Bathrooms with tile floors and huge gaps under the door. Bonus if the bathroom is the only one in the house, and it's five feet from the dining room table where everyone is sitting.
While everyone is laughing and carrying on, you feel the regretful percolation of the tepid sauerkraut you ate for lunch, as it plummets through your intestinal tract. You slink out of the crowd and casually waltz into the bathroom, trying not to draw attention to yourself. With the door safely closed, you hurriedly sit down, hold on for dear life, and try your best to keep from being launched off the seat like a cabbage-laden water rocket. Just then, all the laughter beyond the door fades into a bemused silence, as everyone decides without a word, to move their jubilation to the living room...
How about the "WALK" signs that automatically function without anyone waiting for the crosswalk?
We have a big problem with this where I live (I know, First World Problems!)
It's just a drag when you have to sit and wait for basically nothing.
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...why not cross in the middle of the block where cars are only coming from one direction?
During the past couple of years, I've noticed that when I see someone walking across a busy intersection, the hand is almost always lit up meaning don't walk.
...and then they write a check to pay for their scratch off lottery tickets.When you are in a hurry at the checkout and the customer in front of you can't get his credit card to work ... but insists on trying it just one more time.
Then pulls out another one and that doesn't work either ... "we'll that was shocking" ... NOT.
Or the guy at the gas station that buys two packs of cigarettes and puts three dollars worth of gas in his car.
Tattoos strategically placed so just a hint of it shows. Like a guy on forearm. They then wear their clothes so we can notice, but only just barely. They still show off their goofy ink, but looks like they were trying to hide it - you know, cause they got it just for themselves.
Here's one, The newspaper I read consistently finds it necessary to elaborate the following : ".......ISIS also known as ISIL ......". I have only a limited amount of time on this earth and I'd rather get straight to the point rather than suffer the 1000th lesson that ISIS = ISIL . While I'm on the subject of journalism , how many " allegedly' s can we have in the same story? "The alleged thief allegedly made his alleged escape in an alleged Honda Civic " !!!??!
But here's a mangled metaphor that brought a smile to my face just yesterday. My favorite news anchor said last night that " [something] is not exactly BRAIN SCIENCE ". Mixing BRAIN SURGERY and ROCKET SCIENCE . Way to go Lester, ( he's a sport ) won't hold it against him
In my defense, I only listed a couple, then others hit me and I edited my post. Forgot to change to "several".When people say, "A couple of things ... " and then go on to list four or five.
A couple is two.