Aaron- Rants and Raves

So today I guess was Budapest's annual throw your crap in the road day. I'm not sure if today actually has any significance but as I was walking through the city there were sporadic piles of broken cupboards, ripped up chairs, and all kinds of things that weren't exactly rubbish but at the same time not quite usable or useful either. By some piles there would be a person or two sitting nearby like a storekeeper. I'm not entirely sure if these trash piles are suppose to be a sort of garage sale or not. It might just be me but I didn't really see anything that I thought was worth taking because it looked mostly like trash. Regardless, people walking by would stop and poke around and give the rubble a look over. I'm not really sure what happened here today, I guess Budapest is just a little different than Grand Rapids.

While we're on the topic, there is one other slightly weird thing I want to talk about. So in the EU and a couple other countries there is this retail chain store called Spar and its big brother Interspar. They are kind of like Target and Walgreens. Anyway, my first time shopping at Interspar I get all my groceries checked out and I am about to pay and then the counter-lady scans this sticker pack with Garfield on it. Here's a google image of it; http://www.trademagazin.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/oceanmania.jpg. I'm like "I don't want that!" and the lady just kind of looks at me cause I'm saying it in English and looking like an idiot so I say thanks and take my sticker package and move on. Inside there are pictures of horses and snakes and waterfalls and other random stuff. It just kind of confused me. It may seem like a stupid thing to get hung up on but I just can't wrap my head around it. The stickers are advertised pretty heavily, you can see big posters on bus stops and on buildings, and just why Garfield? As endearing as Garfield is, the comic's not really that funny (ex: http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-03585b0f942fdc841d7a40a7945624bd ) (.... well, some of them can be a little funny...http://wondermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/recontext10.gif ). They also have collector books available too if you feel so inclined to "collect them all". See the thing is they only give you half of the snake so you have to keep shopping and buying more so that you can get the rest of the snake... That's how they get you.

Anyway, those are my digressions on my misunderstandings.