The Delightfully Redneck Auto Show

Looking for something exciting to do on a regular Saturday, my husband discovered the annual auto show was in town. We decided to head out and check out all the new cars. Over 500 models were lined up in Reliant Center. It was pretty neat to see some "spacey" looking cars and some new cars like the Dodge Challenger.

But what really caught my eye was the Sham-Wow stand. Have you seen these towels?! They can hold an entire two liter of Coke. I saw this with my own eyes. I fell in love with the Sham-Wow (and the demonstrator's I love Sham-Wow t-shirt) when the demonstrator wrang out the towel and the cola came surging out filling a huge bowl. They were on sale for $25... what a great deal! Ten dollars less than purchasing them from the info-mercial! But wait, he said if we bought one right now he'd double the order... not just two large and two small Sham-Wow's, but four large and four small! I know I had that look in my eye... the I have to have it look. Because that's when Greg started distracting me. He said we could think about it as we walked around. I started thinking about it... all the paper towels we'd save... all the liquid we could soak up. My very own collection of Sham-Wows!

Then we came to the beef jerky stand. Greg and I each had a free sample... pretty good beef jerky. Then Greg tried the survival sticks. Filled with jalapeno and cheese, Greg fell in love with thse beef sticks. So, before I could say anything, our Sham-Wow money was gone... to the survival sticks. And you may wonder what a survival stick is... I have no idea. I guess it's needed for survival.

So I get home, Sham-Wowless, and I get a text from a friend. "Didn't do anything fun last night," it said. I texted back,"That stinks. We just went to the car show." Her reply,"How delightfully redneck." What?! Redneck?! She thinks that going to a car show, Sham-Wows and beef jerky are redneck... yeah, whatever.

Can you cook a fish in boiling water?

Just the other day, my husband and I were talking about different ways to cook a fish. You can grill it, bake it, saute it... and the list goes on. Then he said, "Do you think you can boil it?" I said, "Sure. Why not? You can boil chicken." He started to make an argument that you can't cook a fish in water because it lives in the water, therefore it could not be cooked in water even though it is boiling water.

This made no sense to me whatsoever. Stick anything in boiling water and it cooks. Seriously, I've tried it! So I started to debate with him. "Since we live in air," I said. "We could live through boiling air." Of course, he believed that humans could survive boiling air, whatever that is!

Why do things like this drive me crazy?! I always feel like I need to prove my point even if I think that someone might just be aggravating me, but I just can't make myself boil a piece of fish. I can't waste a perfectly good fillet of salmon to show that I'm right... Maybe I can just find some boiling air instead... yeah, whatever.