That Moment...

TMW you get a viral infection so bad you can't go to school for 2 days, but there are no classes on those 2 days.

 

TMW you know that the show Vikings ripped off an incident from the Fall of Constantinople and gave it to Ragnar Lodbrok, 600 odd years earlier.

Spoiler: It's not supposed to work that way

We usually think of "amphibious operations" as things like the Gallipoli campaign by British and ANZAC forces in WWI, the assault on Tarawa by the US Marines in WWII, or the invasion of Normandy by Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks in 1998.

Hundreds of boats pouring thousands of men onto the shore.

However, it's still an amphibious attack when the ships and their Turkish crews start pouring out of the forest and into the protected harbor where they can lay waste to the fleet that thought it was safely at anchor.

Imagine if we'd dragged a battleship through the French countryside and sailed it up the fucking Danube. The SS Panzer divisions woulda been screwed!

 

Fitzcarraldo, a film by Werner Herzog about a real life event.

 

And, apparently, making the movie was as nuts as the real life events that inspired.

 

TMW you auditioned for a band and everything went great, but now it's been about a week or so and your voice feels like the bottom of a birdcage even though you've been keeping up with training, and you're just hoping they won't get back in touch juuuuust yet...

 

TMW someone uses your favorite Gif

 

TMW you wonder if you go to Hell and Elmo runs it, would it be
against the rules to tickle him?

 

Or would you have to tickle him continously, until your fingers wore down to the bone, until the bones wore down to the wrist, with no respite, your blood staining the fur with its unique crimson shade, your ears ringing with that maniacal "ah haaa haaa hee hee, hoo hoo hoo" for all eternity and beyond....

 

TMW you have to move a large baby car seat thing into lost and found, complete with baby bag.

....like, where'd the baby go?
Who just "forgets" all that stuff? I've seen how much car seats are.

Should i believe in the Rapture?

 

Probably evolved into a non-baby. I did that once, or so they tell me.

 

TMW you try to make your sister laugh, when she'd unexpectedly left the room, so you say something along the lines of 'don't leave me!' in the most dramatic whiny tone ever when she walks back in, but you're at work and a customer has walked in behind her and there's a 99% chance that they heard you too. Why god why

 

i used to mess with my sister all the time!
Her door was closed once, so I POUNDED on the door and sang in my best "Anna" voice, "DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOW MAAAAAAAAAN?"

and she cried back "OMG! I'M ON THE PHONE!!!"

lol.. she said i embarrassed her in front of her friends, but whatevs... thats what big sisters are for

 

Literally did the same thing with my other sibling. He had a job interview and I was jamming along to Newsies, yelling in the background.... He did not get the job...

 

^^ Reminds me of a thing that happened once back in a time.

This was way back, when John Elefante took over the vocals for Kansas from Steve Walsh. They had a song that began with him going "Hello, hello!" Here, it's the first 2 seconds of this one:


I had just seen them in concert the night before (though I definitely prefer the Steve Walsh era Kansas) and my head was still ringing from it when the phone woke me up. I figured it had to be the friend I saw the concert with, so that's how I answered the phone.

Turned out to be a place where I had put in an application wanting to hire me. Talk about embarrassing! But I was thinking on my feet and immediately said "Hold on, let me go get him." I don't know if they knew it was me or if my little trick fooled them, but at any rate I ended up getting the job.

 

An ad blocker means you don;'t see the ads, it doesn't stop Google and Amazon from knowing what you've been looking at and sending you targeted ads.

 

TMW you are stepping from the deck of a boat to the dock and you realize that the dock lines aren't tight and the boat is moving backward ... and you're too far committed to stop and stay on the deck of the boat.


(Yes, that's one of the life lessons I had to learn the hard way.)

 

When I'm reminded how happy Iowa makes me.

 

TMW you’re reading a book about an unexplained death at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore and the author goes on a tangent about how she likes to watch trials in the Baltimore courthouse. One trial she described was a medical malpractice where a patient suffered severe injuries that basically rendered him completely paralyzed, unable to breathe without a respirator and you’re left wondering WTF they did to him. Even more so when she describes how they showed slides indicating his liver and bowels.

And you’re left wondering how...how did they even manage to do that.

 

Not a secret one, no. When the Author appears on the stage, the show is over.

As for the abandoned baby seat, let me see . . . Maybe the parent with the baby is hiding out from a vicious ex-spouse, and there he/she is at the end of the stack. The parent has the baby in her/his arms and panics and flees, leaving the stuff behind.

Or maybe the child was kidnapped.

Or maybe there was never a child in the car seat at all, but Something Else.

 

They should try that in the Suez Canal.

 

It would take a lot of people...

 

TMW @Catrin Lewis and @Homer Potvin are making you want to write about a haunted car seat....