Back in the classic days of SNL Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd used to do a segment on Weekend Update called "Point/Counterpoint", which would begin as a current events debate but generally devolve into insults about their, ahem, personal characters. Today was a Point/Counterpoint day -- minus the jabs at my integrity.
Point -- I donated my old collection of classroom books to a worthy place. Eight years of books equals a lot of boxes.
Counterpoint -- I live on the second floor. My car is on the first floor. A lot of boxes of books had to get from the second floor to the first floor.
Point -- I went on a walk and found an abandoned license plate by the side of the road and turned it into the police department to be returned to its rightful owner.
Counterpoint -- It was really hot today. Why did I go on a walk?
Point -- The police officer who collected the plate from me was appreciative.
Counterpoint -- He was probably more appreciative that he was done dealing with the two women in front of me. One of them was discussing a restraining order with him, and I honestly wasn't sure which side of that order she was on. The other woman was insisting the officer give her the insurance information of the man who hit her car the night before, and the more she insisted the louder and faster her voice became.
Point -- I decided to treat myself to dinner out.
Counterpoint -- The family at the table next to me were unbelievably loud and grating. Kids running around the table and kicking the wall, adults doing little to turn down the volume, and someone at the table coughing like a seal.
Point -- Out of nowhere a shadow box on the bathroom wall fell.
Counterpoint -- Somehow, despite the glass front of the box coming in contact with the toilet, nothing broke.
Point -- Over two months ago my dad misplaced his Nook on an airplane and figured it was as good as gone.
Counterpoint -- Tonight he got a call from the airline declaring they had found the Nook and would be mailing it to him.
Point -- He will have two Nooks.
Counterpoint -- Guess who's getting a new Nook?
Point -- I donated my old collection of classroom books to a worthy place. Eight years of books equals a lot of boxes.
Counterpoint -- I live on the second floor. My car is on the first floor. A lot of boxes of books had to get from the second floor to the first floor.
Point -- I went on a walk and found an abandoned license plate by the side of the road and turned it into the police department to be returned to its rightful owner.
Counterpoint -- It was really hot today. Why did I go on a walk?
Point -- The police officer who collected the plate from me was appreciative.
Counterpoint -- He was probably more appreciative that he was done dealing with the two women in front of me. One of them was discussing a restraining order with him, and I honestly wasn't sure which side of that order she was on. The other woman was insisting the officer give her the insurance information of the man who hit her car the night before, and the more she insisted the louder and faster her voice became.
Point -- I decided to treat myself to dinner out.
Counterpoint -- The family at the table next to me were unbelievably loud and grating. Kids running around the table and kicking the wall, adults doing little to turn down the volume, and someone at the table coughing like a seal.
Point -- Out of nowhere a shadow box on the bathroom wall fell.
Counterpoint -- Somehow, despite the glass front of the box coming in contact with the toilet, nothing broke.
Point -- Over two months ago my dad misplaced his Nook on an airplane and figured it was as good as gone.
Counterpoint -- Tonight he got a call from the airline declaring they had found the Nook and would be mailing it to him.
Point -- He will have two Nooks.
Counterpoint -- Guess who's getting a new Nook?
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