Listing Through Life

Conversation With My Daughter

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Roger

Daughter: I know I can't date yet, but even if I could I wouldn't date him.

Dad: Why not?

Daughter: He's too good a friend.

Dad: You can't date friends?

Daughter: No, it would be too weird.

Dad: I married my best friend.

Daughter: Who? Mom? (pause)

Dad: Yeah. That one.

Posted in Humor | Comments Off

You know those hand dryers you find in public restrooms? The ones with the instructions that are supposed to say "1) Push button. 2) Rub hands gently under warm air." Have you ever seen one that wasn't defaced and made to say "1) Push butt. 2) Rub hands gently under arm."?

Why is that?

Does it only happen in men's rooms, or are ladies' rooms also vandalized?

Is there some guy who has made it his mission in life to travel around the country, visiting public restrooms and scratching off the letters on air dryers with a special tool he's made just for that purpose?

Does the company manufacture them that way, figuring that it will happen anyway so they might as well get it over with?

Or are there really 147,000 equally stupid people who have nothing better to do with their time than hang out in public restrooms with sharp objects?

And one last question — Do any of you think "1) Push butt. 2)Rub hands gently under arm." is funny enough to be worth the effort?

Posted in Humor | 1 Comment

My Ultimate Doodle

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Roger

I’ve always been an inveterate (That’s a redundancy, isn’t it? And can “inveterate” be used in a non-pejorative sense?) doodler.

I doodle in meetings, I doodle on my church notes. I doodled when I was in school. So when I got hold of an outline map of the U.S. back in high school, it was doodler’s delight. This work of art(?) took me several days, and I’ve always been rather proud of it. Obviously — since I’ve held on to it for about 35 years now.