Anyone who knows me at all would probably tell you that one
of the most notable and quirky things about me is my insane habit of “talking
in bumper sticker” sometimes! That
simply means that I have the bad habit of spouting out silly facts in the form
of one liners when my ADD kicks in and my brain starts doing flips on the
inside. In case you are wondering what it feels like to live inside my head
when the condition is in full swing, imagine your brain as Windows Explorer
with about 50 tabs open at once and flipping back and forth between all of
them. If you can imagine that, then you
can understand what it is like to be me. Not that I am complaining, I tend to
enjoy every minute of the adventure!
One of the ways that this condition will manifest is that I
have an absolute obsession with random facts and useless knowledge. Love them, can't get enough of them!! In fact, one of my dream jobs would be to get
paid to dig up these little pieces of intelligence and get paid for it, kind of
like a researcher for John Test or Woman's World magazine.
Well, I don't see that happening any time soon, so instead I
will use my little blog here to post some random (and occasionally useful to
your life) facts to entertain myself and kill some time.
Let's start with this one that one of the guys in my Senior
year of high school taught me that I have never forgotten...
You know after you finish pumping your gas and pull the
nozzle out of the tank and there is always that little bit of gas left over
that annoyingly tends to dribble on your shoe or on the cap so that you get
that smell that seems to linger for hours? Don't you wish there was a way to
stop that from happening and to get every drop of that really expensive liquid
dinosaur juice in your tank and not your shoe? Well, there's an App for that!
No, that's a lie, there is no app. But
there is a trick to almost completely eliminate any post fill tears. After the pump has stopped but before you
remove your nozzle, take the handle and rotate it completely in a 180 degree
turn upside down for about 2 seconds, then turn it back to normal and remove
from tank. Abracadabra!! No more wasted
gas and money! Seriously, give it a
try! I have been doing this since I
started driving and with very few exceptions, it always works!
Once you try this and start using it every time you fill up,
feel free to mail me a check for the extra money you are saving by keeping
those last 10 drops where they belong! (hey, can't blame a girl for trying!)
Feel free to share this information and amaze your friends
and impress your coworkers! Or at least
fill that awkward silence after your Aunt Rita asks you very loudly in a
restaurant if Twerking is some sort of Asian dish.
And just in case you don't own a car or have one that runs
off of used deep fryer grease (real things, look it up!) then here is a random
piece of knowledge that can save you a lot of embarrassment next time you are
shopping for shirts: Men's shirts have
the buttons on the right, while women's shirts have the buttons on the
left.
That's all for now, thanks for reading!
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