05-12-2015, 12:35 AM
Here's a thread about little stuff that you should have known, but didn't and you came to realize. (Of course, some of this might be a bit embarrassing)
Here's a few for me:
Earliest one (Age 8): My Mother always said that my clothes were "getting too small for me." My grandmother would quip that clothes shrank in the dryer. So, for a good long while I just thought clothes shrank. I wasn't growing. They shrank I'm telling you!
Next: (Age 11) The term XOXOXOXO means hugs and kisses. Not sure where I was -- obviously not much of a note passer, but geez.
Next: (Age 40) The term for a theater production "Off Broadway" is referring to the street -- Broadway Street in NYC that runs through Times Square. If the theater is on Broadway St. it's a 'famous' production.
Next: (Age 46 -- I'm a slow learner) The little adjustment lever on a toaster. You know 1 2 3 4 .... is the number of minutes the bread is being toasted. Here I thought the higher the number the more "toasty" it was. Who knew, right?
Here's a few for me:
Earliest one (Age 8): My Mother always said that my clothes were "getting too small for me." My grandmother would quip that clothes shrank in the dryer. So, for a good long while I just thought clothes shrank. I wasn't growing. They shrank I'm telling you!
Next: (Age 11) The term XOXOXOXO means hugs and kisses. Not sure where I was -- obviously not much of a note passer, but geez.
Next: (Age 40) The term for a theater production "Off Broadway" is referring to the street -- Broadway Street in NYC that runs through Times Square. If the theater is on Broadway St. it's a 'famous' production.
Next: (Age 46 -- I'm a slow learner) The little adjustment lever on a toaster. You know 1 2 3 4 .... is the number of minutes the bread is being toasted. Here I thought the higher the number the more "toasty" it was. Who knew, right?
To each his own... unless you belong to a political party...
