My bedroom was above the kitchen growing up. Late at night while laying in bed I would often listen to the creaks and cracks through the vents and floorboards. Oven burners wobbled and popped, distant thumps echoed through the furnace room, and the fridge cranked its whirring motor whenever it...
#42 Seeing old people really get down on the dance floor
AWESOME! Illustration from: Monsieur Cabinet ...
#43 Finding out from a doctor or mechanic that nothing’s wrong
Weird thump, strange lump, funny bump? It’s nothing. AWESOME! Photo from: here ...
#44 Your first record, tape, or CD
Straight up now tell me: What was your first CD? Mine was “Forever Your Girl” by Paula Abdul which was gift-wrapped together with Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” as part of a Christmas present with my new mini-system. Yes, I was ten years old when the boxy Magnasonic arrived under...
#45 Seeing a big dog sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car
What was your worst job ever? Yes, we were chatting about bad jobs the other night and I said unclogging grease traps with my bare hands was at the top of my list. Pulling out that rusty Black Box of Death from under the triple-sink released a foul Rotting Meat Scraps From Six Months Ago...
#46 Clicking pens with really strong springs
Get clickin’. There are three big ways the deed goes down: 1. The Non-Stopper. You’re mindless fiddling with a pen when you notice it’s got a great spring… so you start clicking it over and over again. Your brain gets into a rhythm with the sound so you click faster and faster and...
#48 The moment you realize your headache is finally gone
Head Factory is a busy place. Seeing, swallowing, smelling, hearing, thinking, breathing — yes, it’s a 24/7 triple-shift work-around-the-clock type of place. And the foreman of Head Factory doesn’t care if you’re sleeping, working, or daydreaming, either. He’s got...
#49 Super Fast Group Clean-Ups
Everybody loves turkey dinner. Nobody loves the massive spread of crusty dishes, gravy boats, and sticky-smeared cutlery afterwards. It looks like hours of work for the poor soul stuck with doing it all. But that’s when a Super Fast Group Clean-Up can make all those problems disappear....
#50 Birth
It’s how you got here. It’s how everybody got here. AWESOME! Photo from: here ...
#51 Finally figuring out how your hotel shower faucet works
The hotel shower faucet is a 7:00am Brain Teaser. You strip down and peel back the flimsy white curtain to size up the challenger and you find it staring back at you — a clump of shiny dials and spouts with made-up marketing names like Temprol, Relaxashower, or Aquasomething. Sometimes...
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