Welcome to the weekend. David and I are joining Cheryl at the bar today to put this week behind us and relax with some useless science as we wrangle with Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. This week, Linda asks us to make a note of it – and to have fun.
“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘make a note.’ Do with it what you will. Have fun!”
If we were having a beer, you’d be getting a little too personal.
“Hi Cheryl. Have you seen Dan?”
“I think he’s in the little Corona Boy’s room.”
“Well, set him up with a fresh one. I guess it’s my turn to buy.”
“You like it when he invites guests, don’t you David.”
“I do. The top shelf is always in reach when we have company.”
“You say that like John Howell’s Bourbon is second-tier liquor, David.”
“Geez, what did I miss? You guys dissing John Howell’s?”
“No, Dan. I’m just picking on David. He bought you a beer.”
“Well thank you David. Cheers.”
“And to you, Dan. Pardon my indiscretion, but did your, um, activity in the room take twenty seconds?”
“What? Why do you care?”
“Actually, I don’t. I just finished reading this article that says we should pee for twenty seconds. If we pee less than that, we risk conditioning our bladder to signal the urge too soon.”
“And if we wait too long?”
“Potential damage.”
“To our bladder or our clothes? What on earth are you reading?”
“Here, I made a note in my phone to show you. I read an article in National Geographic, but it’s behind a paywall, of course, I subscribe…”
“Of course.”
“You can also read about it at Well And Good. Anyway, it’s based on research conducted at Georgia Tech.”
“I’ll wait for the movie.”
“Guys, can we move the discussion away from biology? You’re scaring my customers.”
“Sorry, Cheryl. I figured Dan would find this fascinating. He usually gets excited about weird science.”
“There’s weird science, David, and then there’s stuff I’m not sure we need to study.”
“Like timing…”
“David!”
“Sorry, Cheryl. Perhaps Dan will give us a better example.”
“OK. Did you know that, despite more, larger and brighter signage, wrong way driving deaths continue to increase in Connecticut?”
“I didn’t know that, but I have read about a lot of them this year. I’ve certainly noticed the signs. ‘Wrong Way’ – ‘Do Not Enter’ – they are huge. How do people miss them?”
“Would it surprise you to know that most of those accidents happen after Midnight?”
“I hadn’t thought much about it, Dan.”
“Would it further surprise you to know that, in most cases, alcohol is involved?”
“No surprise there. Let me guess. We paid someone to study this?”
“We did.”
“Well then, perhaps there’s a career for those guys in Georgia.”
“There seems to be no shortage of opportunities to study the obvious. Check out this article from Time Magazine.”
“Wait, ‘Being homeless is bad for your health?’ Who would have guessed, Dan?”
“Keep reading, David. You’ll find such improbable nuggets that have been unearthed by solid scientific research as, get this, the Mexican drug war increased homicide rates.”
“Shocking. Cheryl, I think I’m going to need another John Howell’s Special. I mean, unless research has shown that mixing seltzer, bourbon and cherries is dangerous.”
“I think they said it’s OK, David. Unless you serve it with a glass of ice. You want another beer, Dan?”
“I do, Cheryl. After seeing where tax and tuition dollars are going, I feel the need to fund the normal economy.”
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