Freakin Weird Blog

July 27, 2005
Ears and Eggs

If time is really such a precious commodity, why do people spend half their lives pouring it down the drain? There are a host of statistics out there – all of which I'm too lazy to research – that reveal things such as "the average human spends 12.4 years of his life in the bathroom". As annoyingly dull as these statistics are, the point is that we waste a lot of our time on unavoidable, mundane stuff – like sitting on the toilet, or shaving.

Then add-in the fact that about one third of the day is wasted on having to work a job, then more time is lost commuting to work, and yet more is dribbled away sleeping.

But that's not the end of it. Half of our conversations are with people we don't even want to talk to – so that's a few more hours lost – then there's shopping for groceries, mowing the lawn. Geez, come to think of it three quarters of our life is already spent. So that one free quarter we have – the precious, priceless block of time that we can do whatever we want with... surely it's something we'd really want to make the most of.

So if that's true, I have to keep asking myself why somebody would choose to voluntarily attempt to pull a car with his ears while standing on a large number of eggs.

Apparently Zhang Xingquan, 38, pulled the car for about 20 metres in Dehui, China. Exactly why he did this is unknown, but thankfully he didn't break any of the eggs.

Weird.

Picture from here

posted by Dr. Wei, PhD 16:18