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You're doing it wrong.
I'm sure you've encountered articles explaining how we're all doing some common activity incorrectly. There's a veritable plethora of them.
You're walking wrong .
You're running wrong .
And if you're not moving, you're sitting wrong .
You're definitely parenting wrong
In fact, pick any common thing - preferably something that we evolved specifically to do, such as walking, running, sitting, or caring for offspring, and you'll find a slew of internet articles explaining just how the author knows better than instincts instilled by billions of years of evolution.
Now, I'm not saying there's never room for improvement, even with something as simple as freaking breathing . That's right, the one thing that all land animals do all the time so they don't die, and you're definitely not doing it right.
But you know what the tipping point was for me? It was when I saw a video - no, I'm not going to link it - saying that we're all eating bananas wrong.
Look, dude, we're apes. And if there's one thing - one thing - that an ape can't possibly mess up, it's eating a damn banana.
I don't know what's driving these articles. Being a cynic, I'll suggest maybe there's a push by advertisers to make sure that, no matter where you are in life, they need us to feel like you're missing something, to be frustrated. They can't let you be content to just be, because how then will they sell their products that are guaranteed to make your life so much better?
But maybe that's too cynical, even for me. More likely, the writers, facing a deadline, crap out articles about whatever pops into their little heads.
 Not that I have any personal experience with that, of course. 
If so, I've got some words for you, writers:
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Last time, in "The Darkness" , I talked about the humor inherent in despair. Naturally, it was too depressing for comments, but there were a few from my previous newsletter, "Windows" .
Cameron The Quiet  : I liked your window story, sounds like my luck.
If you need help coming up with new curse words I'm always making up new things to say!
Good vibrations,
Leigh
I'm always in the market for new and creative obscenities.
Whata SpoonStealer  : I didn't comment on your windows issue nsl? Crap. I forgot. My bad! It had me laughing and reading it out loud to my mother. I had the same issue with this weird valve located in my steering column. But it made this noise like air going out of a balloon, and was coming from the gas pedal. It was SUCH a mystery. Finally someone figured it out. Not fun. Oddly enough I have another damn noise in my steering column, but it's a bad gasket, only they insist I tell them which one it is! What?! Only does it in Summer  But I got a video of it  Soon they'll be taking apart the entire column... I'lll tell em to look for any other worn parts as well. A lemon steering column 
Sounds like you got
  
shafted.
And that's it for me for January! Have a laughter-filled 2019! Until next time,
LAUGH ON!!!
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