My mom knits and she spends way more time unraveling thrift store finds to salvage the yarn than she does actually knitting stuff.

I have a $2200 road bike, a $600 mountain bike, and a 20+ year old hybrid that I bought on Craigslist for $100. Guess which one I enjoy riding the most?

That being said, the latest bikes with their electric wireless shifters, disc brakes, built-in phone holders and no cables anywhere are making me a bit jealous. But I’ve been able to resist the urge so far.

For me it was D&D: all those fucking books, dice and lead figurines.

I’ll go even further: it’s kind of fun when they burn.

I knew a guy in my town who worked a shitty job at the Oasis factory making the green foam that florists stick flowers into, just so he could keep a tiny book store he owned open. As an adult, I now wonder if he also sold weed on the side.

When I lived in Daytona a shop opened up that sold nothing but Super-Whippers - $1 plastic whisks. They had two display trees in the front windows, one with black whisks and one with white whisks. They were never open and there was a hand-written sign on the door that said “Closed. If you want a Super-Whipper, they have some at the nail salon next door.” The store was in a strip mall less than 200 ft. from three dollar stores and a Publix, all of which sold plastic whisks.

Pretty sure it was a front lol.

It’s already here: social media where the “society” we’re interacting with is mostly AI bots rather than other real human beings.

I mainly shop at Giant and their store-brand sodas are almost all undrinkable (“Mr. Bob” is their version of Dr. Pepper), all with this bizarre medicine-y aftertaste. The only good one is their diet grape soda - it’s possible that I like this only because there’s no brand name version to compare it to.

I still play Civilization III. Nothing wrong with 20 year old games.

3D Minesweeper. Not sure I really like it, but it’s a concept.

I’m over 20,000 hours on Civilization III just on my current PC - that doesn’t even count all the time I spent on it when the game first came out. I’ve tried the later versions, just don’t like 'em as much.

“I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?”