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?

Mine is that different animals don't necessarily see other animals as a threat.
I have wild rabbits in my garden and they'll happily munch away next to the birds but the minute I open the door they scarper
How do they know who to trust?

When I travel to the Southern Hemisphere, look up at the night sky and realise I’m literally upside down!

@WhatACrockOfShit

Mine is that different animals don't necessarily see other animals as a threat. I have wild rabbits in my garden and they'll happily munch away next to the birds but the minute I open the door they scarper How do they know who to trust?

Is it just instant evolution? We don't get to see the ones who get it wrong, because they get eated?

@PinkTonic

When I travel to the Southern Hemisphere, look up at the night sky and realise I’m literally upside down!

That's where the word 'antipodean' comes from. The very clever scientists in the northern hemisphere thought that people in the southern hemisphere had to walk on their heads, to avoid being upside down. Hence anti (against) pod (foot)

Science rocks.

Walking.

The fact that my little legs can literally take me anywhere is the world. I’m just so grateful for my healthy body and the way it carries me through life.

That after one click, within seconds a book of 100,000 words flies into my Kindle for me to read. How??? (Don’t anybody bother trying to explain, my mind just boggles, I don’t have the right sort of brain to comprehend these things.).

That the intact shells of horseshoe crabs that we picked up on a Cape Cod beach, belonged to creatures that have been around since before the dinosaurs.

Hot showers. Luxury every single day. Some people don't even have clean water to drink and here I am standing under it.

That I can take a long length of yarn, fiddle at it with some sticks and make a flat sheet of fabric, or a curved piece, or a complex shape.

Marbles. They're so round and smooth.

And yes, I realise this makes me sound like I'm stoned.

That our brains are basically watery tissue with some electrical connections and they allow us to function, imagine, create, invent and comprehend nearly everything around us.

Production lines in factories.

I have no idea how or why telephones work.
How can our exact voices be replicated on a completely unconnected machine? Impossible.

EVERYTHING!!!!

Hot water coming out of taps. Such amazing luxury!

All the different foods in our shops.

Smartphones with the knowledge of the Internet behind them.

Recorded music.

That everything computers do is encoded into yesnononoyesyesnonoyes

Electric lights

Satnavs make me feel like I'm living in the future. A map that tells me where I am and where I'm going. Amazing!

The perfect symmetry of a cats facial structure inc big cats.
A full moon .
Reproduction / giving birth.
Telephones.
Massive ships carrying containers .

@NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs off topic but my cupboard did fall off the wall! It had just been installed that day. I’d just filled it up. Fell off while I was stood under it with my 2 year old stood next to me. I somehow managed to catch it/push it onto the counter luckily and we were both ok. Called the fitter and asked wtf it had just fallen on me and he admitted he hadn’t used the right size screws as he didn’t have any so used smaller ones! So apparently they stay up by being screws drilled very deep in the wall.

Anyway back on topic I’m amazed by air travel. the fact that you step on a plane in rainy London and within a few hours can be somewhere hundreds of miles away in a sunny country.

Trees, the original fuel source, building material and lungs of the planet. Still find it amazing that my house is surrounded by trees that were just nippers when Henry IIIV was boy.

Summer sunrise, anyone can see the sunset but it takes commitment to be up early enough in the summer to experience this magical time of day.

• Henry VIII

Bread.

Who first thought of it? Who first looked at some plants, growing in a field, and thought, oh I'll get some of that and grind it up and add some water and fling it around a bit and and cook it and eat it?

Did anyone ever try making bread out of eg: grass, or ground up stones, or what?

Blows my mind.

(Plus, who first decided to milk a cow and then drink it???)

My son. It happens all over the world millions of times a day but how on earth did me and ds twat of a dad make this beautiful perfect human being?!

pencils are fucking amazing
Mine are:
Sleeping...it’s amazing how we all think it’s perfectly normal to go all go into a different room, change into some different clothes, lie down and MAKE OURSELVES UNCONSCIOUS completely trusting we will wake up!
Dancing at clubs ..why is it socially acceptable to randomly move your body into funny shapes in full view of others?
Blinking. How we do it without even noticing

Languages and accents. How so many people from all the countries and regions in the whole world have their own secret code and yet somehow manage to communicate with each other. And yet at the same time can block out others when it suits them, amazing!

Ooh also..live pause TV . That completely freaks me out!

Love

How do you make this amazing bond with a person? What goes on in your brain or your body that can bring so much joy and empathy and connection with someone, and yet not with someone else?

@TheSandman

Writing. I still find it amazing, despite having done it for nearly 60 years, that by looking at squiggles on a piece of paper I can see what someone else was thinking, minutes, day, weeks, years, or centuries ago.

It's the nearest thing to telepathy we'll ever have.

And pencils. Pencils are fucking amazing.

Writing/reading is the one that moves me the most. That I can focus my eyes on some squiggles and know what somebody felt or dreamed or had for dinner or planned to do that day or how much they hated their brother. And I can read it the same whether someone next to me has just written and passed me a note, or whether someone wrote it down 500 years ago (languages permitting) is just magical. Ghosts are real and we’re conjuring them as we read.