When I was making breakfast for my husband I went to pull his bagel out of the toaster oven with my bare hands and of course it was hot so I dropped it.
As I touched the bagel and quickly pulled my hand away I yelped “Hot!”
Do you ever wonder why we yell out what’s happening when we’re shocked when it would be obvious to anyone watching?
Everyone does it.
If someone were to touch you and their hand was freezing cold you’d probably yell out “cold, brrrr!” Right?
But why?
I think it’s weird … normal because we all do it occasionally … but strange too.
Another thing that gets me is when people bump into something and they say sorry. They didn’t bump into a person … no, they bumped into a chair, or a wall and they still say sorry. I don’t know, maybe that’s a Canadian thing … but it’s funny as hell!
I’m not saying that I don’t say sorry to walls. I’m pretty sure I do, but why?
What other strange things can you think of that people do for no good reason when it’s obvious what happened?
Yay!! I’m not the only one! I talk to all sorts of inanimate objects–daily!! So glad to hear I’m normal?!?
Oh dear, I must be a bit ill mannered! I’ve never said ‘sorry’ to a wall or a chair. Do talk to my car though, perhaps that counts.
I’m English (not British), guess all countries have their strange ways.
Mike.
I wonder sometimes how much of a baby I can be .. I spilled milk on my foot and out of instinct i was like OUCH!!!! and my mom looked at me like i’m an idiot hahahaha
I love it when people say, after tasting something gross, “Ewwww..taste this!” Uh…like no…you’ve just told me it was “ewwww”!!!
I grew up in Washington State which was a lot colder than it is in Texas. When I was a kid, on the first day of really FREEZING weather, some moron would always be stuck to the flag pole by their tongue at school. And as soon as that idiot was rescued, you could practically guarantee there would be another one at recess; another at lunch time…pretty much every year the faculty had to have an announcement that sticking your tongue to frozen metals was not allowed on school grounds. As I grew older and this continued into high school, I can remember thinking, boy I hope those tongue people don’t breed. I mean, how many stupid people can the human race afford?