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It occurred to me one of the reasons we blog is to get things off our chests and make us feel better. When I thought of this I came up with the idea of “Emotional Kleenex”. After all isn’t that was these blogs are?

We pull up the “Add Post” page and we type. We unload our emotional baggage into words and we feel better for it. We let it all out in little spots on the page and when we are through we look at it.

Sometimes there is a lot to look at, sometimes not. It could be of whatever color, but we re-read it and realize that this is us. We understand ourselves better because we have provided ourselves a concrete perspective of ourselves. We feel a lot better when all is said and done and to not feel as stuffed up.

Other come along and look at our mental sneezes and say “god bless you” or something, look at us and understand that we were not feeling well, and some know that we did this to unstuffy ourselves and feel better. Everyone understands, and the blogger becomes more human because we all have our good days and our “stuffed up” days.

There is no reason to apologize for unloading on a blog, it is what it is, “Emotional Kleenex”. It just goes to show that we as bloggers are human after all and not just some machine typing along dispassionately.

Not all of us use the blogs this way, but some of us do. Have you ranted and used your blog as “Emotional Kleenex”? Has blogging helped or did you need more than one pop-up to get the job done? Did you learn anything? Did other understand?

Tell me, let it all out… here have another “Puffs”, with aloe of course.

Yes, it’s that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.  Here then, are the glorious winners.

Darwin Award Winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder.  He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again.  This time it worked..... 

And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company.  The company expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself.  He tried the machine and lost a finger.  The chef’s claim was approved. 

3.  A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space.  Understandably, he shot her. 

4.  After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped.  Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride.  He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.
The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days. 

5.  An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train.  When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. 

6.  A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change.  When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided.  The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter.  The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15.
(If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7.  Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.  He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run.  So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window.  The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious.  The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas.  The whole event was caught on videotape. 

8.  As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran.  The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.  Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher.  They put him in the car and drove back to the store.  The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID.  To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her.  That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”

9.  The Ann Arbour News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, demanded cash.
The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order.  When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast .  The man, frustrated, walked away.  A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER! 

10.  When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for.  Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage.  A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake.  The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had. 

In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your friends and family ..  unless of course one of these 10 individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend.  In that case be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.