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How true…how very true!

by Barry Roberts

This is surely not an original piece, yet I love it and wanted to share it with all of you. Enjoy!!

Top 25 random thoughts

1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How is anyone supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
7. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
8. Bad decisions make good stories.
9. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
10. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Windows 7? I just can’t learn any more.
11. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
12. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this – ever.
13. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail! What did you do after I didn’t answer, drop the phone and run?
14. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no freaking idea what was going on when I first saw it.
17. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
18. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to open a candy bar.
19. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
20. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Is it just me or do high school kids get weirder and weirder every year?
23. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after tilting your chair back a little too far.
24. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
25. Sometimes we can’t find our keys. Sometimes we can’t find our cell phones. But, we can always find the snooze button – first time, every time!

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