Thursday, January 27, 2005

Winter Physics

Why is it that after it snows, the majority of the population loses all perception of straight lines? This phenomenon seems especially prevalent in parking lots. Cars are arranged in strange geometric patterns, like crop circles. And how did the standard parking space suddenly increase in width by two feet? So, for about four months in the year, the parking lot at work mysteriously decreases in capacity by something like 20-30 spaces, and people decide that they have no choice but to block the loading dock and potentially have their car taken out by a tractor trailer that's just trying to get off the property. Bizarre.

Maybe extreme whiteness affects the logical part of the brain...

While we're still on the topic of cars and straightness...does anyone out there who's right-handed find that they have no problem driving with only their left hand, but somehow can't keep the car straight with only their right? One of the girls at work was talking about it today. She finds it very easy to drive left-handed, but when she switches, her driving exhibts the characteristics of a crazy drunkard.

I think she's a weirdo. But perhaps I should test this out tomorrow before I render the final verdict.

I'm still pretty confident that she's a weirdo.

Finally, on a completely different note and in light of current and future adventures overseas, take this little quiz to make sure you don't offend anyone with your eating habits.

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