Right Where You Are Sitting Expo #1

Write ten things about where you are sitting right now that you hadn't noticed when you sat down. Use your senses. Do it quickly. Do not Censor. Okay, begin.

1. Air freshener is going bad 

2. Fishing rod in my eye

3. Power switch to lights is still on

4. Sand everywhere

5. The girl on the back of Reax is really hot "UNZIP"

6. A receipt from tiger Mart

7. My yellow fishing line

8. White shrimp bait stinks its crusty

9. 2009 Wild Acres Art Workshops

10. 99.5 Country Music

In 1952, a milk truck driver in Watertown, New York, USA, complained to a local chemist about the smell of spilled milk. Luckily for that driver, the chemist was Julius Samann, who had spent several years extracting essential oils from pine needles in Canada. Samann, quickly discovered that putting high-quality fragrance on porous card stock was a highly effective way to make a quality air freshener. He soon sketched the now famous Little Tree shape and coined the name "Car freshener". An American legend was born!

March is Workplace Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month.

70,000 Eye-Related Injuries on the job each year cost American Business Owners    

450 Billion dollars.

Every year, dead car batteries are the cause of more than five million Roadside Assistance calls to AAA clubs nationwide.

The Typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich eaten on the beach contains over 

7,000 grains of sand.

In field tests Macrodactylus subspinosus or the rose chafer, males were significantly more attracted to feeding virgin females than field collected mated females.

From information gathered in 2002 there were 121,446 gas stations in the USA. 

Fishing with a hook and line is called angling.

16 year old Berkley Bedell, in June 1937, started Berkley in his upstairs bedroom by tying flies from his dog's fur and pet chickens feathers. It is now a multi-billion dollar company.

Not going!

Is such a good depressant!