Five-stars?

I just thought that this was deliciously ironic, and I had to share.

FedEx Trucks

Have you ever noticed how the FedEx trucks have an arrow between the E and the x?

Yellow Trucking: Color Blind?

JAPAN! Part ichi

What the heck?! Japan is all about being germ-crazy. People wear masks (like a surgeon`s) if they`re sick so they don`t cough on people and they even sometimes wear gloves while they`re driving (haven`t figured that one out yet) and they wear slippers in the bathroom because the floor might be dirty. However, they don`t think it`s weird at all to take a bath with a bunch of other people of the same gender in a hot spring. Naked.

Something strange

Ever notice that, the later you get to school, the farther away you have to park and the later you are?

This started as a comment on Scott's post about Government class... but it kept getting longer and longer and earned itself a post.

I love it when teachers pause after I ask, "what's the point?" or "why do we need to know this?"

I think it's funny and ironic when people think I'm so smart. Especially when it's people whose grades are higher than mine and they value their grades so much. They care so much. Too much. My grades seriously aren't as high as theirs. But they think I'm smart because I ask questions. So, because I ask questions they automatically think I am "so smart." Why? They don't ask questions. But they don't miss points on tests. I think it's not that I'm smart. It's that I'm curious. The rest of the world needs to be curious. Don't invest your entire life and all your energy into perfect grades.
Learn a skill, enjoy something. Find something you care about.
Research something you care about.
Research something you don't care about.
Go spend an hour reading about the presidential candidates, discover whose policies you most agree with. I don't care who.
Form your own opinion, don't repeat your parents' or friends' opinions.
Go learn an instrument. Learn to read music, while you're at it.
Learn about a country's culture. If you like the culture, learn its language. Find a way to get there.
Explore.
Go walk around a park.
Get lost.
Drive to nowhere, and don't be in a hurry to get there.
Stop at stop signs for a few seconds. It shows you're not in a hurry like the rest of humanity.
Slow down.
Listen to a band you've never heard, and don't turn it off after 15 seconds. Give them a whole album's worth of listening.
Listen to your favorite band's whole discography.
Go camping. It's snowing? So what?
Read a book in a genre you never thought you'd ever approach.
Actually read the Bible--don't just accept it's right cause you're parents probably accepted it was right because theirs probably did. You don't have to read the whole thing, but flip through it. Or maybe you won't like what it says. That's ok, too.
Spend a week off the computer except for homework. (It's hard.)
Write. You don't have to write about anything. Write about nothing. I do it all the time. I'm doing it now!
Be curious. Ask "why?" Why do you like this band? Why do you dislike a certain food? Why does your mom say you can't do something you want to do? Why does she want you to do something hard? Why don't you want to do it? Why do we do what we do? Why is "everyone else is doing it" a good excuse? Why do we act as we do? Why aren't we friends anymore? Why not be friends? Why am I here? Why don't I say hi to that cool girl I met once? Why don't I say hi to everyone? Why don't I like dances? Why don't you and I just watch a movie and relax? Why is everyone in such a rush? Why does it matter if someone disagrees with you?
Why?
Why not?

Driving.

OK, So you approach a stop sign. Normal.

But WAIT! There are 3 other cars there! All at the same time! What do you do?! You all stop.

Nervous glances are exchanged across the intersection as 4 cars sit, unmoving. The rule is "the guy on your right goes first." Who goes?! Everyone's on someone's right! How do you know what to do?!

I hate this predicament. Fortunately for me, there are those A-type personality-having selfish people who will take charge and go first.





Oh, and another driving woe. Have you ever noticed that every time there is something slow moving on your side of the road--be it a walker or a biker or just a big slow-moving vehicle with its flashers on--there will inevitably be a car coming toward you just as you want to pass him/her/it. Always. Without fail. And in the case of walkers and bikers, that is incredibly obnoxious. There is enough room to go, and there will almost always be someone behind you, so stopping to let the oncoming car pass is silly. There is just enough room to make it between the biker/walker and the oncoming car. But it's scary and nerve-wracking.

You probably don't understand what I'm describing, so here's an impossible-to-decipher psuedo-3-d drawing to clarify... or make it harder to understand.

This doesn't make sense.

Ah, the paradox of high school. It sucks. And you can't leave unless you are really really bad.
School just is not enjoyable, overall. And isn't it ironic that the good kids, who probably are done learning from it and have no need to be there are stuck going until it's all "done." However, the misbehaving, unkind, law-disregarding kids get the opportunity to not come to school for periods of time. What the heck? So, you are rewarded for misbehavior and punished for kindness and intelligence. What is the deal?
"HEY! You're smart! Sit here for 7 hours everyday!"
"HEY! You! YES YOU! You did something stupid--you don't have to come to school anymore!"

One of the General Populace's most common mistakes:

"I could care less"

Wait. The way that's used all the time--it doesn't make sense.
Think about it.
Don't you mean you couldn't care less?
Basically people are always saying, "Yeah, I care about that more than I should." Instead of "I don't care about that at all." Weird, huh.

"What's wrong? ... Nevermind, I could care less."
"Don't you mean you couldn't care less?"
"I could care less about your stupid grammar rules."
"I doubt it."