Surprising Things

[wolf]

The longer you hang around the planet, the more things surprise you. Well, me anyway. Some people are more jaded, and don't have quite the same sense of child-like wonder that I strive for.

So, anyway, some things aren't surprising to me, like putting a man on the moon. The space program and I were born around the same time, so it was more of an expectation that we would succeed than a surprise to me when it happened.

I'm surprised, sometimes, by more conventional, simpler things.

Like the other day, I was reflecting on the relative impossibility of what I was doing ... brushing my teeth with orange-flavored toothpaste. I mean toothpaste is minty, or if you're really radical, you get the cinnamon stuff ... I still remember when Close-Up first came out with the cinnamon flavor. I thought it was really exciting. Okay, so I was around 10 years old, but at 10, other than minty is really cool. Now, at significantly older than 10, I'm amazed at fruit flavors in adult toothpaste. I know kids have had bubblegum and grape flavors for years, but grown ups, we're supposed to gaq over the minty freshness morning, noon, and night! See, citrus toothpaste really is surprising!

What about you guys?

(in case you misinterpreted the thread title, yes, I do occasionally sneak up on my lamps and yell at them as I turn them on)