About two months ago, I realized that I had an extra calculator in my backpack. I have no idea how long this calculator has been in there. But, like, I just find it because I, like, realize that I’m taking an exam, and I was like, “Wait a second, this is not my calculator. Like, whose calculator is this?”  So I tell one of my other friends, like, “Hey, I just magically manifested a second calculator, and, like, the only place that I could think of -- like, where it might have came from was your dorm because, like, I sometimes do my math homework there.” And then he’s like, “Yeah, I’ll ask around. I’ll see if anybody’s, like, missing it.”  So, two months pass, and, like, the fact that I have an extra calculator has come up several times. And then two months pass, and I am sitting in physics class, and, like, a mutual friend of the two of us is like, “You know, I’ve been missing my calculator for a really long time, and I can’t seem to find it. Like, it’s my backup calculator, so I don’t really care that much, but, like, it’s just weird. How do you lose, like, a TI-84 Plus CE Python Edition?” And then I’m like, “Wait a second, I’ve had a spare TI-84 Plus CE Python Edition in my backpack for about three months. Does this happen to be yours?” So I pull it out of my backpack, and he opens it, and he checks, like, the line graph settings, and he’s like, “Yeah, that’s my calculator.” And then our mutual friend, who is also sitting at this table, is just like, “Oh my gosh, you two have both been individually complaining about this for, like, three months, and I didn’t connect the dots.” So I thought that that was hilarious.  

The one story that sort of came to my mind when I thought about the radio was about my grandfather. He grew up in [area in Michigan]. And he was born in nineteen tw- -- twenty nine. So, would’ve been growing up in, like, the thirties, forties. And they did not have TV then, so the radio was how they got all of their news, information, sports, music, all of that. So, the channel -- like, the, the radio station that they could get was out of Chicago. And he would listen to the Chicago White Sox baseball games because that’s what he could listen to growing up. So he was always a White Sox fan and not really a Detroit Tigers fan.  But, as he got older, people -- I don’t know how- -- I, I mean, I think he just liked sports in general and people maybe assumed that because he was from the state of Michigan, that he enjoyed -- and, you know, followed the Tigers, or liked the Tigers. And I think that as TV came about, and the broadcasts that were on TV were then the Tigers games, being that he lived in Michigan his entire life, I think he started to follow them a little bit more.  And -- but he had -- like, I have his, like, Tigers ball cap that -- you know, that he wore. And I have a sh- -- a Tigers long sleeve T-shirt of his. And I remember him saying once something about, “Well too bad it isn’t the White Sox.” Like, the team that he actually liked. But I don’t think anybody in our family would’ve given him anything to do with the White Sox, because I think everybody would’ve thought that he was a Tigers fan. But, he did grow up listening to the White Sox broadcasts, and I think was really a true, a true White Sox fan. Which, to me, is unfortunate as a, as a Detroit fan, you know. S- -- it’s kind of unfortunate to be a White Sox fan, but. So I will occasionally root for the White Sox and think of my grandpa as being -- as that being the team that he really did like from, from m- -- childhood or whatever. 

When I was younger, I loved McDonald's so much -- and I still do. I think it's so yummy, but it was anything from, like, my parents would be like, “Hey, look over there,” or would try to distract me as to not see the McDonald’s, which had a play place. And I would just obsess over it. I loved it, I loved it!  So, my parents told me that McDonald's would turn my heart blue. And I was like, “That is terrifying.” And so I knew that if I ate too much McDonald’s and ate it too often, my heart would turn blue. Flash forward -- which I think meant die, like, you would die, right? It was scary. You don't want that to happen.  So, flash forward to -- I'm, like, 23 years old. I'm at a bar, I'm talking to this person. And this guy is like, “Oh yeah” -- like, we're talking about energy drinks for some reason, and he was like, “Oh yeah, my mom told me growing up that if I ever drank an energy drink, my sweat would turn red.” He goes, “So I never even, like, tried to have one without her because I knew that, like, if I sweat red, she would totally be able to tell that I had an energy drink.” And it was just really fun to me because for the first time in my life, I thought critically and was like, “Oh my gosh, I don't think McDonald's turns your heart blue, actually.”