#539 When you open a book to the exact page you were looking for

Neil Pasricha

You cracked the case.

Seriously, when you pop open that textbook, flip open the yellow pages, or split the spine of that beach novel right to the spot you’re looking for it’s a beautiful moment.

Suddenly you transform into a gloomy trenchcoat-wearing detective who solves the case just by glancing at the crime scene. Yes, the street’s been taped off, someone’s crying under a blanket on the curb, and the city police are filling out witness statements on their notepads.

That’s when you peel up in a navy blue squad card, calmly light up a cigarette, and then stare at the surrounding buildings for a few minutes with furrowed eyebrows.

Then you calmly walk back to your cruiser, smile softly, and roll your window down at the local police before screaming away down the wet roads.

“Page 127.”

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1,354 thoughts to “#539 When you open a book to the exact page you were looking for”

  1. Smelly stickers that last a really really long time. Especially when they smell awesome!

    1. I don’t know what the deal is here in my building. There are thermostats but apparently they are just there for looks and to trick you into thinking you are in charge of your own temp. Its always so hot in my building, but you get these one or two people in here that complain that they are freezing all day. The spring and the fall are ok. So yea…perfect office temp is awesome cuz its rare!

  3. Having lunch with friends in the school cafeteria…

    You sit there, share food, reminisce about the fun times, draw doodles on paper or on each other’s arms, laugh like crazy about inside jokes, make paper airplanes and hats, urge each other to skip any incoming classes and talk, talk, talk…

    1. It’s like that little bite holds the most flavor. Don’t know why, but it just does.

  5. Finding cool spots around campus with your friends and eventually picking one to be your ultimate hang-out place…

    Cool-Spot Hunting is the best thing to do with friends especially when all of you are to lazy to study for exams…

  6. MANGA!!!! (esp. Bleach by Tite Kubo)

    The drama, the action, the romance, the thrilling CLIMAX!! Not to mention the hot male characters that are simply to die for! And also for the fact that you read it backwards…

    AWESOME!

  7. It’s awesome to not be germaphobic. I’m all for everyone having good personal hygiene, for sure, but not having the compulsive urge to wash my hands after any kind of encounter is liberating (especially when I think of the behaviors a few of my germaphobic friends).

    Yeah, I’ve seen the flu and meningitis commercials. I don’t condone needless germ swapping, by any means. However … if I wanna pet my dog and then in a few minutes unwrap and eat a piece of candy … I’m not gonna go scrub for surgery first. I haven’t died yet :)

    1. Incredibly true! Everyone is going to have germs no matter what. It’s impossible to remove all germs, so it’s pretty much pointless in my opinion.

      But yeah, good hygiene is still awesome.

  8. Aw….I’m gonna miss all the fun tomorrow. i will try to catch up on Thursday. Everyone is so great and awesome.

      1. Glad i could be of service…LOL…

        :-( I guess i got a lot of catching up to to on Thursday. From looking at all the comments that got posted today, I’m going to have a lot of them to laugh about and comment on come Thursday. :-)

  9. Putting two awesome foods that you would never find together, together.

    For example,
    Root beer floats
    Banana Bread
    Nachos
    French Fries and Milk shakes
    M’n’M’s on pizza (I’ve only seen that once)

    Seriously who ever invented these dynamic duos was a genius. I wish we were friends.

    1. What’s really good is a chicken patty sandwich with a mushy chocolate chip cookies and french fries.

      It sounds gross, but it’s really delicious.

  10. When there is food in the office when you forgot your lunch or have a really crappy one.

    2. Still wearing cartoon bandaids as an adult.
      Scooby-doo, Dora, strawberry shortcake…yep, still wearing ’em!

  12. Successful senior pranks and projects.

    I’ve seen seniors conga line 10 floors, perform lip dubs, freeze, make a slip n slide, fill rooms entirely with balloons… It goes on and on.

    1. My senior class failed at ours, but then the seniors that were juniors when I was a senior successfully built a playset on top of the school. But then they were nice to the custodians and left them snacks and drinks for when they had to take it down.

  13. Extremely ticklish people

    In my family it’s my youngest brother. As kids, we older ones would team up on him. One of us would pin him down while the other made a slow approach wiggling our fingers and grinning gleefully. He started giggling and squirming before we even touched him. To this day, that’s a fun game.

    Now I also have a girlfriend who is weirdly ticklish. If you just lightly touch her in the middle of her back she’ll jump, scream, and start wriggling in a way that makes obvious you’ve just sent shivers down her spine. Always sure to be a good time and a good laugh for everyone else in the room.

    And then, of course, there are those stubbornly serious people who will put on that they’re not ticklish at all and resist your every attempt to get them to crack a smile with your wiggling fingers and sporadic pokes until that wonderful moment when you find it – THE spot. That one and only place that shatters their steely defenses and sets them giggling like a schoolgirl (and usually chasing after you seeking revenge).

    It can be the little brother, cousin, niece or nephew, the crazy friend or the boyfriend with that one spot that gets the over-the-top reaction, or the father-in-law with the top secret military style tickle defense system, but the very ticklish people in our lives are so much fun to have around. And more than that; they’re just plain awesome.

    1. I am VERY ticklish on my feet and almost everyone knows it. I had to quit wearing sandles one summer cuz everyone around me would hold me down, plop off my sandles and tickle away.

      1. Oh…and I snort when I laugh. That just makes them want to tickle me that much more.

  14. Has anyone else noticed that little tiny smiley face at the very bottom of the pages? Its so cute and awesome!

    1. I love seeing smiley faces anywhere. They just make me smile!

      There was a giant one on the side of a building and like I mean it was giant! I took a picture under it and have it on a bulleting board to cheer me up whenever I feel down.

        1. So, we are both having typing/spelling problems today….LOL…its great.

          smiley faces are awesome

  16. What’s really awesome is cleaning liquids that smell really good. Example: Goo Gone

  17. Getting texts and emails from my grandpa. Yeah I had to teach him how to do all of that, but now he’s got it. Everytime I hear his ringtone or see his name in my inbox, I smile cuz its awesome.

  18. finding someone else who shares your guilty pleasure

    we all have one. but when you find someone who shares the same one it means you don’t have to feel quite so guilty about it

  19. Breaking the rules for the first time.
    Skipping classes…missed your curfew….went somewhere you weren’t supossed to be….
    That small feeling of doing what you want, rebelion, and trying not to get caught is awesome.

  20. Limos. They are long and kind of awkward looking, but when you see one you think someone important is in there.

  21. Something we take for granted….running water. I lived my senior year in high school in a house with no running water (or air conditioning) and it sucked. It was my mom’s dream house though. Out in the country, away from everything, even city water. There was a small well in the backyard that we got some water from there. But after I moved out and into my own place, I cherrished every drop of water that came out of the faucets.
    So yes…running water and modern day plumbing is awesome.

    1. That really sucks that you had to live without such an awesome thing! You are a trooper.

    2. I know what you mean, I am living in a small house with a family who doesn’t have a car so we take the bus everywhere, and I had a car in the US so it is a BIG transition for me

  22. Funny family pictures.
    The whole group is together, but little cousin Sally is in the corner crying and uncle Bob’s toupe is blowing in the wind. Aunt June is falling over in her chair and grandma and grandpa are wearing matching tye dye running suits. Awesome!

    1. I LOVE looking at family pictures. Even serious ones are pretty funny. Mom, really, that 80’s sweater? Wow.

  23. Online friends. You can tell them almost anything and they won’t judge you. They almost always take your side. They don’t know you and you don’t know them, but seeing their name brings a smile to your face.
    I had a few online friends that I miss a lot. Most of my social profiles are deleted now and I have no way to talk to them, but I will always appreciate the decisions they helped me make and the smiles they put on my face.

  24. Radio stations that don’t play the same song over and over every two hours. And those same radio stations play songs that you haven’t heard in AGES.

    Wicked awesome.

  25. When you’re listening to a song that you’ve listened to a million times and you FINALLY know what they are saying.

    For example: Most of Fall Out Boy’s songs.

    1. haha that is sooo true, fall out boy and also lots of rap songs that you have just been copying the sounds forever but now you can actually SING it!!

    2. There are a few song with parts in them that i would mumble along with when I was a kid or make up my own words as to what i thought they were saying. Now I know what the lyrics are but i still sing them the way I did when I was a kid because i had done it that way for so long

  26. Freinds, best or just good friends. They are there when you need them, most of your favorite memories are with them and, if you are lucky, they will always be there.
    just plain AWESOME!

  27. When your parents finally let you stay home alone without a babysitter.

    You can watch whatever you want, eat as much junk food as you want without getting in trouble (until they find out later on at least), and be free to do crazy, random things like run around in your underwear singing to your favorite CD.

    It’s your first step towards being independent and possibly one of the biggest steps before getting your permit/license (which is also awesome!). Not to mention, your parents usually leave you money to get pizza, and who doesn’t love that?

    1. I had this one babysitter when I was little who would bring me her old Barbie clothes for my Barbies. She was so awesome!

  28. What’s really awesome is when you turn on the radio and it’s on the last commercial (which is a short one) and then it’s an hour long block of non-stop music!

    1. First thing I do in the mornings and the last thing I do before I go to bed. Feels so good!

  32. wearing shorts for the first time after winter

    nothing compares to the freedom your legs feel and the pasty whiteness that blinds all those around you

  35. Legit foreign accents.

    If you watch Flight of the Conchords, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

    Australian, New Zealand, English, even Asian! All of them are awesome.

    “G’day mate”
    “‘Ello, govna'”
    etc

  36. Losing weight without really trying!
    I went to New York last summer and I had to walk so much and I barely ate to save money. I came back home and everybody kept telling me how much weight I’ve lost! I kept thinking how much everyone tries to lose wieght but gives up because its so hard. I was just trying to save money and I got some serious icing on that cake. That was awesome

  37. Realizing how ridiculously delicious another country’s food is, comparable to another.

  44. watching a movie and spotting an actor who is now popular in a small role before they were famous.

  47. when you eat crappy food all week and are scared to see the damage you’ve done, but it turns out you didn’t gain any weight!

  48. Having a full sink of vegetable peels, egg shells, etc and then hitting the garbage disposal switch….the sound it makes as it grinds up a full sink, then then runs clear, is very satisfying and awesome!

  50. those two seconds after you wake up where you think your dream is real. but then you’re like, oh wait, i don’t live in 1920s france. and i don’t have a pet lion.

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