Me:
Did you know that onions get their flavor from the sulphur they absorb in soil? When you start cutting them, the sulphur and other compounds get sprayed into the air, mix with the water in your eyes, and become sulfuric acid. That's why you cry...Roommate:
*sniff* Thanks, that really helps make it all better. Now shut up and go away.
While I can't admit to being a gushing
fountain of
knowledge and
information, this is rather the way my mind works as well. I remember multitudes of all these (generally useless) little
tidbits that I pick up from the most random of places, whether that be
television,
magazines, or most often a
dictionary or
encyclopedia I happen to be thumbing through looking for something else entirely.
Distractions abound, as it were. I might eventually find
what I'm really looking for.
I often delight in
spewing forth things I know whenever something in particular seems relevent, or when it'd be annoyingly
witty, as that's even more
fun. Other times I just toss things on the table at
random, usually during a quiet point in
conversation, just for the
entertainment value of having it there. Either way, I tend to get funny looks and/or a
snide-sounding "I didn't
know that.." or two. That would be why
I'm embarassed that I know this. At least, sometimes I'm embarassed. I suppose it could also depend on what little
nugget of information I'm sharing at the time. Some are
quite embarassing just for their
content...
However, embarassment or not, it's certainly a source of entertainment for me during
very slow points. I've rather gotten to enjoy the
blank stares and other reactions I get from
people when I pull
something out of the hat of
trivia that is
my mind. It's actually gotten to the point that
sometimes I actually
search for more trivia to
gather up, or purposely make a
mental note to remember something particularly
juicy. One of these days I'll spring it on some
unsuspecting victim, and watch them
cringe. It's the
little things in life you truly enjoy...
Now, if I could only remember the important things with such success, like my
birthday...