Folks in Bunol, Spain get together every year and throw 30,000 pounds of tomatoes at each other in an event they call "La Tomatina." Well, we have tomatoes here, too.
Last year, people went crazy after Portillo's re-introduced their previously discontinued lemon cake. This year, Portillo's would like to see you go crazy all over again.
Black Friday has come and gone once again. You probably saw some of the news reports that evening showing people going crazy and behaving horribly in some stores around the nation. Some folks engaged in pushing and shoving, arguing over items, throwing punches, and even stealing things from children...
Okay, seriously, Do Not Attempt This At Home.
Normally, that sentence would be followed by "controlled stunt performed by professionals," or even "professional driver on a closed course."
Not here, though.
I can't give you too much background here, other than the two guys involved (one with the torch, one with the camera) identify themselves as "rednecks...
Ah, the slip and slide of my youth. It was far more than a piece of vinyl staked down in the backyard with a garden hose spraying on it. It was educational. Really. It taught us planning skills, as we learned it was a bad plan to put it down on a lawn really close to a wooden fence...
I sometimes laugh a bit when someone complains about being caught in Rockford's rush hour. Not that it can't be a pain, but c'mon...you know that there are places so much worse, like Chicago and Milwaukee, both close enough that you could go see for yourself without having to go to New York, Houston, or the American grand-daddy of traffic jams, Los Angeles...