Friday, January 29, 2010

Ridiculous Questions

How Much Money Do You Have in Your Pockets?
$0.00 but I have plenty of money on my debit card.

What is the funniest Text on your phone right now?
Someone just nearly shit their pants when I said Dragon Ball is awful. My day is complete.

Have you ever pretended to be someone else on the phone?
I called the Hooked on Phonics number once as Arnold Schwarzenegger. They didn't believe me. Also, when I was in Disney World, a few of us pretended we were British and went up to one of the video Information Booths. We positioned ourselves so that Epcot Center was directly behind us, visible to the lady on camera, and we kept asking her "where the giant golfball is." After a few minutes, one of us turned around dramatically and went, "Oh, there it is!"

What happens when you hit a ninja with a car?
I would never know. That scenario can only happen in an alternate universe in which ninjas are lame and can be killed by cars.

If you could have chosen your own name what would it be?
Steve? I don't know. I'm just sick of people not paying enough attention when I tell them, or when they read it, to still pronounce it wrong. I had a customer at Farmers and Mechanics who looked directly at my nameplate and called me Ivan. I didn't care enough anymore to correct her, so I was Ivan forever more.

If you could only have one type of sandwich for the rest of your life what would it be?
The Illiterate Deli next door to my work used to make a ham sandwich called the Hamster. Nowadays they suck and are making zero good sandwiches. I think they're going out of business.

Anything else I should know?
I would love to become a Ghost Hunter, but I would probably pee myself if I was confronted by an actual ghost.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Ghost Hunters: New Jersey

I'm now under the firm belief that our apartment is haunted. A few months ago, Cheri and I were out somewhere, whether it was to dinner or we spent the night out, I don't remember. When we returned, the clock in the kitchen had fallen and presumably rolled from the far end to the doorway. Since we didn't witness it, we couldn't be sure that it wasn't because Upstairs Guy was stomping around and the vibrations knocked it from its perch. We put it from our minds and went about our daily lives. When I went home for lunch today, Cheri told me that it happened the other day. She was in the kitchen and nowhere near the wall, and the clock hit her in the shoulder before hitting anything else on the way to the floor. Now, the clock is hung on a push pin, so in order for it to come down in any fashion, something would have to pick it up over the lip on the push pin. She didn't bump into the wall, and Upstairs Guy wasn't even home.

Other instances include seeing movement out of the corner of my eye in the evenings by the front door, and hearing the sounds of something moving from the front door area through the apartment to outside our bedroom. The second one I thought was just Upstairs Guy walking around, but Cheri says she's heard it while she can clearly hear him snoring in his bed.

Also, I found one of my Indiana Jones figures moved from its place on the shelf to the beanbag chair across the room. Cheri says she could've knocked it down when she got home from work one day, but now I'm not so sure...

Anybody know the number for Jay and Grant?