| Facts, oddities, incidental details: these are only some | | | | 11) Why do we return to the refrigerator and gaze in |
| of the few things I examine in the following twenty | | | | when we know that there's nothing interesting to eat |
| features I have come up with concerning life and all its | | | | inside? |
| intricacies. Some will make you laugh, others will make | | | | 12) Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest but |
| you scratch your chin, but whatever your behaviour, | | | | ducks if after the bullets are over the gun is thrown at |
| each and every one of these twenty or so queries. | | | | him? |
| 1) Ever used 3-second glue (or instant glue and super | | | | 13) I'm sure you've heard of the evolutionary claim that |
| glue as it is called in some countries)? Why does it | | | | mankind has evolved from monkeys. Before I am to |
| stick so quickly as soon as you squeeze it out but it | | | | believe this, I want to know that if this is so why are |
| doesn't stick to the sides of the tube from which you | | | | monkeys still roaming earth? |
| squeeze it out? | | | | 14) Why is it that when we try to catch something that |
| 2) Sanity statistics has proven that one out of four | | | | is falling off a table, our hand knocks down something |
| people are insane or suffer from some form of mental | | | | else? |
| disease. Think of three of your best friends. If they are | | | | 15) Heard of the Jap airplane pilots who towards the |
| fine, then you must be the fourth one. | | | | end of the Second World War crashed their planes |
| 3) If you have either a television or a Video Receiver | | | | into American naval ships? Why did these guys even |
| or a DVD or anything that needs a remote controller, | | | | think of wearing a helmet? |
| this odd behaviour is familiar. Have you noticed that | | | | 16) The next you vacuum your living room floor, explain |
| whenever the batteries begin to get dull, we press | | | | what happens when you try to vacuum a tiny thread. |
| down harder? Are we expecting to squeeze more | | | | The vacuum will not be able to suck it. Why then will |
| out of them? | | | | you pick it up, examine it thoroughly and instead of |
| 4) Watched old (and even newer descriptions in film) | | | | placing it in the dustbin, throw it back down and try to |
| about Tarzan. If he is supposed to be living in the wild, | | | | vacuum it up again? |
| what happened to his beard? | | | | 17) How come soap bubbles are always white no |
| 5) Switched those bulbs that are enclosed in tight | | | | matter what the colour of the soap? |
| plastic shutters? Have you noticed that whenever you | | | | 18) Is it winter or summer wherever you are right |
| go to do that there are always dead bugs inside? | | | | now? Have you noticed that if it is summer we try and |
| How did they manage to get there? | | | | make the house as cold as it would be during winter, |
| 6) Still use plastic bags instead of the more | | | | and if it is winter, we try and make the house as hot |
| nature-friendly paper ones? Ok. Then, pray tell, why | | | | as it would during summer? |
| can't I ever manage to open one on my 1st attempt? | | | | 19) Why is it that whenever you walk past a mattress |
| 7) Why, pray tell, do doctors just about to inject a | | | | dealership, they have large signs advertising a big price |
| prisoner with a lethal injection check that the needle is | | | | reduction? |
| sterilized? | | | | 20) Isn't it silly that when if wandering through one of |
| 8) Have you noticed that if your bank account gets | | | | the large shopping malls someone doesn't pay |
| overdrawn, your bank will add an extra charge? Why | | | | attention and the cart they are pushing smacks into |
| do they do that? Should you maybe inform them that | | | | your toes, and then they say sorry, all we can think of |
| the reason your checkings account is overdrawn is | | | | saying is that no harm was done while your toe is |
| because you don't have money? | | | | aching. |
| 9) Mother-in-laws are jokes about continuously, but | | | | Before I End: |
| why not father-in-laws? | | | | Above you have run into about twenty or so intriguing |
| 10) If people run into a sign near a park bench saying | | | | incidents on life that I or some friend of mine has come |
| that the paint is wet, every one will touch it to check. If | | | | across. Most will be familiar to you. Some might not. |
| this is so, why don't these same folk verify the star | | | | But, I hope that each one of them will if not make you |
| count of around four billion stars so stated according | | | | at least laugh, bring a wry smile to your face and to |
| to various scientists? | | | | your heart. |