   Gotta love the little things!
  Here''s a few excerpts from my life over the past couple of months or so. They''re trivial, but they make good reminiscing (for me) Excrerpt 1: the fallThis happened the day before yesterday - I was trying to cross a street, but the green light for pedestrians was already blinking, so I ran. Naturally, I fell on a slight slope, head first in a pond of melted snow (water) and ice. So there I was, laughing to myself as everyone passed me by and went about their perpetual walkingbusinessthingy. I soaked my pants (fell on one knee), my gloves, my portfolio and then I had to go to work, looking like that.Excrerpt 2: povertyThis morning, I went to work. There was an old man on the bus, who seemed a lot like an asocial, or at least seemed to come from one of the lower social classes. He had the weakest legs - he was almost like Bambi -, as he tried desperately to hold himself up in his smeared baggy pants. He didn''t accept one seat offered to him, although he was offered one at least three or four times. One of the peculiarities he had was that he licked his upper lip from the inside, as if it was somekind of a complex. I''m not sure, but I think he had no teeth left in that particular area. I sincerely felt sorry for the chap. Anyway, after 15 minutes or so, he looked around, and he looked straight at me. I have never seen a face full of so much tranquility and goodness - it was like looking in the eyes of the Pope, only better (not that I''ve looked the Pope in the eyes...) - I don''t think I''ll ever forget that!Excrerpt 3: the busNow, this happened some two or so weeks ago - me and my friend were going from point A to point B, on a bus. We''ve had this "something" about songs that have certain descriptive lyrics in them, one of these being "put your hands up" - it''s a friend thing, we always follow the lyrics literally because it''s fun (I personally have the same thing about Mambo nr. 5 where Lou Bega says: "Jump up and down and move it all around. Shake your head to the sound, put your hands on the ground. Take one step left and one step right. One to the front and one to the side. Clap your hands once and clap your hands twice ..." - for some reason I always do just that when I hear that song). Anyway, suddenly, the song coming from the bus'' speakers said just that: "put your hands up in the air". And yes, we put our hands up. It was damn funny to see people try resist bursting out laughing as we stood there, not saying anything, just holding our hands up.Ah! The little things!   "Finishing in second place, simply means you are the first loser." - PouyaCat
  ok. ;  Go to hell, Valderman.The only thing in my life I could compare to these sorts of "observations" about daily life would be when I finally stopped screwing around in school (this semester ) and started taking responsibility.Everything feels better. Clean. The air feels light instead of whatever it was before. Classes don''t seem so sterile and boring. I regained my drive to do things, maybe something with the computer, maybe something in real life - the point is, before I couldn''t be bothered to even do laundry unless I absolutely had to. Girls, who used to sense my lack of self esteem and do something to bug me, actually treat me nicely. I get up on time to go to classes, don''t stay up to 5 in the morning.. you get the idea.It''s all nice now. Yay! etc. ;  I wasn''t trying to start a chain, really......I think I should go get some sleep before I do something to get myself banned.   [My Image Gallery (WIP)][Greatest Tetris clone evar!][Return your stolen MP3s] ;quote:Original post by TSwitch  The only thing in my life I could compare to these sorts of "observations" about daily life would be when I finally stopped screwing around in school (this semester ) and started taking responsibility.That''s pretty much when I started noticing smaller things - after graduating from highschool (that''s when I became "normal" in the sense that I didn''t frolick/goof around so much anymore).quote:Everything feels better. Clean. The air feels light instead of whatever it was before. Classes don''t seem so sterile and boring. I regained my drive to do things, maybe something with the computer, maybe something in real life - the point is, before I couldn''t be bothered to even do laundry unless I absolutely had to. Girls, who used to sense my lack of self esteem and do something to bug me, actually treat me nicely. I get up on time to go to classes, don''t stay up to 5 in the morning.. you get the idea.It''s all nice now. Yay! etc.   Actually - it''s a funny thing about girls - they seem to like the neat in a guy, yet at the same time they totally dig the unorthodox, "messy" side of us. I personally have retained, quite on purpose, a playful nature and only take seriously the most crucial of things - around females, anyway...Anyway - I almost forgot what happened last weekend. Y''know when you enter your room, feel totally distraught and simply crash on your bed, face first? Well, I do that occasionally - especially when I come home and I''m really really tired.On a relevant note, I have thinish matresse on my bed that serves as a space filler. The two are not sown together, so the matresse takes a lot of pride in sliding off the bed, at first just slightly, then some more - usually while I''m asleep on it. Anyway, I sorta plunged onto it, ready to take a 5 minute nap, completely unaware of the fact that I was basically falling on the part of the matresse that was hanging over the side of the actual bed. Man, it''s fun to fall right through and hit the floor without even knowing you''re about to!   "Finishing in second place, simply means you are the first loser." - PouyaCat;quote:Original post by Crispy  Man, it''s fun to fall right through and hit the floor without even knowing you''re about to!Yes, that must be great fun!;  Yes... in an MTV-Jackass sort of way...   [Hugo Ferreira][Positronic Dreams][Colibri 3D Engine][Entropy HL2 MOD]    [Yann  L.][Enginuity]  [Penny Arcade]  [MSDN][VS  RoadMap][Humus][BSPs][UGP][NeHe]"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure." ;  The word you are looking for is: Excerpt.I thought people only went from Point A to Point B in maths problems.  [ DGDev -- The Delphi Games Development Community ] [ Help GameDev.net fight cancer ];quote:Original post by Crispy  On a relevant note, I have thinish matresse on my bed that serves as a space filler. The two are not sown together, so the matresse takes a lot of pride in sliding off the bed, at first just slightly, then some more - usually while I''m asleep on it. Yeah, I have one of those too, but its more like a cross between a mattress and a sheet... it does stay on the bed, however, as do I. Maybe you should consider getting one like mine? Yes... VB6 is here to steal your minds. Very slowly. ;quote:Original post by Useless Hacker  The word you are looking for is: Excerpt.Dang - a copy-paste typo. I know the word, though quote:I thought people only went from Point A to Point B in maths problems.  I thought life was essentially a maths problem pentium3id: some of their gags are really funny. Most are just plain gross, though...Yeah, I have one of those too, but its more like a cross between a mattress and a sheet... it does stay on the bed, however, as do I. Maybe you should consider getting one like mine?Nah - I like mine better... It''s pinkish.   "Finishing in second place, simply means you are the first loser." - PouyaCat