One of the fun things about the ASOUE adaptation coming out now is that there are things I thought were quirky Snicket inventions as a kid that I now know are barely embellishments of the real world

Like, Hal’s filing system of only glancing at files to classify them seemed absurd at age 11 but now my literal job is to enter basic data from medical records by reading as little of the file as possible to get what I need. I am Hal now.