Brawlin'

I was watching a movie with some friends the other day, and there was the classic scene where an entire bar erupts in a brawl. It was the Old West style brawl where the bartender dives for the floor while people break bottles over each others heads and someone gets tossed through a window and onto the street. One of my friends remarked that he'd like to be in a brawl like that just once. Another friend said he was in a bar in Wisconsin once that had a special where you could pay $5 and drink tap beer all night. Apparently something started between two guys around midnight, and they began shoving. A few seconds later a full-on brawl erupted between two groups of friends, someone even threw a chair over the two guys fighting in the middle. My friend said him and his buddy sitting at the bar were the only ones not fighting--I guess they just looked at each other and said, "Let's get out of here," before splitting for the exit at top speed. He said it was a pretty terrifying experience, but I still think it sounds great.

You Look Like a Celebrity

I'm not one of those people who looks like a celebrity. You know the people--they light up when someone begins a sentence, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like..." and they always finish the sentence with the name of a classy, beautiful celebrity. Those people embrace their celebrity look-alike status, and I can't blame them. I definitely waited a couple extra days to get my haircut after a friend said, "You look like The Beatles. Not one of them specifically, but all of them combined."

Squirrel Stash

My friend Rob once saw a squirrel break into his house. It must have climbed in through a screenless window or possibly a missing door knowing the state of that old house. He watched it climb onto the kitchen counter and grab an Oreo before dashing outside. Instead of shoring up the place it snuck out, he followed the little bastard. It ran through the neighborhood to someone's backyard where it dug a hole and stashed the Oreo. He waited until it left, then dug up the Oreo and took it back. I'm not sure if he ate the Oreo, but the extraordinary thing to me is that after digging it up, he also took the nuts it had in the same stash. That poor squirrel must have been really confused when it went back to its hiding place for the Oreo and mixed nuts.