The Week of January 20, 2012 in Tweets

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I’ve had some pretty interesting things happen to me in the past week, and I was fortunately able to capture each moment in a tweet. Everything interesting that I would have put in my blog was already tweeted, so instead, I decided to do a tweet commentary this week.

 

This is the text contained in the image, taken from a YouTube comment:

“Hi, I know most of you won’t read this, but to the few of you who do, thank you. All my life I’ve wanted to be a turtle. I just feel like I was supposed to be born one. I’ve started wearing a cardboard shell around my waist and eating only small pieces of lettuce. I’ve also been living in my bathtub. But it just isn’t enough. For ever[y] “like,” my parents will give me one dollar to go towards turtle reassignment surgery. They don’t believe in me, but I know you do. Thanks so much for helping me.”

Why do people do this? Why can’t they go do their homework or read a book or something?

 

Only two weeks. That’s not bad.

 

This one was said by my good buddy Garrett Royce, who you might know if you’ve been around for a long time. Yes, he’s still alive.

Of course, for those of you who don’t get it, Taco’s el something implies that Taco owns el something. El means "the" in Spanish. I think it was a little bit of a Spanish mix-up by Garrett.

 

I saw this on my way back from McDonalds. There was literally somone outside in the dark with a cam­era standing in front of a dead tree. She picked up her camera, took a picture of the dead tree in the middle of the night, the stepped to her left a few paces. She took another shot. She stepped to her left a few more paces, and took another shot.

This went on for several seconds before she looked down at her camera, then walked away in satis­faction.

 

I have a feeling I actually already tweeted this before, but I noticed it again yesterday. I just don’t un­derstand why people try to parallel park their car in a tiny space that is clearly half the size of their car.

Even if they didn’t notice it at first, I’m sure they would notice it after they back up into the space, al­most hit the car behind them, then notice that less than half of their car is actually in the space.

But nope, they keep on trying. They pull out of the parking spot, put their car back in reverse, and keep trying.

I’ve never actually had enough time to watch one of these parkers for longer than several seconds because I usually see this when I’m on my way to class, but the next time I see this happen and I’m headed back home or something, I’m probably going to have a seat on the sidewalk and keep watching to see how long it takes for them to realize that their car just doesn’t fit.

 

I was actually very happy that someone pointed out to me that there was black ice on the ground. It made me get a little bit more hope in humanity because it reminded me that there are still some nice people out in the world.

Then I realized that I was being trolled in my own apartment building, and that the person was pointing at a rug and said that there was black ice.

 

I usually don’t have this many interesting tweets in one day, but I usually try to tweet something funny or interesting at least once every one or two days, so feel free to follow me by clicking on the Follow button on any of the embedded tweets above.

 

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