Have you ever noticed that everyone who serves as president gets a library named after them when they leave office? There’s a good reason for this — it’s a law. The 1955 Presidential Libraries Act established that each president would oversee the creation of a library in their name, according to The Washington Post.

While having a library named after yourself is definitely “#lifegoals,” presidential libraries are a little different. They contain every word a president has written in office (minus any classified materials, of course), even the stuff that may not be so good, such as Bill Clinton’s library in Little Rock, Arkansas, which features information about his impeachment scandal. They’re not allowed to keep certain materials out of their libraries, as anything created during a president’s term is legally considered to be public property. This was decided after disgraced President Richard Nixon attempted to leave out materials regarding the Watergate scandal that occurred during his time in office.

The individual presidents do have some control over how much of a certain subject is featured, though. For example, George W. Bush’s library in Dallas, Texas, does mention his invasion of Iraq, but instead of shying away from it, the materials on display defend his decision to go into a war that remains very controversial to this day.

Former presidents don’t have much privacy, and those snoopy Secret Service agents even get to paw through their mail. Yeah, that’s right. An ex-president’s regular old snail mail and packages must be examined by agents before they can be delivered. That may sound like overkill, but they’ve caught several dangerous deliveries by doing this, even as recently as 2018. According to Bloomberg Law, the Secret Service successfully identified explosives en route to former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, among other VIP targets.

And it’s not just a random agent shuffling through and opening the ex-president’s mail on the way back from their mailbox. It’s all screened off-site by trained security staff with knowledge of dealing with explosives, dangerous chemicals, and so on. Every mail piece is meticulously examined for any possible threats to the former president.

What’s more, the Secret Service agents aren’t the only ones keeping an eye on ex-presidential mail. The United States Postal Service also gets in on the act, as they monitor any suspicious packages sent through the mail — no matter who they’re going to — through a program called Dangerous Mail Investigations, which sounds like a pretty fascinating true crime documentary series or some sort of ticking clock procedural drama where harried postal workers only have 24 hours to solve the case of someone’s grandmother accidentally mailing out a box of damaged cell phone batteries.

Every so often, you just need some alone time. People take walks, seek out a quiet room, or whatever they need to find a little peace and quiet. If this is you, becoming president might be a bad idea because you’re literally never alone, and that continues even after you’ve left office. Secret Service detail is a 24/7 thing, and former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow described presidential protection to NBC News as “the most intrusive thing that anyone could ever experience.”

Basically, you’re constantly surrounded by people you barely know, and since agents can be swapped out or moved around, ex-presidents are likely to be surrounded by strangers for the rest of their lives. And these agents don’t take a break when things aren’t going well, like when there are arguments between spouses. They’re by their protectee’s side at all times. No word if that includes bathroom breaks, but frankly, it seems pretty likely.

Agents are even with former presidents during holidays. Imagine not being able to eat Thanksgiving dinner without a bunch of people in black suits standing around you. This actually happened to Donald Trump when he was president-elect. When he and his family sat down to a holiday dinner at Mar-a-Lago, over 150 Secret Service agents were there too, since all of his family members who were in attendance had Secret Service details of their own.

If a regular person wants to pop down to Starbucks and get a grande cinnamon dolce latte or whatever, they just head that way, get their coffee, and get on with their day. Due to a former president’s large Secret Service detail, though, anything they want to do, even normal everyday stuff, becomes a huge undertaking. Think of something you like to do every day, like taking a walk or going out for dinner. Now imagine that you have to do that thing with an entourage of strangers disrupting everyone around you … for the rest of your life.

For example, President Barack Obama made a Starbucks run while he was still in office, and it ended up with the Secret Service blocking off much of the street and moving pedestrians away from the president. As captured by the Associated Press, dozens of agents and at least one Secret Service vehicle could also be seen. The president even asked the Secret Service to “give [him] a little space,” just a small indicator of how frustrating constant security must be.

Speaking of President Obama, he was a pretty notorious fan of playing games of pickup basketball, something he spent a lot of time doing while in private life and as a senator. Once he became president, though, the Secret Service told him that they needed four hours notice before such a game, which President Obama wasn’t terribly happy about, according to NBC News.