Every coin has two faces..heads & tails. Every story has two sides. And in the universe to keep balance between these we have zhen. You can't have good without evil or rich without poor. And you can't have one without the other...love and marriage (oh sorry that is the Frank Sinatra intro to Married with children). And there cannot be clean without dirty. This blog is about the balance of clean and dirty. One boy who takes not doing laundry to the extreme and one who takes DOING It to the extreme. Stoked? Let's get started....
PIG PEN COMES TO MICHIGAN TECH
Every college student goes away to school and is forced to do things they most likely never have before. Sometimes this is cooking your own meal. For others it might be paying bills. And still others might be doing their own laundry for the 1st time.
A teenager of 19 that we will call Edward (name changed for what will become an obvious reason) faced this new challenge of laundry. He had many things he enjoyed spending hours doing...designing video games, playing video games, hitting on women, and even occasionally studying. He would even like to have the done the latter for 5 hours rather than spend 5 minutes doing laundry. After all, there are video games to be played and they most certainly don't play themselves.
But unlike most of his fellow students he took this hate to a new extreme and got "creative". Shirts, ehhh their clean. But it's stained! Sush, that's vintage. Jeans were the same. Socks? Ehhhh who cares if they smell. But there was one piece of clothing he could only wear so long...underwear.
I know what your thinking, but it's worse than that...so read on. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he could wear his underwear until it was crusty brown. But wait, he didn't then throw them away... he turned them inside out and wore them till that side got crusty. Disgustingness and laziness taken to a whole new level. Hand to God true story.
A teenager of 19 that we will call Edward (name changed for what will become an obvious reason) faced this new challenge of laundry. He had many things he enjoyed spending hours doing...designing video games, playing video games, hitting on women, and even occasionally studying. He would even like to have the done the latter for 5 hours rather than spend 5 minutes doing laundry. After all, there are video games to be played and they most certainly don't play themselves.
But unlike most of his fellow students he took this hate to a new extreme and got "creative". Shirts, ehhh their clean. But it's stained! Sush, that's vintage. Jeans were the same. Socks? Ehhhh who cares if they smell. But there was one piece of clothing he could only wear so long...underwear.
I know what your thinking, but it's worse than that...so read on. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he could wear his underwear until it was crusty brown. But wait, he didn't then throw them away... he turned them inside out and wore them till that side got crusty. Disgustingness and laziness taken to a whole new level. Hand to God true story.
THE MICHIGAN TECH STREAKER
Michigan Tech was always an interesting place. It's where I met my ex-wife and fell in love with her. In the summer they held classes from Drama to Science for children. And when session was in, well let's just say it was never boring. Not once in all the times I've been there. The following story is perhaps one of the most famous infamous occurrences in Michigan Tech's history. The story was even featured on David Letterman.
Now some say this boy, who we will call Nick, was drunk or perhaps high, but he was always a little crazy and after talking to many people (one of whom was there) I believe it was just another crazy idea. At any rate one hot summer day Nick and his friends were walking along and saw a laundry mat. They decided it would be a good idea to do their laundry so they went inside.
Since they had no other clothes other than the ones on their back, Nick decided to strip naked (his friends left on their briefs) and wash the clothes they were wearing. A short while later the cops showed up and arrested Nick and his friends. His friends got off after being interviewed with a warning. Nick however received huge fines and spent a few days at the counties expense.
Nick was no different than any other college student and had no way to pay his fines. Worse yet they had to be paid by year's end. Nick was worried sick. However he was always thinking and decided the only way he could survive this was to make lemonade out of the sour lemons he had been dealt. He grabbed his accordion and every day he was not in class he played in front of the school.
Eventually word spread of his woes as he desperately needed more money. He decided to take pictures of himself naked with the accordion appropriately placed over his private area. He then photo shopped himself in front of landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and made a booklet of post cards. Local businesses in hopes of helping him sold these booklets. Still he felt short.
Then he appeared on the Letterman Show. He told Letterman the whole story, they showed a few of the post cards, Letterman had a great chuckle, and then he played the accordion and left. This helped plugged his books greatly.
At the end of the summer after all his hard work he came out 1 dollar ahead. It was a hard lesson.
So there you have two tales of extreme clean and dirty. The balance, the Zhen of our universe.
Now some say this boy, who we will call Nick, was drunk or perhaps high, but he was always a little crazy and after talking to many people (one of whom was there) I believe it was just another crazy idea. At any rate one hot summer day Nick and his friends were walking along and saw a laundry mat. They decided it would be a good idea to do their laundry so they went inside.
Since they had no other clothes other than the ones on their back, Nick decided to strip naked (his friends left on their briefs) and wash the clothes they were wearing. A short while later the cops showed up and arrested Nick and his friends. His friends got off after being interviewed with a warning. Nick however received huge fines and spent a few days at the counties expense.
Nick was no different than any other college student and had no way to pay his fines. Worse yet they had to be paid by year's end. Nick was worried sick. However he was always thinking and decided the only way he could survive this was to make lemonade out of the sour lemons he had been dealt. He grabbed his accordion and every day he was not in class he played in front of the school.
Eventually word spread of his woes as he desperately needed more money. He decided to take pictures of himself naked with the accordion appropriately placed over his private area. He then photo shopped himself in front of landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and made a booklet of post cards. Local businesses in hopes of helping him sold these booklets. Still he felt short.
Then he appeared on the Letterman Show. He told Letterman the whole story, they showed a few of the post cards, Letterman had a great chuckle, and then he played the accordion and left. This helped plugged his books greatly.
At the end of the summer after all his hard work he came out 1 dollar ahead. It was a hard lesson.
So there you have two tales of extreme clean and dirty. The balance, the Zhen of our universe.
I certainly prefer the story of the clean Nick to the dirty Edward.
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Yes. He was a roommate of a friend. An overall nice guy, but once you know a story like that...well you can never quite look at someone the same.
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