Simple Things That Astound You

[JakeD]

People who work 40+ hours a week in an office and have no fucking idea how to work a fax machine/copier. You dedicate a majority of your life to one single solitary cubicle-ridden environment and can't be arsed to learn a couple of the technological ropes along the way? Doesn't make sense to me.

What simple things astonish you?

[Unforgiven]

I have a computer science professor that hand-writes most of his homework assignments. I guess he can't upgrade to a damn typewriter. Or legible handwriting, for that matter.

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[thestarsfall]

How someone can do something inefficiently. I mean, I know some ppl won't be the most efficient at everything. But still..

The girl I cleaned classrooms with tonight was horribly inefficient. We went from one side of the hall, back to the other side, then back again, then around the wrong way, and then back again. And whenever I was vacuuming she would squeeze past me rather than go on the opposite side of the desk. Or if I was vacuuming in a row she would skip that row and move onto the next rather than go on the other side of the desks to wipe them down...

[kittyroze]

Water (and all its freaky properties) is pretty dang cool.

Also, people who are completely unaware of the fact that how they live and what they preach are entirely different. The ones who realize it are one thing, the ones that don't tend to be infuriating.

[trekbugging]

some of the people who work in one area and not even trying to learn something that is right in front of them--because it's not my job

[thestarsfall]

I am astounded by how some people are entirely unaware of what they do. You turn the fucking lights on when you go in the bathroom...do you not notice that they are still on when you leave? Turn the fucking lights off.

I am also astounded at how anyone who lives the way that some of Sean's housemates live, can call themselves human and be proud of that fact. Seriously, if you use the electric razor and then leave all the little hairs everywhere, or when you even just fail to put up the seat to take a leak and proceed to pee all over the seat...you have some serious issues and I think you would quite at home in a field of mud with some straw for a bed. I'll even give you a trough rather than throw the food on the ground.

[friendsrock]

Simple things aren't always simple maybe.

Voices...how are they all so different?

Genes...how can there be sooooo many variations of combinations to account for all the differences in people throughout the whole world and for seemingly countless generations. You and I may look similar to someone else, but seldom are two exactly the same.

Prejudice...why are we prejudice when all of us are victims of it (and are keenly aware of how it feels)?

...and on a humorous note: Why does my teenage son not help me pluck the gray hairs HE'S responsible for giving me. He's tall enough HE can see them better than I can. :devil:

[Unforgiven]

Human flight. Airplanes, helicopters, gliders, all of it. I was like a six year old kid again when I flew to Connecticut, clinging to the window most of the time.

[thestarsfall]

friendsrock: we aren't actually that genetically different...there is only a smallish percentage that will be unique to each person. In a normal case we all have genes coding for eyes, and hair, and lips, and limbs, and hormone production, and body systems etc...

Gravity. Objects which are ginourmous (technical term) in mass will have gravitational pull...but why?

[trekbugging]

...and on a humorous note: Why does my teenage son not help me pluck the gray hairs HE'S responsible for giving me. He's tall enough HE can see them better than I can. :devil:

:lolrotf: :lolrotf: :lolrotf: :lolrotf:

i have noticed i have twice as many grey hairs since my son was born

[Bassmama]

Men who WORRY about getting gray hair. WTF???

And people say that WOMEN are vain.

Sheesh.

[Poseidon]

simple things?

The power of human stupidity over logic :)

[Marsbert]

Men who WORRY about getting gray hair. WTF???

And people say that WOMEN are vain.

Sheesh.

I second that Bass, my man has a few gray hairs but I think that they're sexy on him, which he doesn't believe.



Something that astounds me....People who are so incredibly book smart, and yet at the same time have absolutely no people (or what we might call "social skills") skills whatsoever....

[thestarsfall]

on a similar note: people who are book smart and get great grades but when you talk to them they are quite dumb...

like my little sister hehe...