Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I think they may be my blog’s first experience with February 29th. It’s Sadie Hawkins Day (if it isn’t celebrated in November, as John Murney pointed out to me), where for most of the 20th Century anyway, the stereotypical gender roles of dating are supposedly turned on their heads. I wonder how many marriage proposals there are on this leap year day, coming from the woman to the man? Alas, I am not about to dig into Statistics Canada’s site to see if they know.

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UPDATE:
I heard an interesting story today I thought needed to be shared somewhere on the Internet. I was mentioning the strange story of a child who had gone deaf in one ear, to a co-worker. The boy regained his hearing after a q-tip cotton swab fell out, years after it was mysteriously lodged in the outer ear canal. That prompted my co-worker to recall a story of a man from Southey, SK who as a teen put a sunflower seed up his nose. He was too embarassed to seek medical help in removing it after his attempts failed, so he left it there… for years! As a man, decades later it came out on its own.

Who knows what kind of effects it had on his life. Maybe he snored up a sunny storm every night because of it, or would get birds pecking at his face as he walked down the street? Maybe it grew a sprout? Frankly, I think I’m better off not knowing. And in case you’re wondering, the person who told me this story knows a guy who knew this guy, so it has to be totally accurate. Right?

If he’d just gone to the doctor right away, it wouldn’t have made for such a strange story, and wouldn’t have wound up on the Internet, like it now is. If this was you, please leave a comment ;-)