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Bagel

Bagel, originally uploaded by christopher575.

Upper: cream cheese
Lower: peanut butter and Vegemite

It's a raisin bagel, if you're wondering why I kept the ingredients so simple. I buy bags of three day-old bagels, and yesterday they only had two bags of plain, some raisin ones, and a few bags of (2) pizza bagels. Lately I get three bags at a time, so I ended up with one bag of raisin.

Solarbabies

Solarbabies, originally uploaded by christopher575.

Oh my god, it's Emily Gilmore!

I like using popular websites and obscure subjects

Solarbabies

Solarbabies, originally uploaded by christopher575.

Oh my god, it's Nathan Petrelli!

Turns out that girl from the Progressive commercials has done funny stand-up

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I should have interrupted

I used to live in another building a few blocks up the hill, and I moved from an apartment on the 10th floor to one on the 11th. I can't remember how I knew who it was, but I would always see the girl who ended up in my old apartment out and about.

Now, several years later, I swear she has moved into my current building. If it's not her, she looks a hell of a lot like her. I ran into her on the elevator just now, which almost didn't happen because I went back down to the laundry room a second time because I brought my basket up and left the soap down instead of leaving the basket down and bringing the soap up.

Anyway, she was on the elevator with me and I was dying to ask if she lived in my old place, but she was on her cell phone. Damn it! 

You shoulda seen the other guy

You know how when someone has had the shit beat out of them they'll say, "You shoulda seen the other guy"?

I have a thing like that when people come in from out of town and see my filthy apartment. I always want to say, "You should have seen how much filthier it was before I cleaned up!" 

But I guess a better strategy is to keep quiet and hope they smell the Swiffer juice.

Stephanie Courtney (posted below) reminded me of one of my own stories

Sometimes dollar stores try to act like they're regular stores that have regular things and they just happen to be able to get them really cheap. This isn't true, though. They have weird stuff. Sometimes you can go through an entire dollar store without finding a single product you recognize.

One time I was at one in Albuquerque and I bet myself that I couldn't find a single "real" product. I looked all around and finally spotted a familiar blue bottle a few aisles over. It looked like Downy, but I couldn't be sure without getting closer.

I made my way over, and it was indeed Downy. But the label was in Spanish.

...

There's also a story about this story. A little background is in order. When I first moved to Seattle I wasn't the guy who always knows where to go and what to order. I was the new guy who didn't know anything and always said something stupid. And my coworkers loved to make fun of me for it. One time I told the story above, which I think is funny, and they all sat there with a look that said, "Go ahead and tell the rest of it!" They didn't see the humor in it at all, and whenever they wanted to imply that something someone said wasn't funny from that point on they'd just say, "...and the Downy, was in Spanish!"

Oh, and the term for an unfunny story became "Spanish Downy Story".

I actually had a friend back in Albuquerque go to that store, get me a bottle, and ship it up here. It was my, "you may have won this round, but I've got the trophy" desk item. I gave it to one of my better friends in the office when I was laid off. I wonder if she still has it.