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 […]
Hidden Box Of Pain
3D Vision The other day I was watching this really cool documentary on how our eyeballs and our brains work together to create this illusion of depth perception. I used to think that it was because only because we had two eyeballs kind of like a 3-D movie where you put on these glasses […]
Time Traveling Librarian
Girl From The Internet I went on a date. One date with this girl I met online. In retrospect there were plenty of red flags that I purposely didn’t notice that I now wish I had. We met, it was her idea to meet, after only a few messages being exchanged. We met at […]