I was thrilled this weekend to find that I am not the only person that does The Pee Shiver.

For those NOT in The Know, The Pee Shiver® is when you're just finishing The Pee and your body convulses with an involuntary shiver. It always make me laugh like a loon.

I have been going TiVo crazy, recording a ton of shows I never remember to watch, and spent the weekend finally watching the majority of them. The one in question is Mad About You, the one where Riff's burns down while Paul is in the bathroom taking a much-needed pee. And I rolled with laughter when he did a very subtle pee-shiver. George says he has never experienced the pee shiver. Thank GOD I'm not alone now.

(I wrote 'pee' six times. SIX times in one paragraph.)

I'm sure you've all heard about our snow day last week. Somewhere around 200 schools closed down for about 1/2 an inch of snow. Many of us didn't go to work that day. Not only because WE don't know how to drive in it, but because we know how stupid the drivers here in Atlanta are. They not only refuse to slow down, they drive faster. Dorks.

I was thrilled to get my snow day, of course, especially after everyone told me that I wasn't going to get it this year. Ahhhh, to be right. 'tis a goot ting. Anyway, the following day, our radio weather-person came on to inform us of our upcoming weather and here is what he said:

"Today - a well-deserved break from the winter weather."

Yes, because we all worked SO VERY hard in it.

Heard on another radio talk show, causing me to twitch:

"Ignorance is jes' awful. It is. Not knowin' somethin' will just eat atcha. It will. It'll eat atcha n' cause yer babies to come out naked!"

Well okay then.

Recently heard a radio commercial for Wachovia bank. It went a 'lil somethin' like this:

*We hear a phone ring and a woman answers. The man on the other end tells her he's from 'Bloominghouse' and informs her that she's won a free, all-expense paid trip to the Bahamas, and then says "Your cost is $342.80. How'd ya like to pay for that?" She replies "Hey! I thought you said it was free and that all expenses were paid!"

"It is free. Just not free-free."

The announcer then comes on and says "At Wachovia, we believe that when something is purported to be free, it really ought to be free. And that's why we offer free checking..." *more blah blah blah about their totally free checking inserted here*

But my favorite part is the end of the commercial where, in a veeeery low voice, you hear:

"Wachovia, member FDIC, ADDITIONAL FEES MAY APPLY"

Hey, just so long as they BELIEVE that it ought to be free, well then that's enough, right?

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