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[jae_w]

I finally managed to break my ipod at the gym last night -- I dropped it (for the third time) on the concrete floor. The first time I dropped it, about a quarter of the screen blacked out, and the second time I dropped it more of the screen blacked out and I bent the bottom where it docks somehow so I had to jam it into my ipod dock when I used it

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[rishabree]

#2 - Me too! I focus much better doing that.

#1 - I just moved to right next to the Delaware River, and I've been caught on the PA side and nearly out of gas a couple of times. It takes me ages to get the pump going, and I only ever get a half of a tank because I'm terrified of accidentally overfilling it. D:

[jae_w]

I'm impressed that you pumped gas at all! I'm always worried -- what if I can't figure out how to get the nozzle in right and I spray gas all over the place? Overfilling hadn't occurred to me as a possibility but now I'm terrified of that too!

[rishabree]

And I never considered the spraying issue!

[jae_w]

Did you ever see the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander? There's a scene early on where frolicking male models spray each other with gas from the gas nozzles, and I always envision a horror like that ensuing if I tried to pump gas.

But I'm sure you'd be fine and that would never happen to you!

[maudgonne]

I find vampires very boring. I liked Firefly a lot, but other than that I don't care about outer space, either.

[jae_w]

Yes, exactly -- I'm not repulsed or terrified of vampires or anything, I just don't care about them. And I liked Firefly too, but not the space parts.

[mazily]

My sister & I drove cross-country the summer after she graduated high school. The first time we stopped for gas outside Jersey, we both just sort of stared at the pump like maybe a holographic gas station attendant would suddenly appear if we just looked at it the right way or something. When that failed to work, we picked up the nozzle, put it down again, & stared some more. Luckily, a really cute chick realized that we were never going to work it out on our own & came over to save us from our own Jersey-ness teach us how to work the damned thing. (I still don't trust myself to pump gas. I always con someone else into doing it on roadtrips.)

Also, now I want a pudding cup.

[jae_w]

I suppose that I should get someone to show me how to pump gas just in case, I don't know, I want to leave the state at some point, but I have to say, I have absolutely no desire to pump my own gas.

Those pudding cups are good -- I started off buying the chocolate & vanilla, then the swirl, then tried the dulce de leche, and now I have some Boston Cream ones, and they've all been gone. I'm sure they're horrible for me in some way but so delicious.

[tsamm]

Also with you on NPR. Also, I felt like 95 percent of their stories had the sounds of a diner in the background--clinking silverware, plates--and that just drives me insane.

ed. Ooops sorry; pretend this is a comment to the main post. :)

[jae_w]

What is it about the background noise on NPR? They are always at a diner or a state fair or something with a lot of nonsense in the background.

[jae_w]

That's the danger, becoming the only person in NJ who can -- I don't want to be that person! But I admire your accomplishment in pumping gas, it's far beyond my abilities.

[meinnim]

#7 - Hee! I can totally picture you doing that.

Now I'll probably think about that or say it to myself (not out loud) every time I turn on the lights.

[jae_w]

I've pretty much trained myself not to do it when there are other people around (at least non-family, non-close-friends people), but I can't give up saying it totally. I don't even realize I'm doing it before I say it.