I'm just not seeing what would make me have issues in worlds I downloaded but not a fresh world I made to test the bug? I know it isn't a mod because that would carry over to the fresh world. It can't be lot or world-specific because it's happened on so many different lots in 4 different worlds (including uni subhoods). I'd do the half and half test with my mods folder but it doesn't happen in the fresh world. I haven't played Sims 2 since like 2017 since been difficult to get it to work so I'm hoping I can get this figured out so I can finally return to Sims 2...