I work nine hour days so I can get every other Friday off. I made this deal with myself a while back that I was going to spend my Fridays off (those that I was in town anyway) working on my novel. I’ve found that if I take the time to post something thoughtful here, I don’t have enough left of whatever I use to write to add anything useful to my novel.
With that in mind, I give you three unrelated random things:
1. On shopping carts:
I think it’s a shame that people treat shopping carts like their only use is carrying food around. Shopping carts are highly engineered devices that can be used to carry food but are really intended to be ridden. Did you think that one wheel was wobbly on accident? That’s an ingenious speed limiting device so that amateur riders don’t run over Aunt Ruth.
If you see a guy in his mid-twenties flying through the aisles screaming, “MARIO ANDRETTI AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ ON ME!” while you’re plodding through the super market dropping food in your shopping cart, that’s probably me.
2. On IKEA:
If you don’t know, IKEA is a huge store owned by the Swiss or the Swedes (I can never remember which) in which you can purchase all manner of ugly things to furnish your house. They have everything from furniture that looks like it was designed by a cubist to rugs that look like they had a run in with an angry child trying to vent his frustrations through finger paint. In my humble opinion, IKEA only has two redeeming factors.
First, you can buy some pretty wicked meatballs there.
Second, they have the almost too-good-to-believe combination of flatbed shopping carts that you can ride like a skate board and a huge warehouse in which to ride them. I may or may not be officially barred from IKEAs due to “reckless shopping cart operation.”
3. I have weird friends:
Padre took the above pictures of me while hiking last weekend. He made an animated GIF of the two pictures that I was going to post because I said I would, but it didn't work. So, instead, I posted the pictures next to each other. If you scroll up and down really quickly, you'll get the general idea. If anyone knows why the GIF isn't working, please let me know so I can fix it. The picture will still look stupid, but it won't look stupid and incompetent.
With that in mind, I give you three unrelated random things:
1. On shopping carts:
I think it’s a shame that people treat shopping carts like their only use is carrying food around. Shopping carts are highly engineered devices that can be used to carry food but are really intended to be ridden. Did you think that one wheel was wobbly on accident? That’s an ingenious speed limiting device so that amateur riders don’t run over Aunt Ruth.
If you see a guy in his mid-twenties flying through the aisles screaming, “MARIO ANDRETTI AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ ON ME!” while you’re plodding through the super market dropping food in your shopping cart, that’s probably me.
2. On IKEA:
If you don’t know, IKEA is a huge store owned by the Swiss or the Swedes (I can never remember which) in which you can purchase all manner of ugly things to furnish your house. They have everything from furniture that looks like it was designed by a cubist to rugs that look like they had a run in with an angry child trying to vent his frustrations through finger paint. In my humble opinion, IKEA only has two redeeming factors.
First, you can buy some pretty wicked meatballs there.
Second, they have the almost too-good-to-believe combination of flatbed shopping carts that you can ride like a skate board and a huge warehouse in which to ride them. I may or may not be officially barred from IKEAs due to “reckless shopping cart operation.”
3. I have weird friends:
Padre took the above pictures of me while hiking last weekend. He made an animated GIF of the two pictures that I was going to post because I said I would, but it didn't work. So, instead, I posted the pictures next to each other. If you scroll up and down really quickly, you'll get the general idea. If anyone knows why the GIF isn't working, please let me know so I can fix it. The picture will still look stupid, but it won't look stupid and incompetent.
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