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#854 Crying
Pop quiz, hotshot. A 2006 study in Scientific American Mind magazine said that on average men cry X times a month and woman cry Y times a month. Take a guess on the numbers and see how close you are...
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#853 When your microwave pops microwave popcorn perfectly
We’ve all been there. Staring nervously into the microglow at the fat, puffed up bag of popcorn calmly spiralling in the center of the dish like no big deal. But it is a big deal, and you know it’s a...
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#852 The smell of the coffee aisle in the grocery store
Harsh fluorescent lighting, slushy wet floors, and the cloudy stench of raw fish welcome you into your friendly, neighborhood grocery store. After circling tables of green bananas, wobbly chick pea...
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#851 Your family car growing up
Hanging out with friends late, late, late the other night, dim music on in the background, splayed haphazardly on a fat, squishy couch, my brother-in-law Dee suddenly started waxing nostalgic about...
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#850 Absolute perfect silence
Nothing. No rain. No birds. No wind. No waves. No buzzing. No beeping. No blinking. No haze. When there’s no office hum. And no kitchen clatter. When there are no idling cars. And no distant chatter....
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#849 The fetal position
Girl, you used to fit in a shoebox. Back when you were all-nude, all-the-time, you were crunched up real fine in your mom’s tum. Yes, your head was bowed down, your back was bent forward, your legs...
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#848 Old folks who sit on their porch and wave at you when you walk by
What do you picture doing when you retire? Lounging amongst big umbrellas on sunny beaches, taking the grandkids to the zoo, cropping a serious vegetable garden, or turning your wood carving hobby into...
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#847 Old, classic board games
Wedged tightly into dark corners in dusty attics are piles of old, worn out board games from years ago. The corners of these old boxes are cracked and split open, the flashy prints on top long worn...
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#846 Sneaking McDonald’s and hiding the evidence
Trouble bubbled at my friend Scott’s house the other night. See, earlier in the week Scott found a used McDonald’s Chicken McNugget sauce container wedged between the car seat and the car door in the...
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#845 Good escalator etiquette
You stand on that side. We’ll walk on this side. AWESOME! Photo: here
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#844 Celebrities on Sesame Street
Celebrities tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street. Let’s count down a dozen of the best walk-ons: 12. James Taylor’s Jelly Man Kelly. In this classic clip from 1979, folksy James Taylor...
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#843 Getting out of the car after a really long trip
I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with U. If you guessed Uncomfortably Long Car Trip, you got it, baby. Yes, maybe you’re in a Backseat Squeeze for hours, one leg on each side of the...
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#842 When the socks from the dryer all match up perfectly
Peeling apart that static-covered clump of socks is tense. First you yank them from the dryer and dump the hot haystack on the bed. Then you start pairing up the easy ones — reconnecting brown argyle...
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#841 When the categories on Jeopardy! are right in your wheelhouse
I’m not great at the game myself, so my dream categories would be: Jeopardy Round Rhymes with Brown At The Supermarket Name That Ocean Hot Dog Toppings Halloween Animals Types of Pants Double Jeopardy...
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#840 Popping Bubble Wrap
Okay, trivia time. What were the two inventors of Bubble Wrap trying to make instead of packaging material back in 1957 at the Sealed Air Corporation? Take a guess and let’s see what you got (answer...
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#839 Really good candy with your bill at a restaurant
Mints are mints. Sure, they can be circle or square, chewy or hard, powdery or smooth, but they’re still mints, man. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But after a fat meal with friends, when your...
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#838 The smell of freshly cut grass
Fresh cut grass smells like twilight in the countryside, a football game about to start at the park, or a sunny Saturday morning in the suburbs. So whether you’re driving down a dusty farm road while...
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#837 Pushing those little buttons on the soft drink cup lid
Cola, Diet, RB, or other. When we were kids, my sister and I carefully pushed those little plastic buttons every time we scored a meal at McDonald’s. We pushed Cola if we had cola, RB if we had root...
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#836 When you push the button for the elevator and it’s already there
Ding! AWESOME! Photo from: here
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#835 Saliva
You know what’s cheap? Entertaining kids, man. Honestly, forget the high-def TVs, lower bowl tickets to the big game, or exotic dream vacations to the other side of the rock. Ditch those in favor of...
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