You know, I think I'm going to redefine the line between friends and coworkers.
I was at work and during lunch my coworkers and I played a game of tackle football (I work outside all day in jeans and a t-shirt). To play I took my hat off so as not to lose it. Upon taking my hat off one of my coworkers said "Wow, I always wondered what you looked like without your hat on" (why anyone wonders what I look like hatless is beyond me, but...). When I got home I changed clothes (after a shower), and headed out to meet some friends for a night of pool and poker. This particular night I chose to wear a hat (rather rare). One of my friends said "It's weird seeing you with a hat on".
So, either I just plain look weird (it could happen), or it is time to redefine what the difference between friends and coworkers really are. I'll opt for the latter:
Friends are people who think you look funny with a hat on, whereas coworkers think you look funny without a hat on.
Also, I've noticed something rather odd about fiction and non-fiction.
Playing Tiger Woods 07 the other day with some friends (same friends as above), I noticed a sound in the background. It was a bird (what species I am not aware, I just know it was a bird). Anyway, I thought to myself "Hey, that sounds like a real bird". The next day at work, I once again heard a bird and thought "Wow, that sounds just like a video game"... wtf?
Marketing and advertising finally got me. I saw an ad for Tide on television, and in this ad my whites were promised to become whiter. Later, while shopping for groceries, I picked up a bottle of Tide. Now, this wasn't a new brand, I've used Tide for damn near the entire 15 years I've done my own laundry, but I bought it to see if my white would actually be whiter. Now, common sense dictates that "white" is pretty much the plateu here. Still, that wasn't my discovery... I realized that in the span of time that I've been independently doing my laundry, the only things I have that are predominantly white are my socks.
