New Years Day 2014
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
PERSONAL NOTE: The "list of annoyances" below was posted here one year ago today. When I reread it about a week ago, most of it seemed as new as if I were seeing it for the first time. It so delighted me (again) that I've decided to repeat it this year, hoping that your memory is as faulty as mine.
Thank you again to Nancy Leitz, a long-time contributor of wonderful stories to The Elder Storytelling Place, who sent along this all-too-true list.
As we progress into 2014, I want to thank you all for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.
I can no longer open a bathroom door without using a paper towel nor let the waitress put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel.
I can’t sit down on a hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.
I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pastime while driving alone is picking one’s nose.
Eating a little snack sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of transfats I have consumed over the years.
I can’t touch any woman’s handbag for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public toilet.
I must send my special thanks for the email about rat poo in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I can’t have a drink in a bar because I fear I’ll wake up in a bathtub full of ice with my kidneys gone.
I can’t eat at KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes, feet or feathers.
I can’t use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.
Thanks to you I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer buy fuel without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer doesn’t crawl in my back seat when I’m filling up.
I no longer use cling wrap in the microwave because it causes seven different types of cancer.
And thanks for letting me know I can’t boil a cup of water in the microwave any more because it will blow up in my face, disfiguring me for life.
I no longer go to the movies because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS when I sit down.
I no longer go to shopping centers because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
And I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a huge phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore and Uzbekistan.
Thanks to you I can’t use anyone’s toilet but mine because a big black snake could be lurking under the seat and cause me instant death when it bites my butt.
And thanks to your great advice I can’t ever pick up a quarter coin dropped in the car park because it was probably placed there by a sex molester waiting to grab me as I bend over.
I can’t do any gardening because I’m afraid I’ll get bitten by the Violin Spider and my hand will fall off.
If you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00PM tomorrow afternoon and the fleas from 120 camels will infest your back causing you to grow a hairy hump.
I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor’s ex mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s best friend’s beautician.
Oh, and by the way -
A German scientist from Argentina , after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.
Don’t bother taking it off now, it’s too late.
P. S. I now keep my toothbrush in the living room because I was told by email that water splashes for more than six feet out of the toilet.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, William Weatherstone: Aware of Life in This Body
Perfect!
happy 2014
Posted by: Olga | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 05:59 AM
HA! This is a gem - way to begin a New Year - along with anticipation for known and unknown discoveries and pleasures during the year. With a bump here and there, but none too bad, I hope.
This is a terrific group that Ronni has made, with her insightful, thought-provoking writings & research.
It's a good place to begin 2014. And, upon reading this hilarious missive, I'm going to concentrate for 1 hour on never thinking of these 'don'ts' again.
Happy New Year everyone!
Posted by: suz | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 06:09 AM
Now, that's a lot of funny stuff.
Happy New Year wishes from Bavaria to all of you.
Posted by: barbara | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 06:48 AM
Wonderful post!!
Happy New Year to all of you!
Posted by: Donna | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 08:06 AM
LOL....it may be all real, but it's too much information for what's left of me. LOL
Oh, wonderful stuff.
Posted by: Mage Bailey | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 08:14 AM
See if I call you next time I'm in Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore or Uzbekistan, ;-).
Posted by: Celia | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 08:52 AM
My new resolution is to try all that stuff, and see what happens.
Posted by: gsbbygeezer | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 08:57 AM
Happy New Year to you, Ronni, and to all of your great admirers who comment on your blog.
Posted by: Darlene | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 09:18 AM
Happy New Year to one and all!
And extra special thanks for that wonderful list of "what can happen"--a"Chicken Little" reminder.
Good health and many happy surprises to you Ronni and all the other 'regulars' esp. Darlene who make reading this every day such a treat!
Posted by: NWD | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 09:37 AM
Happy New Year to you. Great Blog!!!!!
Posted by: Redstone | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 09:38 AM
I just read your New Year's Eve post...and the earlier one about the high falutin party you went to. oooo I was with you, walking in those spindly shoes in the cold..! Hope you and Ollie have a wonderful New Year's Day!
Posted by: Celeste | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 09:40 AM
Ronni, you are PRICELESS!
Looking forward to enjoying 2014 with you and gang who comments of this blog.
Posted by: MissDazey | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 11:08 AM
Thanks, I subscribe to many of these.......and now will add a few more. OY!!!!!
Posted by: roberta teller | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 11:35 AM
Happy New Year --
May your coming year be
filled with magic and
dreams and good madness.
I hope you read
some fine books and kiss
someone who thinks
you’re wonderful.
And don’t forget to make
some art – write or draw or
build or sing or live as only
you can.
And I hope, somewhere in the
next year, you surprise yourself!
--Neil Gaiman
Posted by: Miki Davis | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 11:52 AM
This is wonderful, Ronni. I just want to
report that on an excursion this week I dropped a plastic fork in a parking lot.
Not wanting to hold things up, I picked it up and ate with it.
Given all the hazards mentioned above,
I cannot understand why the world continues to be overpopulated!
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Anne | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 11:55 AM
Happy New Year, Ronni. Thanks for all you do to keep us entertained and educated throughout the years.
Posted by: kenju | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 12:02 PM
How did we of "TGB age" manage to live this long anyway? With all the deadly hazards dogging us at every turn, it's nothing less than amazing that the human species has managed to survive at all.
Live dangerously. Eat chicken (well-cooked) and watch out for that hotel bedspread! Happy 2014!
Posted by: Elizabeth Rogers | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 12:02 PM
With a few exceptions on that list I wouldn't let little things like that make you a hermit. Push the envelope. You only live once.
Happy New Year
Posted by: Larry | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 12:03 PM
Thanks to the internet and email, I now know 3 members of the British Parliament who want to send me a tax refund if I send them my bank account number. I have also found some new friends in Nigeria who will share a fortune with me if I will only send them $1000 for some fee or something. I am off to Africa to give it to them personally.
Posted by: Bruce Cooper | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 01:36 PM
Happy New Year............may we all be well. Dee
Posted by: Dee | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 01:44 PM
The kid next door convinced me to taste a mud pie, so how come I'm still here?
Posted by: doctafill | Wednesday, 01 January 2014 at 06:19 PM
Very funny! It is a P. K. Dick's world we live in if we follow every advice you listed... Some people might like them, it is, after all, some guidance... Kidding! Have a very nice and tonic 2014 year. Colette (Paris, France)
Posted by: Colette | Thursday, 02 January 2014 at 04:05 AM
Ronni, Happy New Year from one more fan who finds a bright spot in her day at your excellent blog. Keep on keeping on...
Posted by: Tarzana | Thursday, 02 January 2014 at 08:44 AM