cat on the keyboard

When a text or email is laced with typos and misspellings, as if a cat walked on a keyboard while a person was writing. A garbled email or text.

Sorry for the garbled email, there was a cat on the keyboard.
Her letter was rife with errors; she must have had a cat on her keyboard.
I never text and drive, not only is it really dangerous, but if i text while driving, my texts always look like there was a cat on my keyboard.

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nostalgic benchmark

When one person in a group or family holds on to a symbolic memory or experience with more importance than the other people involved in that experience or memory. For this person, a nostalgic benchmark holds a reference point for a significant event that is no longer significant to others who were involved in this experience or event.

A mother and son always go to a certain restaurant to eat chicken wings. As the son grows older, he no longer likes chicken wings and has no desire to eat them, but the mother insists on going back to the restaurant, which serves the chicken wings that both of them once loved. For the mother this is a nostalgic event, but for the son, who no longer eats chicken wings or likes them, this experience of going to the restaurant to eat chicken wings no longer holds any importance or nostalgia. So, for the mother this is a nostalgic benchmark, but for the son, it has no importance, or nostalgia, it has no benchmark anymore.