12) "The baby hamster is like a stick of butter."

Just the other day I found a beautiful mirror and drawer set sitting outside of my appartment. The general rule is if it is sitting outside it is up for grabs. So we decided that if it was still sitting outside when night came, I would take it. And sure enough it was still there when we got back that night, so I brought the mirror up to my appartment (it is about a 5 foot mirror). We also noticed the drawer part of it, and took a look at that, and noticed it looked really nice. So I called my boss just to make sure it would be ok to take something like this, and she said if it is outside it is ok. So now I have a really nice mirror and drawer set in my appartment. Tim is looking into how much it might be worth (he thinks it could be worth a pretty good amount), so if we can sell it we might do that. But it is pretty cool what you can find on the side of the street. I have seen some nice leather couches, and other furnature. This is the first thing I have really grabbed.





On a different subject totally, at work sometimes they have me look over sentences that are going to be used for classes, just to make sure they are correct. There usually are not too many errors, and when there are, it is the type of thing is easy to understand, and pretty common for someone to whom English is their second language. But today I ran across one that had me laughing for a couple minutes. The word that the sentence was supposed to revolve around was "stick of butter." The sentence that followed is what had me laughing, and baffled; "The baby hamster is like a stick of butter." I really have no idea how a baby hamster could be like a stick of butter, or why anyone would write something like that, but I left that sentence just as it was.