If you live in the San Francisco area, you may want to start following the twitter handle @HiddenCash. If you don’t live in San Francisco, you may want to head out that way soon. An anonymous millionaire is hiding white envelopes filled with hundred dollar bills around the area. Tweets go out with hints to the cash from their twitter account daily. The anonymous benefactor said they had earned more money than they dreamed of and they wanted to give back in a fun and different way. They have plans to expand the charitable scavenger hunt to other cities like L.A. and New York City in the near future.
Do you smell that? Of course you don’t, I’m talking about graduation; and it doesn’t have a particular smell. But it is in the air! Adults are graduating with graduate degrees, others finishing their Bachelor’s. We have children graduating from kindergarten all the way through high school. It’s the time of year that family and friends all watch on with proud, tear-filled eyes as their loved ones take to the stage to receive their diploma and degrees.
This is a time to be happy and proud of the accomplishments of others. For one high school in Florida though, it seems to be a time to make some money. They are charging $20 a ticket to attend the graduation for family and friends. They are also offering premium seating at the price of $200!!! That’s right, $200 for premium seats at a high school graduation. What does that even mean? You can sit on the first row of bleachers? Oohhh, maybe you get a folding chair in FRONT of the bleachers. Then, to top it off, the graduating students are being charged $20 just to participate in the ceremony! Didn’t the kids pay their dues by attending and passing high school for four years?
A man in Seattle went to a local Subway and was looking for something not on the menu. The story goes as follows; a man and his family walk into a Subway (if you think this sounds like a joke now, just keep reading). The man walks into the bathroom while his wife orders their meals. After some time his wife knocks on the bathroom door to see what is taking so long. The family decides to leave without him (odd, but I suppose you can’t wait forever). Shortly after the family leaves the restaurant, the man runs out of the bathroom with a plastic garbage bag slung over his shoulder. The Subway employees go to check the bathroom, they find the sink stuffed with paper towels and the water running (a la the Wet Bandits), and, wait for it…the toilet was missing!!! This man stole a toilet from a Subway. I can’t really even begin to hypothesize about what would motivate such a crime. Maybe his toilet at home was broken and he couldn’t afford a new one? I’d rather like to think that he and his family were on vacation in Seattle, and he likes to collect a toilet from every city they travel to.
It wasn’t too long ago that Amazon announced their drone delivery program. UPS appears to have stepped up to the plate and have launched their own drone delivery service. However, it seems they got the concept screwed up because they mailed a $350,000 drone to a college student! The drone belonged to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and was originally scheduled to arrive in Massachusetts until something erred at UPS and it was addressed to the unidentified student. It seems that drone delivery is taking off. I was first excited about Amazon’s model, but I would be happy with UPS’s model delivering a drone to me even more.
Spring is here, and summer is around the corner. For some that means trips to New Jersey to walk along the famous boardwalk. If you find yourself walking the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ this summer, make sure to pull your pants up. A new law has gone into effect that prohibits pants, shorts, swimwear, skirts, etc. from sagging any further than three inches from the waist. I don’t remember this being a problem since 1996, but then again, sometimes laws take a while to get passed. Moral of the story is, if you’re in Wildwood, NJ try and repress the nostalgic urge to sag your pants or you could find yourself paying up to $200.
