I haven't smoked in a decade, but I still miss the smell of good Dutch rolling tobacco. Now hardly anybody smokes, and if they do it's cheap American cigarettes or shitty cigars.
Somehow, I grew up in the one neighborhood in the city that hasn't had a spike in value in the last couple of decades. My mom refuses to move out to a retirement community (at this point she would need assisted living). She likes to talk about improving the property and what color she should paint the upstairs. Watches flipper shows all day.
I don't have the heart to tell her that I have no interest in inheriting the property and that it will be a huge burden to liquidate all of the 'antiques' she has gathered over the last 80 years that now stink of cat piss and many colors of mold.
She's always been there for me in my darkest hours, though, and so has that shit mid century ranch.
I'll still let her win at Wheel of Fortune, as long as she can remember my name.
Game Production Manager: "Nobody is going home until we get this bug ironed out. You don't have to come in this weekend if you don't want, but we won't renew your contract if you didn't."
I won't agree with anything you've said without further research, but I always appreciate the proper use of profligate.