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