While shopping at Walmart....which I have made quite clear I despise.....I was talked into another pair of slippers for son and daughter. Son, being son, wanted new shoes. I told him that he didn't need any new shoes....and when he spotted the clearance slippers I thought I had escaped a potentially ugly scene. I suppose I did....but we ended up with slippers. Not that I have anything against them personally. Quite the opposite, I have hopes of one day finding a pair that I like and am willing to wear myself. The problem is we have been down this road before. Alot. I used to buy them cute little character slippers when they were toddlers.....and when they were older I thought "How cute would a little robe and slippers look on them?". Around 6 pairs of children's slippers have entered our home for each child and not a single pair have been used past day 2. Eventually they end up in various locations in the house until I snap and throw them out. I don't know how they manage to migrate to the most inconvenient areas of our home when they aren't being worn....but they do.
So, once again we test the slipper theory. It's kind of like how I forget about every 4-5 years that I don't look good blond...then I pay $500+ to go blond and remember. Oh yes, I remember. Wednesday I have an appointment at the hairdresser's.
Things that make you say "Hmmmm" - Inspired by RUM
- In medieval England jurors weren't fed until they reached a decision.
- The Chinese used to scatter firecrackers around the house - as fire alarms.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- A child laughs about 400 times per day. Adults laugh about 15 times.
- The blood vessels of a blue whale are so wide that an adult trout could swim through them.
- Some beaver dams are more than 1,000 years old.
- Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients.
- 25% of Americans think Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
- The leading cause of death in Papua, New Guinea is falling out of a tree.
- Babies are born without kneecaps.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- Los Angeles is 2cm closer to San Fransisco than it was a year ago.
- In her entire lifetime, Queen Isabella of Spain (1451-1504) bathed twice. King Louis XIV bathed three times.
- Per capita, the cities of Winnipeg and CALGARY drink the most Slurpees in the world.
- More than 50% of all the lakes in the world are in CANADA
- Belgians once tried to deliver mail using cats. (It didn't work.)
Words of 'wisdom' from the Rummy One (and various people I've stolen from)
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Some people are like slinkys; they serve no useful purpose, but they do make you smile when they tumble down the stairs.
When I was a kid we had a sandbox. Actually it was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.
It's a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes.
You know what I miss? I miss the old days, when I'd think up a sinister scheme for world domination and friends would show a little emotional support. I mean come on now....really.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear to you: I have absolutely no idea how this sentence I'm currently writing is going to finish. When and if it does, I can only hope it makes some kind of coherent ceramic pineapple vibraphone.
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