casey.