The Friday Fives

1. What small thing takes your anger from zero to 60 in one second flat?
When the simplest tech thing isn’t working and it isn’t user error but instead the device or app is just not doing it. ( i generally don’t lose my shizzle very often. I am quite patient – but tech crap can send me to 60 quite quickly.)

2. What took you years to connect the dots?
I have talked about this before – I was in my early 30s before
I connected that Holland and The Netherlands were the same country. (And let’s not forget I used to live in Germany where one one think one would have learned this.)

3. What would you say if you wanted someone to join your cult?
Wanna come over for some freshly coffee, warm jammies and watch retro television?


4. What is the most genius marketing strategy a company has ever used?
The Trump Organization was able to put its CEO in the White House through sheer marketing and flair – with no substance at all.

5. What is a “why the fuck do you know this” fact that you know?
There are 768 teaspoons in a gallon. Take that to trivia night.

2 Replies to “The Friday Fives”

  1. 1) Home remodel projects. I am not a craftsman, but I can swing a hammer, so when projects need some finesse…well, I go a bit ballistic as things go downhill.

    2) The old adage that you understand when you become a parent is true. Let’s just say, “Sorry, Mom and Dad for being such a pill. I was dumb.”

    3) Yippe Ki Yay Mother Fucker!

    4) Realizing consumers want the truth…weird, but true.

    5) Any route I drive more than once, I always know and adjust to said knowledge of the fastest way between pint A and B.

  2. 1) Health care workers being cruel, dismissive, mean spirited or just not nice to a little old nana.

    2) Now being back in school at almost 50, that school does matter it is important and I should have tried harder.

    3) Money and sex if you join!

    4) The Catholic Church has built a global empire that has fed off a work of fiction for over 2000 years, and its member believe so hard that they can overlook any facts that rebuke the ideas they’ve been indoctrinated to.

    5) Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie ever.

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