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| Schwartz and the Parking Ticket |
1. There
is no such thing as an idea
2. I
might be wrong about number 1.
3. Words
were invented by people to represent ideas.
4.
Numbers were invented by people to represent quantities.
4 ½.
Sometimes people mistake the symbol we use to represent a number for the actual
quantity itself.
5. Not
every thing I write down needs to stay on a list.
6. Cherry
is getting old, and some days it’s more noticeable than others and today was
one of those days.
7. Not
every thing I write down in an effort to be funny turns out to be funny
8. Cats
might be good at accounting but we’ll never know because who would let a cat
handle their books?
9. People
really liked my tweet the other day comparing Donald Trump to cat shit.
10. I lost
my list of the missing stuff
11.
Sometimes when I need to sing something I sing “Acres of Clams.”
12. On
August 21, 2009 I watched six episodes of Hannah Montana and liked them. I
think I was running a fever. The only reason I know this is because I said it
on Facebook.
13. Cats
remember how many kittens they have, so they probably have an idea of number.
14. I
think about numbers all the time, both in the sense of numerical quantity and
in the sense of the symbol for a number.
15. Whenever
I see a parking ticket in the gutter in New York City, I feel sad for the
person who got the ticket and doesn’t know because the ticket fell off and the
fines go way up over time if you don’t pay them.
16. Sometimes
I feel like writing is always going to be a struggle.
17. When
I wake up really early and can’t get back to sleep I worry about things like
whether I got a parking ticket that blew off my car and I don’t know it and the
fines are going up right now as I lie here in the dark not sleeping and
worrying about it.
18. My
mom didn’t realize she was allergic to our cat until after he died and as her
house got clean she started to feel better.
19. I had
lots of favorite numbers as a kid, including 16, but I do not have one now. I
like the number 8 for a variety of reasons but I still wouldn’t call it my
favorite.
20. My
friend had a cat with terrible allergies and it always struck me as kind of
funny.
21. This
other list said, “Find my pajamas,” and I don’t know if I ever did.
22. I
don’t even have a favorite color.
23. Once
I got a parking ticket on my car when it was parked in front of my own house in
Seattle and I’d forgotten to put the new registration sticker on the license
plate.
24. When
I was a kid I was allowed to watch as much TV as I wanted and so I watched a
lot of TV. I almost never watch TV now but I waste a lot of time on the
Internet which you probably knew anyway.
25. This
other time, I got a parking ticket on my car when it was parked in front of my
own apartment building in New York and I was going in to check the mail and get
the new registration sticker.
26. I am
so easily distracted.
27. Once,
I was house-hunting in Bedford, New York and got a parking ticket in a paid
lot, and they issued the ticket about ten minutes after the time expired and
the car had been there for like four hours or something so I definitely got the
feeling that some police officer sat there the whole day waiting for my paid
parking to expire in the town’s one public lot and the only thing he did that
whole day was slap that ticket on my windshield and when I got that ticket
about ten minutes after it had been written I was like, Oh, hey, guess I don’t
actually wanna live here in Bedford, huh? But, maybe, in retrospect, having
cops with absolutely nothing whatsoever to do is a good sign and meant that I
should have come back and looked at more ranch houses. Maybe that was my error.
28. I
can’t decide if cats would give parking tickets or would just piss on anything
you left in a place they considered against the rules.
29. I thought about making a list of advice for college
sophomores but once I thought about it I was like, “You got this.”
30. Some
lists aren’t really necessary, but they do manage to help organize one’s
thoughts.
