The Answer is Bubblewrap

Have you ever wondered where Nintendo and Sony Playstation got their ideas for their controllers?

I mean how illogical was it to build a controller with buttons to control direction.

I believe the answer lies in Bubblewrap.

Have you ever seen how engrossed kids get with a fresh sheet of bubblewrap and it can keep them entertained for ages as they pop them all.

In fact, in my office which is full of adults (though this may not be initially apparent), you should see the joy and rapture as a pacel arrives in bubblewrap and there is literally there is a race to see who can claim it first.

I reckon some genius saw the magical addiction of bubblewrap and said let capitalise on this and turn it into a video game controller.

And you just think I'm blowing bubbles.

Running with Umbrellas

How is it that we can drive 1 tonne vehicles but there are people out there who can't walk through the rain without poking someone's eye out with an umbrella?

Obviously there needs the be some sort of testing and license procedure for this or at least provide umbrellas with training wheels.

Elevators are Embarrassing!!

I was just catching the lift up to my apartment after being at the gym. I got on at the basement and was slightly annoyed when the lift stopped off on the ground floor to pick up one of my neighbors. My annoyance quickly evaporated when I saw who had stepped on, this extremely cute girl got on, I didn't even realize I had such cute neighbors, the ones I've normally seen are either extremely old or extremely hirsute.

Anyway being good little city dwellers that we are, we avoided eye contact and pretended we were interested in watching the numbers steadily climb up as if this was something new, as opposed to spying at each other out of the corners of our eyes. I was feeling slightly cocky and pumped having been to the gym.In all honesty it was the first time in 2 weeks since I was at the gym but it didn't stop me feeling that way.

As I went to get off, the straps of my backpack had somehow become entangled in the hand rails within the lift. Its a damn lift! Why do they need handrails in a lift!! (They are handy for resting heavy parcels though) Other than to embarrass me as I nearly fell face first and got my head jammed right in front of this gorgeous woman. Good thing she had the foresight and reflexes to press the door open button before the doors closed in on my head.

At least she spoke to me and asked if I was ok, I stammered something back still trying to look cool but failing miserably as I was fighting with the vicious hand rail in an attempt to retrieve my back pack.

I did manage to thank her and say good bye before I got off.

I sure know how to make an impression!

Life is like a box of Chocolates

So it that why there is so much obesity in the world!!

The Perils of Getting Fit!

The problem with getting fit is; Sweat! Not my sweat but your sweat or more correctly other people's sweat.

I'm all for going to the gym and working up a healthy sweat. Feeling it, as it drips off my scalp and forms droplets on my skin. I like the glow it gives me as I turn to face (pose) towards the mirror. I can almost imagine the fat melting off me.

All those ads depicting healthy bodies, glistening with good ole healthy sweat, its fine till you get up close and you realise that these Gods and Goddesses stink! As far as my research tells me I can't find in the Myths any Olympus sized deodorant sticks.

The wonders of modern technology now allows us to buy clothing that wicks away the sweat from our skin giving us a more comfortable, cooler fitness experience. What they don't tell you is that sweat and perspiration has to go somewhere and that is usually the gym equipment, the treadmill, the weight and other fitness fanatics.........Ewwwww! What they need to invent is a garment that wicks away sweat but protects you from others.

I've thought about wearing a long rain coat next time I go to the gym of course I would probably trip and fall and end up lying in someone else pool of sweat at the It probably also portrays the wrong message in the yoga class and my downward dog really isn't much to speak of as it is let alone a man in a raincoat in a yoga class, watching everyone bend over. Mind you its not as bad as others, I mean they really should post a warning as to what not to eat before yoga; I've seen or more accurately I've heard and smelt a number of downwind dogs in class. Talk about making your toes curl.

Why is it that once everyone has sweated out every possible bodily fluid out of your skin and they hit the showers that they suddenly forget what a towel is? Towels have a least 2 purposes that I am aware of ( there may be books that can suggest others), and that is
1: as a drying device
2: as a modesty device, there are some things that I don't need to see in the Gym. If it wobbles of swings I don't need to know!

So not only do you have naked people wondering around in the locker room, they are dripping wet, leaving little pools as they go and they you have me playing hopscotch avoiding these puddles of deaths as you fit for bench space at the locker. How is it that people forget that they are in a shared space and they suddenly claim the entire bench as theirs, marking their territory with little sweating garments, no way am I moving that with a bio hazard suit!

This all pales into comparison when I once saw this guy blatantly cutting his toenails in full view of everyone in the gym. He had the ugliest hairiest hobbit feet, damn knows why he was them showing off. I'm just glad he didn't hit me with a stray clipping.

In case you were wondering, my sweat doesn't stink!