from 1000 Awesome Things

• That last, crumby triangle in a bag of potato chips.
• Locking people out of the car and pretending to drive away
• Finding money you didn’t even know you lost
• Blowing your nose in the shower
• Picking the perfect nacho off someone else’s plate
• When you pull up to a red light and the guy in front of you nudges up a bit so you can make a right turn
• Old, dangerous playground equipment
• The smell of gasoline
• High tens
• Sleeping in new bed sheets
• Any food that requires Wet-Naps and a stack of napkins to eat
• Illegal naps
• Yellow teeth
• Strategic trick-or-treating
• Being the first person into a really crowded movie theater and getting the prime seats
• Using Rock-Paper-Scissors to settle anything
• Sneezing three or more times in a row
• Rain Hair
• The first shower you take after not showering for a really long time
• Using Q-Tips the way you’re not supposed to use them
• The Universal Fry-Sharing Policy
• Terrible businesses run by children
• Sweatpants aka track pants aka jogging pants
• The smell of rain on a hot sidewalk
• Perfect parallel-parking on the first try
• Adrenaline
• Wearing sandals when you shouldn’t be wearing sandals
• Intergenerational dancing
• Finally getting a piece of popcorn that’s been stuck in your teeth all day out
• A really cold glass of water on a really hot day
• Glass
• Doing anything that makes you feel like a caveman
• Getting a trucker to blow their horn
• Snow days
• Getting the eyelash out of your eye
• Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
• When you’re really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you
• The moment at a concert after the lights go out and before the band comes on stage
• The sound of scissors cutting construction paper
• Hanging your hand out the window of a car
• When you arrive at your destination just as a great song ends on the radio
• Bakery air
• When your favorite sports team is in the big nationally televised game
• Multitasking while brushing your teeth
• Getting something with actual handwriting on it in the mail
• Taking your shoes and socks off after a really long day
• High fiving babies
• Ugly actors
• When someone lands on the hotel you just built in Monopoly
• The Parking Lot Pull Through
• The smell and sound of a campfire
• Getting in a line just before it gets really long
• The Five Second Rule
• The feeling of scrunching sand in your feet
• Finding out your birthday is on a Friday or Saturday next year
• Snow stepping
• The Perfect Egg Crack
• The Laugh Echo
• Playing with a baby and not having to change its diaper
• Crying
• The smell of the coffee aisle in the grocery store
• Old folks who sit on their porch and wave at you when you walk by
• Sneaking McDonald’s and hiding the evidence
• Celebrities on Sesame Street
• Getting out of the car after a really long trip
• When the categories on Jeopardy! are right in your wheelhouse
• Popping Bubble Wrap
• The smell of freshly cut grass
• Pushing those little buttons on the soft drink cup lid
• Saliva
• Building an amazing couch cushion fort
• Finally having your ears pop back to normal long after a flight or swim
• Smiling and thinking of good friends who are gone
• Remembering what movie that guy is from
• Saying the same thing a sports commentator says just before they say it
• When the public bathroom has paper towel instead of hand dryers
• Cheesy theme songs from 80’s sitcoms
• Returning to your warm and comfy bed after getting up to pee in the middle of the night
• That one really good pen that never gets lost
• Ducks
• The smell of crayons
• Gym pain
• Your favorite old, comfy T-shirt
• Watching something download really fast
• When you know your TV remote so well you don’t need to look at the buttons
• Backseat car windows that go down all the way
• The sound of rain from inside the tent
• The Flying Saucer Frisbee Toss
• Seeing someone laugh in their sleep
• The first squeeze from a new tube of toothpaste
• Falling asleep in the backseat of a car late at night on the drive home
• Guys who wear no shirts at cold sporting events
• Squeezing through a door as it’s shutting without touching it
• Getting into a bed with clean sheets after shaving your legs
• When someone holds your keys and wallet in their purse
• Discovering those little tabs on the sides of the aluminum foil box
• When the thing you were going to buy is already on sale
• Finding the last item in your size at the store
• Eating the extra fries at the bottom of the bag
• Taking your shoes off on a long car ride
• Getting the booth side of a restaurant table
• When your sneeze stalls for a second and then suddenly comes booming out
• Dangling your feet in water