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21 " I gave her the finger and moved along to the waiting area. "
― Graham Parke , No Hope for Gomez!
22 " Then I wondered, briefly, where one might obtain a prosthetic Adam’s apple, and what its primary use would be. "
23 " Reputable companies don’t get their test subjects through ads in gaming magazines, "
24 " why hadn’t all these women tried to jump me? "
25 " His gums stopped bleeding and his skin cleared up. "
26 " I must’ve been stone-cold sexy this whole time without even realizing. "
27 " Gravity has a slightly stronger hold on me than it does on other people. I’m sure of it. It pulls on me a little harder during the day, and really tugs away at me first thing in the morning. It’s freaky. "
28 " I wasn’t going to have my pressure points fondled unexpectedly. "
29 " Dug up a die and threw it 72 times. Aimed to get as high a total as possible. Tallied the throws knowing I should end up with a number close to 252 (on average the throws should distribute evenly over all six faces, hitting each face about twelve times). Instead of 252, though, I came up with 166. A much lower number, which made my average throw just over 2, instead of the expected 3.5. I was clearly beating the odds, in a bad way. "
30 " It felt a bit like French kissing an old lady; all the right moves, but in totally the wrong places. "
31 " I was good at creeping around people’s backyards, at night, unseen. "
32 " not knowing what kind of drugs you’re on and thus not knowing what to expect as effects or side effects, is that you start noticing so many things being out of the ordinary. "
33 " calculator (with reverse Polish notation), "
34 " Toyed with the idea of letting it go to voicemail, then remembered the sick messages the phone-sex salesman had been leaving me, "
35 " Passed the kitchen and noticed the sandwich. It still had huge chunks of moist, tender chicken breast in it. Didn’t want to waste it. Wasn’t hungry either so I booted my laptop and put the remainder of the sandwich up for auction on eBay. "
36 " what a phone-sex salesman would be selling me exactly. "
37 " I knew I should’ve started stalking her first! Damn my not-so-devious brain. When would I learn that women don’t go for nice guys? "
38 " I said, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. I’m a stalker. "
39 " Monday night. Couldn’t sleep. Sounded like my downstairs neighbor was drilling thousands of tiny holes in his ceiling. "
40 " Theorized about the possibilities of solving a 500 piece puzzle in one go, simply by taking the pieces from the box in the right order. Initial calculations indicate that the chances of this ever happening are small, which means it’s indeed possible. "