Does anything mundane still TOTALLY amaze you?

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

Mine is laundry.

When I lived with my parents my stuff would go into the washing basket, it would be there for days to 'make up a load' (my parents CRAM their washing machine full), it would be washed, hung up to dry either on the line or on an airer, ironed, had to go into the 'airing cupboard' for at least two days and THEN would finallt be allowed to be put away.

So about a week, possibly more, before I'd see favoutite items.

Now I do a load a day, stick it in the washing machine, stick it in the drier, put it away. That's it.

Times have changed. I know this. However, it STILL blows my mind when I'm putting away the pyjamas I wore the previous night a few hours after I took them off.

Every. Single. Time. My little brain judt xan't comprehend that a few hours ago they were dirty and now they're clean.

Am I odd?

@rslsys

Thermos flask Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know which is which 🤷

This is so cute!

Atoms and molecules and stuff. How wood and plastic and metal are all made of atoms that just have different numbers of particles in them. Makes no sense to me at all.

How DNA holds information to grow new beings. Even trees are really complex but they grow from one seed that lands in soil and gets rained on.

How speakers make such a range of sounds with just a membrane vibrating back and forth, yet we get clear speech, music etc.

@ParadiseLaundry

I'll never look at an egg the same again!

Reading always blows my mind a bit. All of these tiny letters and little words that have meanings and my brain can scan and put them all together and make sense of the meanings and ideas in seconds.

I'm in the middle of learning to read music. It's fascinating to be at that stage where meaningless blobs and lines are just starting to develop meaning.

How children go from babbling a few sounds to talking properly and knowing and understanding words.
I can't remember properly ( I mean properly) teaching my dc to talk and use words like they do today.

The fact that almost every person you ever see is the result of 2 other people shagging.

Planes.

Maths.

@rslsys

Thermos flask Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know which is which 🤷

I am a little bemused by this answer.

Of course it doesn't knwo which is which.
It is just a thick layer of air to stop the heat transfering in any direction, either in or out. So it stops all heat transfer and so it stays the same temp as it started.

Sorry, I wasn't mocking you rslsys.

Planes for me too.
That a woman produces a while person from her body.
Growth and development of a baby / toddler. My niece is at the first few step stage. It does feel really spontaneous, like her body just know to try it.

Also being an adult and having my own money to do what I want with. Eg I was in the supermarket and just bought some butter mints as well as throat sweets. I have a (non covid) sore throat. Just that tiny exercise in free will!

That animals just know to do stuff. Like migrate, how and what to eat, sex, raising babies etc. They just know so much.

Yes, the miracle of two minute cells combining to grow into a baby human, mouse, elephant, any baby creature - even spiders.

And how a tiny bird can just know - without going to classes or watching YouTube 😄 - how to build a nest.

Ditto a bird that weighs half a ounce flying 6000 miles for the winter - and being able to find its way back to the exact same place in spring, as has been proved by birds that have been ringed.

Even how the tiny seeds I squished out of a squashy cherry tomato at the beginning of last lockdown, turned into plants that yielded hundreds of tomatoes.

Masses of the miracles of Nature, really.

Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn

When I look out at my garden now, I find it astonishing that all these plants who are under the ground will grow in the spring, and by summer it will by overgrown and lush and heaving with green. Then it all turns yellow/red makes berries, and dies off.
It is extraordinary really.

Space in general blows my tiny mind. If i think about it for too long, like how we are on an actual rock floating in a vacuum round and road a massive ball of fire and gas and how space goes on forever...it freaks me out so much

@rslsys that reminds me of the old joke about David beckham (but mean but)

Victoria: What have you got there David?

David: A thermos flask, it's amazing, keeps hot things hot and cold things cold

Victoria: What have you got in there?

David: 3 cups of coffee and a choc ice

@steppemum

Sorry, I wasn't mocking you rslsys.

We really do need a tongue-in-cheek emoji . . . .

Electricity. Heat, light and power at the touch of a switch.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon

Mine is laundry.

When I lived with my parents my stuff would go into the washing basket, it would be there for days to 'make up a load' (my parents CRAM their washing machine full), it would be washed, hung up to dry either on the line or on an airer, ironed, had to go into the 'airing cupboard' for at least two days and THEN would finallt be allowed to be put away.

So about a week, possibly more, before I'd see favoutite items.

Now I do a load a day, stick it in the washing machine, stick it in the drier, put it away. That's it.

Times have changed. I know this. However, it STILL blows my mind when I'm putting away the pyjamas I wore the previous night a few hours after I took them off.

Every. Single. Time. My little brain judt xan't comprehend that a few hours ago they were dirty and now they're clean.

Am I odd?

OP, I am feeling sudden profound fellow-feeling with you. My parents also did all this, with the added complication that there was no 'system' -- no basket you could put dirty laundry into, no basket you could then put the clean laundry into after it had been washed/dried for redistribution to its owners. We were told to put dirty laundry straight into the machine, but of course there would be half a white load already in there, so my mother would throw your dark top into a random basket that was a mix of clean and dirty stuff, or leave it on top of something in an cupboard, and quite often it never emerged again, or ended up in the drawers of a different family member for months. (And before anyone says, 'Why did you do the laundry yourself?', believe me, I tried, but my mother regarded someone running anything other than a crammed full load as heresy!, and because the washing machine was in the middle of the kitchen, noisy and juddering, there were rules about when you could use it...)

It made me weirdly reluctant to wash anything in my teens, because it was often tantamount to kissing goodbye to an item.

Now I positively enjoy doing laundry because there's a clear system, nothing gets misplaced (other than the disappearing socks conundrum), and it's fast and efficient.

And yes to pregnancy, and the fact that everyone was born, and to the lengthening of the days after the winter solstice, and to entirely banal things like subjecting a bunch of raw ingredients to heat and turning them into something else entirely.

@ComDummings

That animals just know to do stuff. Like migrate, how and what to eat, sex, raising babies etc. They just know so much.

But they don't know they know. But we know they know. Even when we don't know ourselves.

I think it's amazing that we recognise and accept these natural pulls within ourselves in some realms (ie sexual attraction/knowing not to eat a stapler no matter how hungry we are) and yet are conditioned not to respond to them in others (ie, all over MN, 'my partner makes me feel like crap, what's wrong with me??'/wanting to hibernate ie work less when the days are short and cold)

How ridiculously easy and quick it is to drink a whole bottle of wine.

Pregnancy for sure.. and possibly related to having a child indirectly, the power of video calls.. never paid attention to that ever before. And now have family overseas visible over the phone almost every day to see DS..

Hogmanay. We were speaking to family and friends on zoom all who live in New Zealand and Australia. They were all in 2021. We were still in 2020.

Agree with the ocean and especially the hundreds of types of multicoloured fish that we never see outside David Attenborough documentaries. Also the international date line. My friend who lives in NZ travelled between Auckland and LA and arrived (technically) before he had left!

I sometimes find myself having to go when I’m driving because I still can’t quite believe that I learned how to drive and can now do it without even thinking about it (obviously while remaining safe at all times).

@rslsys

Thermos flask Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know which is which 🤷

My bil used to think that thermos flasks actually heated things up! He used to put his soup in it for work, and couldn't work out why it was still cold when he went to eat it True story!

Thermos flask
Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.
How does it know which is which

I am a little bemused by this answer.

Of course it doesn't knwo which is which. It is just a thick layer of air to stop the heat transfering in any direction, either in or out. So it stops all heat transfer and so it stays the same temp as it started.

Oh dear

Electricity - how it travels through things and powers things and so on. In fact, it's only recently I found out electricity travels around the wire and not actually in it. I always thought wires were sort of flumes for electricity.