Well, if that didn’t take the cake… Yesterday I was at the very same store. When I returned to my car I watched this employee relieving himself on the shopping carts.

At first I couldn’t believe my eyes but then I saw the small river flowing between the carts, the shake and the zip up.

The lesson here: You have no idea what goes on when you aren’t paying attention. If you’re going to shop at Walmart, you’d better visit the hand sanitizer isle, buy some and use it before you contract syphilis and die.

According to the CDC
“Syphilis cannot be spread through contact with toilet seats, doorknobs, swimming pools, hot tubs, bathtubs, shared clothing, or eating utensils.”

I guess that includes credit cards and shopping carts but either way… YUCK~!

I couldn’t help but snaps some shots as I drove along. It doesn’t look like this often. I wished I could have stopped and stared for a while but I was in the fast lane. 

The pics are so amazing I can’t choose just a single image to share so here’s a gallery of them all:

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I didn’t think twice about the scene. I snapped these pics with my old iPhone 3GS and thought I might use one as a wallpaper when I got around to it. (I posted them big in case you want one for your phone’s wallpaper. right-click.)

A few nights later, I’m talking with a friend who’s mother is one of those environ-’mental’ conspiracy theorists. I’m glad I can’t read her website because I am not compelled to believe in aliens, information that isn’t meant for civilian ears, or the insanely speculative.

So… First thing she says is.. “You remember when I was telling you about H.A.A.R.P.?”

“Yes” (’cause I posted an article about it, right here on somethinginteresting.com, after we talked.)

She says: “Wait until you see the pictures I took on Tuesday.”

I interrupted: “Hold on, let me get my phone” (talk about insanely speculative; I blurted out that “I took the same pictures.”)

“Well the sky…”  Before she could say more, we simultaneously showed each other the exact same pictures.

A conversation about HAARP ensued.

The checks are “a % of the final selling fees that sellers were overcharged by eBay.”

Someone in this thread received a check for $18406.26

The postage was 25x more than the value of the contents.
I wonder how much the lawyers got?

When listing items for online auction it’s best to do a bit of research. Including data and details will bolster the listing, attract potential buyers and increase the chances of a higher final bid.

In searching for a Hush-A-Phone, which attaches to a telephone handset and passively amplifies a quiet voice, I didn’t have much luck so I decided to take some pictures of one and post them here on somethinginteresting.com. 

Problem is, I don’t know much about this so…. If you can help, please leave a comment and I will update the page.

Manufacturer: Hush-A-Phone, New York, U.S.A.
Model: ?
Production Date: ?

I know this particular Hush-A-Phone was used during the 1970′s and retired to a storage box in 1977. It was used to conduct ‘hushed’ conversations by someone concerned with the presence ‘listening’ devices.

The significance and story of Hush-A-Phone is prolific on the internet. You can read the importance of Hush-A-Phone at Cybertelecom. In a way, Hush-A-Phone paved the way for to the internet with the first crack in Ma Bell.

The Hush-A-Phone Corp started manufacturing the device for use on the “Candlestick” phones in 1920. A similar Hush-A-Phone, to the one in these pictures, was made with the advent of the telephone handset in 1940.

Soon after posting this article, someone else will own the Hush A Phone in these pictures.

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Next up a “Made in Western Germany” Phono-Trix amplifier speaker with suction cup microphone.

I turned around and…

I noticed that ordinarily the 67 ounce of soda is only 22¢ more ($1.99) but today is 52¢ less at $1.25.

Spend 72¢ more and you’ll have 144 ounces.

Here I am trying to pick up a drink to go with my pizza and I’m stuck doing math in my head.. because here’s what they are selling:

For $5, I get to decide wether I’d prefer
Three 20 oz bottles (60 oz.) or
Four 2 liter bottles (270 oz.) or
Twenty-four 12 oz. cans (288 oz.)

For the same amount of money, you choose wether you’d like 60 oz or 288 oz.  If they advertised “Buy one, Get 4 free” they wouldn’t have enough Coke for the crazed.

I find this to be something interesting because it pisses me off. The 20 oz bottle is five times overpriced so I fell for their scheme. Since I walked in to buy a soda which would have cost me $1.77, I chose to spend 77¢ more and leave with nearly 7 x the 20 oz. soda. Yep, I spent 77¢ more but it will save me six trips to that store. I’m six times less likely to shop there.

After I got the soda, this guy buying snack food would not let me pass him, blocking the aisle as he walked. Since I didn’t really care, I tested his intention by trying to pass on the left.. He breathed heavily, 100% aware I was behind him and attempting to pass but wouldn’t yield. People can be so strange.

I got a nice birthday card from Marlboro. They congratulated me on living another year and offered me some discounts on more death sticks.

Does anyone find this disturbing?

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While I’m at it, I got another incredibly disturbing Happy New Year’s email from the Philip Johnson Glass House.

Here’s a screenshot of the email, Can you tell me why I didn’t like it?

Well, if you don’t feel like guessing, I’ll just tell you. A greeting is one thing and a solicitation is a completely separate thing. The NTHP sends out the DONATE NOW emails just about every week. I took this email as notice that the National Trust has more interest in their own happy new year than mine. I won’t be participating this year. Greed has an ugly face… and mine came disguised as a greeting.

1) I had this almost new $3,000+ Lilian August/Drexel Heritage couch.. and after 1 month of eBay and another month on Craigslist… no one wanted it, even for free… so I threw it out. 

I’m not sure if that’s interesting, but it’s definitely a shame. When I was living in the city, we scored all of our furniture off the street. I threw out a $3K couch …while someone somewhere was fleeing the rubble they used to know as home.

2) It’s a grinder? (I like the lighting)

3) Speaking of rubble; a few days before Christmas I went to the post office to mail some cards. I noticed a stamp display with “holiday” stamps within… At the very top of the display were these stamps:

At the very bottom of the display were Purple Heart stamps. Whatever EID is…my dyslexic first glance read IED Greetings. Do these stamps resemble a Christmas Tree to you? I wonder if there is something fundamentally wrong with the stamps, the timing of their issuance and the placement of them within the stamp display at a United States Post Office? When questioned, a postal worker said: Ironically, they were issued the Christmas season following 9/11.
Someone let me know what it says on the tree, please.

I wonder what sheep think about their shepherd. Oh, that’s right.. .they’re sheep – they don’t think.
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4) Who is Skyler Knight?

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5) Before the life-size version, he made a miniature. Isn’t it cute. When the child was 3 years old, he made her a swing. When she turned 16, he memorialized it. Capisce?

Peace and hope for health and prosperity to all…. to those awarded the Purple Heart as well as those with the Arabic Christmas Tree stamps.

Along the way you’ll experience fish and produce markets, cheap imported goods and just about everything else under-the-sun from underground massage parlors to multi-floor general merchandise; every inch an olfactory assault.

A few blocks from Ten Ren’s I noticed something interesting, a sign in a bakery window:

Hey, look!~ we’re 2nd best, come on in. We don’t feel like cleaning up but our food is delicious.