One place I interviewed for actually wanted to see my physical diploma. This was memorable bc it was the only time it ever happened and luckily I happened to know where it was. Usually yeah they just contact the university's "registrar" or "academic records" office and as part of the application process you sign a form saying it's OK to release your records to them.
I can dig it, fam. It's not really a "shower thought" as defined in the sidebar, tho, it's more like a microfiction. Or the kind of "nugget" you'd write in a journal where you collect ideas to later build on.
I've been told it's acceptable to flick a cat's ears (gently, obviously) because that's what a mama cat does to her kittens when they do something dumb. Any opinions on this?
One time when I was a kid we were staying in a seaside hotel in Latin America. This wasn't exactly a fancy hotel so someone had just dumped a bunch of fish entrails outside by the wall. I saw some cats eating them and I thought they were tame hotel cats so I went up to them and saw one little kitten in particular I thought was cute and I bent over to say her there little kitty.
People, that was not a tame kitten. I'm pretty sure that kitten was half-panther or something. That kitten was wild and I had just cornered it and it turned into a little hurricane of claws and teeth. Since then I've always remembered that cats can go crazy if you really push them.
Jokes on you! I thought that was the "vomiting" emoji, that only happens 10% of the time.