Posted on 10/16/2019 11:30:00 AM PDT by sodpoodle
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front
smile - getting old is getting old;) God Bless
I had to read your comment three times to get the point.
LOL
This list is for people born before 1963.
(I’m born 1962 the end of the original baby boom)
AND SO GLAD I WAS.
And I scream the loudest at the jerk at the head of the line who steps on their brakes to let the jerk in.
Excellent.
More for parents of toddlers and young children, but along the same line:
They will ALWAYS puke ON YOU IN YOUR BED at 2 a.m. So you have to change out your sheets and PJs, in addition to everything else!!
You haven’t heard yet?
After they heard my appeal, they extended the boomer generation through 1964 so I wouldn’t have to be included with the Xers.
Yeah, except there’s nothing embarrassing in my computer history.
True thaht. I had 8yrs of Latin and a year of Classical Greek. (Aced all of ‘em.)
+1.
Bkmrk
Lots of laughs :)
Thanks for posting :)
I agree!
Cursive seems to stimulate memory better and also helps develop fine motor skills. Brain scans during handwriting show activation of massive regions of the brain involved in thinking, language, and working memory.
Saw an article about year ago out from Oxford Med School. They are worried about finding future surgeons cuz current students, for the most part, fine motor skills stink.
Great stuff - thanks! I needed the chuckles.
My best friend knows were my middle school diary is hidden. She's in charge of burning it. I never want my kids to know I ever spoke and thought in gibberish.
“”6. Was learning cursive really necessary?””
Amazing to me is the number of people who tell me my handwriting is beautiful - like they’ve never seen cursive before. I still write checks for purchases and I’ve had people behind me say, “I haven’t seen one of those in years” - I guess they’re talking about a checkbook.
I have to agree that my handwriting is beautiful - still many, many years later after learning penmanship in grade school in the ‘40’s...And I’m not alone-seeing women of my age with the same great handwriting.
But MY question is: Was learning algebra really necessary?”
“”You fold a fitted sheet by nesting the points of the four corners inside each other. If you do it in the correct order, you have already got the sheet folded in quarters.””
I remember when directions were the thing a few years back and I think it was “do the corners inside out” and I could do it for a number of years and after that, I just don’t bother.
If things are going as I plan, I will wash/dry them and put them back on the bed if not, I do the best I can, stack the fitted with the flat and shove them in the closet...You know what - it doesn’t make any difference when you change sheets..they don’t look any different when you put them on than ones “properly” folded.
Heck, the way sheets are made/sold today with elastic all the way around, you’re lucky if you can get the danged things on the bed in the right direction before lunch time! No matter how many times you look at the corners and decide, “this is right”, it’s not when you try to make it fit!!
Exactly. Look away. The worst you’ll find is the endless hours spent of Free Republic.
First, you fold the sheet in half and push the opposite corners into each other. Now the points of the fitted corners are the edges of a rectangle with the elastic edges folded inwards. Smooth out any wrinkles and finish folding the sheet. It will always be thicker than the flat sheet once folded, since the elastic adds bulk.
I do not use cursive because I learned a foreign language.
As a teen, I used cursive and print interchangeably. Then I went to France for my senior year of high school (incidentally avoiding having to spend another year as Adam Schiff’s classmate). French cursive is significantly different than American cursive, and no one could read my cursive. So I printed. And I have never gone back to using cursive. Cursive is hard to read anyway, especially when people write sloppily.
I’ve watched him do it, but the way he does it so fast is like watching those Japanese T-shirt-folding videos ;-)
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