Showing posts with label It's All in the Details. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's All in the Details. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

It's All in the Details: The Little Sign at H.E.B.

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I've been looking at this sign for some time now. It can be found at a small H.E.B. on Alameda, close to my family's home. You walk in under the pharmacy side and hidden off to the side near the carts is this sign.
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There's no story here. I just really like this sign.

Monday, October 4, 2010

It's All in the Details: Toilet Gymnastics

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This is the bathroom toilet that saw the life cycle of me and my three siblings. By the time I came along, a good ten years after the pack, I had it mostly to myself.
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Now, I normally wouldn't blog about something like what's written below, except it seems to me something of the extraordinary.
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Yesterday, I was peeing standing, as guys often do, when an unstoppable urge hit me from behind. I needed relief of a different sort, and immediately, but I was standing. What to do?
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Normally, I would exercise those beloved hidden muscles somewhere in my nethers, stop peeing, turn around, and sit down. Unfortunately, I was already trying to keep one crack from causing a landslide. If I had tried to plug the river, who knows where the stuff would have come out of.
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So while peeing and feeling as if the world were about to turn brown, I carefully put one leg on the wall and managed to turn around. You try it with your shorts halfway down. It's only funny now, but I knew then what was at stake.
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I managed to turn all the way around, while peeing in the commode, and sit down. I'll spare you the rest.