Natures Lid A lot of inventions weren’t invented on purpose, rather they were invented on accident. Butter, for example, wasn’t create to be something to eat. It was used to keep lid on milk back when they didn’t have refrigeration. It kept out bacteria that would make milk spoil, keeping it drinkable […]
The Friendly Clock Lady
Looking For The Time I needed a clock, so I went to home depot. I wanted a big, analog clock to put on the wall. Something about a big analog clock up on the wall gives you a different perspective of time than a digital one on your device or in the lower corner of […]
The Juggler
Stoplight I was driving home from somewhere a few weeks ago I stopped at a stoplight. It was about three in the afternoon. The traffic was fairly light. There was maybe two or three other cars at this intersection. Unexpectedly this guy ran out into the intersection. My first response was he was some […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Hidden Brokenness
Hey, Dude! I was at a bar the other night and I saw an old friend of mine. It took me a few seconds to recognize him because he was a shell of the man that I remember. The man that I remember was a guy that was extremely confident. Extremely secure extremely friendly […]
Demon Assassination
Childhood Bully When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts. I really liked Boy Scouts. One of the things they did, we did, that I liked was to go on these backpacking trips. Sometimes for one or two days, sometimes for a week during the summer. One time during one of these […]
Toothless Nightmare
How Many Cavities So the other day I went to the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist in a long long time. Normally this hasn’t been so bad. Occasionally I would get these pains in my teeth. Usually they would go away in a couple days. While I have the pain I would […]
Rise To The Occasion
Elementary School Nightmare When I went from elementary school to junior high school it was particularly terrifying because when I was in elementary school I had a lot of friends that I had made over the years. I was familiar with the location. but when I went to junior high school it was completely new […]
Welcome The Other
Retired Young and Rich I have a friend that I just started hanging out with. I didn’t start hanging out with her until after she retired. She is only 26 and she retired from this tech company and she said she was the main programmer behind this kind of idea that still sort of under […]
The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Local Dive Bar I like to hang out in my local dive bar from time to time. If you hang in your local dive bar you’ll experience a different environment than you find in most other places. Anywhere socially, a bar, a regular bar not a dive bar, restaurant a coffee shop people tend […]
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