It’s so weird in TV shows how people can just walk into other folks’ workplaces to surprise them when everywhere IRL makes you go through an elaborate process even when people expect your presence.

— ✨Yael Grauer✨ (@yaelwrites) September 10, 2022

I’m old enough to remember when most workplaces and schools used to be much more open — it was also a world where you could meet arriving friends and loved ones at airport gates and walk them there when departing.

It was a better world in those ways. 9/11 was really when things started trending much worse; the optimism and spirit of the 1990s was truly and irrevocably broken that day.