My roomba is scared of thunderstorms
I was sitting at my desk just a few minutes ago, drawing, and a really loud crack of thunder went off–no power surges or anything, just thunder–and my roomba fled from its dock and started spinning in circles
I currently now have an active roomba sitting quietly on my lap
Humans will pack bond with anything.
I had a teenage girl come into my tea shop with her mother the other night. She purposely grabbed a teamaker in the most crunched-up looking box on the shelf (got banged around in shipment) and carried it protectively over to the counter. “If something’s in a damaged box I have to get it because I’m afraid no one else will love it,” she laughed nervously.
Not only will humans pack bond with anything, the empathy level of adolescent girls in particular likely has puppy-saving, world hunger-solving, war-ending powers.
Once I went to grab an energy drink before night shift? And when I got to the counter there was only a single scratch ticket left in the case. I thought it “looked lonely” and ended up buying it. I don’t really do scratch tickets- this was the second one I’ve ever bought but I felt so bad it was alone in the massive case. I forgot about it for a few days and when I finally got to it? Won 90$