1. What’s a little daily annoyance you wish science would have solved by now?
A universal remote that is really universal – works on ALL your appliances, your car, the door to your house, your garage. Make it a phone app and carry it with you everywhere – Bang! I just invented the modern day tricorder.
2. What’s your best eavesdropping story?
Wheww. So many. Sitting at a tavern bar and listening into conversations can be quite entertaining. I overheard a grouchy patron (Father Angelo is his code name) denouncing the guy who got kicked off the United plane. He said, “That Vietnamese loser Dr., they should have waited until the plane was in the air to kick him out.” His wife was with him and she was a bit shocked at the venom. But then again, I have never seen that many happy.
3. What small items make a camping/tailgating/picnicking experience much better?
A rug, mat on the floor of your tent or your picnic area can really raise the comfort level to that of civilized.
4. What is the longest amount of time you’ve stayed awake?
In the army once, during an operation/maneuver drill, I was up for nearly 30 hours and still driving down the autobahn. Those officers I was hauling around were rightly quite concerned.
5. What do you think happened when you see one shoe on the road?
I usually assume it was lost during someone moving between homes or apartments. But I do enjoy playing a more creative back story game. For fun, go to twitter and follow Tom Hanks – he posts pictures of single shoes or gloves that he comes upon (as well as odd cars that he claims he just bought ) It is actually a pretty funny follow.
1. Why don’t we have a Jetson’s style Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle? I’m so tired of buying and preparing food at home.
2. Once on a business trip to New Orleans I eavesdropped on the staff of a bar where I was sitting. In the course of my eavesdropping, I learned that it would really save the day if someone could take over the oyster shucking station so that Leon could take his paycheck to his “old lady.” I piped up that I had shucked a few oysters in my day, and volunteered to work the raw bar for Leon. And that is how I wound up as an unpaid oyster shucker on Jackson Square for 45 glorious minutes of my life.
3. In my tailgating pack, I always make sure to include a bottle opener/corkscrew, a refuse bag, and a container of hand sanitizer. All three are essential.
4. Probably three days. I have had some serious bouts of insomnia in my life. Being awake for that long is really one of the lowest depths of human misery.
5. One of my pet peeves is driving down the road and seeing someone with one foot dangling out the window of their car. When I see the one shoe I surmise that the shoe fell off of just such a person.
1) Making food is so annoying. Can’t we just have a hydrated thingy like in Back to the Future II?
2) You bear lots of odd stories in the realm of health care. I o reheard a boyfriend and girlfriend discussing how the injury occurred and the “story” they were going to stick with. Very amusing.
3) Air mattress, sleeping on the hard ground just sux.
4) I’ve been awake for about 36 hours and that was not fun.
5) I like to make up fun And sick twisted stories in my head about how thatshoe got there.