Listserv Gems

There is an email list for LDS young single adults in the DC area.  People mostly use it to advertise housing availability and activities that are going on.  However, every once in a while someone uses it for something strange, or for the regular stuff in a strange way.  I've decided I need to start sharing the funniest of the emails with the world.  (I know claiming that posting something to my blog is sharing it with the world is a little presumptuous because I'm really just sharing it with the few friends who read my blog, but that's the part of the world that matters to me).  I've been debating which backlog absurdity to start with, but I think this one will do: 


"I'm simply looking for some good, unique, miscellaneous idea(s).......... not even necessarily money-saving, but just something that can help us. For example: filling up gasoline to an odd amount, such as $25.01. Otherwise, when you look at your bank transactions, you might not know whether your bank charged you an insufficient funds charge, or some other charge. One of those fees would be $25 exactly (or $20, $30, $35, etc), NOT $25.01. Now
that is just one of numerous examples. Also, I've heard to put a stick shift car into neutral, WITH the parking brake on, in a public parking lot, so that just in case your car gets bumped by another vehicle, it would not damage the transmission if it were in gear. Also, it is better to NOT have your foot on the brakes when you hit a speed bump. It is better on your vehicle to slow down first, and then just let the car go over the speed bump WITHOUT your foot on the brakes. If any of you mechanics out there know otherwise, please tell us all. But, anyway, I hope you all understand what I am after..... just some of these little, (even simple) ideas that will be little gems of knowledge for us, perhaps things that are very out of the ordinary, something that you might think no one else does. I am NOT of the idea that we all need to do things alike. Even if you felt like you could never get away with letting your idea become known, lest you be mocked, I want to hear it. Even if I do not see the light of one of your ideas, please let me entertain it. Maybe my life, and a few others reading it, could be blessed by it. Some of my ideas have been shot down before; and I know it seems hard to accept. But, alas, I guess we must all realize that everyone does not see the world just as we do. Anyway, I really do hope that I will receive several new ideas. I hope you've been able to learn from &/or entertain my ideas above. Oft times, good ideas never get off the ground. Once in a while they do, when they are actually tried. I'm in a mood to try more. I need to try more now. I hope I would never turn away a good idea. Thank you very much.
PS The electric company lady told me that water heater timers save a lot of money. I haven't tried it, but she claimed that a lot of her customers were saving lots of money."


This lead me to a twist on the generic conversation starter--have you heard any good jokes lately?--to a potentially much more enlightening one: have you heard any good ideas lately?