Wood Tape. My wife calls me at work, and we have the usual end-of-the-day chat. Then:"Oh, by the way, Guy wants you to take him to the hardware store, he wants to get some tape. " "What kind of tape? ""He says he wants 'wood tape'. " "Wood tape? ""Wood tape. " "Uhhh, ok. When? "" Guy is my four-year-old son. Sunday morning rolls around, the tape has completely left my mind.
He disappears, and a half hour rolls by as I check email and what not. We are now at Home Depot. The poor fellow begins to ask Guy what the tape is for, but decides to punt instead: "Paint department," he says to the four-year-old, "you can find tape in the paint department. " We find the paint department right where we were told it was. " There are two ladies behind the paint counter. I trundle after the both of them. "To put on wood," he says. As we are leaving the paint department, I ask him:"Is that it? We're in the paint department, he sees paint, so he needs paint. The lady shows him the brushes, and asks him what kind. . Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us. Lucid Dream Guru - Master the Art of Lucid Dreaming.
The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain. It Changes Your Drinking Habits Did you ever wake up in the back of a taxi after a long night of tossing down cognac and prune juice and wonder how your pants got replaced by a thick but clumsily applied coat of colorful body paint? Well, now there's something to blame it on besides your bad childhood: music. What they play in the bar doesn't just affect how much you drink, but what you drink. Nothing goes with Lady Gaga like cheap, awful tequila. How the hell does music do that? Did you know you can make a person buy more expensive wine just by playing classical music? But in another blind study, different types of music playing in the background caused drinkers to change how they'd described the drinks they already had. Listening to this would inspire us to drink, too. This wasn't because customers thought to themselves, Ah!
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